enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

  • I ran FOUR MILES on Saturday while I was watching the swimming events. I just kept thinking, IF THEY CAN SWIM FOR FOUR MINUTES AND BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD I can run another lap.
  • Paul says things like : "DUDE. SHE FELL. HOW CAN THEY GIVE HER 15.4?"
  • All the commercials are inspiring. I cannot decide is I should sign up for a Visa card or fly to Beijing and wave an American flag around.
  • All the commercials have the best music ever invented "I've got soul, but I'm not a solider………"
  • Our DVR records over 12 hours per day. We get to fast forward to the good parts. And by good parts I mean the whole damn thing.
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10 responses to “why i love the olympics : part one (of at least two.)”

  1. Holly H. Avatar
    Holly H.

    love your reasons why…. i ditto them all!

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  2. Stacey R Avatar
    Stacey R

    I am so right there with you on Olympic fever. It’s so damn inspiring.
    I had to come out of lurkdom and post for the first time to agree with this. The Olympics freaking rock.

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  3. Caity Avatar
    Caity

    i wish i could just take the next 2 weeks off of work so i could just sit on my couch and watch everything.

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  4. leah eggers Avatar

    those GO WORLD commercials get me. love them. and i’m with paul: the gymnastics scoring makes no sense to me, but i still love to watch it.

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  5. elizabeth Avatar

    and here I thought i was the only one watching every single solitary minute 🙂

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  6. Natalie Avatar

    omg, i love that song/commercial too. and i’m happy to see that i’m not the only one who loves the olympics. except the broadcasting sucks over here because they aren’t showing the sports I like to watch. can you believe I had to watch swimming on the highlights and not the real thing? ugh. damn taiwanese television.

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  7. Cameron Avatar

    Oh my stinkin’ heck! I am right there with you on every single point, except for the running. Maybe I should try watching at the gym! I loooove that commercial; I love that it is not just people “winning,” it is people Winning… if you know what I mean.
    My friend qualified for the finals today… finals are tomorrow and I’m jumping out of my skin!

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  8. heyjenrenee Avatar

    dude – I totally just figured out that I can also watch the Olympics on On-Demand (so I don’t have to DVR everything!)

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  9. Patti H Avatar
    Patti H

    the ondemand thing just totally made my day (actually my entire two weeks!!!). happy olympics elise (make sure you stretch out before pulling an arm muscle during the swim races!!!)

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  10. kristen hawley Avatar

    I agree with all the above.
    But I have been trying to catch them myself and never thought to program them in my DVR.
    GREAT IDEA.

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