Great Expectations...

Expectations....who sets these and why do we always have to live up to them?
As I am writing this, on a major new website (that happens to be my homepage) the headlines read "Canada falling short at these games" with the byline being "not meeting medal expectations". I think this is CRAP! When the Olympic games started, the "expectation" was about getting the first gold medal on home soil (don't get me wrong, this is an amazing feat). I was shocked and appauled that what Jen Heil narrowly missed the gold (only to receive silver) was asked moments later how she felt abot dissappointing Canada???? Who said she disappointed anyone, and who gave that reporter the right to speak for Canada??? This has continued over the last week and a half anytime a canadian athlete doesn't live up to the "expectation" set forth.
I am now beginning to hate this word...Expectation...
Why can't they use the word Hopeful? I think we should use this new found Canadian pride the world is talking about to stand behind our medal "hopefuls", show these "expectation makers" that we are in no way dissappointed in any of our atletes representing Canada!!! UGH! this is actually making me mad!
Our athletes train day in and day out, they compete against the best in the world, only to hear how they are disappointing their country...this is ridicious!!! The only thing I am disappointed in are the people speaking for the rest of us (or at least me)

To Blog, or not to Blog??

So here it is, the answer, obviously it was to blog. It seems to be the thing to do lately. I have been following a friends blog slightlyinsanestacey (linked at the side over there -->) for a while. I have litterly known her most my life. Then my best friend from highschool decided to blog about turning 30 and the list of 101 things to do before turning 30. This sparked a conversation about blogging and turning the dreaded 30 (really...i don't see the crisis in it, but they seem to disagree, you are only as old as you feel) between slightlyinsanestacey and I. It was with her encouragement, here I am, my blogness in all its glory. I am new to this. I am not exactly the most technologically advanced. I don't own an MP3 player, I don't twitter, although I do facebook.

Things may change, and hey, my spelling and grammar may even improve (if you haven't already noticed, i type how i would speak, not grammatically correct, and as for spelling, its a lost cause here, so just deal with it.)

So back to turning 30? I currently am 28 years old, married, my husband and I own our house, we don't have any children ...yet (thats another blog for another day).
Is turning 30 really that bad? I still have roughly 501 days ( 1 year 4 months and a few days)to go. Should I feel like turning 30 is a dread? My husband is 30...he doesn't seem any differnt then when he was 29 or 28 even. Are there certain life event I should have accomplished? Maybe this list needs further investigation?
I guess in the days to come, we will find out.