{"id":2913,"date":"2010-09-02T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:23","slug":"labor-day-blog-hop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/labor-day-blog-hop-2","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Blog Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy Labor Day! Thanks to Booknibbles.com for the wonderful tour! If you&#8217;re just coming across this post, you can catch the beginning <a href=\"http:\/\/booknibbles.com\/blogtour\">HERE<\/a>. I hope each of you indulges in a char-broiled burger to say goodbye to summer. I don&#8217;t know about the rest of you, but I&#8217;m very *very* sad to see summer go.\u00c2\u00a0 [pout] Now, on to the fun part. In the tradition of my weekly Hump Day Hotties, I&#8217;m adding a scene to the guy. I can&#8217;t help it. When I see a picture like this, my brain comes up with all kinds of scenarios. Here&#8217;s one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2914 aligncenter\" title=\"LaborDay\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/LaborDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So it was Labor Day weekend, and I really wasn&#8217;t looking forward to a\u00c2\u00a0sixteen hour drive to the coast, but\u00c2\u00a0Brad promised that he&#8217;d do most of the driving. He also promised we&#8217;d stop at my favorite restaurant for lunch. And dinner. By midnight, I couldn&#8217;t stay awake, and I curled up in the passenger seat and fell asleep with our favorite band in the CD player, and watching\u00c2\u00a0Brad nod his head and tap the beat on the steering wheel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I don&#8217;t know how long I was out, but when I woke up, we were on the side of the road.\u00c2\u00a0Brad was fast asleep in the driver&#8217;s seat. I stared. I couldn&#8217;t help it.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;d taken off his shirt, and he looked so damn beautiful in the dim light of the rest stop lights. When looking wasn&#8217;t enough anymore, I reached over and as carefully as I could, released the buckle of his belt. When he didn&#8217;t stir, I started on his button fly. I leaned back to enjoy the view, and only then noticed that\u00c2\u00a0Brad wasn&#8217;t sleeping anymore.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Okay, on to the next blog. I hope you make it to the end, where I&#8217;ll be giving away a copy of the winner&#8217;s choice of my backlist (you can find them<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/books\">here<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">). Also, I hope to see a lot of you blog hoppers at Gem Sivad&#8217;s Chat Room during one of the times listed at the end. We always have a l<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">ot of fun. See you there!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2621\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"65\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Labor Day! Thanks to Booknibbles.com for the wonderful tour! 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