My love for the Olympics, me visiting sites of the Vancouver Winter Games in 2010.

This guy. <3

It's that time again... time for the Summer Olympics. I la-la-la-lovvvvvvvve the Olympics, especially the summer games, I think it's because I have no real connection to the winter games (come on, I'm from Hawaii, ice palace is the closest thing we got). The summer games has basketball, soccer, indoor and beach voleyball, track & field, gymnastics, and my favorite... SWIMMING. I'm excited to cheer on my man Michael Phelps and his quest to become the greatest olympian EVER! Get it!!!!!! I know Ryan Lochte is the favorite now (the guy is ALL OVER THE PLACE).

I feel like London was my chance to actually watch the Olympics in person. I remember when it was announced and David Beckham showed up in Beijing. I thought there's your 4 year goal, get to the Olympics. But life happens, and here I am, blogging about the Olympics instead of watching it as it happens. I know Rio is out of the question, but hey 2020 I'm shooting for you, hopefully in Tokyo or somewhere in the states. Last night's opening ceremonies was the first time I didn't watch the opening ceremonies from the start (I started watching somewhere near Micronesia). It made me miss working for the sports department, being "forced" to watch the Olympics because what else is there to watch in the middle of summer other than MLB?!? This year I'll be working throughout the games, unable to watch my favorite events and athletes, thank goodness for Twitter, Instagram, and phone apps.

I can pinpoint my love for the Olympics to 1992. Prior to that I do not recall much, I don't remember Mary Lou Retton or Greg Louganis. My first memories start with the Dream Team in Barcelona, I'm not sure what basketball lovin kid wasn't watch the greatest group of NBA players on one team take on the world. I can't believe that was 20 years ago, makes me feel real old. 1996 in Atlanta brought the Magnificent Seven and Michael Johnson, I was so obsessed with gymnastics that year. In 2000 it was all about swimming and Ian Thorpe. I think that was the year I also took notice of our US Men's Soccer National team. 2004 started my love for Mr. Phelps, and my bitter disappointment of our men's basketball team (seriously BRONZE?!?). In 2008, it was about Michael Phelps again, Shawn Johnson, and Natasha Kai and women's soccer. It was so cool seeing someone you knew, actually in the Olympics! I can't wait to see what unfold's at this year's games!

Summer's here, summer's here! Days are longer, and I feel like I can do like a gazillion things more. Which is so not true - proven today a work, I hate days where everything I do seems to go wrong. Which probably comes as a surprise to a lot of ppl. I'm very hard on myself when it comes to work and I absolutely hate when I'm not up to par. Enough of that no sense worrying about work. I haven't posted in weeks, probably because I've been ridiculously busy (as usual), here's a list of my summer to dos:

-HIKE MORE!!!

-Sell my crap at the swap meet.

-Finish reading Harry Potter before the July 15th premiere of Deathly Hallows pt. 2. (I know after reading the first two books I'm a total HP freak, I can't believe I wasn't into this earlier, I'm a sucker for dorky things like magical creatures, weird powers, etc.)

-Water park.

-See all the summer movies I want to see. (Super 8, Cars 2, HP, Green Lantern, Transformers 3, Winnie The Pooh, Friends with Benefits, Planet of the Apes, Glee Live, oh and Monte Carlo starring Selena Gomez...hehe). I've already seen X-Men First Class... so epic, great way to start of the summer movie season. More about X-Men later.

-Mini Maui Vacay, I'm ready to visit again.

-BBQs.

-Beach time.

-Keep up with the blogs and photoging.

I'm pretty sure there is more but I can't think of any at the moment.

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Okay now back to X-Men, many people don't know this, but I am a huge X-Men fan. Fell in love with Cyclops and Gambit from the first time I watched it Saturday morning on Fox way back when. I actually named my car Professor X, because my license plate starts with PCX (Professor Charles Xavier!!). After watching X3: The Last Stand, I was a little salty because 1. Cyclops and Prof. X dies and 2. the story line sucked and 3. Bryan Singer wasn't directing. I was so disappointed with the direction the X-Men movies went that I didn't even bother watching X-Men origins: Wolverine. But I must say X-Men First Class totally makes up for X3, I hear they are going to make it into another 3-part movie series. The storyline was really good and the cast was pretty hot... that kid from About A Boy and the guy that played Hannah Montana's love interest is in it. They grow up so fast.

I also saw the previews for Captain America. I think it's a little weird that Chris Evans is playing the lead, I mean he played the Human Torch in both Fantastic Four movies. I think actors should only be allowed to play one superhero EVER. Like the fact that Ryan Reynolds is both The Green Lantern and Deadpool, give other actors a chance at being superheroes for crying out loud. I know what your saying one is a DC comics, the other is Marvel, I wanna bet half of the population doesn't know the difference between the two comic companies. I don't know it's just weird.

Eh, slow down brah!

So far this summer has been about reconnecting with my friends. Although I miss Mike-izzle dearly, I've been reminded this summer that I'm only young once and need to live a little. Being in a relationship doesn't mean to retire those dancing shoes, it's all about finding the right balance. I guess its true when they say you can have the best of both worlds. ( Wtf did I just make a freaking hannah montana reference).
So summer please slow down...
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