Fate Rolling its Dice - Who? What? When? Where? Why?

I've covered the 'Who' in an earlier post; the 'What' is what this blog is all about; 'When' is 10 days from now; the 'Where' is mentioned in my profile; and now The "Why" -the best question of all; WHY and WHY now?!

I'll start with the "Why Now" seedling:

About a year a ago a friend of mine told me about a body cleansing fast he was contemplating doing in order to counter a stomach health issue he got while traveling through India. Having never done a fast before and interested in what he told me I decided to join him. We set an arbitrary date - November 4th and our experience was sealed.

As November 4th approached and as smokers we decided realized that doing a body cleansing fast while smoking and drinking "seemed" counter-active. We decided to give up smoking for the 9 days while we rid our bodies of toxins.

Fast forward to today: I'm proud to say that November 3, 2007 was the last time we had a cigarette a drag, puff, whatever. =)

My experience with this body cleansing was such an amazing one that that I decided that I would do the one every 6 months as a sort of physical/mental/psychi reset. - hence November 4, 2008...

and that 'quickly' wraps up my "Why Now Story"

Shifting gears ---- I'm a geek and I subscribe to a ridiculous amount of blogs; one of which is/was (I'll post his link when I find it) about some dude who decided to give up drinking for 100 days. I read about his motivations, his challenges, his downfalls, his uplifts and ended up thinking.... GOOD FOR HIM! I decided to tuck his idea in my GTD's "Someday/Maybe Folder".

Well.. my Someday/Maybe folder slapped my face a couple of months ago when I realized that I was 'ready' to for my "100 Days of Alcohol-less Challenge". I picked the date of my one year fasting anniversary (I wouldn't be drinking anyways) and committed myself to it. When I realized that this arbitrary date aligned with the U.S. presidential election; it was sealed- like Obam -


(no one is reading this blog right now so that will) be the only time I bring politics into this.

To ALL of us good luck!

In The Teens

My countdown has officially entered into the teen digits:

-19 days to get myself psyched up.
-19 days to get the tequila soda party monster out of my system
-19 days to come up with a list of things to keep myself and mind occupied.

Starting to get a bit nervous!!!

Bare Bone Basic Introductions....

Hello. My name is Kenn and I am NOT an alcoholic.

WAIT?! Does that mean I’m an alcoholic in denial? I don’t know, but it doesn’t really matter because this isn’t what THIS first post is all about.

Right now; at this moment, I am a 29 year old man living in San Francisco approaching a 20 day countdown that will put to test 10+ years of his past and will (VERY quite possibly) redirect the next 10+ years of his life. Although this too is something I want to explore, it's not what my first blog is about.

I want to start my first (this) blog with the bare bone black and white basics:

My name is Kenneth Brent Sugiyama and I was born in Cincinnati, OH on May 20, 1979. My Mom is from Illinois and my dad is from Japan.

From the ages of 4 to 15 I had a kick ass, privileged upbringing living in Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan.

Not to be cryptic; but life has a way of throwing us curve balls and bringing us closer together. When I was 15, my Mom, sister and I moved to San Diego and began a new life with a suitcase each (and my diskman).

I finished High School as I fell IN LOVE for the very first time right as I had to move to Washington DC, for Uni.

Being a teenager in (all sorts of wrong, first puppy lustful) Love makes you do crazy things...

Compressed from yesterday to today… I’m here, a 29 year old man living in San Francisco.

I’m here as an average guy; like you, me and Angelina Jolie.