The gold medal for most hideous attire goes to...

Olympic Ice Dancing. Wow. If I had to pick a worst outfit among the ice dancers, I don't know that I could do it (although the Italian couple, Fusar-Poli and Margaglio, would be right at the top of the list). The women's outfits are enough to make me gag - I mean is it actually a contest to see who can wear the least opaque fabric, held together with the most tiny straps? I know, I know. There's all sorts of skin tone fabric included so that you can't actually see the lady's breasts through what appears to be nothing but sparkles, but that doesn't make me like it any better. And to make matters worse, they somehow get the men into outfits that look like nothing so much as a skintight tux, without the white shirt, on which a 90 year old grandma's garden threw up. I can't even focus on the dancing part of the event because I'm so distracted by the costumes. Of course, last night's ice dancing was made even more difficult to watch because the couples all kept taking awful falls. You can see some shots of the crashes here, including a few of my worst-dressed pick from above - the last couple in the seafoam green ensemble. I really hope the Canadian woman is okay, because when her hip hit the ice it was enough to make we squirm with sympathy pain. At least the American team kept their footing the whole time!

I realized the other day that Nathaniel and I have watched more tv together in the past week than we have in probably the past 6 months total! We've even had dinner in the family room a couple times (which Marianne thinks is the greatest thing EVER) so that we could watch the men's figure skating. Okay, Nathaniel may have been watching for some of the other sports, but I love the figure skating. I would guess that during a normal week, I watch less than 2 hours of television, and what I do watch is almost entirely Sesame Street and other PBS children's programming. Maybe the occasional rented dvd after the girls go to bed on the weekend... So this is a huge change. It's been really fun, to be honest. Heck, Nathaniel and I might have to get ourselves "a program". You know, the one show everyone has that they just can't miss during the week. Of course, the lack of cable limits our choices, and the lack of TiVo or even a reliable VCR makes keeping up on any one show challenging. I think this was a good reminder to me that it's refreshing to relax in front of the tv occasionally. I can't always be either feeding and entertaining children or cleaning the house. I need a break every once in a while! Like maybe every four years during the winter Olympics.