Oh No! The Olympics are Over!
Woman in the Middle | August 21, 2016I was not terribly into the Olympics this summer. All the horror stories out of Rip about how they weren’t ready, etc…. just added to my Olympic Indifference. When Hubby and I tired to watch the opening ceremonies that was the night Blackie kept interrupting our viewing (indoor pooping, broken glass) making it hard to get into watching that event.
But, on the first night of competition, I did turn it on, with a kind of “oh, what the heck” feeling, and, just like that, we were sucked into the vortex of competition, of success and heartbreak, of gold, silver, and bronze, of Micheal Phelps, Simone Biles, and why oh why those U.S. men can not pass the baton correctly in the 4 x 100 relay….. And so we have watched nothing else during our nightly television watching except Olympics for over two weeks now.
Now, today, it is over. Oh no! As it has been for every Olympics for our 30 years of marriage, now comes the terrible Olympics withdrawal symptoms. After tonight, what will we watch? Those darn Olympics, they get us every time, even when we aren’t expecting it!
Did you watch the Olympics this year? Will you be experiencing withdrawals as well?
It’s worse than that! TV is a vast wasteland until September! Time to read!
Nope never watched the Olympics
I won’t be going through Olympic withdrawals because I DVR’d all of it and have been watching it in drips and drabs. This means that I have often heard of someone’s gold medal before watching the competition, but it did not take the enjoyment out of it. Besides, when it’s on DVR, I can fast forward through all the commercials and the sports in which I have no interest.
We didn’t record everything, but that is what we did also. We began recording the 8 pm broadcast but didn’t start watching until 9. And we fast forwarded quite a bit.
I hate the way they jump around. I managed to catch some jumping (equestrian) but missed the cross country because they put it on at 6 am and the press listings start at 10 am.
I did watch some diving & gymnastics & the synchronized swimming. In between I caught up on movies thanks to the library.
I don’t have cable, just Netflix, so no, I didn’t watch the Olympics.
I didn’t know they have synchronized swimming now. My mom would have loved to have watch that!