it's almost that time! Where can you go snowboarding in Indiana?

Happy Birthday Momma Donna!

Happy Birthday Donna! We are wishing you the best birthday! I love you so much and am so grateful to have you guys in my life. You truly have helped and shaped me to be where I am today and I am forever grateful and appreciative. I love you. Happy Birthday
Love,
Cori and Joe

Happy Happy 2nd Year!

Joe and I spent the weekend in Chicago to celebrate our anniversary! It was so much fun!  We left Saturday morning and spent the day walking around the city, pub crawling, grabbing dinner in Little Italy and a little more pub crawling :)We stayed at The Drake near Michigan Ave. Thank you Momma Linda and Papa Darrell. Side note: My parents bought us this beautiful antique chinese vase Momma Sheila bid on. It's stunning. I will post pics of it soon.
Sunday we walked around a beautiful neighborhood that reminded me so much of Brooklyn Heights. We met with our cousin, Jordan, for brunch at this place called Hash House Agogo. The portion size was insane! So good! We left Chicago and headed home. On our way home we stopped at Notre Dame to see the campus. I've never explored the campus. Joe has been to a couple of games. It's beautiful! I hope we can go to a game soon! Anyways, I love Chicago. I'm hoping to go back to see the play, Book of Mormon, if anyone is interested in joining me!

 Grilled Artichoke, yum!

 Our first stop

 Hole in the wall place, loved it

 Dug's

 How I miss tall building!

 I loved this view from our window. It is what cities are all about. Loved the stairs.

 A cupcake ATM. Amazing!

 Love these scrabble coasters!

 Fried Chicken, bacon, mash potatoes, cheese, served with a creamy sauce

 Eggs benedict with smoke bacon, fresh tomato and basil, biscuit and mash potatoes served with a red pepper sauce.

Jordan and Joe

Notre Dame

Hope everyone's weekend was great.
Love to all
Cori

Do you believe in signs? I'm not sure if I ever shared this story but it's a good one:

Back when I was working in NY, before I met Joe, I would always cross paths with this one therapist who worked at the hospital. Vassar Hospital was pretty big and I would constantly run into people all the time, but it was this one employee who for some reason I was strangely drawn to. Whether it be us in the same elevator, sitting across from each other in the cafe, driving next to her, walking into work together..But anyway, for a while this kept happening. It wasn't something to think much about it but just simply shrug your shoulders and go about your day.

I was having some personal things going on in my life, I moved, was battling with big changes and trying to figure out what my next move was in life. I was shadowing different career's, feeling somewhat lost.I had just booked my first solo trip and was going to start rebuilding my life. After a couple of months, I stopped running into this girl.  It was right around the time that I met Joe. One our first date (we went to the Walkway on the Hudson) we talked about life and the conversation came up on how he got the travel job at Vassar. Turns out, that girl that I kept running into, went on maternity leave, so they needed a therapist to fill in for her. Vassar ended up calling Joe's friend, Danny, first to offer him the job. Danny had just been offered a job in Alaska and recommended Joe. Joe accepted and he started the next week. Life is filled with these moments. These "what if's". What if that girl never got pregnant?  What if Joe had gotten a call a week earlier to work in Alaska instead of his friend, Danny. What if I never declined graduate school a year earlier to take that Vassar job. Would we have met? I remember I first saw Joe on a Friday in the deli. I didn't know him but I remember feeling something. I spent that weekend with my friend Tamara going to a concert and feeling this presence and I couldn't stop thinking about him. What was that? I know I didn't make it up.  I've always knew he existed but it was when I wasn't looking he showed up. 

He did show up and I am so thankful to be called his wife. 

You are my everything  My soul. I love you Joseph Andrew Johnston. Happy Anniversary. 

My quote of the day

for you DV8. Stunt Stunting.

History was made today 10/14/2012. Felix Baumgartner free fall from Space.

“Sometimes you have to go really high to realize how small you are. I'm going home now.” - Felix Baumgartner

Attention New Yorker's

AMG is playing at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY on 11/21/2012! Everyone who lives in New York  should go!  Joe and I are trying to make it.

Check it out! (Oh yah, I took their promotion photo (cough,humble brag,cough!)

11/21 - Wednesday :: Alpha Male Gorillas :: to benefit the St. Francis Food Pantry

Website:AlphaMaleGorillas.com

To benefit the St. Francis Food Pantry, Newburgh, NY. The Food Pantry serves the needs of hundreds of needy families in the City of Newburgh and surrounding areas, Friday and Saturday mornings of every week. All artist donations from this show will benefit this wonderful organization and the people it continually helps.

Alpha Male Gorillas presents listeners with an inflection of multiple styles, traversing through areas of rock, blues, hip hop and reggae, with elements of psychedelic. The band coined the term "HeaVy Mellow" in 2010 while recording their second album, "No Working Title" to put a name on the feeling being recorded. The band is making a lasting impact in the Hudson Valley, playing a steady circuit of bars, clubs, and festivals in the area who regularly show the Gorillas love and respect, and don't mind the noise. AMG has heart, soul, brain, and braun. AMG has consistently headlines the biggest small festival in New York, MAZZSTOCK since 2008. Like AMG, Big Lee Mazzola's mandatory annual all night jam session has grown and shown maturity each year, but thankfully not too much. Originals and original covers, played over a whole spectrum of style and emotion, through a rockin live show, all for our enjoyment. AMG will bug you out.

Remembering Danny Osman. Crazy amazing solo climber.

Where should I go? Any suggestions? email me!

Quote

                                        The soul hovers like a sun within:
                                        burning its way out
                                       without ever leaving center.
                                       We call this-the burning out-passion.

Never lose your passion, for your hobbies, for your life, for yourself.