Go, you chicken fat, go away!

Three reasons why today was a great day:

1)  The Suns won.  Woot!  Woot!

2)  I met two more bloggers and wasn't murdered.

3)  My favorite professional wrestler stopped by.

Meeting Nan was kind of surreal.  I felt like I'd already met her since we're such good internet buddies.  Her Michael Clarke Duncan voice kind of threw me for a loop.  Just kidding.  She sounded just like I'd imagined, which is strange because it never works out like that.  (I'd really like to hear ChrisM's, Sam's, and KP's voices.)  But meeting Aaron was like meeting someone "for real" because we've just been casual acquaintances on the blog.  It's just now soaking in that I had an undefeated, course record setting, marathoner in my house chatting away like we picked up from last we left off on the blog.

I kind of forgot that we weren't going to be moved in to our new house yet when I told the Kennards to drop by.  It would have been another 20 miles for them to come to Queen Creek.  They planned on coming over for dinner Saturday night, but their flight was delayed three hours and threw a major monkey wrench in their plans.  So they came over this morning, and we got all the kids up to head over to the new house.  My wife made her world famous biscuits and gravy.  Nan brought some fruit and you probably can't see in the picture, but she brought (and ate) donut holes.  How does an undefeated marathoner eat donut holes??

Here's the Kennard crew, me, and Emily.  Emily loves the camera.  By the way, it's Ke'-nurd, not Kuh-nard'.  Who knew?

Nan can't take a bad picture.  You got to love her son's shirt.  It says, "MY MOM RULES."  His grandma gave it to him.  It says Alaska on the sleeve.  He told me.

And of course Nacho Libre dropped by unexpectedly.  He's da bessst.

My Garmin worked today!!  Nan needs to come to AZ more often.  The Suns win.  My Garmin works.  I ran today.  All is well with the world.

No splits because I forgot to set it up to record them.  But it was an 8:30 pace.  I'll pretend I ran an even smooth pace the whole time.

I started out this morning feeling a little robotronic.  But then I settled in and was surprised to see that I ran about 11 seconds per mile faster than yesterday. 

Time - 24:56 (avg. pace 8:19)

Everyone should check out ChrisM's vlog today.

Also, blogger Merri just had her baby.  Send her a congrats.

I had to move over all my computer and phone stuff to the new house this morning so COX could come and hook it all up.  So no running.  Sad to think I may have run my last regular runs in Queen Creek.  :(  manly frown.

Last night was our first night sleeping in the new house.  I was going to go running this morning, but everything is still in boxes, and by the time I found everything, I would have made my son late for school.  I don't think I'll make it out tonight either because it's date night.  I did a few pull-ups this morning.  At least that's something, right Lily? 

I was having a dream last night that I was running a marathon with everyone from the blog, and I was videotaping it for a documentary.  I didn't want to wake up because I was having such a good time seeing everyone.