I’m sitting on my porch listening to the sounds of the fan in the window behind me, the chirping of birds, the crickets’ song and the buzzing fly. I’m gazing out ahead of me at the trees and the beginning of raindrops and I’m trying to slow down time. I watch the gentle movement of leaves just at the edges of the branches of the trees and now the rain comes faster and louder and I try to slow down time.

It was as if I was looking through a pair of sunglasses with blue lenses. The trees, the grass, and even the snowflakes that were coming down, were blue. This was Northeast Ohio in early Spring. As I got over the moment of annoyance that it was April and it was still snowing outside, I decided that I’d better dress appropriately for my morning run.

When I first began this blog, I wanted to focus on getting out of debt and that was all well and good. I was motivated, passionate, beyond ready to document my progress, share my goals with the world.