The Figure Skating ROCKSTAR

Evan Lysacek. My favorite athlete and figure skater! Now usually I don't really follow sports at all, but the Olympics (the WINTER Olympics, especially) is something I MUST watch. But no one is really all that exciting to watch (except for Shaun White and skiing), but figure skating has become my new favorite "sport". Thanks to an amazing twenty-four year old named Evan Lysacek!!!!!!!!

He's the gold medal winner of men's figure skating, if you guys didn't know. GOLD MEDAL. And he beat last winter Olympics' champion Evengi Plushenko, some cocky Russian guy. Who lost to Lysacek, let me tell you!

If you guys haven't seen 6'2" Evan skate (I love his height!), you have got to! His performances in Vancouver were amazing, and he landed his turns amazingly, even with a fractured foot! That doesn't stop him from, you know, winning. He was the world champion previously and he broke a record by being the first American to win gold in men's figure skating! Oh, and he totally kept his cool when Plushenko (Russian.) was bagging on him for not doing a quad turn. Go Lysacek!!!! Sadly, it's over, but go to nbc.com and see him skate. Because if you don't, you're seriously missing out. He's the one in the black with feathers/black with silver stuff, just fyi. :]


Song of the Day: Revolution - The Beatles

Poem of the Day:
Don't Quit - Edgar A. Guest

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
when the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
when the funds are low and the debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
when care is pressing you down a bit - rest if you must,
but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a fellow turns about when he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow - you may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than it seems to a faint and faltering man;
often the struggler has given up when he might have captured the victor's cup;
and he learned too late when the night came down,
how close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out - the silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
and when you never can tell how close you are,
it may be near when it seems afar;
so stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - it's when things seem worst,
you must not quit.