This picture is from yesterday. Once again the neighborhood birds said thanks for the bird feeder. This time they thanked the blue car’s windshield.

The Bruins have a two games to none lead over the Flyers in this second round series.

They have a four to one lead after two periods in game three.

I should be bouncing off the walls with happiness but I’m not. Last year still hurts too much. I can’t relax and enjoy this. When the Bruins score I get really excited for a few seconds and then the pain/fear/panic/suffering/(and worst of all)memory of last year come back and I feel that feeling that will probably someday be a sports-fan related ulcer.

Still…

GO BRUINS!!!!

(are any other Bruins fans feeling like this? Comments?)

Apparently…

Awkward turtles have have weird babies.

Who knew? (don’t ask me to explain)

I had WBZ radio on this morning. As I turned it on they were wrapping up a story about fraudulent mortgages and forged signatures and illegal lending practices. Immediately following the story was an advertisement for mortgages.

I’m excited about the Bruins game tonight. I am also terrified. I should relax and just accept that the situation is totally different than last year. Last year we won the first two games at home. This year we won the first two games on the road. Big difference. Last year we had Tuukka Rask in goal. This year we have Tim The Man Thomas in net. No disrespect to Tuukka, but HUGE difference. Not to mention that Thomas in game two had what might be the best performance of his NHL career. See? It’s not the same situation as last year at all. They are not going to blow a three games to none lead again. Right? Right? Is that the sound of chirping crickets I hear?

In further hockey news, Tampa Bay has a 3 games to none lead over Washington. I picked Tampa Bay to win, but like this? Do you think Washington can force a game seven the way Chicago did? Probably not (cough, CHOKE, cough)

May the Fourth Be With You.

The only down side to Star Wars Day 2011 is that four days from now I will have the saddest day ever. It’s been 10 years since I had a day even remotely this depressing. You see, four days shy of 10 years ago I turned 30. Do the math, kiddies. Have you figured out why I really do not want May 8, 2011 to happen? I will be forty years old. I want Mother’s Day to happen. I just don’t want that other horrible thing to happen. You know what I mean?

Go Bruins

I almost didn’t make it last night. If the Bruins game had gone six minutes longer I would have been out like a light. There’s no way I was staying conscious through a second 18 minute overtime intermission.

Thankfully, Krejci scored at the 14:00 mark and the Bruins took game two of the series. That’s puts us up two games to none, heading back home to Boston for games three and four.

Two games to none. If they win on Wednesday it will be three games to none. It’s like deja-vu all over again. If they go up 3-0 on Philly, like they did last year before committing the greatest choke in professional sports history, I will be paralyzed with fear. Really. Not again, please… not again.

Of course if they win game three and then win game four I’ll feel a little better.

Tim Thomas was a hockey god last night. No question. 52 saves. Philly got two goals early in the first and that was all Thomas was giving them. He was gigantic. He was huge. He was, The Man

Go Bruins!

I try to be a good person, and in my opinion a good person cannot take pleasure from the death of another person.

That being said… I think I’ll make an exception in this case.

Osama bin Laden is dead.

I don’t believe in capital punishment. If one person is evil enough to take another’s life, how does it not make us equally evil for taking the criminal’s life? Is that justice or is it revenge? I prefer to see the criminal live a long painful life suffering in a cage. That’s just me though.

That being said… I think I’ll make an exception in this case.

Does this make us safer? I don’t know. Maybe. Probably not. Some one will step in to fill the vacuum. Who knows.

All I really want is for this to bring us one gigantic step closer to bringing our men and women in uniform home. That’s the good that I want to see come from this. Bring ’em home.

Yesterday the Bruins took game one of their second round series against Philadelphia.

Yesterday we had our first cookout in our new home using a new grill and a cool new outdoor fireplace thingie.

Today we found Forest Lake.

Today we found the Wheeler Dam in Salem.

Today we watched Hot Tub Time Machine.

Today the best thing that could possibly happen will happen, because the kids will be here. They are on the way home from the cruise they took with their Dad, Step-Mom, and Grandmother.

It’s been a great weekend, and once they are back home it will be even better.