I just couldn’t wait any longer to post.  Yes, technically the Olympics are still in full swing, but it’s been kinda slow, what with the ice dancing and the ski jumping taking up most of the screen time with an occasional bobsled run thrown in for good measure.  In addition, I have some guilt issues.  I know that I haven’t posted, and I didn’t plan to post until after the Olympics, because I truly planned on obsessively watching the Olympics and not doing much else.  What’s interesting about that?  Then every day I think about posting, and how I didn’t.  And then I feel like maybe I should…. but I don’t, which makes me have anxiety, which in turn makes me think about it even more, and worry, and, well…. you know.  It’s a vicious cycle of guilt and worry that I just couldn’t take any more.  And here I am!  You realize that I truly AM my own worst enemy, don’t you?  Thanks for letting me put my crazy on you all for a minute.  Because, like, so many people are out there on pins and needles thinking that their lives just aren’t complete unless I ramble excessively about the Olympics some more!  I know.

On that note, I have completely missed all curling events to date, which kind of ticks me off.  One of my little people told me it was on yesterday but by the time I ran into the room it was already back to Costas yammering on about I-don’t-know-what.  Nothing that I was interested in listening to, that’s what.  OH, and get this!!  I’m not naming any names, but another one of my little people turned off the ACTUAL OLYMPICS to watch that MOVIE about the hockey team who won the gold medal in the OLYMPICS in 1980 at Lake Placid!!  Does that make any sense?  Movies are made to be watched ANY OTHER TIME THAN WHEN THE OLYMPICS ARE AVAILABLE TO BE WATCHED LIVE.  The same rule applies to the Disney channel.  Are you listening, small people?!

Although I love and am obsessively watching the Olympics, I did not want anyone to worry that I was doing absolutely nothing else for the entire two weeks the Olympics are running.  I’m doing stuff.  Like catching pink-eye, for one.  That’s definitely something.  I have also made it to work almost every day.  Not my fault if the school has days off during the Olympics, and I’m forced to stay home.  I’m just sayin’.  I’ve had two MAJOR trees removed from my yard by what turned out to be monkey-men who don’t believe in ladders.  I baked cookies, er, cookie bars.  We got fish, and we named them.  And then there was that one day that I read that you could make regular old popcorn in a plain brown paper lunch bag in the microwave instead of buying microwave popcorn!!!  Yes, it’s true.  I spent a lot of time testing that one out.  A LOT OF TIME.  You know, because we love popcorn with our Olympics.  I almost went ballistic when we missed some of the speed skating because we attended the car show at McCormick Place and got home later than planned.  How many of you were there on the final Saturday of the car show in Chicago?  Did you by chance catch pink eye while you were there?  Sorry, but I touched everything.  You should have kept your fingers out of your eyes, what can I tell you?!

Oh, and I turned this….

And this….

Into this (!!!) …

And went on to make the rest of the space around it look like this….

Alright, and I admit that I watched Survivor.  Because, you know, BOSTON ROB!!  Oh my gosh, I feel so much better.