bacon number

So I recently discovered something that allowed me to figure out my "Bacon Number." No, not the delicious pork product but the number associated with Kevin Bacon. Also known as the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." The legend goes that every star in Hollywood can connect themselves to Kevin in 6 moves or less. He's starred in many movies with many people so I guess it's easy to trace. You can even google it now just by writing in a name and adding "bacon number" afterward. So I now give you my Bacon Number and its moves.

#1 I am Meagan. I am related to my Grandma. Grandma Carr

#2 I found out the other night that Grandma and Grandpa Carr used to get some kind of insurance through a Homer Gere in Syracuse, New York.

#3 Homer Gere is the father of Richard Gere

#4 Richard Gere-googled his "bacon number" and found that he was in the movie "Pretty Woman" with Julia Roberts

#5 Julia Roberts was in a movie with Kevin Bacon called Flatliners.

#6 Kevin Bacon

mmmmm Kevin Bacon

That makes my Bacon Number-6 and if you know me then your Bacon Number is at the most, 7. Fun, huh.

olympic withdrawal

The Olympics ended last night. I'm so sad. It's something that's filled up my entire free time for the past 16 days and now I'm sort of crashing after an Olympic high. I was so sad that there would be nothing to tune in to tonight. These Olympics were amazing. I was a tad worried they wouldn't be as dramatic as Beijing, but these games were wonderful in their own way. I am a huge fan and love absolutely everything about the Olympics. I even cry at the intense and dramatic moments. There were a lot of stories I loved, I'll have to think of them.

Two of my favorites were Oscar Pistorious and the German discus thrower who had the best gold medal celebration ever. I laughed so hard.

Uuuffff 4 more years till the next summer Olympics. I hope it goes by fast.

london day 10

day 10
Didn't see much tonight...
-Mustafina got gold in the uneven bars and didn't have to cry over a silver. Gosh, there's a lot of crying in women's gymnastics. Not like baseball, "there's no crying in baseball!" Gabby did not medal, but she's got two other golds so I think she'll be ok. And she has the balance beam to try again.
-The men's 400 m finals. Kirani James from Grenada won his country's first medal ever taking gold at age 19. He's the one who asked Oscar for his bib last night. They did a feature on him and he's such a great represenative for his sport and country. All he wants to do is bring attention to his country and not himself. He is a great sportsman and I think he'll be in future Olympics to come.
-Jen Suhr won gold in the pole vault for USA after she got silver in Beijing.
-My boy Sam Mikulak did great in his vault in the individual event final. He was so pleased with his second vault that he kissed the table. But he did not medal. I enjoyed his enthusiasm though, he was so excited to see the other top vaulters go and had to give the South Korean guy a hug after he did his tremendous vault. It was cool.
-I read that USA won a close game over Canada in women's soccer to advance to the final. Go ladies!

I think that's all I saw. Sad.

london days 8 and 9

day 8
-last day of Michael Phelps' swan song. He takes gold in the 4x100 medley relay with Nathan Adrian, Brendan Hansen, and Matt Greivers helping USA win the race. FINA gave him a special award for his achievements in swimming. Although Phelps is not my favorite person in the world, you have to admit that no one has even come close to what he has achieved and it's likely we'll not see another like him for a long, long time. He is truly the Greatest of All Time.
-Serena Williams wins gold in women's tennis singles.
-Oscar Pistorius, a double leg amputee from South Africa, competes with able-bodied runners in the 400 m race and make it into the semi finals coming in second in his heat. I know there's been a lot of controversy about this guy, and I don't know how they draw the line in who can and cannot compete in the Olympics vs the Paraolympics, but I think it's a courageous thing this guy is doing. And if he can beat other full-bodied runners then more power to him. Some say he's at an advantage with his "cheetah blades," because his legs won't fatigue like others, but I've read about the differences in how he has to run, and he can't feel his feet so I don't think he has an advantage. It's very inspirational and what the Olympics is all about.

-Men's USA volleyball loses to Russian. Darn.
-Twin brothers Bob and Mike Bryan take gold for USA in men's tennis doubles.
-Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price wins gold in the 100 m women's sprint

day 9
-McKayla Maroney takes silver on vault. She did not stick her second vault and actually sat on the ground. It says something for her score that she still got silver. She is amazing on the vault, too bad she couldn't do one like she did in team competition. It was near perfect. But she's got my respect.
-Oscar Pistorius competes in the semifinals and does not make it to the finals. Another runner asks to exchange bibs because he has respect for Oscar and commends him on what he did. I think it's great that the other runners are on board for what he is doing and not being all snarky about it. They interviewed Oscar after the race and he was so humble, his goal was to run against able-bodied men and make the semis and he made his goal. He was so proud to make his goal and thanked everyone for being supportive of what he was trying to achieve. The entire stadium was cheering him on and I think it was definitely something to remember. He could be on the South African team for the 4x400 relay.

-Misty and Kerri beat the Italians and are set to meet the good Chinese team in the semis.
-Usain Bolt takes gold in the 100 m. It was a final that had 3 Jamaicans, 3 USA and 2 others. My dad totally called that Bolt would take gold, get the Olympic Record but not the World Record, Yohan Blake would get silver and an American would get bronze. That's what happened. He ran it in 9.63, not the world record but still pretty darn fast. I'm glad they showed the race a few times because I almost missed what happened.

-why do they have to show the entire marathon on tv? No one wants to spend 2 1/2 hours watching that, you could show other stuff in between and check in on the race.
-Sonya Richards-Ross won gold in the women's 400 m race for Team USA.
-A Brit won silver on the pommel horse, tied for first but dropped to second on the tie breaker. That's too bad, mate.
-Andy Murray wins gold over Roger Federer in a repeat match of this years' Wimbledon with a different ending. The Brits are probably for sure going to go crazy.
-when does BMX start? that would be fun to watch.
-Venus and Serena take gold in women's tennis doubles
-I'm sorry but where the heck did NBC get Ryan Seacrest? He is not a newsman, not at all. He is a host. This is not the same thing. There is a huge difference between what he can do and what Bob Costas does. I'm glad they just relegate him to reading the twitter updates but seriously, he's not a sportscaster. And NBC, if you let Ryan take over from Bob in the future, I will cut you.

A quote from an article in my newspaper today on running: "The world's fastest men leave each foot on the track for about 0.08 seconds. That means they're on the ground  for less than four seconds of each race. The rest of the time they're flying." Awesome.

Neeeeed Sleeeeep.

london day 7

day 7
-the broadcast started off with a feature on the Magnificent 7 from the 1996 Olympics. It was all I wanted and more. They interviewed Kerri, Bela, Dominique, Shannon and another one, showed more footage of the actual even and how things went down and of course I cried when Kerri did the vault that won the gold. I love her comment that when Bela wanted her to go the medal ceremony her thought was that she would be up in front of people with no pants on!! Ha ha! I hope this available on the internet somewhere. Someone needs to make this into a movie, doesn't even have to be a good movie, I'm sure ABC family channel would show it. Just make it. Maybe they're waiting for enough time to pass or something, whatever. Just do it.
-Phelps wins his 21st medal in 100 m butterfly
-15 year old Katy Ledeky wins gold in 800 m freestyle, the youngest member of Team USA, blew the competition out of the water. How young is she!
-Missy Franklin wins gold in 200 m backstroke, third individual gold of the games
-Hoffa wins bronze for team USA in shot put
-I love Will Ferrel's enthusiasm for the Olympics and team USA

Team USA takes over China in the medals count with 21 golds, 10 silver, and 12 bronze for a total of 43 medals so far, tomorrow is Super Saturday where they will hand out 25 golds. GO USA!

london day 6

Mary Lou, Carly, Nastia, and now Gabby!! Congrats to Gabby Douglas who won gold in women's all-around gymnastics!! She was amazing and totally deserved it. The Russians put up a good fight but Gabby did enough to keep first place. I feel bad for Aly who tied for third but then lost the tie-breaker and was out of medal. Soon we get to see some of these girls again on the individual events.

-team USA dominated day 6 and overtook China in the medals count
-20th medal for Michael Phelps in 100 m butterfly
-Rebecca Soni won gold in 200 m breastroke and got the WR again breaking 2:20
-team USA women 8 with coxwain rowing defended their gold and won again, great job!

london day 5

-men's diving, synchronized springboard win bronze, one of his pair in his 3rd Olympics to have a last chance of getting a medal
-Missy Franklin led a team of 4 women, Dana Volmer, Allison Schmitt and to win gold in a thrashing by USA in 4x200 m freestyle
-Nathan Adrian wins gold for USA in men's 100 m freestyle
-Team GB got their first golds, women's 2-man rowing, and Tour de France winner Brady Wiggins won the men's cycling time trial-(have you seen this guy, he totally looks British)
-Misty and Kerri drop a set for the first time ever in Olympic play, but they come back to win the match
-Danel Levya comes from a disappointing team finish on Monday and a deficit after a poor pommel horse routine to win individual bronze in men's gymnastics, way to go dude.

women's individual tomorrow night!