It’s not TOO LATE…I CAN still become an Olympian?
In honor of the Olympics beginning FRIDAY, I’m reposting this one (one of my all time favorite posts)…and gearing you all up for the barrage of information I plan on posting concerning the USA’s efforts in the 2012 Olympics. I am so excited and just can’t stand it. I plan on giving Bob Costas a run for his money as the most informative method of following the USA and their paths to gold. Bring it on peeps….LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
And for my Hunger Games buddies….may the odds be ever in your favor! U-S-A…U-S-A….U-S-A!!
As some of you may have noticed, I posted a countdown clock to the right of this blog. Yes, this is for the Olympics! I am a huge fan of everything olympical (new word?) and am very excited for the summer Olympics to commence.
As I did the research for this piece, I was elated to find out that my days of possibly becoming a gold medalist are not behind me! SHOCKING, I KNOW! I assumed my ripe old age had eliminated me from even dreaming of the medal ceremony…being at the top of the podium….right hand over heart…gold medal hung loosely around my neck…looking up as the beautiful flag of the United States is raised in triumph…the National Anthem playing in the background (not mouthing the words in case I get it wrong)…tears in my eyes as I so proudly represent my country…well, one can dream, right??!
And as I searched the “2012 London” website, the list of sports caught my eye…oh, the possibilities are ENDLESS…here are each sport with my thoughts as to whether or not I could try out!
Archery (hmmm, how hard could it be? Katniss made it look easy)
Badminton (GAME ON! I think I could do this one)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Basketball (5’4”?…umm, no)
Beach Volleyball (I don’t like sand in my…umm, shorts?)
Boxing (might break a nail)
Canoe – Slalom and Sprint (the fact that I can’t even recognize slalom and sprint canoeing probably eliminates me from these)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Cycling – BMX, Mountain, Road, and track (I haven’t even had enough guts to buy an exercise bike)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Diving (all that twisting and turning would make me puke mid-air…judges probably wouldn’t appreciate that)
Equestrian (hmm…me…horse…jumping…together? How do I hang on?)
Fencing (ugly outfit)
Football (I think they mean soccer…all that running? Ummm, no thanks)
Gymnastics – Artistic and Rhythmic (those days are LONG gone!)
Handball (doesn’t that hurt?)
Hockey (I prefer my teeth stay in my mouth)
Judo (hahahahahahahaha!)
Modern Pentathlon – fencing, swimming, riding (a horse), shooting (a gun!), and running (again with the running, ugh!)
Rowing (by myself? Or can I sit at the top and yell ROW?)
Sailing (by myself? Or can I sit at the top and yell SAIL?)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Shooting (not sure they’d trust me with a gun)
Synchronized Swimming (I can’t even get the kids to synchronize their schedules)
Table Tennis (if they promise to hit it softly and aim it towards my paddle)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Track and Field (running AND jumping? Why don’t they just hold a separate Olympics for runners?)
Trampoline (WTH? This is an Olympic sport?? I can jump on a trampoline!)
Triathlon – swimming, biking, running (oy vey with the running already!! Add a gun we could combine this with the Modern Pentathlon…work smarter, not harder)
Volleyball (can I serve underhanded?)
Water Polo (wouldn’t want to drown the horse)
Weightlifting (see Judo)
Wrestling (I don’t really want to be touched by someone wearing that onesie type outfit)
Ok, so maybe my choices aren’t really ENDLESS, but there are a few…which are a few more than I thought I could do. Are you as shocked by this list as I am? We booted out baseball and softball, but have BMX biking and badminton? And all that freakin’ running…my goodness. Usually when I think of running, the most important part to me is the music on the Ipod. I just don’t see a lot of Ipod’s during Olympic events. That’d be a good commercial though, huh?
What about you? What are your favorite parts of the Olympics?
It’s not TOO LATE…I CAN still become an Olympian?
As some of you may have noticed, I posted a countdown clock to the right of this blog. Yes, this is for the Olympics! I am a huge fan of everything olympical (new word?) and am very excited for the summer Olympics to commence.
As I did the research for this piece, I was elated to find out that my days of possibly becoming a gold medalist are not behind me! SHOCKING, I KNOW! I assumed my ripe old age had eliminated me from even dreaming of the medal ceremony…being at the top of the podium….right hand over heart…gold medal hung loosely around my neck…looking up as the beautiful flag of the United States is raised in triumph…the National Anthem playing in the background (not mouthing the words in case I get it wrong)…tears in my eyes as I so proudly represent my country…well, one can dream, right??!
And as I searched the “2012 London” webpage, the list of sports caught my eye…oh, the possibilities are ENDLESS…here are each sport with my thoughts as to whether or not I could try out!
Archery (hmmm, how hard could it be? Katniss made it look easy)
Badminton (GAME ON! I think I could do this one)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Basketball (5’4”?…umm, no)
Beach Volleyball (I don’t like sand in my…umm, shorts?)
Boxing (might break a nail)
Canoe – Slalom and Sprint (the fact that I can’t even recognize slalom and sprint canoeing probably eliminates me from these)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Cycling – BMX, Mountain, Road, and track (I haven’t even had enough guts to buy an exercise bike)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Diving (all that twisting and turning would make me puke mid-air…judges probably wouldn’t appreciate that)
Equestrian (hmm…me…horse…jumping…together? How do I hang on?)
Fencing (ugly outfit)
Football (I think they mean soccer…all that running? Ummm, no thanks)
Gymnastics – Artistic and Rhythmic (those days are LONG gone!)
Handball (doesn’t that hurt?)
Hockey (I prefer my teeth stay in my mouth)
Judo (hahahahahahahaha!)
Modern Pentathlon – fencing, swimming, riding (a horse), shooting (a gun!), and running (again with the running, ugh!)
Rowing (by myself? Or can I sit at the top and yell ROW?)
Sailing (by myself? Or can I sit at the top and yell SAIL?)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Shooting (not sure they’d trust me with a gun)
Synchronized Swimming (I can’t even get the kids to synchronize their schedules)
Table Tennis (if they promise to hit it softly and aim it towards my paddle)
(Photo Credit: London2012.com)
Track and Field (running AND jumping? Why don’t they just hold a separate Olympics for runners?)
Trampoline (WTH? This is an Olympic sport?? I can jump on a trampoline!)
Triathlon – swimming, biking, running (oy vey with the running already!! Add a gun we could combine this with the Modern Pentathlon…work smarter, not harder)
Volleyball (can I serve underhanded?)
Water Polo (wouldn’t want to drown the horse)
Weightlifting (see Judo)
Wrestling (I don’t really want to be touched by someone wearing that onesie type outfit)
Ok, so maybe my choices aren’t really ENDLESS, but there are a few…which are a few more than I thought I could do. Are you as shocked by this list as I am? We booted out baseball and softball, but have BMX biking and badminton? And all that freakin’ running…my goodness. Usually when I think of running, the most important part to me is the music on the Ipod. I just don’t see a lot of Ipod’s during Olympic events. That’d be a good commercial though, huh?
What about you? What are your favorite parts of the Olympics?
Autocorrect…need I say more?
So, there I was last night…trying diligently to attack my accounting homework (that means sailor vocabulary, pulling hair, throwing pencils…the usual happy environment during current, cash debt coverage, and inventory turnover ratios. I got my Associate’s Degree in Accounting, then changed my major. Doesn’t that give the school a tiny hint that I hate it? Did they mention the mandatory Accounting 561 course was in the MBA program? NO. Would I have changed my mind about higher education? Maybe.) …minding my own business…when I receive a text from my college daughter that said, “My opposum thanked me today for buying an App. Something you want to tell me woman?”
First of all, the apple doesn’t sound anything like the tree, right? Lol. She is my girl and it shows. I may need to apologize to her later for having that effect, but for now, I couldn’t be more proud of this kid. She is just one awesome…human.
Second of all, she was the first in the house to begin the iTunes account many years ago, therefore the email address on file is hers. We share her username and password so we can all share the same materials. No sense in buying the same song five times, right?
Third, if anyone goes into the account and changes the credit card on file to their own to purchase something and doesn’t change it back to mine…well, my next few purchases are on you and I certainly appreciate it! (Actually, it amounts to doing bank transfers to pay them back, so it’s really not as fun as it sounds.)
So, back to the text. I wrote her back, “Opossum???” She responds with, “OMG, Mom…I wrote Ipod and it autocorrected to Opossum!”
I fell apart.
That is one of the FUNNIEST autocorrects I’ve been personally involved with…and I couldn’t stop laughing. We’ve had a couple good ones, but nothing like this where she was thanked by an opposum. And all I kept thinking was don’t you have to have used that word in your texting experiences for it to autocorrect to that? Why in the world would she have the word Opossum in her history file and not Ipod?? Maybe I don’t wanna know!
It went on for hours. She talked about my visit in a few weeks, and I told her “yes, I am still coming down so move your opossum over and make room for me”…she’s twenty years old…we can talk like that now and it’s so much fun, however she did call me a bad name after that last text. Think I should ground her? Actually, I wish she’d ground me.
But the whole incident reminded me so much of the “Damn You Autocorrect” examples that have floated around emails and is posted all over the internet, so I thought I’d share my tear filled laughter with all of you and repost some here…. it is FRIDAY after all!
Here are some of the funnier ones (GRANDMA AND MOM, IF YOU’RE READING THIS, NOW WOULD BE THE TIME TO STOP! RATED- R MATERIAL AHEAD):
Thanks DamnYou AutoCorrect!!!!
