Corinne's Blog

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you
want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly
a sound unlike any you’ve ever heard fills the air. The sound is high
above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of
trumpets? You don’t know, but you want to know.. So you pull over,
get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you
see you aren’t the only curious one.. The roadside has become a
parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are
Staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store. The
Little League baseball game across the street
has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds And
what they see, and what you see, has never
before been seen..

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A
brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are
no shadows. None.

From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the
flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass
through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every
square inch of the sky.
North. South. East.. West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the
sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim
and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy…. The final flank of angels
is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded
elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.

Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet.. The angels

turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is… Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the
King. He is atop a great stallion, and the
stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are
surrounded by his declaration:
I am the Alpha and the Omega.

The angels bow their heads… The elders remove their crowns… And
before you is a Figure so consuming that you
know, instantly you know: Nothing else matters…. Forget stock
markets and school reports.. Sales meetings and
football games. Nothing is newsworthy…. All that mattered, matters
no more.. For Christ has come.
Please let me know the exact time you read this.. It is
mystical–honest.
This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, he saw me, and
he asked: My child, what is your greatest wish
for today?

I responded: ‘Lord please; take care of my family, my friends, the
person who is reading this message, their family
and their special friends. They deserve it and I love them very
much’.
The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginnings but not
its end..
This message works on the day you receive it.

To some it may sound dumb, but the person who sent this to me was
impressed with its timing. Let us see if it is
true.

While surfing the web and check out Craig’s Flickr that hasn’t been updated much since the last time I looked at it I came across this picture that one of the McCreath’s took while on their last family vacation to Malta. I at first thought the picture was beautifully taken, in a kinda morbid artistic way. I wanted to find some way of including it on my Blog and when I was looking at it again I realized that it would be a great way to segway into my second experience celebrating Halloween in my life.

In an earlier post I wrote about how I’d never really celebrated Halloween because my parents told me that it was a bad Holiday and against our Christian Religion and a Pagan Holiday…After doing much research and getting advice from my spiritual friends in my Church Life Group (which includes my paster Matt Johnson) I discovered that other Christians in my church WERE and had celebrated Halloween their whole lives and this year.

It is important to understand that bad things do happen on Halloween but that you as a person involved in celebrating the Holiday are not commiting a sin by dressing up and going trick or treating. That is an understanding that I had to come to terms with in order to celebrate myself.

When I turned 18 the decision was mine to take and I spent my friend Halloween dressed as a Sexy Nurse at a co-worker’s party from while I was still working at Bobby and Steve’s Auto world. That was two years ago, last year I spent my Halloween night in my Dorm Room in Drew Hall, my plan had been to go to Hamline’s Annual Haunted Hallway which my former roommate Emily was a member. Emily and I at the time didn’t talk much and I wanted to go and support her and try to become friends with her. Instead of going I ended up staying in my dorm room talking to Craig on the phone all night about us finally becoming an official couple after being in a strange Infatuation stage in our relationship.

This year was our one year Anniversary of being a couple as boyfriend and girlfriend 8 months which we spent apart from each other in a long distance relationship. A lot has happened this past year while I’ve been away from Craig which has brought me to my current situation of spending most of my time looking for jobs on the internet that is provided at Leo’s house…in which my former high school classmate Tom resides. Leo and Tom have become good friends to me and I really like their company and wish i too could move into residence with them.

I spent My 2nd official Halloween with Tom and Leo going to Chipotle and then with Tom, Leo and Sophie Sim and Mutal friend of the boys who I met while at one of their famous parties.

Tom was a Golfer from the 1940s,

Sophie was a Green Witch,

I was a Pirate

and Leo was a ‘Dick in the Box’ Based off the famous Lonely Island Song that was featured on an SNL skit with Justin Timberlake.

While at Chipotle getting our Free Burritos for wearing Foil in our costumes we were surprised to bump into Leo’s friend Elisabeth (with an ’s’) and Ember they were waiting in line a little ahead of us. Our plans had been to go to Chipotle then to head back to the house and have a mini get together with friends or to find a fun party, but Elisabeth and Ember told us about the costume party that was happening downtown at First Avenue (yes the same in purple rain) and we decided it would be more fun to go downtown and see them there.

We headed back to the house and waited for Sophie to arrive because she was trick or treating before we headed downtown. We played Halloween and Dirty Themed Scrabble while we waited and when Sophie arrived we decided to walk down to the light rail to head downtown.

It was cold outside but we talked and entertained ourselves with singing the Dick in the Box song while we waited.

We got Downtown and the line for First Ave was too long so we went to the Gay 90s instead…15$ per person and Tom paid for me…no one danced so we left…it was fun seeing all the people outside dressed up…kind of scary too! There were Cops Everywhere and they weren’t in control of the drunk crowd any.

We decided to continue walking in search of ice cream at Coldstone which ended up being closed…so we decided to leave and head back to the house at the Light rail we bumped into Ember and Elisabeth again and they told us that the party at first ave was really great and cheaper than they’d thought…5$!…I was disappointed that we hadn’t picked it.

We went back to the house on the last light rail and it was packed with drunk people in costumes I couldn’t help but laugh at the guy was kept falling asleep drunk while standing in front of me who would wake and smile at me then pass out again.

On our way back to the house Leo and I talked about something important…which I totally forget now and we considered going to a party Sophie’s friend was holding a few blocks away…we decided to settle in for the night with a movie “Saw V” which wasn’t scary but just gross and then go to bed…Leo leant me his Phone because i had church the next morning and needed to get up at 8 after going to bed at 3am…Fun right?

all and all fun…but I know first ave would have been better…it was good to be with good company

I forgot how terrible being sick can be, especially when a person is looking for a job.

I don’t feel like doing anything but sleeping and I’ve found that I don’t want to go to my house in Brooklyn Park even though I LIVE THERE.

I should be working tonight but my current state puts me in no condition to be handling an infant.

I’m still looking for a steady day job, one that will provide enough money for me to pay back Theta Chi for Summer’s rent and have spending money for things like FOOD and bus fare.

Everyday I wish that I was driving.

It is really hard to be in this situation. Leo and Tom are some of the closest friends I have right now, they have housed me when I needed to be downtown and they are there to talk to me.

Leo was so nice that he even got me the classifieds from The U of M Newspaper.

I’ve filled out a ton of applications to different places and I’ve interviewed but I still have no one responding to me and trying to hire me…IT’S THE HOLIDAYS should finding a job be SO HARD?!

Right now I just want to drug myself to make the aches and soreness go away.

Last night I hung out with Alex Jeffery it was a nice time to relax and playing guitar hero was a good way to get my mind off my coughing.

The illness is seasonal I know, and I know that last year around this time I got really sick too…I haven’t gotten the flu shot but this isn’t the flu.

I’m so out of it that I fell down the stairs, I was wearing socks and the staircase steps were slippery, it was strange hearing Leo laugh instead of ask me if I was alright. I haven’t fallen down stairs in years and it brought back many memories of my old house at 32nd and DuPont which had a similar looking staircase…how I used to remember stepping the first step and then opening my eyes at the bottom having gotten the wind knocked out of me. At least it was the shorter set of the two consisting of five stairs not 10, 11 or 13.

Does the body really fight better when it is hotter? Should I be bundling myself in blankets instead of writing emails on Leo’s computer inquiring about Santa’s Helper positions?

I don’t even know.

After starting that Podcast with Craig I’ve been longing to get a hold of him so we can record another one.
I know that we both weren’t sick the last time and that we are both sick now…him recovering and me just getting ill. I think he passed it onto me.

I’ve been talking to the people I call my friends around me recently…Leo, Tom, Alex and when I talk about things like Baby names and illness or how I am currently doing I often mention things that I’ve written on my blog in the past. Like last night Alex and I got into a conversation about how the name Apple could be a decent name and why unique names are good in my opinion and bad in Alex’s.
I mentioned to Alex that on my blog under the Baby category that I had a list of baby names…then after that Alex went on about how STUPID Blogs were.
I’ve had a similar conversation with Leo were he told me that he was tired of finding blogs while he was trying to do research for projects.

I think Blogs help me while i do projects because they provide different opinions on topics that I’ve never seen before. Yet I think the world of the blog is becoming a little much with websites like Blog Spot making them so easy. I think if they are used properly that they can help people stay connected and I hope to soon be able to do a podcast episode of Distance no Object with Craig about how they have helped our relationship. I think that Blogging is very therapeutic for me and I don’t really care who is reading them. I wrote a blog about how Blogging was therapeutic not so long ago.

I hope people are reading them because I think my friends could learn a lot about me and the way I think if they read them.
Craig a few months ago wanted to Change his blog for the better, and as an internet personality he’s become quite popular with many followers who comment on his work.

I’d like to do the same so I’ve put together some questions and I hope to put together a survey for this site later like Craig did. For now I’ve just thought of some basic questions…
So my questions are these: (To whoever might be reading this while passing through or otherwise)

How do you know that you have an audience on your blog?
How do you Attract and larger Commenting Audience?
What type of information is good to blog about?
How should I improve my blog in the future?

For now I’ll simmer on how I will get myself more healthy and find a job…

I hope that I will be able to find a job to find things to blog about…stories and such.