Thoughts on the Olympics
Aug. 11th, 2008 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldnei1. Huh. Last time I was watching the summer Olympics, it was the day or so after we'd gotten our power back on, post-Charley. I was folding laundry, and we were in the very small window between hurricanes that year.
2. I'm a total mom now. As in, I was watching Michael Phelps's mother talking about her son's first gold medal in Sidney, when he was 15. She described him coming out to the gate with a peanut-butter sandwich in one hand and the medal in the other, his coach walking next to him, and he walked over and showed her the medal and said, "Mom, look what I did!" And I lost it; I was sitting there on the couch all choked up, thinking, "Ya know, if I didn't have a child--and a son at that--I'd not be crying right now."
Of course, if the Zweeble ever ends up winning Olympic gold, they're going to pan the cameras up to Scott and me in the stands where we will clearly be saying, "Where the hell did he come from?!"
2. I'm a total mom now. As in, I was watching Michael Phelps's mother talking about her son's first gold medal in Sidney, when he was 15. She described him coming out to the gate with a peanut-butter sandwich in one hand and the medal in the other, his coach walking next to him, and he walked over and showed her the medal and said, "Mom, look what I did!" And I lost it; I was sitting there on the couch all choked up, thinking, "Ya know, if I didn't have a child--and a son at that--I'd not be crying right now."
Of course, if the Zweeble ever ends up winning Olympic gold, they're going to pan the cameras up to Scott and me in the stands where we will clearly be saying, "Where the hell did he come from?!"
