1st there was shark week…nothing but seven days of shows regarding sharks and all the stuff that goes with them. it is so very cool. my family hates that i watch it and they moan and groan when shark week comes up in conversation. it makes me laugh and it’s fun.

then this year we have the whole summer olympics thing.I’m a big fan of the summer games…not so much the winter ones, but i may watch an event or two if nothing else is on. i think it was kinda cool we had the summer then the winter games here in america in a short amount of time.

it always seems like we get a big shot of patriotism around olympic time. when i was little my dad was from an immigrant family and he was in the military, so he had patriotism drilled into his head from the time he could remember. I dont remember much about him, but some of the things he said bout when he was growing up he was from a very patriotic family. Seems to me that you have to be here from another country to have any sort of love for this country. it seems ironic born here and you could care less, but be from somewhere else and know what it feels like to not have the things we do and things are suddenly different.

then when the olympics are over i will have my chiefs football. then i get to hear the groans for the next three months. good times! *wink wink*