Move Over Rainmaker...

Just Kidding!! But in true DC Rainmaker fashion...a food post! Ever wonder if the recipe in the magazine tastes good?? Well tonight I decided to try out a recipe that was in this month's Runner's World...and boy it was good...I'm pretty sure it's gonna taste even better tomorrow night with crusty bread and some fresh (read that hasn't been sitting open in my fridge for the past 2 years) red wine...bon appetite!

Happy Almost Friday...

Just a quick update so that the parentals don't worry about my state of alivedness!! Week two of graduate school and I've already completed and emailed off my first assignment...thanks to the mom for some proof reading and the big sissy for the last minute citation consultation...darn APA format!! So other than my sudoku addiction being replaced by school reading and papers, things are going...busy, but going...it's been raining here for days...so much so that on Tuesday I decided to build an Arc! Yeah I know...gardens, pickles, salsa and now an arc...where do I find the time! Seriously though I'm hoping for some drier weather as my running is behind schedule...and we all know that that's no way to run a sub-4 hour marathon!! So with my computer battery almost dead and happy thoughts of building arcs, I'm off to get some sleep...hope everyone has an awesome Friday...and a great weekend!
:)

Labor Day Weekend...

Labor Day Weekend in VB means only one thing...The Rock and Roll half marathon...ok, well it probably means a lot more, but if you want to run a flat half marathon in hot and humid conditions, then this is the race for you!! Seriously...I was glad that Elite racing finally decided to hand out technical t-shirts for this race...I mean really, if you are charging people close to the price of an Ironman the least you could give them is a technical shirt!! But I digress...this weekend was full of visiting family and...drum roll please....Dogs!! I know, imagine that, on this blog there would be a picture of a dog....shocking!!
First the cousin and her family blew into town for the half marathon...we ran the perfect half marathon...well paced, negative split and best of all a big 15 minute PR for the cousin...Woo hoo!! Unfortunately the fireworks were allegedly better in Knoxville than the Black Crows...so the TN gang blew out as fast as they blew in Sunday post race...really, even if the fireworks were cancelled they were better than the Black Crows...I'm not one to be less than positive about things but this was by far the worst concert I've been to...aside from the rocking harmonica solo, the band did little for me or the crowd...maybe if we had all dropped some acid ahead of time it would have been better...but that would have been a LOT of acid!! Sorry BC...maybe next time you'll sing more than 5 minutes AND do an encore...but your hippy hair did look FABULOUS blowing in the wind! :)
Our doggy visitor rode down on the boat with her mom and dad...she's like our third dog child and obviously she wasted no time at all getting all settled into her futon throne! Queenie was very happy to stay in air-conditioned and carpeted splendor for several days while her humans tinkered on the boat...despite the nasty boating weather, there were fish that were caught...or at least tales of fish being caught because goodness knows I didn't even see a scale let alone a fish attached to it!!

Otherwise school has started and I'm getting back into the swing of things...although on-line classes are certainly different than attending classes but I could totally get used to lounging on the couch in my underwear watching class...it's a hard life but someone's gotta do it! With that I'll leave everyone with well wishes and hopefully now my mom won't tell me on facebook that I'm ignoring my blog....really Patsy, it's hard to maintain both!! Bye! :)