Its A Fine Day / fgsfds III
UPDATE:
Kitchen
First and foremost has been a GIHUGANT project with me and alex "Fix The Kitchen". Since he moved in, the kitchen has needed some serious overhaul. With nearly 4 months of off again, on again work, we finally got this thing IKEA's and looking amazing.
Up until this point was getting everything out, destroying what nastiness was there before, most likely built in the early 60s - 70s era.
Here is is, the basement.. at this point we had nothing but a giant HOLE for a kitchen. Sadly the next step didnt come until a month later when Alex and i realized we were spendning nearly $80 a week just eating out all the time.
...and so the rebuilding began... We had to double-layer the kitchen as well as add support beams so it didnt slant
Each and every single tile had to be hand-laid, cemented and grouted
The near-finished project. Blue walls, gorgeous Ikea cabinets, and stove.
[not pictured: marble countertop, dishwasher and double-sinks]
Onto the past 7 months updates...
-=APRIL=-
Apr 10th My sister Melissa's Graduation.
Mom, Melissa, me
Bachelor's degree in Psychology from UNF. We partied lateron at the Ritz and other Jax beaches clubs.
Apr 19th Alabama preparty @ Vaquero
Budweiser Girls
Me, Lalo, Solange, Alex
Tequila shots
Apr 20th Wedding
Nick & Malory with Nick's parents
Colin, Brian, Dave, Chris, Lindsay, Grayson, Arabella, Alex, me, Jack and lots others in the Montgomery crew had a blast after the wedding.
Shakespeare park with Solange & Arabella
-=MAY=-
May 9th Carla's going away party.
Marissa, Ricky, Becca, Carla, Derek W, and Chelsea
Alejandra, Tony, and Grant too.
May 18th Screen On The Green
Alex and i brought a projection screen and early-release movies to watch out on David & Rose's yard. About 30 people showed up. In pic; me, Arabella, Magdalena, Alex
May 22nd Karl
My friend from jacksonville who I've known since '93 Karl visits. We went out to Dark Horse tavern with a keg of Heinekin to celebrate Jen's bday.
May 23rd Scary movie Screen on the green
We liked the idea so much that we did the same thing at our place.
Since we still had the Heinekeg, we had that for beer and bought 16 Lbs of Meat! Lots of people came over and we had a great cookout, followed by watching Spanish zombie horror movie REC in our yard.
Luis's Kids
-=JUNE=-
June 17th
Tony leaves to join the Marines
June 22nd Camping at Lake Rabun
Sara, Solange, me and Nate. Also Pouria, Audrea, Ron, Liz, and Alex went. good weather and over $200 of beer. We played projection screen movies here as well! In the middle of the woods, powered by a generator.
June 25th Tiesto @ Opera "In Search of Sunrise 7 Asia"
Sara and I drunking "Blue MotherF#cker" outside at Opera
The crowd of Tiesto fans
June 28th Wonkers, Barnaby!
For three different shows, Alex and i videotaped and audiomixed the play "Hello Dolly" performed at Christ The King’s Cathedral, afterward eating out at Teds Grill (Bison Burger!) and then going to local club where they played mexican rock.
-=JULY=-
July 4th sucked, partied at Mike's with his interior decorators. i.e. Gay Party... but the food was very good!
July 6 10am - 3pm the Grrreatest tennis match of all time
Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal
It lasted four hours and 58 minutes
4...Hours...58...Minutes
The entire time two of the word's greatest tennis players playing at full peak performance, taking short breaks only because of rain. Nadal won in the end and jumped into the crowd to hug his family. Such an amazing game.
July 11th Daaavid event. Went to Oasis for Davids Bday
July 19th Pam Poker Party. My first work party of the new job at Sage Software. Everyone was really cool and we had lots of fun.
Me with Kymmie and Pam
Pam & Flor
July 21st Sweetwater Park
Iranians, Austrians, Anastasia (Russian) Ric and Me
Sweetwater Park's mill. It was fenced off but of course that didn't stop us from going around the fence
We decided after a 3 mile walk to just jump into the nice water current and just enjoy the weather
July 27th Biker Lawyer Party
Keeping Up with the Brazilians
Steve Moran's house had lots of very expensive bikes and even a dunebuggy designed likes Dukes Of Hazzard
-=AUGUST=-
August 1st presentation to graduate college. I had redesigned fujikoma.com to be a personal profile as well as presented it to a 5-instructor creative criticism panel. I was fairly confident I'd pass as the rest of the class had less work done on theirs than mine. Regardless, the instructors said I had done a good job but lacked focus on one single talent. I can draw, make web sites, 3-d animation, design... all these things I can do, I do well yet there isn't one single thing im amazing at.
2nd tami bday Mustangs
(Convention Season)
August 15th Anime Festival Orlando
Made the drive all the way to Orlando by myself (well with Nate half the way). Stayed with Mandy, Evan, and Preston. "Hosted" another Saturday Morning Cartoons panel and had lots of fun.
With Mandy 40 Hands and her bro.
Got to see Katie after a long time. With Preston too, he's a pretty cool dude.
With Gabby in Dante costume and the voice of Dante (Devil May Cry) Reuben Langdon
August 30th
With Yaya and Mandy
Wearing Soni's Flava Flav outfit. They call me Vanilla Flav. Yeeeahhh booiiieeeeee
Mandy was in town that whole weekend so we went to downtown and enjoyed Centennial Park, Coca Cola Factory, CNN Building and a few other great downtown places. Took some really slick photos with Alex's camera as well.
coca cola
-=SEPTEMBER=-
September 13th My Bday! Had Delicious Cake from Soli and went with my co-worker Larry to play Paintball. I've been wanting to play this for a longtime and regardless that the heat that day was in the 90s we played till we were sore.
September 19th I got my Associates Degree For Multimedia! YAAAY!
Didn't attend my graduation as I only knew two people in my course that graduated. Instead I attended my best friend Tony's graduation from the Marine Corp.
Becca, me, Chris, Lauren
Becca went with me on the 4 hour drive to Savannah, GA where i got to see Chris for the first time in years. JUST as I arrived my tire got a flat, but it was quickly replaced by Wells Towing and we got the replacement tire on. Got to see the nightlife in savannah. Its a college town alright and they have the cool concept of "To-Go Cups" where you can pour whatever leftover alcohol you have into a cup and walk around in public with it. Nice!
Pvt. Tony Menocal and I. Parris Island Marine Corp Graduation
Party at home with Liz & Alex. Kaitlyn Becca, Tony and I went to see Batman: Dark Night the next day at IMax.
September 21st Anime Weekend Atlanta
Amber and I
AWA was okay. Mostly walked around the lobby, Tony playing theme songs on his violin then attended the Hoshizaki room party at the Sheraton.
September 25th Kaiser Premenente 5 K corporate run/walk
After seeing Run Fat Boy Run, I couldn't help but get inspired to actually try one of these things. After signing up and uh, training for it (yeah, right) I got to leave work early because its claimed as "Charity Day". We all met up on Turner Field and there were over 100 exhibition tents for other companies supporting it. Ours had Jasons Deli and energy drinks but other booths were giving away lots of free stuff like towels, cups, samples of drinks, coupons. The run began and we jogged at an easy pace all around atlanta. Down Peachtree, through Spring Street. My soundtrack: Tiesto. It was such a perfect day and the run began at 7pm just as the sun was setting. I cant even describe what a great feeling it was to jog with thousands of others around the city I love so much in absolutely perfect weather, listening to absolutely perfect music. It felt really good and I finished the 5 kilometers in about 58 mins.
September 28th Helen GA
Solange's bday was the week after mine but we went to Helen the week after. We stayed overnight and went to both Bumper Cars and a Haunted House (which we got kicked out of again for being disruptive, and drunk)
Jimmy, Soli, Me, Maria, Lalo, Silvia
Jimmy, me, Lalo, Alex, Andrew, Rich
Oktoberfest is held around this time and even though i felt pretty sick, i popped some DayQuil and i was ready to go. I actually got way way sick the next day so I learned my lesson on pushing my limits.
Alex, Ric, Anastasia, Pouria, Audrea, me
as of lately I've chilled out mostly. The last two weekends I've forgone going out to bars, clubs, events to save money and finally pay off the credit cards and bills.
Kitchen
First and foremost has been a GIHUGANT project with me and alex "Fix The Kitchen". Since he moved in, the kitchen has needed some serious overhaul. With nearly 4 months of off again, on again work, we finally got this thing IKEA's and looking amazing.
Up until this point was getting everything out, destroying what nastiness was there before, most likely built in the early 60s - 70s era.
Here is is, the basement.. at this point we had nothing but a giant HOLE for a kitchen. Sadly the next step didnt come until a month later when Alex and i realized we were spendning nearly $80 a week just eating out all the time.
...and so the rebuilding began... We had to double-layer the kitchen as well as add support beams so it didnt slant
Each and every single tile had to be hand-laid, cemented and grouted
The near-finished project. Blue walls, gorgeous Ikea cabinets, and stove.
[not pictured: marble countertop, dishwasher and double-sinks]
Onto the past 7 months updates...
-=APRIL=-
Apr 10th My sister Melissa's Graduation.
Mom, Melissa, me
Bachelor's degree in Psychology from UNF. We partied lateron at the Ritz and other Jax beaches clubs.
Apr 19th Alabama preparty @ Vaquero
Budweiser Girls
Me, Lalo, Solange, Alex
Tequila shots
Apr 20th Wedding
Nick & Malory with Nick's parents
Colin, Brian, Dave, Chris, Lindsay, Grayson, Arabella, Alex, me, Jack and lots others in the Montgomery crew had a blast after the wedding.
Shakespeare park with Solange & Arabella
-=MAY=-
May 9th Carla's going away party.
Marissa, Ricky, Becca, Carla, Derek W, and Chelsea
Alejandra, Tony, and Grant too.
May 18th Screen On The Green
Alex and i brought a projection screen and early-release movies to watch out on David & Rose's yard. About 30 people showed up. In pic; me, Arabella, Magdalena, Alex
May 22nd Karl
My friend from jacksonville who I've known since '93 Karl visits. We went out to Dark Horse tavern with a keg of Heinekin to celebrate Jen's bday.
May 23rd Scary movie Screen on the green
We liked the idea so much that we did the same thing at our place.
Since we still had the Heinekeg, we had that for beer and bought 16 Lbs of Meat! Lots of people came over and we had a great cookout, followed by watching Spanish zombie horror movie REC in our yard.
Luis's Kids
-=JUNE=-
June 17th
Tony leaves to join the Marines
June 22nd Camping at Lake Rabun
Sara, Solange, me and Nate. Also Pouria, Audrea, Ron, Liz, and Alex went. good weather and over $200 of beer. We played projection screen movies here as well! In the middle of the woods, powered by a generator.
June 25th Tiesto @ Opera "In Search of Sunrise 7 Asia"
Sara and I drunking "Blue MotherF#cker" outside at Opera
The crowd of Tiesto fans
June 28th Wonkers, Barnaby!
For three different shows, Alex and i videotaped and audiomixed the play "Hello Dolly" performed at Christ The King’s Cathedral, afterward eating out at Teds Grill (Bison Burger!) and then going to local club where they played mexican rock.
-=JULY=-
July 4th sucked, partied at Mike's with his interior decorators. i.e. Gay Party... but the food was very good!
July 6 10am - 3pm the Grrreatest tennis match of all time
Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal
It lasted four hours and 58 minutes
4...Hours...58...Minutes
The entire time two of the word's greatest tennis players playing at full peak performance, taking short breaks only because of rain. Nadal won in the end and jumped into the crowd to hug his family. Such an amazing game.
July 11th Daaavid event. Went to Oasis for Davids Bday
July 19th Pam Poker Party. My first work party of the new job at Sage Software. Everyone was really cool and we had lots of fun.
Me with Kymmie and Pam
Pam & Flor
July 21st Sweetwater Park
Iranians, Austrians, Anastasia (Russian) Ric and Me
Sweetwater Park's mill. It was fenced off but of course that didn't stop us from going around the fence
We decided after a 3 mile walk to just jump into the nice water current and just enjoy the weather
July 27th Biker Lawyer Party
Keeping Up with the Brazilians
Steve Moran's house had lots of very expensive bikes and even a dunebuggy designed likes Dukes Of Hazzard
-=AUGUST=-
August 1st presentation to graduate college. I had redesigned fujikoma.com to be a personal profile as well as presented it to a 5-instructor creative criticism panel. I was fairly confident I'd pass as the rest of the class had less work done on theirs than mine. Regardless, the instructors said I had done a good job but lacked focus on one single talent. I can draw, make web sites, 3-d animation, design... all these things I can do, I do well yet there isn't one single thing im amazing at.
2nd tami bday Mustangs
(Convention Season)
August 15th Anime Festival Orlando
Made the drive all the way to Orlando by myself (well with Nate half the way). Stayed with Mandy, Evan, and Preston. "Hosted" another Saturday Morning Cartoons panel and had lots of fun.
With Mandy 40 Hands and her bro.
Got to see Katie after a long time. With Preston too, he's a pretty cool dude.
With Gabby in Dante costume and the voice of Dante (Devil May Cry) Reuben Langdon
August 30th
With Yaya and Mandy
Wearing Soni's Flava Flav outfit. They call me Vanilla Flav. Yeeeahhh booiiieeeeee
Mandy was in town that whole weekend so we went to downtown and enjoyed Centennial Park, Coca Cola Factory, CNN Building and a few other great downtown places. Took some really slick photos with Alex's camera as well.
coca cola
-=SEPTEMBER=-
September 13th My Bday! Had Delicious Cake from Soli and went with my co-worker Larry to play Paintball. I've been wanting to play this for a longtime and regardless that the heat that day was in the 90s we played till we were sore.
September 19th I got my Associates Degree For Multimedia! YAAAY!
Didn't attend my graduation as I only knew two people in my course that graduated. Instead I attended my best friend Tony's graduation from the Marine Corp.
Becca, me, Chris, Lauren
Becca went with me on the 4 hour drive to Savannah, GA where i got to see Chris for the first time in years. JUST as I arrived my tire got a flat, but it was quickly replaced by Wells Towing and we got the replacement tire on. Got to see the nightlife in savannah. Its a college town alright and they have the cool concept of "To-Go Cups" where you can pour whatever leftover alcohol you have into a cup and walk around in public with it. Nice!
Pvt. Tony Menocal and I. Parris Island Marine Corp Graduation
Party at home with Liz & Alex. Kaitlyn Becca, Tony and I went to see Batman: Dark Night the next day at IMax.
September 21st Anime Weekend Atlanta
Amber and I
AWA was okay. Mostly walked around the lobby, Tony playing theme songs on his violin then attended the Hoshizaki room party at the Sheraton.
September 25th Kaiser Premenente 5 K corporate run/walk
After seeing Run Fat Boy Run, I couldn't help but get inspired to actually try one of these things. After signing up and uh, training for it (yeah, right) I got to leave work early because its claimed as "Charity Day". We all met up on Turner Field and there were over 100 exhibition tents for other companies supporting it. Ours had Jasons Deli and energy drinks but other booths were giving away lots of free stuff like towels, cups, samples of drinks, coupons. The run began and we jogged at an easy pace all around atlanta. Down Peachtree, through Spring Street. My soundtrack: Tiesto. It was such a perfect day and the run began at 7pm just as the sun was setting. I cant even describe what a great feeling it was to jog with thousands of others around the city I love so much in absolutely perfect weather, listening to absolutely perfect music. It felt really good and I finished the 5 kilometers in about 58 mins.
September 28th Helen GA
Solange's bday was the week after mine but we went to Helen the week after. We stayed overnight and went to both Bumper Cars and a Haunted House (which we got kicked out of again for being disruptive, and drunk)
Jimmy, Soli, Me, Maria, Lalo, Silvia
Jimmy, me, Lalo, Alex, Andrew, Rich
Oktoberfest is held around this time and even though i felt pretty sick, i popped some DayQuil and i was ready to go. I actually got way way sick the next day so I learned my lesson on pushing my limits.
Alex, Ric, Anastasia, Pouria, Audrea, me
as of lately I've chilled out mostly. The last two weekends I've forgone going out to bars, clubs, events to save money and finally pay off the credit cards and bills.