Another First...

I got a 4.0 this semester. (Jenny is the one that always achieves such grades...she promised to send me a "student of the month" certificate).

A Ghazimoradi First

We just bought our first box of trash bags. There were a lot left at our apartment when we moved it. Also for the record, we have only bought 1 Costco size toilet paper and paper towels and have yet to run out of either (6 months and running!).

0.01 seconds to Greatness

We were two of the 66 million Americans who watched Michael Phelps catch Cavic from behind to win his 7th gold medal in the 2008 Olympics. As with most of America we have been watching all of Michael Phelps swims. It was watching history.

The next day the American relay team captured gold in the 4 x 100m medley relay. It was such a big deal Kobe and Lebron showed up to watch!

I know how everyone here in the US has been talking about Michael Phelps, the media has overwhelmingly covered this. But I wanted to know what people outside the USA thought about this. I went to BBC news, it wasn't the cover story but it made the front page.

So I want to add my thoughts on the discussion " Where does Michael Phelps rank among the world greatest individual athletes?"

Some thoughts:
*Rodger Federer lost his number 1 ranking this last week, the ranking he has had since February, 2004. Four and a half years of being Number one.

*Tiger Woods has been ranked the worlds number one golfer for over 500 weeks over the past ten years. Voted AP male athlete of the year three times

*Michael Johnson still holds the current world records in the 200m, 400m and 4 x 400 m relay. He also has ran the fastest 300 m of all time, He won four gold medals and was crowned world nine times.

*Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France SEVEN times. (I know he did it with great teammates just like Phelps) Voted AP player of the year 5 times.

I'll post my rankings later this week. I welcome your comments.

It must be love.

I changed the background to be a mostly-masculine blue/black/white because it's almost football season and Reza loves the Cougars. Don't worry, it will be some sort of Red prior to the big OSU/Michigan game.

Marvin Gaye Brings soul to Team USA

I invite you to watch this awesome video montage set to Marvin Gaye's rendition of the Star Spangled banner A great way to spend 2:32 of your life.

Some of my comments on this:

*You can see how ripped Kobe is.
*Boozer actually dunks the basketball.
*Kidd is really light skinned compared to the rest of Team USA.
*It is really cool to hear the crowd clap to the beat at the Great Western Forum.

All in the Family

Jenny and Madelyn were able to come to Ohio for a week. We had a great time, and Maddy is a great baby! Here is the Frost Girl shot.

7 girls

So I pretty much had the best group of friends ever in high school. There were 7 girls (me, alexandra, claire, jean, julia, katie and megan) and 2 boys (danny and steve). While we now live literally coast to coast (from Palo Alto, CA to NYC to Chicago to Columbus to Charlotte, NC), we all manage to see each other at least once a year. Lucky for me 4 of us have gotten married in the last year giving us even more reasons to all see each other. Julia got married on Saturday and we were all back together again. Julia looked amazing, her new husband Jack is great, and the wedding was fabulous.