Regarding my family reunion, it was really fun. The last day was the family Olympics. Each sector of the family has a different color and we compete against eachother in games like slip and slide, hula hoop snakes, water balloon tosses, egg diving relay races etc (if you don't know what any of those games are... Too bad).
After the games we have one big family goodbye dinner. This part is always special as you don't think you would, but you actually get sad to say goodbye. The kids cry, the adults hug and everyone goes thier seperate ways. We are now a family of 153 and growing. Basically, the general consensus among each member of the family is that breeding is mandatory. It's not something you do for yourself, it's a sacrifice you make to build the strength of your team for the reunion olympics. Angelina Jolie would be a god in our family.
Speaking of the Olympics, the real one, I'm struggling to understand what I find is so fascinating about them. I rarely to never watch sports on tv. If I was channel surfing and landed on beach volleyball, synchronized diving, swimming meats, track etc I would definitely without question change the channel... Unless its women's gymnastics which is like my crack.
Every night I have channel surfed through the Olympic games I have stayed stuck watching the entire night, usually past midnight. (my bed time is around 10).
Someone made the obvious comment to me today explaining my obsession with the games. "You watch because they are the best in the world".
No, that isn't it. If told me that the best beach volleyball player in the world was playing tonight at 8, I wouldn't watch it or waste my space on the DVR even to fast forward to the end. But when I caught the volleyball and men's gymnastics on Monday I was hooked. I cared about all of them in the same way I care and get concerned about the cast of Grey's Anatomy.
I recently downloaded the CNN app that sends me notifications of daily news headlines. CNN told me yesterday, before I watched the games, who won and I still watched every second. I feel like I am not alone in this obsession.
A good comparison would probably be the movie Titanic- we all knew what would happen. I saw it anyway, not once, but at least 4 times in the theater. I just don't get myself sometimes.
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