• 2007 May

    ByCarmelo

    We traveled a lot in May. We went to Vegas for my mom’s 60th birthday, went to Rocky Point with Camille and went to the Lake with Rob. Starting off in Vegas Rocky Point! We closed out the month with a lake trip with Rob and Camille.

  • 2007 March and April

    ByCarmelo

    Like I said in the previous post, Camille invited Damien and I to many family functions. I went with Camille to get her cool new tattoo Damien got his very first filling 🙁 and on Saint Patrick’s day, Camille and Jaime helped Damien, Pat, and I paint my bedroom. Camille’s husband, Randy, had his own…

  • 2007 January and February

    ByCarmelo

    To continue the night before from the 2006 post. Here’s more photos after the New Year’s celebration before we went home. Happy New Years everyone! With my steady work and my ‘ex’ finally leaving me alone for the most part, I got an active social life. We usually partied at either Camille’s place or Rob’s…

  • 2006

    ByCarmelo

    I realized this post is going to be a longer one. I typically go through my photo albums and start dragging things into the online library that I pick the pictures from to create the albums below. Thanks to my wonderful friends, many who I still associate to this day (2026 as of this writing)…

  • 2005

    ByCarmelo

    In the last half of 2004, Damien and Patrick moved in with me. It is also the year I started getting friends. Good quality friends. I had to go through several to find my tribe. Since my time in the Marine Corps, I haven’t had really good friends since. People who like you the way…

  • 2004

    ByCarmelo

    What a wonky year in my life! But I’m trying to not write about any drama that happened. This year I had friends and family visit. There’s some work pictures as the Gulf War was ending and we had a guy just getting back. I visited the Grand Canyon. Then a month later Damien and…

  • 2003

    ByCarmelo

    Still enjoying life and was getting into a groove. Work. Life. Home. Being a new home owner and still in my 20s. Things at home were starting to break. The joys of home ownership! I was a little handy but I also prioritized work work, and not home work. I tried to enjoy anyway. We…

  • Y2K

    ByCarmelo

    Cameras started becoming digital, but for the most part, many of them were film. They weren’t integrated into phones yet and honestly, not a lot of people had cell phones yet. It just wasn’t a thing, but it was starting. One of my first big vacations, was of course, Disney Land! We also went on…

  • The 90s

    ByCarmelo

    I started getting my independence in the 90s. Looking back, at this 90s page, it feels like a whole lifetime of achievements in this decade. I think being a Generation X kid really puts it into a person’s head on how to figure things out. We solved problems on our own. Before AI. Before the…

  • The 80s

    ByCarmelo

    I don’t have a lot of pictures from the 80s. It was a weird time compared to today. Photos back then were film and cameras cost a bit of money and you had to wait until the roll was full before you went and paid to get the pictures developed. The ones worth scanning were…

  • More 70s

    ByCarmelo

    Though US born. I grew up between the Manila and Montreal in the very early 70s, mid to late 70s was mostly Montreal. Montessori was my first school and in Montreal, it was bilingual. English and French of course. I wish I could remember more about it. I remember some things, like sitting in class…