Woot! I’m getting fairly excited about the whole vacuum cleaner review site! It’s going to be good. Gotta get it off to the right start though. The build is going kinda fast, but a bit slow at the same time. Lots of annoying little things here and there that have begun to add up and get in the way. Plus I’ve got to hide some of the aspects of the site (things that I don’t want other people messing with). Oh well it’s going to take some time, and energy to get it all done, but in the end it will be worth it.

It’s not up at the moment… but part of our wedding reservations will be taken via the application located at www.codysortore.com/wedding/ for people who spend a lot of time online like myself and would just prefer a quick and easy little way to let us know whether or not you’re coming. It was just an idea I had instead of trying to accept tons and tons of emails this way is just quicker ya know?

Cryo-Cell gift certificates are now available!?‚?  This wonderful opportunity allows you to give expecting parents the gift of life.?‚?  Cryo-Cell stores cord blood that can be used to treat more than 70 diseases later in life.?‚?  This life saving technology is the perfect gift to give to any expecting parents.?‚?  With a gift certificate from Cryo-Cell you can give expecting parents the opportunity to store their childs cord blood, a lasting gift that allows for the preservation of life, and cure of major diseases.

For a guy I’ve always been fond of Bulova watches just because they’re in my price range and appeal to me. The way upper class watches such as Rolex have never appealed to me, but I also don’t like junk. So for most guys I’ve always recommended Bulova as it’s my own personal preference.

When it comes to women’s watches though something more refined, delicate, and intricate is in order. Bulova does great work, but Cartier does amazingly beautiful things with their watches. They make the most elegant women’s watches you can find anywhere. Now a cartier women’s watch is not going to be cheap anywhere you look. We’re talking about $40,000 watches such as this one that I just love:

But from The Watchery you save 25% (or $10,000 for those of you like me bad at math). Still a better deal than you will find anywhere else, and most certainly a better price than you will get if you buy it directly from Cartier. These are not cheap Chinese knock offs or faux brands… they’re the real deal, at better prices than you can find anywhere else. Come visit The Watchery for your watch needs!

I would love to surprise my wife with a Cartier watch this holiday season. Don’t you think she deserves something beautiful to make her eyes sparkle?

I know it’s been a while since I’ve mentioned my handmade sterling silver jewelry.?‚?  But it’s been on the bottom of every page of this blog since I started it, and even made it to the top of the search engines for the term sterling silver jewelry.?‚?  Now it’s at the forefront of my mind again coming up on the Holiday Season it is more important now that I move into the top ten on Google for the term sterling silver jewelry than ever before!?‚?  Besides the fact that I would love to be able to get into making a new kind of jewelry.?‚?  With a company called PMC (or Precious Metal Clay) I can make beads, and other silver or gold items such as pendants and the like to incorporate into my sterling silver chainmail jewelry.

I really wish PMC had white gold so that I could make a wedding ring for myself.?‚?  I was thinking just a white gold band, and then the Celtic knot through the middle of it in yellow gold.?‚?  Of course I can still do it with Silver and Gold, but silver tends to tarnish a little bit more than gold… so who knows which way I’ll go.

Speaking of white gold I was able to obtain a beautiful 14k white gold ring for Rose last weekend so I could propose to her :-D?‚?  I did so at Pirate fest right after she got done with her Irish dance with 3 pints gone on Sunday.?‚?  The ring is quite simple, but still beautiful, both of us are very satisfied with the outcome (even if it was free, just about fits my budget :-P)

I’ve always been a very strong believer in the fact that everything happens for a reason.?‚?  I like the way Gandalf put it in the mines of Moria though:

Frodo looks at his wise friend, Gandalf and says, “I wish none of this had happened.?‚?  I wish the ring had never come to me.”

And Gandalf replies:

“So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide.?‚?  All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.”

Then he says: “You were meant to have the ring… and that is a very comforting thought.”

Everything that has happened in the last couple of weeks has been completely guided by a higher force. Not saying that any other point in my life has not been, I just sort of feel like Frodo in the mines at this time. It’s sort of as if I’ve just opened my eyes to see that “Wow things are tough, and I am going to have to bear a huge portion of responsibility… if I do not then the fighting, and dying my friends have been doing around, and for me will be in vain.” Luckily there are more forces at work in this world than the forces of evil. Besides the rejection from Quintiles that I just went through, which really isn’t a huge problem if you read the entry I wrote you’ll see how it still worked out to be a very good situation. I was also given the opportunity to propose to my beautiful girlfriend (Now Fiance) through someone else misfortune.

I was able to give Rose a beautiful ring this weekend because one of the other guys at Faire (or rather Pirate Fest) that we know had a ring that he was going to use before his girlfriend left him… he just didn’t even want to see the ring any more so gave it away.?‚?  I was then able to obtain it in order to propose to my beautiful lover ;-)?‚?  I’ll have pictures at the very latest up on FaceBook here very shortly.

I can’t believe the things some people come up with as pick-up lines. I mean seriously, I was raised that the way you get a girl is by wooing her, and pursuing her. Not being some dumb frat boy spouting off rehearsed lines like “If you don’t want to have kids with me, that’s okay we can just practice.” These ridiculous kids (and I say kids for a reason no matter what age they are) think this is some Ultimate Flirting Championship in everything they do. They believe that they can achieve Victory Hair in everything they do… At least with Extreme Style by VO5 you can have hair that looks good enough to get to the victory hair part. Personally I don’t use a lot of product in my hair, but of course I’ve got longer hair most of the year so it’s not necessary to glob it up.

Rose melted my heart earlier today. With a simple three word statement… and no, although I very much so enjoy hearing those words, not those three words. Semi-randomly she said in the middle of one of our conversations “You’re a treasure” That simple statement melted my heart, and comforted my soul. You know I’ve heard from a lot of people that I’m special in one way or another… it’s always nice, makes me happy, and encourages me. But it usually doesn’t have a lasting impact, or bring true joy, just an ego boost (nothing wrong with it, though it is a fleeting moment).

I guess it’s my association with the word “treasure” that really gets to me on that one though. A treasure is something you fight for, something you seek out, and cherish when you discover it. I’ve heard the statments in various ways from ex’s that generally sound more like “If we separated I’d be pretty sad.” the problem with that is… sadness is an emotion. Now emotions are core to our human existance, but they’re fleeting, happiness, sadness, anger, etc. we need them all, they don’t (or at least shouldn’t) rule our lives though. A treasure however… that’s something that most people spend their entire lives trying to obtain. When I hear that from her it’s encouraging because I know she’s on the same field as me. To me it says “If we were separated, I’d cut throats to get back with you.” And that is a love worth holding onto.

She also had a great quote based off of the “Prince among men” that she came up with afterwards saying that I was a “treasure among rubble” which of course only adds to the beautiful comment she gave me.

Rose and I just spent the last 4 days together and one of the things that we did during that time was watch “The Princess Bride” as I’ve been told by a number of my friends that I need to watch it anyways.?‚?  In general it’s been an amazing week, to start off I’ve spent the last few weeks either coding or this week promoting HollysFund.com a site for my mom’s friend who’s been diagnosed with breast cancer, doesn’t have insurance, or vacation time so it’s an attempt at getting her some help.?‚?  It’s been pretty successful so far, which is always exciting.?‚?  The outpouring of love and compassion for her has been great.

Then the uh “weekend” came a bit early for me as on Thursday Rose and I started hanging out and stayed together until Sunday.?‚?  Even today we ended up hanging out again for a little get together with some of her friends.?‚?  It’s always been joked about between my friends that I can’t be around anyone for more than two days without going crazy, which in the past has always been true, humans just annoy me… all of ‘em.?‚?  No matter how intelligent or funny you are, chances are something about you will annoy me if we are around one another for very long.?‚?  But I can honestly say that after this weekend I’m more in love with Rose than ever… don’t get me wrong I’d like to be able to get more work done than I did, but at the end of the day I’d like the opportunity to have her in my arms.?‚?  I like how Rose put it, I think it was Sunday or maybe one of the other days we were together refering to one of her work week days she said that she wishes that she could come home to me… I do too, being around her relaxes me, we’re just comfortable together, and it’s amazing.?‚?  So yeah, even though I’ve still not even really said much on here about Rose, she’s my girl, and I’ll do whatever I must to keep her.

Speaking of not keeping up with things on here that’s actually partly due to Rose… but not entirely.?‚?  A few factors contribute to that 1) spending at least two nights a week with Rose, and usually more I’ve got to keep up on my work 2) been working more for MTV 3) been doing some actual coding work, and kicking out sites of my own… just finished up on the Holly’s Fund website, and have done what I know to promote it, the rest I’ll leave up to God for that.?‚?  Now that I’m done with that I’d like to move on to coding either AgapeBeacon.com or ApplyMyWay.com probably the latter as it’s a little easier, and also could grow quicker giving me a platform (and email mailing list) for launching Agape Beacon.?‚?  So it looks like that’s how things are going to go… however I really need to move all of my websites over to my new server (this ones not even been moved over yet).?‚?  I’ve got this killer server rented, and the only sites I’ve got on it are brand new not even coded sites so it’s really a waste of money.?‚?  I need to move all 17 (seems like that number grows every day) of my sites over to the new server, and slowly get to building sites and coding platforms to make them all unique, and hopefully profitable.?‚?  Since as of now I’ve only got three profitable websites because I’ve never established some of my others.?‚?  My goal is to have that change over the next year or so.

Have you ever lived outside of your comfort zone??‚?  I don’t mean like, walking out of your comfort zone to talk to some poor stranger, or even a day or two out side of what your norm is… I mean living it, week in and week out.?‚?  That’s pretty much how I feel right now… for the last 8 months or so I’ve actually tried staying out of my comfort zone, makes things more exciting.

Anyways, what have I been up to??‚?  Not that many of you care, especially when I’ve not updated in some time.?‚?  but that question can be answered pretty simply.?‚?  Two things pop into my head when I think of what’s been going on with me, I’ve been dating Rose and working!?‚?  Rose is probably the biggest reason why I’ve been out of my comfort zone.?‚?  I don’t think she even knows it, I’m used to being my usual anti-social, blogging, website building, gamer, that rarely leaves the house for more than a few hours a day to ride my bike around Parkville.?‚?  With her I’m out of sorts, and I’ve got to be strong still… it’s a good stretch and I actually really like it.?‚?  I’ve not really been on here to say that I’m dating Rose, and at some point in time I’ll really write something meaningful, I’m in all business mode right now though!

As far as working goes the biggest project I’ve been working on is HollysFund.com which has been great, but I’ll be glad to get the finishing touches on it this week.?‚?  Holly is a woman my mother has known and worked with for five years, who has breast cancer and is in great need of support.?‚?  My mother commisionned me to build a website for her and see how the community of the interwebs could help her.?‚?  I agreed and have been pounding away at that.?‚?  The site is up and ready to go!?‚?  There are a few finishing touches for me left, pictures, some more divisions in the CSS for the pictures and comment box stuff… but it’s good.?‚?  I’m only hoping that you all out there on the net show Holly the love and support that can be found in this world.?‚?  I’ve seen the power of community on the internet, now show it to someone who really needs help!?‚?  The most you could do for Holly would be to pray for her, I know you probably don’t know her, I just met her this last week… but God knows who she is, and loves her.