Olympic Mania

I've been watching the Olympics like a crazy person these days. It's been giving me something to do, and it's been really fun to watch the swimming and the gymnastics. Go USA!

There is this one GM commercial that keeps coming on and the song in it is really good. I finally Googled it and found that it was: "The Story" by Brandi Carlile. Well, I just bought the whole freakin' album I love it so much. And it completely rocks...well it "rocks" in the folk-rock kind of way. Nevertheless....who ever said commercials were useless?

Should I have already heard of Brandi Carlile? Because, man...she's good! I'm usually late on this kind of stuff.

So 4 years from now I will probably have forgotten that Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals. I will forget about cheering when the USA team beat France at the very last second in the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay. I won't remember how Dara Torres (yeah, yeah we know she's 41) just lost the gold by .01 seconds in the 50 free, or how I stayed up way too late watching Nastia Luikin and Shawn Johnson take gold and silver in the individual all-around gymnastics. But I bet I will remember this song. :)

"The Story" by Brandi Carlile

All of these lines across my face

Tell you the story of who I am

So many stories of where I've been

And how I got to where I am

But these stories don't mean anything

When you've got no one to tell them to

It's true... I was made for you

I climbed across the mountain tops

Swam all across the ocean blue

I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules

But baby I broke them all for you

Oh because even when I was flat broke

You made me feel like a million bucks

You do and I was made for you

You see the smile that's on my mouth

It's hiding the words that don't come out

And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed

They don't know my head is a mess

No, they don't know who I really am

And they don't know what I've been through like you do

And I was made for you