So, the Olympics are over.  I’m not sure about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching the activities this year!  Usually, people in the United States kind of brush off the winter games, but for some reason I was just drawn to all of the events.  The USA usually under-performs in the winter Olympics, so maybe that’s why we tend not to care as much.  But, this year, we won the medal count!  Canada won the most gold medals…but, whatever, they had the home court advantage.

Unfortunately for the USA, Canada walked away with the biggest win: the gold in men’s hockey.  The game was so intense and incredibly exciting to watch!  Canada had a 2-1 lead over the USA with 50 seconds left in the third period.  Out of nowhere, Parise scored a goal for the USA with 24.4 seconds left in the match, sending the game into overtime.  In under ten minutes of sudden death overtime, Sidney Crosby scored Canada’s winning goal.  *sigh*

Oh well, it’s not as if the USA didn’t come out with epic wins!  Everyone still remembers Shaun White’s insane Double McTwist 1260 debut, Apolo Ohno’s record 7th and 8th medals, and Evan Lysacek’s upset gold over Russia (who even remembers his name, really? Putin thinks he’s a winner, but we don’t).  We were #1 in overall medal count by a long shot!  We came out with 37 medals (9 gold, 15 silver, 13 bronze), Germany followed behind us with 30 (10 gold, 13 silver, 7 bronze), and Canada behind them with 26 total, even though they led the count in gold medals (14 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze).

In all seriousness, congratulations to all of the athletes for their amazing athletic efforts!

Overall I think it’s been a really exciting few weeks…but I seriously can’t wait until London 2012! USA! USA!

The Winter Olympics aren’t usually that exciting to me…but, I have to say, I’ve been really into watching them this year!  All the drama and hype has been great, and it doesn’t hurt that the USA has been dominating in the medal count, either.

This year, the Olympics are in Vancouver, Canada (about 2 hours from Seattle, if that makes any difference to you).  It has looked so beautiful, too!  I’m so jealous.  I live in California where there is one season all year long.  Seeing so much snow makes me want to live there…and then I remember that it wouldn’t be 70 degrees every single day, so my mind changes a little bit.

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Okay, I know this might sound a little ridiculous, and not really news-worthy…but Heinz has just revolutionized individual ketchup packets! I seriously cannot wait to see one of these things.

These new packets can be used in two different ways. If you want to squeeze the ketchup onto something—like a burger, perhaps—then you can just rip off the top (where it looks like the top of an actual ketchup bottle). If you want to dip something, though, the packet is actually designed to be a little tub. So, all you have to do is peel back the plastic at the bottom of the “bottle” and dip away!

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Well, I can’t say I’m not happy! In their first Super Bowl appearance ever, the New Orleans Saints won!  Even though Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts were favored to win Super Bowl XLIV, the Saints pulled through and topped the Colts 31-17.

After the game was over, quarterback Drew Brees reflected on how much the game really meant to him and his team.  He told ESPN: “We play for so much more than ourselves. We played for our city. We played for the entire Gulf Coast region. We played for the entire Who Dat nation that has been behind us every step of the way.”

Even though the game was pretty close for the first half, the Saints recovered an on-side kick at the beginning of the second half, which led to a touchdown.  It was at that point when the momentum changed and the Saints picked up speed enough to gain a two-touchdown lead on the Colts.

Both Peyton Manning and Drew Brees had good numbers and stats for the game, but overall, Brees came out and played a better game yesterday.  After a rocky start with Brees’s passing game, he was able to finish the game with 32 completed passes (out of 39) for 288 total [passing] yards.  That stat ties the most completions ever in a Super Bowl game (with Tom Brady in Super Bowl XXXIII).

What’d you think of the game?  I mean, it probably wasn’t the most exciting Super Bowl ever, but it was still entertaining!

How about the commercials?  I don’t know about you, but I got pretty sick of seeing only Bud Light and Doritos commercials.  Oh well…until next year!

I thought I’d take a break from the usual Friday album reviews (especially since the biggest record this week is from a JoBro…nooothankyou) and talk about the Super Bowl! Who will win!? Who do you WANT to win?

Usually, I’m pretty opinionated. I hate the Steelers, so naturally, last year, I was automatically rooting for the Cardinals. In years past I’ve been a Patriots fan (how can anyone resist Tom Brady?!) or an anti-Giants fan, etc. This year, though, I’m kind of torn!

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