So Here's The Thing...: Dreaming of Gold

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Dreaming of Gold

I don't know what it is about the Olympics but I love 'em. I can't get enough of watching athletes compete for the gold. I'm not usually one to sit down and watch sports on TV, but when the Olympics roll around it's a totally different story.

I have really fond memories of watching the Olympics with my family as a kid. I remember watching with my family many of those famous Olympic moments, you know, the ones everyone talks about to this day. Kerrie Strug vaulting to win gold on the hurt ankle, Greg Louganis hitting his head while diving, Flo Jo and Jackie Joyner-Kersee competing in track, and don't even get me started on the Winter Olympics.

And, even though I'm not watching the games with my family this year, I am enjoying the Beijing competition just as much with my friends (esp

ecially on the big projector screen...amazing). I am particularly LOVING Micheal Phelps and his run for 8 medals. I want him to with those 8 golds so badly! If you missed the exciting Mens 4X100 relay you have to watch it! I was seriously yelling at the TV. And I wasn't alone. It was incredible.

And I also love the story of the Chinese women gymnasts who are faking their ages to compete. I wonder what makes win

ning gold so important for a country that so many people are willing to compromise their integrity? It fascinates me.

2 comments:

MaryAnn said...: I also love the olympics - maybe it is because we are from the same family. I have stayed up way to late every night this week watching and have been very grumpy as a result. The men's 4x100 relay race actually brought tears to my eyes - I know, I am a nerd.; August 13, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Shae, Jay, and chillin' said...: Sandy, nice piece of literary achievment on this blog. I agree, and after reading your blog had to watch the 4x100 men's relay (I had fallen asleep that night) on the computer. Very cool. Last night I got sleepy around 10pm so I didn't see the end of women's gymnastics...way to go 1 and 2 for the USA!!!; August 15, 2008 at 11:13 AM

Post a Comment

Words of Wisdom

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

-Marjorie Hinckley

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

-Logan Pearsall Smith

"Sometimes we fill our lives with hobbies or pursuits that produce more immediate rewards. If we aren't careful, we start to resent our children and see them as obstructions to the things that bring us real pleasure. The key is to discover pleasure in our children--to make them central, to genuinely value them during the relatively short time that they are in our home. The day will come that you will be free to spend whole days any way you want-- you can travel, go to school, or go in your room and shut the door. But today, you are a mother."
-Jane (from blog Asking Jane)

"Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God and that yours is a custodial relationship to them, that He was a parent before you were parents and that He has not relinquished His parental rights or interest in these little ones."
-President Gordon B. Hinckley

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
-Thomas Carlyle