Every blog deserves one good bite.

Okay so … you know I love the Olympics. Right? “Love” might be a slight understatement. I’m sort of obsessed with them. I watch and watch and watch. I WILL say that I do believe it gets my heart pumping to watch and I convince myself that I am working off calories in the viewing.

But here’s my suggestion to any and all prospective or aspiring Olympians. If you are focusing for four full years on making an Olympic team, and you think you might actually have a shot at a medal … I would suggest you brush up on the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner. See what I’m sayin’? Why risk losing all the respect and adoration you just earned by flubbing the lyrics that you are softly singing to yourself under your breath. We can read lips when it comes to this, you know. The camera is TIGHT on you. It’s the world of digital images. Everything is crazy crystal clear. We can see you trying to fake your way through mouthing the lyrics. And it’s not pretty.

And for those of you who don’t even try to mouth the lyrics … try to mouth the lyrics. Make us believe the pride in your country you profess at the end of the race when you are draped in that flag. Just ... make the effort.

I guess that’s the point I wanna make. If I’m trying to tie this up and make it relate to food issues, then … make the effort. I know. It’s a little weak, but if you want it to it can be totally correct and relateable. All you have to do to make this blog work in your mind … is make the effort. Right?

Due to the fact that I am absolutely convinced there are aspiring Olympians reading this blog (read sarcasm), here are the lyrics to The Star Spanlged Banner by Francis Scott Key, 1814:

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

P.S. … there are three more verses or stanzas or whatever they are called. You ONLY have to know this one.