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Your Candy Heart Says "Hug Me"

A total sweetheart, you always have a lot of love to give out. Your heart is open to where ever love takes you! Your ideal Valentine's Day date: a surprise romantic evening that you've planned out Your flirting style: lots of listening and talking What turns you off: fighting and conflict Why you're hot: you're fearless about falling in love

What Does Your Candy Heart Say?

(I don't know about "fearless," but whatever.)

Let the Games begin!

I love the Olympics.

I mean, it's the only time when the whole world gets together. All of the different countries you might hear about in the news or maybe not even think about join with yours in one place, united in the spirit of peace and friendly competition.

One of my favorite parts is always the opening ceremony. I like the theater of it, of course, learning about the culture and traditions and history of the host country. But I particularly enjoy watching all of the delegations march in. Of course I eagerly await our team, which is usually near the end 'cause it's alphabetical, but I also enjoy seeing what the other countries are wearing (looking fabulous, Canada!), which countries you don't necessarily expect to see on the medal stand or even at the Games (any desert country at the Winter Games) and which countries sent one person -- I always silently cheer for the one-guy delegations, 'cause that one guy's got a lot on his shoulders, the pride of his whole country. He probably won't win, either, 'cause he's probably the only guy the country had who could do a winter sport half-well, or else he's from a really broke country that couldn't afford to send a lot of people or even train them or give them uniforms. But you've gotta admire the guy's courage and patriotism, and what an honor it must be, really, to be that one guy representing your whole country on the global stage.

I especially like the Winter Games, 'cause I like pretty much all of the winter sports -- hockey, curling, bobsled, skeleton, luge, speedskating, ski jumping, bring it on. About the only one I don't like is figure skating -- it's alright, but eh. If you're gonna be all artsy on ice, just do ice dancing and get it over with.

The Olympics are good for our country, too. We spend a lot of time these days hating each other, disagreeing over politics or religion (both of which are way too heavily weighing on our lives these days), but now, for two weeks, we're all Americans, united in cheering on our team, U-S-A! But even when we lose, it's not so bad, 'cause if we don't medal, we can still admire the athletic prowess of the guys who beat us.

I love the Olympics. Too bad they're only for a couple of weeks every couple of years.

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Damn NBC and their chopped-up, sporadic, commercial-riddled coverage.

They've got like four channels. I would expect that with four channels, they'd have the Olympics on pretty much all the time on at least one channel. But no -- they're only using three channels, and not all day.

At least they've got Cami Granato commentating on hockey. That's cool.