In LA, some people get all excited at a celebrity sighting. Not me. They are usually not as hot in person as they are on camera and well, that diet just isn't being watched as much.

What does make me get all giddy is meeting an elite rower, a Yale graduate, a woman with a smile that would light up an entire banquet hall, and well, the most beautiful blonde hair you have ever dreamed about running through with your fingers. I'm talking about Taylor Ritzel, no. 4 seat and gold medalist in 2012 Olympic Women's Eight event.  She was standing in the kitchen of a house not more than 3 feet from me, with her gold medal sitting out on the counter.

Wow!  Taylor is so nice, so breathtakingly beautiful (hey now, gay guys have a defacto license to declare a woman's beauty from the minute we're born), and just pure 100% positive energy.

Naturally, I was stumbling over my words but I did have to blurt out my compilation of the finalists by country at the 2012 Olympics and she just smiled and agreed that anyone who made it to the finals was a total winner.

Taylor's boat crossed the finish line at Eton with a time of 6:10:59.

As I was leaving, Taylor waved from the kitchen, flashed her brilliant smile one more time and said it was nice to meet me.  Oh yeah, my head is about 80 sizes huge right now. Awwww. If only Taylor had a brother with long blond hair ...*sigh*