The Capitals, Dogs named after Capitals, Books and Random Thoughts

Hockey

So the Capitals season didn’t ended like I wanted to, but I had a feeling by game 5 that it wasn’t going to end very well. Halak was on FIRE! There was no way of getting the puck passed him. MAYBE if we played all of the games like we did in the last 5 minutes of Game 7 we might have come. (Like how I say WE?). They are my boys and I am behind them no matter what (good or bad). They had a good season – We’ve never gotten the President’s Cup before. Ovie has been nominated for the Hart Trophy again – that makes 3 years in a row. Something that only the Great One (Wayne Gretzky) and Bobby Orr have done.

Esa Story

Esa has gotten so good on leash that we have been “testing” her off leash to finish up our walks. We usually let her off the leash about a house or 2 from ours and she’ll walk with us right to the house. Well – I did that the other day and the birds in the tree right by our house, come flying down towards Esa and then out (towards the road). Of course, Esa starts taking a few steps, but I made a LOUD aaah, aah, aah noise and she fell right back into line. WOOHOO! Now, if it was a bunny that would have been a different story.

Simple Abundance
On my birthday, I started the “Simple Abundance” Daily Devotional. I haven’t been consistent with it, but when I read the daily passage, I highlight the main thought of the day and try to write my 5 gratitude items in the book at the end of the day. I thought it might be kind of cool to add that my gratitude items or my feelings on the thought of the day to this blog.

Another dog in the future?

So since January, I’ve been volunteering regularly with Loudoun County Animal Shelter on Thursdays when they bring the mobile adoption truck to Petco in Sterling. Since March, there has been a Chihuahua mix named Frank coming. Hate to say it, but I’ve fallen for him. He’s really smart – I taught him to sit and lay down within an hour the first day I meet him. Supposedly he’s about 10 years old, but I have a feeling he’s younger. When he first came to the shelter, he was a little skinny and was missing some fur on his tail and on his ears (totally bald) and itchy. He still scratches a lot, but he does not have mange. He’s gained his weight back and looks good and his fur is back on his tail. Not sure about his ears.

He actually had two families fill out applications for him. The first family was out of county and had to go through a home inspection, but was never home even with a set appointment. The second family never returned the shelter’s call when they said he was available. Which comes to me – whenever I see him I say, let me know if he doesn’t get adopted and he needs to go. Which Loudoun is VERY good at keeping animals a LONG time. As long as there is room and the animal’s personality has not changed, they stay.

So what happens yesterday when I show up? “We’ve been waiting for you!” I’m up in the air. I’ve been thinking about Frank ALL OF THE TIME - wondering if he’s been adopted by the one of the two families.

Dan’s going to go with me tomorrow to meet him and then we’ll think about it. Two dogs are a lot of work and it also means we wouldn’t be able to get a cat (two pets are enough). I’m sure Esa would be ok with it, however, I think she likes being the only dog. I could kind of tell when Cash was visiting.

Random Thoughts
Anyone else getting a lot of spam? I think it might have had something to do with the McAfee issue last week – it seemed to all happen after that.

Last day of Scrapbooking....

The massage I had yesterday was wonderful - my back and neck felt wonderful when I went to bed, however, not during the night.  I did not sleep well, so about 6:30 I decide to just get up and get scrapping.

About 10:30 am, I took a break, checked out and went to the General Store to pick up a gift for Dan - my usual gift of a t-shirt (long sleeve this time) and a 6 pack of local beers.  I ended up with 14 pages almost completed (except for the journaling part of 4 pages).

I had another seated massage today (20 minutes) and then headed out about 2 pm.  The drive was pretty good - I was happy for the nice weather.  I was expecting to be driving in the rain.

I'm looking forward to the day off tomorrow and hopefully sleeping in some.  We'll see - Dan said that Esa has been getting up at 6 am the last 2 days.

Random Thoughts - The Captials fairweather fans

This happened last year too - EVERYONE jumped on the bandwagon when the Caps were doing well last year and headed to the playoffs.  It's happening again this year and unfortunately they are coming out of the woodwork and letting Ted Leonis know how upset they are that the boys aren't just sweeping the Habs and just sweeping their way to the Cup.  

Check out Ted's Take.  Poor Ted can't even walk around his own neighborhood!  This so pisses me off - why can't people just be POSITIVE and realistic?  It's tough!  Every team wants the cup and they will play like it's do or die.  Do they think the guys are just thinking "whatever - it's just another game, I'll get paid and I'll get a long summer"?  NO - THEY WANT TO CUP.

It's cool that you want to watch the game and get into it, but don't be telling the owner "you'll never beat the Habs" "Get rid of the coach", etc.  Let's see you at the game or even just watching the game on tv when they are losing EVERY SINGLE GAME - Dan and I were there and will always be there.  No matter what, no matter where we live - we will be Caps fans.