Category: The Amazing Race

Guess what I finally did tonight? I watched the final episode of the last Amazing Race! Yeah, yeah … it aired a month ago and it has been sitting on the Tivo waiting for me. I was so tired earlier, worn out from the new temp job where I’ve been working hard – plus I have to leave the house by 7am! Ugh. Not good when you’re used to staying up until 1 or 2 in the morning!

I don’t have a lot to say about the final leg other than this – if Flo had said one more time “I want to quit” then I would have to hunt her down and kick her ass. If you’re going to quit, don’t wait until it’s down to the final 3. You could have quit earlier and given someone else a chance. Zack truly carried her weight in that race, and she was such a twit it was amazing.

The winner of the Amazing Race got a million dollars. There are other races though – or rather contests – where the stakes aren’t so high, and 24 hours after finding out who the finalists are for the Bloggies, now I’m finding all sorts of chaos, discord, and “you cheated” in the Blogosphere. Hello? People? As absolutely thrilled that I am to be up for a Bloggie … it’s a Bloggie. You know what? I bet there are 10,000 blogs out there run by people that don’t know the Bloggies exist. Remember that whole “Inner Circle Syndrome” thing I talked about a few weeks ago? One of my points that got lost in the shuffle was that there are circles. I have my close personal circle of friends, then the circle outside of that one made of people I talk to but that may not know the me quite as well, then it builds from circle to circle, growing larger & larger – eventually I hit a circle of blogs that I’m just a Blurker on, and then finally there are the sites that I don’t even know about. The Bloggies are a small measure in a vast universe. I realize this. I told Mike last night that I won already, because I’m just that happy to be in the finals. If I don’t win my category, that’s ok. (By the way, check out his Big Pink Cookie photo…) There isn’t a million dollars at stake – this isn’t the Amazing Race. This is the blog world. I love the friends I have met through my blog and the people I haven’t met yet but will someday. Meanwhile, I will go on blogging.

It’s the Bloggies. It’s not worth a scandal, and I hope the people that are turning it in to one will stop instead of causing more people more pain. Otherwise, it’s time to call in the Spork Posse!

UPDATED: I wrote this post after getting a phone call and reading three blog posts. Then I discovered all sorts of things going on as I started reading my daily reads. Wow. Damn.

Let me just say it again – I have a life outside of this website. We all do. It brings me a lot of joy, I won’t deny it. If I let it, it has the power to bring me a lot of pain. But … I don’t want to do that. I’m just going to focus on the many things that make me happy about it – that would be YOU, the people reading it – and the chance to say what I want when I want to say it. Awards, no awards, nothing is going to change here for me.

I realized tonight that I had episodes of “The Amazing Race” on Tivo that went all the way back to October 30th, so it was time to clear them off! So now I’ve watched up to last week, but I am going to bed instead of watching tonight’s two hour episode. Hello? I don’t have a job – I can watch it during the day tomorrow!

I am not doing my usual full post about all the little details of each episode thanks to the fact that I’m writing this on the PC in Jason’s room instead of on a laptop in front of the TV. However, I do still have some thoughts to share:

:: Flo is a pain in the ass. Hello? Could she complain any more? Poor Zach. Why does he put up with it? And what’s up with his hair?

:: The Wonder Twins have grown on me. I hated them in the beginning – how can you like someone that every episode has “Twins/Models” under their name? But they are getting better and legitimately hanging in there.

:: I think Ken & Gerard are my favorite team. Of course, if you’ve watched TAR a lot, you know that this can change from one week to another.

:: Jill & John Vito are also growing on me. His name still bugs me though. I’m sorry, I just can’t deny it.

:: Teri & Ian. Oy. Ugh. Oy. She whines almost as much as Flo, and Ian is just a bastard. Could he be more mean? “Hump it, Teri! Hump it!” I think I would have volunteered to do the archery shot in Grindelwald and accidentally shot HIM if I was her.

:: Can I just say that I *LOVE* when they are in places that I have visited? Munich. Neuschwanstein. Fussen. Grindelwald. *sigh* Can we please go to Germany? Someone? Anyone? It’s the perfect time of the year for the Christmas Markets (Christkindlesmarkt in Nuernberg would work) and some gluhwein. Yum, yum! (Recipe below from another site.)

:: What about the 911 boys? Dude, can you believe what they did? I mean … really? Damn. (Yes, this sentence is intentionally cryptic so I don’t spoil it for anyone.)

More tomorrow – I have two more hours of TAR to watch, and I can’t wait!

All caught up now! I just finished watching the second leg of The Amazing Race. This summary is dedicated to Donna, who accidentally didn’t record the show.

I think it’s interesting that they are showing little clips of the teams mingling with each other during the pit stop. They haven’t really done that in the past seasons, at least not like this. I think it’s important to remember though that there is some down time in the race. I’m sure it effects the whole group dynamic.

Spoilers ahead – you’ve been warned!

It’s only taken me a week to finally get around to watching the first leg of The Amazing Race which aired last Wednesday. I was too busy that night getting the update on Hurricane Lili and coordinating dinner plans with Jish for the next night.

I thought the first leg was pretty good, the team *I* would have picked didn’t lose, and … I took notes. If you want to know what happened, read on… (Obviously, there are spoilers there. Don’t read them if you don’t want them.)

Now I’m watching the second leg of TAR from tonight, so I’ll be summing that up too. More to come soon.

The adventure begins and the race is on – The Amazing Race starts tonight and I can’t wait! 8pm CST – I’ll be watching! Look for more commentary here tonight about the first leg of the race!