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After a year of no blogging and an old design… it is time to relaunch! Thanks for sticking around.

I was Running and Running…?

Okay so I decided that it was time to  “get fit or die tryin” I mean my wife has lost like 25 pounds. Yeah she’s awesome like that. My son is doing well physically and nutritionally since being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in February. So like I said time to get fit or die tryin. what you need to know is there was a time in my life about three years ago when I was pushing a size 56 inch waist, and weighing in around 367 pounds. Currently I am at 290 pounds. That is not good enough, I know that if I want to be around to see my son graduate and things like that, it’s time to finish what my trainer Laura and I started back in Florida. So I start hanging out with the treadmill. Three times a week for 30 minutes.  I did that routine for two...

Out of The Ashes, The Pheonix Rises!

A few weeks ago, on a Monday I went to my favorite coffee shop Rocket Rush only to find that the whole place was closed down, it was the worst Monday ever. Not only did this mean that there was no coffee for the start of my day, it seemed that finding a good cup of joe was now my new quest. {side note there is a Starbucks right down the road but the three times I have had coffee there it tasted burnt, kind of a cross between a charcoal briquette and a bottle of liquid smoke, one barista said “that’s how dark roast coffee should taste” I don’t know a lot, but I do know how dark roast coffee should taste, and how it should not taste. If your coffee tastes like a charcoal briquette and liquid smoke it is time to find a new coffee shop}Moving...