I was a swimmer. Not a competitive one, but for a period of a year or three, I swam at least 2 hours a day, mostly crawl. I'm already wide in the shoulders, and hoo boy. Got wider. Boobs got even bigger as the pecs increased, like I needed that. I turned into a goddamned triangle. I was doing it for stress release and ultimately started fucking up my shoulders in the process, so I had to back off.

I look at the professionals with their sculpted bods and laugh. That was never me, but I get how awesome it is to flow through the water.I miss swimming.

Dara Torres amazes me. 41 years old and competing in the Olympics as a swimmer, something you think of as being a twenty-year-old's sport.

We were just checking out her bio! "It says she was born in 1967. That's gotta be a mistake. ...Hang on, she competed at Seoul. The hell?"

Male gymnasts do have weird bodies.

Hubby wants me to point out that male gymnasts aren't that hard to tip over because balance is their thing. And that an iron cross can convert to a right cross very easily.

Does anyone else think that Bob Costas' hair looks like a piece?

I just thought it was a bad dye job.

I didn't understand the cheerleaders in the high-heeled boots doing the pee-pee dance for two hours during the opening ceremony. What was that about? And what is Beijing going to do with the footprint thing that the athletes were making as they were walking in, with the giant ink pads. Are they going to hang it in the bird's nest or something?

Tim Daggett as an announcer is HARSH.

I'm amazed that all the ancienct Chinese imperial stuff survived Mao.

I didn't understand the cheerleaders in the high-heeled boots doing the pee-pee dance for two hours during the opening ceremony. What was that about?

They ended up using them as the barriers. Did you see during the torch part they were all holding hands and keeping the athletes at bay?

Heaven forbid the athletes run amok.

The paiting that the footprints made, I thought they said it was going to tour.