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Chinese pair 1:

Pang and Tong. They skate slowly. He appears to be sporting the dreaded skater onesie. At least it’s black, and NOT skater blue:

Dick Button sniffs at their efforts. Sandra Bezic condescends at the end, “That was the best they could do.”

So, of course, they move ahead of our pair — our throw-triple-axel-landing pair.

Chinese pair 2:

They were considered gold medal favorites — that is, until he tore his Achilles not too long ago. They skate. They bore. Me, at least. I think they end up in second. Luckily for him, Achilles does NOT dust the ice with his arse.

Did ya see that throw triple axel our skating pair landed tonight?? First one ever in Olympic history!!

Dick Button literally gushed: “Ohhhh!! What a special, SPECIAL moment!”

Then later: “A DELICIOUS moment!!”

That Dick Button is a manly fellow.

But yes, it was yummy. Just scrummy.

I woke up this morning ….. and my hair looked like David Lee Roth’s.

Might as well jump, Tracey.

Might as well JUMP.

My blog friend Lauren found this in her email this morning:

Lauren-
Over the past month, I have had many people email me about how your blog doesn’t fit in with one of a Christian nature and so I have removed your site from my main blog. I have continued to bookmark it for personal viewing.

The majority of the email noted that while you do post occasionally on Christian concerns, the majority of your blog is more about your own life and your past. You have such a talent that could be used to the real greater glory of God.

I also request that you remove mention of my blog on your site as well. My readers tell me that our sites are not compatible one to the other. I have been getting a lot of heat from my conservative base.

THIS ABSOLUTELY ENRAGES ME!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY????

I commented — sputteringly — over on her blog with this:

Lauren — I’m sick, SICK about this.

This person shows more concern about his/her “conservative base” than extending GRACE. This person (also) displays an inability to think independently, basing decisions solely on what others think. There is no mention of a personal opinion here, just “heat” from readers. I’m sorry. I call that cowardice.

Oh, wait. Let’s not forget — you’re still bookmarked for “personal viewing.” How GENEROUS. So lemme get this straight. Publicly, you’ll be denied and rejected under pressures from others, but privately — what? You’ll still be the guilty little pleasure?? Privately, you’ll still be considered a friend?? WOW. Sounds vaguely familiar.

Why bother reading her at all, friend? You won’t stick up for her publicly — (*cough* Peter *cough) — but you’ll love her privately?!

You sicken me. I sound uncharitable, I know, but I AM PISSED FOR LAUREN! And yes, I used the word “pissed.”

Guess I’m going to hell. Or worse, I won’t be on YOUR blogroll.

BUT …. here are some portions of Lauren’s more charitable, thoughtful response (emphasis mine):

I believe that I am being used of God in this blog, to show love, grace, understanding, and non-judgmentalism. Most importantly I want the unsaved, my “non-conservative readers,” to spend time here at Created for HIS Glory and come away with the realization that God loves those He created. He does not require us to get our lives on the right track before he saves us. My past is proof that God is the One who pulls us from the muck and mire and sets us on His firm foundation where He cleanses us of our sin, removes our own self-righteousness which He calls filthy rags, and clothes us in His righteousness.

(…..)

Jesus is Lord, I am not ashamed of Him and He is not ashamed of me. In fact, if Jesus had a blogroll I’d be on it, and so would you. How appalled your conservative base would be over that fact.

If you had said that I write about blog design and do too many meme’s, I would have agreed with you and felt none the worse for your link removal request. But the words you wrote in this email actually question my Christianity and my use of my God-given gifts and abilities. I think you crossed a line you shouldn’t have.

I am making the words of the email, but not your name, public because I want to ask my readers to pray for you. You are in ministry and with an attitude like this you may be hindering the kingdom of God much more than you are building it.


GO, LAUREN!!!

Oh, yesssss!!!

Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies — TONIGHT!!! The glorious, whirling SPECTACLE of it all!!

Wellll …. okay.

Much as I LOVE ’em, I believe there are some possible monkeyshines going on —

— because I’m STILL bugged by that archer fellow back in Barcelona 1992. Does anyone really believe he LIT the Olympic torch with that flaming arrow? NO WAY! NO FREAKIN’ WAY!!

AND — what about that ski jumper who allegedly LIT the torch in Lillehammer in 1994? NO FREAKIN’ WAY!!

Did they REALLY light those torches or was someone behind the scenes just turning it on, like a gas fireplace? I want to know!! I think about it every opening ceremony. The possible monkeyshines.

All these years later and I STILL WANT TO KNOW!!!

On the other hand …. is it really a spectacle if you can always believe your eyes?

(Still …. someone better tell me, someday. Monkeyshiners.)

Been having some technical troubles around here. My blog is hungry, apparently, and its food of choice is my posts. Probably nothing new posted until the weekend or until I figure this little problem out — whichever comes first.

Bet on the “weekend” part of that, though …

I love dance movies. I don’t care how cheesy. They just make me happy.

LOVE ’em.

And now — coming SOON — there’s this one with Antonio Banderas, no less. It seems like it’s some kind of hip-hop ballroom type thing.

Ooooohhh! Can’t WAIT!

Today is our wedding anniversary. And yes, it’s also Groundhog Day. I know. And yes, that movie is one of “our” movies because who doesn’t love Bill Murray? BUT also yes, our wedding pre-dates (slightly) the movie “Groundhog Day,” lest any of you think we got married on that date BECAUSE of that movie.

We didn’t.

Actually, it was the only date within a limited time frame that my husband’s brother and his wife would be able to fly over for the wedding from Sydney, Australia.

I just remember trying and trying to get them here, if at ALL possible. First, a date in January. Then another date in January. Then a date in later February. Then, finally, February 2nd. It never even occurred to me it was Groundhog Day until months later, when a wedding vendor inquired, “Why are you getting married on Groundhog Day?”

I just stared at her. “What?”

“Groundhog Day,” she repeated. “February 2nd is Groundhog Day.”

I was dumbfounded because, well, that’s what planning a wedding does to you. I literally had not ever thought of that, not for one minute.

“It IS??” I said.

“Yeah. You didn’t know that?”

A slowly dawning light.

“Well, I knew it, but I didn’t KNOW it,” I cleverly said.

She looked at me with a glimmer of pity. Poor stupid bride. Poor stupid groom who’s marrying this poor stupid bride who doesn’t even know that February 2nd is Groundhog Day.

“At least you’ll always remember your anniversary,” she offered.

“WHAT?!”

Poor stupid bride.

But …. Groundhog Day it was. And is. And Groundhog Day has been very, VERY good to us. It almost seems as if Punxsutawney Phil has never seen his shadow.

So Happy Anniversary and Happy Groundhog Day, My Beloved!

Here’s to many more years of early springs.

You can create one of these Word Clouds if you have a blog.

Technically speaking, YOU don’t create it; “THEY” create it based on words from your blog. They seem to be words from just your current blog page, not archives or anything.

Of course, this is all speculation on my part, really. I don’t know how the heck it works. I mean, I couldn’t even get it to upload on my site at first. And I’ve uploaded many times!!

So, friendly advice:

Whatever you do, do NOT press the “Finished” button. I think I accidentally ordered a damn T-shirt of this thing because of my incompetence in getting it to post. I thought pressing “Finished” would somehow magically help me. It did not.

Turns out, uploading it is FREEEEE.

The T-shirt, however, is NOT.

Duuuuhhhh ……

Oh, go here if you want to do it.

Lifted from Sheila.

Oh, Lord. Lookie what I discovered: A blog written in the voice of Dwight from “The Office.”

Also, Dwight’s theories on one of my favorite shows, “Lost”:

1) I think the “others” are actually the employees of Oceanic
Airlines. Who has ever heard of Oceanic Airlines! I think it was a
fake airline that purposefully crashes and does experiments on it’s
passengers.

2) I think that the Dharma Initiative would make a cool band name.

3) I think the polar bears are actually hippies from the Dharma
Institute in polar bear outfits.

4) I think the asian guy from the Dharma film is the Korean guy’s
dad. Think about it. They’re BOTH asian.

Those are but some of my many theories. Remember, they are theories
and not fact.

Hahahaha.

(But …. maybe you have to be watching “The Office” and “Lost.”)

Am I just ha-ha-ing all by myself?