Have you been watching the Olympics? I've never been much of sports watcher except for figure skating and tennis, and I have been known to "catch the fever" when the Red Sox are in the play-offs but I have been watching some of the action. Mostly, I've been watching women's gymnastics, taping it when it's on too late. I also was pleased to hear Bela Karolyi speak out about the unfairness of some of the judging, such as in the vault event. I'm not a fan of counting metals or rooting for one country (even my own) over another, but I do think people should follow the rules and I do think the judging should be fair. And it sure wasn't in the vault.********************I'm still watching a lot of Intervention episodes on YouTube. (I mentioned that here a few weeks ago.) The most recent episode was about a young woman who got high off canned air, you know, the stuff you use to clean your keyboard with? I had no idea that you could do that, although I did know about whipped cream cans (and tried it a couple times. Dumb, I know; it was a long time ago.). Anyway, today at work someone had one of those cans of air and I asked to look at it. It does have some kind of warning about inhaling it on it. Then I told her I had seen an Intervention episode about someone who used it to get high, and I said, "I've never heard of doing that" and she said she hadn't either and then, "Of course we wouldn't, Rachel." Ha. I didn't say anything to that, but if she only knew... I guess I appear pretty "straight" now, but I used to be a real pot head and I also did acid a couple times and mushrooms a number of times. I never tried any hard stuff like coke or heroin though, and meth wasn't even around back in those days. At least not around me.********************I didn't work out today. I did work out on Sunday so I felt it wasn't too bad if I let it go. And I let work take over and just wanted to get out of there at the end of the day. That's why I should work out during the day. See, I really like working out, but if I leave it till the end of the day, I'm tempted to bag out because I just want my obligations DONE for the day. My coworker said, "Now you promise me you're going to work out tomorrow?" and I said, "Yes, I promise." Generally, I don't like other people "checking up on me" about my exercise habits, but she and I have an understanding. I don't mind her doing it because she's kind about it, and she knows I feel better if I work out. ********************Watching: The Princess Bride (1987) starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, and Robin Wright. I think I was one of the tiny percentage of people who hadn't seen this. A coworker foisted it upon me, telling me it was one of her favorite movies of all time. And I did enjoy it.This is Spinal Tap (1984) starring Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer. I hadn't seen this in years, but it's a darn funny movie (it goes to 11). And Christopher Guest's character of Nigel totally looks like my brother. I mean his face, not his rocker look; it's like, that's my brother. I didn't notice it the first time I saw it (in college), but after the movie was shown on campus, some people started calling my brother Nigel.Note: both of these movies were directed by Rob Reiner and had Christopher Guest in them. Funny, I didn't see the resemblance to my brother in Guest's character in the Princess Bride.Labels: physical fitness, watching posted by Miss Rachel 8/18/2008 10:21:00 PM . . .
Labels: physical fitness, watching
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