This too shall pass...

Wow.... I have been reading my old blogs. All uh, five of them. Soo much has happened since then. Let me tell ya!

...oh right... well for starters; I can see. I was stricken (yes, sticken) with Tolossa-Hunt Syndrome back in November 2005. Long story short its double vision, often accompanied by intense pain in and around the eyes. Good times. The shitty thing is that the casue is unknown... It simply comes on, often at random. Mine however, was preceded by a very tough sinus infection so we will never know exactly how or why I got doubl vision for roughly five months... but I digress. For months I was sick, trying to endure the steroid treatments that my opthamologist ordered to fight the double vision. Months and months went by (I could write for days on those months, but I dont want to) and around March of 2006 I woke up one day... and I could see!

I then set to work on getting a job. Apparently one rarely gets hired at their first job interview... or their second, third, et cetera. So in desparation I took a job at a local department store in a shopping mall..... hated it! Despised it. Although I did meet a very good friend who encouraged me to apply at her other place of work. An enormous insurance/real estate/financial services corporation.

That was this past November 2006. I just found out yesterday that I was in fact hired with the company!

So as you can see. My life has turned around quite a bit. I am healthy as an ox (and I must admit here that I dont really know how healthy ox's are). I have a very very good job with an extremely successful and internationally respected corporation... and excellant benefits!.....

Now I just need to find that special woman. And believe me, Im working on it.

Two years, ten months, 3 weeks, 3 days.

My life is a wretched mess. I hope to fix it by the time I am thirty (see title :-p ).
First of all, I would like to at least be able to function as a normal human being and have healthy enough eyes to see someting close to properly. It would be nice to be able to actually use my degree and get a job that has some substantial benefits as well as a salary. A job that pays more than $25K in a year. A job that does not drive me to tears with boredom, or that is not too busy for me to enjoy my life. I would also really like to live in a place that I enjoy. A state, town that I would never think about leaving. An apartment or home that actually feels like.... a home. I would also, and most of all, like to find a woman who likes me enough to get married and maybe even have a child. I know its a tall order. Alot of people say 3 years is not enough time to do it, and then the same amount of people will say its plenty of time to do it. Who knows? No... seriously, who knows?!

Yours,
Cory-27- single-on medical leave from my crappy job-at my parents house-T

oooh my asssss

My life has sucked of late... as you may know. But the best is yet to come... afterall, a good friend pointed out recently that optimism is a hell of a lot better than the alternative. *side bar: my cat is literally biting my ass right now.* So why wait for it to get better... another of my best friends of all time, Billy Shakespeare, once said, "Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

So I put on my angry-music-iPod-mix and got on the bike trainer today. Did a very short ride of just 15k. I am almost at my all time best rate. (10 miles @ 27mph).

I did about 10.4 @ a little over 17 today. (Max speed was at about 44mph... or 72kph which sounds cooler). This is good. Considering I have not been on a serious ride since before July '05. Tomorrow Ill do an endurance thing. Perhaps 40k.

So yeah... its not much, buts most of evereything I have.

Luke, I am your father.

Ok. So here is a real blog entry for all you who have been dying to hear from me.... Calm down. The past is dead, the future doesnt exist yet.... Ok, now it does. So this blog will simply be a record of my days from here on out.

Today I woke up at about 1115... and then... umm... Cooked some rolls. Played with my cat. Made a couple of phones calls. "How are you?" "Im good. How are you?" et cetera, et cetera... I did learn that there are now Catholic alter-girls! Who knew? My brother David came over and we had dinner with the parents. It was good. That was pretty much my day.

My Second Blog

here is my 2nd blog. its longer than my first.

First Blog

Hi here is my first blog.