Tomorrow starts our first day os school. It’s after midnight and I’m still up. There is ton to do and I need to go to bed. However, I’m quite happy that I just bought this for Corrie. Her school is having a baseball theme this year to inspire staff and students. Her principal has told her that the staff can wear jeans if they wear a baseball jersey on Wednesday. I took this too heart and quickly ordered this for Corrie to sport.
A Swedish Olympic Wrestler named Ara Abrahamian throws down his Bronze Medal in disgust. Hat tip Goes to Newsports.com for keeping this video (it seems NBC has an army of people watching youtube videos to keep their copyright from going out the window). This guy is going to regret for a long time. I think a few of his countrymen, or the guy that came in fourth might have a few choice words to say to him.
So I recently set up a fantasy football league for our class at Sugar Creek. ESPN allows you to put YouTube videos on your main page. This one cracked me up!
I always like a little inter-continental smack talk between countries. Let’s note the most popularly noted ones of this year.
-The following picture appeared as part of an advertisement for the Spanish Basketball Federation in the Spanish daily sports newspaper. The team photo was taken at a center court bearing a dragon logo. To add insult to injury, the Spainish team beat China today.
-Australian Olympic Committee chairman John Coates told his opinoin of Great Britian the other day when asked about British’s early success in the Olympic games, particulary in swimming.”Great Britain may have been in lane seven and eight but, um, they seemed to be getting there for a country that has very few swimming pools and not much soap,” Coates said. Ouch!
-The French, yah the French. (Yes, I know that I that the origin of my last name is French, but how many times have I claimed it) Anyway the French swimmers, headed by Alain Bernard were talked trash during a pre-olympic press conference decided the other day in press conference when asked about the Americans: “The Americans? We will smash them. That’s what we came here for” said Bernard. Phelps & Co. properly dismantled them to beat the heavily favored French and win the Gold.
-The Americans got into it earlier this week when Houston famed gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi who is working for NBC called out the 1.2 Billion Chinese citizens for being okay with the team that China put forth in Ladies Gymnastics. Current rules state that competitors have to be over 16 by the calendar year. Karolyi was quoted saying “What kind of slap in the face is this? They are 12, 14 years old, max. And they line them up for the world … and having the government back them.” I agree with him.
Do they look sixteen?
And to make it fair:
I’ve always though Barkley was so quotable. Here’s an old clip from ’92s “Dream Team.”
…I really hate the preview teasers to this new show on NBC. I can’t believe someone came up with idea, or that some executive thought that it would be a good idea. I hope this is cancelled before it starts.
HGTV has been hard on promoting their new show “Summer Showdown.” Corrie and I sat down and had these comments on the show.
Pros:
In the pilot episode, the show’s producers are making the Design Star judges pitting against each other, making them put their money where their mouth is in interior design.
They gave the family whose room they are imitating and making over $10,000 to do the makeover.
The people they are pitting against each other are awesome. I would love to seeSparkle Josh take on Micheal Stribling.
Cons:
Sparkle Josh is the judge. HGTV should of gotten another show designer to be the judge.
They need to make the actual winner of the contest go to the person’s house and actually do his design. Technically these two rooms are concept right now and not reality.
We are not a fan of the announcer George Gray, he looks like some guy off of Food Network.
The show is only 4 shows long. I would love too see each of the eight teams in a tournament bracket. Maybe next summer.
8:33 - Apparently the gloves came off in the Green Room before juding. WOW!
8:37 - I’ve looked at the report from Wikipedia. Apparently the winner and runner-up both get a Mercury Mariner for their work on Design Star
8:40 - The outtakes were funny. They confirm the face that Micheal seriously took nothing serious during the design.
8:44 - 16 minutes left until they name the next Design Star. I just read that Matt graduated from Princeton. Awesome, his competition only graduated from University of Kansas. Advantage - Matt.
8:49 - HGTV did a great publicity stunt in having the final challenge happen in New Orleans. Awesome. They also have Lumber Liquidators giving them a $100,000 gift certificate and a $3,000 Sears gift card.
8:50 - Kim Myles just showed up on stage with two paint cans.
8:51 - Paint Cans had a model Ship in them. Each of the final two won a seven day cruise. Maybe this replaces their traditional Mercury Mariner. But we’ve seen a lot of Mariner commercials. Bank of America also threw in a $5,000.00 gift card.
8:53 - After the break, they are announcing the winner!
8:55 - I’ve edited on the Design Star wiki page that Mikey V was not present. Link
June 10, 2007 was the last time that a Harry Potter was out in theaters. On November 21, 2008 the sixth book will be put to the big screen. I can’t wait. I’ve also put a counter down at the bottom of my website to show how many days left until the movie
So we looked at the Har.com listing of our house that we are trying to buy today and noticed these two little words. This officially means that the Portiers are the ones that are officially working on buying the house, and NO ONE ELSE (besides our agents.)
-I started this blog in 2006 after our wedding to keep our family updated on our lives and to view pictures. The blog has now transformed into John's thoughts and ramblings. Corrie had gotten a Mac and created her own blog at Corrie's Mac Blog . Visit both our sites.
