Wow...
It has been 5 years now since I made this account.
I started out under Dan-dan-chan but had since moved onto this one.
What a wild ride it has been.
Now that I begin thinking about it. I contemplate all the events that have unfolded to bring me to this point in time.
I originally Joined Deviantart in march of 2003 because of a Cocoa Beach Artist who introduced me to the site and urged me to Post my budding photography here. I have to admit, she was the first love I knew of.
Throughout the first 2 years... I was carefree in a way. Granted I had family issues, but what were they when compared to the bigger problems in the world?
God, 2004 what a year that was... I rushed through and completed senior year, began working in the real world, starting and staying with a factory.
Having a fight and moving out of my parents house.
Meeting Erica Lewis for the first time since graduating and celebrating 2005 with her.
My sisters wedding in January of 05. When my truck, on the way to the wedding reception (The after party) went off the road and into a field. loosing the Job at plastipak. continuing and expanding the relationship with Erica...
Mid-late 05... Wow what a time that was. Doing whatever I could to make money Working temp jobs whilst doing college, hanging out with my cousin (And best friend) sean as much as possible. Having a good bit of fun in the process.
Then, the desperation and brash actions I took.
I enlisted in September of 2005. By October I had left Ohio.
Going through Basic training (The most fun time I had admittedly).
Then Opening 2006 with Pensacola Florida.
Oh my god what a shit hole town that place was...
Then, late 2006, I found myself in Korea.
October, when the N.Koreans finally tested a nuke, getting the wakeup calls and having to rush to work only to be dismissed for the weekend.
I made a number of friends in Korea, I then celebrated 2007 with them.
2007, spring rolls around and Mark Foley and me picked back up skateboarding and had a ball when Powerman 5000 came to town.
I got to meet spider of powerman 5000, how many can say that?
August-september of 2007, leaving Korea and heading to Fort meade.
I found out around this time that Erica Lewis died in a car accident...
I had lost Anna Drazich due to my own ineptitude...but this was different I felt helpless to do anything I felt guilt that I wasn't around, that maybe I could have stopped it or something...
I picked up the pieces and kept on though.
Just in time for 2008 to roll around.
Around early 2008, the anonymous scientology protests kicked off which I participated wholeheartedly in. Working, having the time of my life, meeting friends and deepening relationships. Confident that as 2008 drew to a close that I would only have less than a year before I got out of the army.
That was my thinking days before the stock market panic happened.
Then, next thing you knew, a lack of jobs, uncertainty, pressure from my parents to re enlist, panic, discomfort....
I re enlisted in october 2008...
2009 begins.. And I found myself in Pensacola again. Taking trips out to cocoa beach whenever I could. Never once tracking down Anna Drazich oddly enough.
I could have, I coulda stopped in and said "Hey hows it going? I'm in town and figured on stopping by and seeing ya"
Instead, I went surfing and watched the shuttle launches...
July rolls around and I leave Pensacola. Stopping by to watch one last shuttle launch before going back to Maryland. Then leaving out of there to see my parents again, then flying out here To Japan.
Seeing the countryside here, driving into the big towns (Well cities to be frank) Buying, saving, working...
Having an asthma attack that was bad enough to send me to the ER....
Getting told they will be doing a medboard on me to determine if I should be kept or not.
At this point, I am hoping for a discharge. I am quite ready to get on with my life. Apply what I have learned since coming in to outside employment.
Still. These are only minor highlights. There was ALOT that had happened between then and now. And still plenty more.
So, that's 5 years now with this account alone. 7 years of being a devianTARTlet I guess and plenty more to do with my life.
See you next update