Hey, it’s Sarah spelled the right way.

Hmm, what’s wrong with this picture?

When the Olympics were over it was a sigh of relief for me. Back to more crappy television and I just was tired of the birds nest and pool cube. Interesting photos of the best moments of the Olympics.

I gave up coffee for two days in a row. I had a slight headache but sidetracked it with a glass of iced tea on Monday. Yesterday I had bouts of fuzzyness and extreme exhaustion taking over my mind. Today I had to have a freshly cup of coffee with a splash of half n half. It did the trick and immediately placed me in the ADD motion. Grasping and trying to reach the end of the internet today, reading, listening to music, frantically trying to sort out my thoughts and oh yea work… WORK!! Only about six more hours of being a code bot. Hurray for the long weekend that approaches. I am taking two days off in a row. Coffee = Speed (for me)

Meanwhile my head continues pounding.

I have to collect a FECES sample from both cats today! EW SICK GROSS!

The daughter of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher tells how her mother’s dementia has left her struggling to remember the simplest facts in book extracts published Sunday.

Carol Thatcher wrote that, on her worst days, her mother struggles to finish sentences but shows occasional glimpses of her old self, particularly when talking about her time in Downing Street.

“I had always thought of her as ageless, timeless and 100 percent cast-iron damage-proof,” Carol Thatcher wrote in her memoir, “A Swim-On Part In The Goldfish Bowl”, which was serialised in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

“Whereas previously you never had to say anything to her twice because she’d already filed it away in her formidable memory bank, Mum started asking the same questions over and over again, unaware she was doing so.”

She also wrote of how her mother keeps forgetting that husband Denis died in 2003.

“I had to keep giving her the bad news over and over again,” she wrote.

“Every time it finally sank in that she had lost her husband of more than 50 years, she’d look at me sadly and say ‘Oh’ as I struggled to compose myself.

“‘Were we all there?’ she’d ask softly.”

Carol Thatcher also recalled how when a friend asked her mother about Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, “she snapped back into Iron Lady mode and was utterly engaging.”

Thatcher, nicknamed the Iron Lady, was Britain’s first and so far only female premier and was in office as head of a Conservative government between 1979 and 1990.

Now aged 83, she gave up speaking in public in 2002 on the advice of her doctors after a series of small strokes.
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Hillary gave us a shout out in the first few minutes of her speech.

Then there are these crazy people who obviously didn’t hear Hillary’s speech:

Congratulations to the US Women’s Soccer team for winning gold. It was a very exciting game against Brazil and even went into overtime.

What is really in this? I was curious to try it so without considering the flavors: Banana Chocolate or Banana Mango Orange. I like my bananas from the peel and not in liquid form so I settled for Banana Chocolate. The chocolate tastes like protein bar chocolate with a bitter aftertaste. I find myself wanting a drink of water after I take a drink of the Vivanno to cleanse my palate. According to the Starbucks website Vivannos are made with a whole banana and cocoa which explains the bitterness. It’s a health drink like Naked but gives the option of ordering it with a shot of espresso. Overall it makes you take a dump.

The U.S. will face Brazil tomorrow for the gold medal. Kickoff is set for 9 a.m. ET. They made it almost all the way without Abby Wambach. This video shows how she broke her leg playing against Brazil July 18. Ouch

Just in time for the 105th anniversary of Harley this weekend, the Bronze Fonz was unveiled last night.
Look who came to celebrate:

Where have they been?

“Don’t get mad get glad” guy and Marion from Happy Days.

It makes us Wisconsinites feel famous for a minute when celebrities come to visit.

I have been crying and weeping silently to way too much of the Olympics. I also can’t seem to look away. I will try to fill my day with chores and work but I find myself on the couch watching another race.

Micheal Phelps Phelps Phelps Phelps. I did tire of him. It’s amazing he has all those gold metals, but his Mama and sisters cheering him on - tears were streaming down my face.

Dara Torres. I think she was overshadowed by Phelps and that’s unfortunate. She was the oldest women to win an Olympic silver medal (she missed out on the gold in the Women’s 50m Freestyle by 1/100th of a second), making her the most decorated female U.S. Olympian in history, with 12 medals total.

When asked about the race Torres first response was to joke, “Maybe I shouldn’t have filed my nails last night.” What amazed me about Torres is her never ending smiling, cheering on teammates, chatting and laughing with competitors, even holding off the start of a race to let a competitor fix a ripped bathing suit. She was always chatting with competitors and her teammates which made her stand out because of the usual silent serious competitions. Even when she came in second, she was hugging her competitors in congratulations only moments later, with the same infectious smile.

It doesn’t hurt that that person happens to be aesthetically appealing, too.

The U.S Women have reached the semifinals. U.S. supporters should be out in full force on Monday as the team is one step away from getting the chance to defend their Olympic Gold. The match will be shown live on Monday, Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. ET on MSNBC, Universal HD and the NBC Olympic Soccer Channel. I will be watching.

Then there is Norway’s handball team, including Gro Hammerseng and Katja Nyberg who Anger Hangover clued me into:

The Norwegians won Group A and finished as the only unbeaten, untied team.

The hips butts don’t lie. Why do the women wear bikinis as uniforms when the men get tank tops and baggy shorts? Not that I’m complaining… I do love the badonkadonk.

Tornado Warnings can really happen in Manhattan.

I most likely will vote Democratic even though I do try and follow John McCain’s views on things important to me like gas prices and the economy. I try to be fair between the two candidates but it’s hard when McCain says “I think it’s a fundamental tenet of our party to be pro-life but that does not mean we exclude people from our party that are pro-choice. We just have a–albeit strong–but just it’s a disagreement. And I think Ridge is a great example of that. Far moreso than Bloomberg, because Bloomberg is pro-gay rights, pro, you know, a number of other issues.” It makes me feel so happy to know where I stand on John McCain’s moral scale.

Then I saw Cindy McCain wearing a sling in the newspaper and honestly laughed out loud at what happened to her. Republican John McCain’s wife was treated Wednesday for a “minor sprain” after someone at a campaign event in Michigan shook her hand firmly. Apparently her wrist is a bit weak and the handshake exacerbated it. You don’t even want to know what B said why she had carpal tunnel or hurt her wrist in the first place. Something about jacking off. I also read somewhere it could have been because of opening a child safety cap pill bottle.

Ya doncha kno?

So my thoughts on the panda are this: They’re cute and all but are supposed to be extremely vicious. They kinda look like they have no eyes but here’s the most disturbing thing about pandas: They don’t like sex. Clearly they aren’t meant to survive, from an evolutionary standpoint. Pandas only eat one kind of food which is bamboo. They refuse to fuck and have baby pandas and have low birthrates in the wild and apparently at the National Zoo as well. Pandas often have twins and the momma will just abandon the smaller one. How horrible is that? If a panda is ever born, they often roll over on their baby and smush it to death by accident, I’m so sure. So anyways, after all this they attempt to keep them alive in zoos by artificially inseminating them. But Butterstick’s mom (Mei Xiang) is not preggo.

Washington Post:
Madonna, OMG, you are 50. You have said again and again that you never read newspapers or magazines, even though you are always in newspapers and magazines, so this is in some way wasted space and energy.
Then again, she needn’t be present for us to talk about her. This has always been the key element to how Madonna has spent half her life, deliberately deaf in the center of the buzz. Madonna turning 50 is not about Madonna. As ever, it’s about the rest of us, who are always caught watching Madonna do whatever it is Madonna currently does, even if when whatever Madonna is doing is nothing more than growing old.

Today on August 8th 2008 I am trying to make a Kringle. The recipe is called “Easy Kringle”. Not so much. My mom is over helping which really doesn’t mean much. It’s early. I don’t want to work today but people keep sending me stuff to do. UGH. I need to take a day or two off. Meg has swimmer’s itch again and can’t stop itching like crazy. It’s driving us crazy. I just made a fresh pot of Victor Allen’s French Roast coffee and it smells so good. My back has been aching. Two nights of massages! I am blessed to have B who knows exactly how to drive my muscles into submission. I am finally free of disability.

In case you missed live coverage on every single channel in Wisconsin Favre, wife Deanna, and agent James (Bus) Cook pulled out of Favre’s driveway in their red Cadillac Escalade at around 10:30 a.m. and made their way to the airport, where at 12:25 p.m., their private plane took off from Austin Straubel Airport.

According to the flight plan, they are headed to Hattiesburg, Miss. It’s probably the last time Favre will be in Green Bay for a long time, possibly until his number is officially retired.

Trade talks are still ongoing between the Packers and two teams, the New York Jets and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So far, no deal has been announced, although Favre has talked to both clubs and has shown willingness to at least play for the Buccaneers.

The vigil in front of Favre’s west side home is now over. Reporters and fans can go home.

I was thinking about going to a Brewer game since I’ve never been. I’ve heard great things about the stadium I helped pay for so I thought they are playing the Washington Nationals this weekend so why not? Well even though the Brewers have fallen five games behind the Cubs, they still have standing room only for tickets. To get into Miller Park and find a place to stand for the whole game is $17. That’s a load of crap.