blush

it was a full weekend. nana's birthday, wolfe island music festival, church, lunch with my family, swimming on wolfe island for andrew's birthday, n+g's place for the olympic closing ceremonies. it was really fun, but not particularly restful.

this year was the first since 1984 that i watched none of the sporting events from the olympics. when b and i got married, we made an agreement that we would get rid of my cable but keep the tv set. at that time i felt super reluctant because even though i don't watch a lot of tv, i wanted to still be able to watch the olympics. thankfully i was able to watch the opening and closing ceremonies, even if i saw nothing else (oh, i guess i watched a tiny bit of boxing at my mom's place on sunday). next time i'm going to set up olympic watching dates at different people's houses to make sure i get to watch often. i don't know what it is about the olympics, but it has gripped me since i was 8 years old. i guess it's that olympic fever. i dunno. it was neat on sunday hearing joelle, who is now 9, talk about the athletes. you can tell she caught the bug, just like i did around her age. it was funny because while we were in costa rica, whenever b and i got talking about the olympics or i saw a commerical on the plane or in the airport, i'd get all teary-eyed. i can't help myself! olympcs > heart-warming story > tears. it moves me like an artform.

just keep telling me facts,
and keep making me smile.