a girl i knew is in the olympics...

what a trip. softball. she went to my high school the year after i graduated. but i knew her anyway. total sweetheart. pretty cool. my best friend played against some when she was in college. kinda nifty. makes it more personal.

 

Wow thats really cool. Playing for the US I hope? I've heard that like trinadad and places like that recruit a lotta americans to play on their teams 'cause of their ethnicity. What traitors. :H

 

The olympics werent as big this year as usual they were saying on the news. I havnt even seen much about them besides I know theyre going on. I think it would be an awesome thing to be in but 4 years of training isnt worth it to me.

 

That's awesome. What an honor. I haven't taken in much of the Olympics. I watched the US basketball team lose to Puerto Rico and I loved it. There were so many NBA players who turned it down for just ridiculous excuses. At one point in my life I was on track to possibly make the US Freestyle ski team - no guarantee, but I had the talent. When I see someone turn down a shot at the Olympics, I just cringe - why anyone could blow it off is beyond me.

 

i knew one of the american guys that plays in the water polo event

 

it's gonna crack my husband up, i have this funny little list of semi-famous people i've known. dave doesn't know if i'm a good luck charm or ultimately a bad luck charm.

 

One time a girl I knew was in a porno

 

a girl from my high school was in the olympics four years ago. it was pretty cool.

also, i had an offer to train for the olympic team before in swimming. however, after having high school records and knowing the stress that caused... i politely declined.

 

it's kinda neat. it makes it more fun to watch. i was an extra in a movie once that my friend was working on, and i was at a bbq with jason london. i just saw him in a movie today. kinda funny. i think it's just a SoCal thing, you end up around some interesting people.

 

i wanna make it to the olympics someday, for swimming. i need to start training again, but its been a dream since i started swimming when i was 6 months old...

 

what stroke are you best at?

i still have a record from 97 at my school for the 100 meter breast stroke so needless to say, that is my best stroke...

 

freestyle and breaststroke are my best.

i swam competively from age 6-16, but was not getting into swimming that much when i was 14. so my last 2 years i didn't even try, i lost all motivation to do good and got fat and that continued until now. i emailed my college swim coach to see if i could just practice with them and maybe join the team, but right now, i'm focusing on getting my knee injury healed up, so yea. i just don't feel right not swimming...i was really good at it too.

 

i was gonna make a lewd comment*slinks off* i know better lol

 

Yes, jeremy, i know- a breast stroke comment. trust me... we've both heard them.

anyways, yah, fitzy, freestyle was my second best stroke. i remember one time...at states, my coach put me in butterfly and i had NEVER even swam that at a meet. never. well, i ended up doing the breaststroke kick half the time... got second place and my coach told me he was distracting the judge during that. it was hilarious.

im way outta shape now too and my college doesnt have a swim team... but maybe when i move onto my next school...

good luck with your pursuits.

(btw i swam at leisure most of my life and only competitively for two years and got better then most of the "life time competors"... it was awesome but too much stress and pressure for me.

 

i could swim everything, but i excelled at freestyle and breaststroke. i loved the stress and pressure at meets, i lived for it and hopefully i will again:H, i;ll see though.

thanks a lot for the encouragement thingy migjiggy.

 

well, i loved the pressure of meets too....


but i think i loved it too much. i would do like.... visualazation (sp.) every night before and really live on edge. just dont know if i could do that again.

 

i know i could live like that...my life isn't going anywhere fast, so i think i could have fun doing it again.

 

well go for it then! make the olympics and make me proud as hell and a bit jealous too

 

I was a reporter in the Johnny Cash movie that's currently being filmed here. I was in a scene with Joaquin Phoenix. Reese Witherspoon is in the movie too but I didn't get to talk to her or anything.

 

you just better remember telling me this in 8 years...