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Bruins

Just because I haven’t been posting a lot about the Bruins doesn’t mean I haven’t been following.  Just letting you know that.

The Bruins beat the Canadiens on Wednesday.  It was their first regular season win against Montreal since the Carter administration.  It seemed that way at least.  They looked as good in that game as I’ve seen them look in a long time.  Last night they won again against Phoenix.  It wasn’t quite as dominant, and they looked pretty beat through a lot of it, but it was another quality win.  That’s seven in a row for the Bruins.  They lost the first couple of post-olympic games, but then they straightened things out and have been off the charts ever since.  They are first in the East, and second in the NHL. 

And here I am just waiting for the other shoe to drop.  Let’s hope it falls in August, or something like that.

Coffee is Gross

I took my laptop and a microphone to the kids’ karate tonight so that I could do some singing/writing in the car while waiting for the class to let out.  I drove over to the far side of the parking lot, set everything up, picked the song I wanted to work on, and started hiccuping.  Sing a line, hiccup.  Sing half a line, hiccup.  Sing a syllable, hiccup.  I couldn’t stand it anymore.  

Bill Nye the Science Guy taught me that the way to get rid of hiccups is to take five quick sips of water.  That always works for me.  I didn’t have any water (nothing is worse than needing to take a leak while waiting outside in 17 degree weather) and the only drink available was an 11 hour old cup of dunkin donuts iced coffee.  Damn, I grabbed it and sipped it five times. 

That was the single most disgusting moment of my life.  Never, ever, have I been that grossed out by anything.  I wanted to vomit.  I wanted to hurl.  I wanted to blow chunks all over the front of the car.  

The hiccups stopped though, and I was able to get a whole vocal done on RPMarch01.  Granted, it’s awful and I’ll have to do it again, but I got it done for now.

Uh Oh

When we bought our house in 2010 it was move in ready.  That was one of the things we liked about it and we took advantage of it.  It was move in ready, so move right in we did.  We started making plans for things to change.  Simple things, like repainting, as well as more complicated things, like our fantasy discussions of tearing down the wall between the kitchen and the dining room and renovating the whole shebang.

We made rough plans, but never did anything.  Seriously.  We haven’t changed anything.  All of the rooms have the same paint as when we moved in.  Nothing has changed inside, and the only thing that has changed in the yard is we had a dead tree removed.  That’s it.

Until now…

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Oh hello there, Mr hole in the basement sub floor right on the edge of the tub.  Nice to meet you.  Don’t you look nice on this fine Monday evening.

Yeah, the bathroom is going to get a remodelling.  We’ve talked about it before (we don’t like the tub or the shower doors) but now we have to do it out of necessity.  Yippee!

And by Yippee! I mean, Urgh.