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! :)