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Oh the excitement. I’ve read that the IOC had given the green light and declared China safe from pollution for the Olympic start in Beijing. Wow, I couldn’t imagine waiting for the green light from MLB or the NFL in regards to pollution concerns. I know nothing about pollution, with the exception of Philly I suppose. I hear stories about the west coast but I’ve never heard that we stop sporting events because of it.

Meanwhile they infer that the fog is not necessarily pollution. Well, it is not exactly a cloud bringing bad weather either.

Back in the states we are fighting for our right to run our cars on gas… maybe we could learn something as the world watches China. Hopefully we can learn more about ourselves then a country we think ill of…except when we purchase their affordable products.

Beijing 2008 Olympics - Carnival China at BigShoes. Go to our opening post on China’s lucky 08/08/08 on the Beijing Summer Olympics. We’ll be running Carnival China throughout the Olympics to keep you up-to-date at your convenience so check back at BigShoes often and visit Today.com for the many other bloggers who are keeping us up-to-date on the Olympics and news out of Beijing. Happy Summer Olympics!

What can all the tea in China do for you? A lot. I’ve researched and read of numerous benefits of tea, all kinds of tea, black, oolong, green, white and everything in between. I found this commercial at YouTube from Calm-a-Sutra. There are plenty more where this came from. All fun and light, just like a refreshing cup of tea.

Here is Tea is Good from Calm-a-Sutra at YouTube:

Beijing 2008 Olympics - Carnival China at BigShoes. Go to our opening post on China’s lucky 08/08/08 on the Beijing Summer Olympics. We’ll be running Carnival China throughout the Olympics to keep you up-to-date at your convenience so check back at BigShoes often and visit Today.com for the many other bloggers who are keeping us up-to-date on the Olympics and news out of Beijing. Happy Summer Olympics!

Carol Brunett, the funny lady of TV. Who’d believe I’d find a Carol Brunett skit to play along with my Olympic theme? She’s done it all. So here is a funny bit with her and Vicki Lawrence, two friends having lunch, I mean drinks, and reading their fortunes. Ever have one of those days?

Beijing 2008 Olympics - Carnival China at BigShoes. Go to our opening post on China’s lucky 08/08/08 on the Beijing Summer Olympics. We’ll be running Carnival China throughout the Olympics to keep you up-to-date at your convenience so check back at BigShoes often and visit Today.com for the many other bloggers who are keeping us up-to-date on the Olympics and news out of Beijing. Happy Summer Olympics!

It’s here, well it’s in China! The Beijing 2008 Olympics are underway. Welcome to Today.com’s Olympic Carnival China 2008. I want to thank all of the talented Today.com writers who have contributed. You’ll be impressed at the variety of topics the writers have come up with to include in Carnival China.Let’s start things off right with Olympic Fever. Olympic Fever got an early start in June and allows us to hit the ground running. After getting caught up you better run over to What’s Hot on TV so Laura can give us the latest news on Olympic coverage. Ceremonies are Friday with opening game coverage beginning Saturday. 30 Something and Searching will cover the opening ceremonies as well.

Have you asked yourself the question “Where does one watch the Beijing Olympics Online?” Me too. Well ChicGadget has the answer.

Fashiona will tackle woman’s issues and fashion this week, covering both the athletes and the Chinese people at Fashiona, A Stylish Girl. She’ll give us the scoop on the Ralph Lauren “official” uniforms.

Not interested in fashion. One of our non-fiction book bloggers shares a review of China Ghosts. Visit Havs at Nonfiction Lover to get her opinion of Jeff Gammage’s autobiography.

Want a point of view to make you think? I have to send you over to Opinionated News because I’m on vacation. Currently she is hosting two stories and I’m sure she’ll have more. Check out:

Remind Me Why the Olympics are Being Held in Beijing, China!
Beijing is on its Mark for the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games

Philly Today will share which states are well represented in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and Polianiac has an update on the US flag bearer. Politics 2000 is as excited to let the games begin, but takes us back into the history of foreign politics and the Olympics.

And if we are so lucky to have some sports covered, we hope to call our San Diego Back Roads blogger to cover a bit of tennis, which will be well received. Hopefully for the US Team they can work those Ralph Lauren uniforms.

And last but not least, the great divide between what we think is Chinese compared to what it is. Here’s a little incite from BigShoes when BigShoes covered Jennifer 8. Lee’s The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. Well really I covered her Stephen Colbert interview. She’s a commodity today with eight being so lucky for China. Hey look it is the first day of the Olympics and it starts on 08/08/08 at 8:08:08 p.m.

There will be many other Today.com bloggers who share the news so keep checking out Today.com for the latest.

We hope to do this again soon, so stay in touch. Happy Summer Olympics!

I’ll be leaving BigShoes for vacation sometime tomorrow and hopefully I will have some entertainment in place here and there. In particular we are celebrating the Olympics and BigShoes is hosting a carnival for a number of Today.com blogging sites who want to share news, knowledge and opinions of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. I hope you can stop by each and every site. You won’t be disappointed since we have a lot of gold medal bloggers here.

Meanwhile I’ll be taking a break, yes a vacation, of sorts. If you have family out of town, you know the kind of vacation I’m talking about. We go back home to visit family…they size up how much our kids have grown. We’ve grown enough that we all hardly fit under the same roof as my mom, dad and two brothers. I have two sisters with families of their own, who I’ve had enough sense not to fill their house with enough kids of late so that the adults are not outnumbered. So it is squished at my mom’s in what used to be my small bedroom…now a sewing room…thanks for the love mom, for me and my husband.

If I’m lucky I will have contact with the outside world via the internet, but chances are sometime slim to none and I’m lucky if our cell phones work in some valley or briefly while our car travels some hill. So if you leave comments and they don’t appear for a week, you know why.

What are you doing this summer?

I have to yell it from the rooftops…check out my new blog WritelyApplied at Today.com, especially if you want to explore your creativity. We are in the early stages of setting up creative workspaces for us to post stories and poems to, brainstorm and support each other.

Writely Applied is a vision inspired by the incredible journalist, Nellie Bly who said “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”

The vision is about writing…any writing, all writing and no writing in particular. It is a vision of writer’s resources. Not just for journalists, bloggers, novelists or poets. It is a library, a stationary shop, a café with WiFi. It is wherever you are when you are writing, thinking about writing or reading about writing. It is you if you want to be a writer.

So what are you waiting for? Join us at WritelyApplied today!

Well BigShoes has received an award from Gay Lifestyle. BigShoes is recognized as “a blog that covers just about anything you would not see anywhere else. She has some interesting reads.” Nobody told her I forget to write about shoes often but I guess she is letting that slide. Thanks for the Arte y Pico award Blondiewrites and kudos for your work at Gay Lifestyle.

This is so exciting and I received this award at the same time I launched WritelyApplied at Today.com. So this is a BigShoes week.

I’m given the Arte y Pico award with the distinct honor of passing the same award on to five other bloggers. Ooh…share the BigShoes I always say.

So here are five that I think are noteworthy (although there are oh so many to choose from).

For a Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic – Ummm, that’s Fapipo to you. Fapipo is stories and pictures from a slightly skewed point of view. Keep her away from your food and pet ants.

The Latest – Yes, BigShoes avoids most fashion talk, but if I can give an award out, I’m giving it out to The Latest. This is the place you want to window shop.

Philly Today – You don’t have to live in Philly to love Philly. Visit Philly Today for observational humor, east coast news and more.

Waxing Poetically – News and Lifestyle with a Twist of Poetry from Mikeywriteswell…it is a twist of social genius that is becoming a rare commodity, and yes, Mikey does write well.

The Fab 40s – Last but not least…you’ll be shocked to know that I am giving out this award before this site has even launched. I can do that because I wear the BigShoes. The writer of this blog is the conservative voice of Conservative Politics. Girlfriend can blog, so I don’t have any reservations saying go over to The Fab 40s and sign up for her newsletter…unless of course you’re not 40. However I’m sure if you’re 50-ish and want to be 40 you’ll be welcome…and if you’re 30-ish and want to be 40 you’ll just have to wait your turn.

Now it is your turn to award someone. Here are the rules for this award:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogger community, no matter of language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award-winning, has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4) Award-winning and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) To show these rules.