snow snow. cold cold. a few more days left in the term. we will be in california in one week. hooray.

t day

we are going to michigan for t day. it is snow there. it is not snowing here though. it is relatively nice, walk-around-in-a-sweater-almost weather in st louis. we like drinking hot cocoa and going to the zoo while we still can.
november is almost over and advent is almost here and christmas will be soon and them we go to california.
i work at the post office and deliver mail. whether rain or sleet or snow, the mail must go though. and it does.
in january we find out if we go to england. if we do it would be a nice thing. if not, we will travel the seven seas anyways.

gobble gobble.

HAPPY REFORMATION DAY!

Lutheran power!

new vid

Its fall. Hello.

check out Becca's mad skillz

Summer is winding down. School started for becca and starts for me soon. I get to learn how to preach.

We are going to Michigan for labor day. We will go to the lake and the dunes and to bell's brewery.

We had a good trip out to LA to visit friends. And up to chicago with more friends and a wedding.

hooray.

Anni

One year ago we had a big fun party and a lovely wedding
time flies especially when you are having fun :)

We just ate Vietnamese food and now are working on papers. Becca's in on the movie "Independence Day" and mine is on the catechism. Last week of classes. Hooray. I am drinking coffee and becca is drinking iced tea. she probably has the better idea because is in 97 degrees out. But I hate the heat and so I am drinking hot coffee to spite it. It will make it mad and I will be victorious because I can drink hot things on hot days. Everyone will be in awe of my mad skills. The newscrews will probably be arriving shortly to interview me. Oh, wait. Here they are. Got to go.

we are going to LA. soon. also, we are going to baja for a few days and that will be fun. i love baja. fish tacos. cerveza. laying on the beach. relaxing times.

also club 33 is on the agenda. word. becca is happy about that and so is my tummy.

missouri wine country

As so eloquently stated by Darren.. My office helped out Habitat for Humanity. The houses were in North St Louis which if you know anything about STL you know it is a ghetto wasteland of crumbling brick houses (though it used to be a really beautiful old timey neighbourhood). The city is pushing for redevelopment and this is one of many projects going on at the moment (across the street they are restoring a bitchin church). The women we are helping out (the soon to be homeowner) has to put in 460 hours of sweat equity into her house. She was well deserving and very sweet. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy and also very tired. It was reminiscent of past mission trips only this time I got to wear shorts and not skirts AND I'll get to check out the house when its done. I'm sooo bitchin with a hammer.

Pic: I'm the one with white man legs and a bitchin tool belt in the front

Becca worked for Habitat for Humanity. She will make pictures go on here soon.

st louis is hot. we have to move across the street because we were told to. that is not fun. we do not like to move. it is unfun.

we like pizza and mac n cheese.

We like the summer!



So far I am better at translating Greek than hitting a curve ball. I am 0-1 with a strikeout on the season. No errors playing 1st base though.

We like to ride bikes. Becca wants to by one bad. We went to the zoo today. Yesterday we went to the boat house.

We have friends coming to visit us from New York and LA. We will have go times.

We miss the beach and good burritos and traffic.

we are going to LA and to baja in August. Darren is going to New York City in Mid may. We want to go to England and eat fish and chips.

The Big Shake

We felt the 5.1 earthquake this morning around 4:30. No damages, just a little shock. It's funny that we leave LA and for the first time since the '89 earthquake in S.F. I experience a pretty big one and I'm in the Midwest! This whole winter I have been terrified of the weather (tornadoes, ice storms, driving in snow) Personally weather is still more intimidating then a little shaky poo. Earthquakes are fun!

Love

becca (and darren)

moms visit to st louis

Mom and Dan visited St Louis. We went to the arch and the casino and on the Bud tour and to Soulard and to Llwellyn's and to Schlfly's Bottleworks and to Olympia Taverna and to the Zoo and the Art Museum and the Fox and the Hound and Maundy Thursday service and Good Friday Service and Easter Service at St James. and becca made BLTs and Easter Tritip.

My mom is coming to visit for the Easter weekend. We will go on bud tour and visit the botanical garden and all things st louian.

this weekend Becca ans I went to a st pat day kind of party. there was a fire pit and Matt and david and Derrick Brown spit some phat rhymes. Saturday night Mr Brown had a little poetry show in the basement at Brennan's. i sipped some fine scotch and it was a delight indeed.

i have many books to read. becca has books to read too. she starts her class this tuesday. we are both students now. hooray.

Holy Week is here. Busy week. Happy easter to all.

weather

Sunday: Sunny. 80 degrees. i wore shorts and a tank top and listened to the beach boys. we went for a bike ride to the park, went to the zoo, and had a BBQ.

Tuesday: White-out blizzard conditions. near 0 degree wind chill. A foot a snow, most schools were cancelled. had to shovel out parking spot so the car could get in. shoveled steps. put salt on steps. made snow man and snow angels

Wednesday: 60 degrees. sunny. had to take off coat on the way back from class because I was too warm. turned off heater, left door open.

Greetins

I made up an offensive rap song with Kristen so if you would like to hear it give me a call.

Well it's warm today.. 45! It's also Friday and that is sweet.
I start school in a few weeks! I'm going back for my MA in Media Literacy at Webster University. One class at a time and I should be out in 2 1/2 years. The best part besides the curriculum is that I can take about a year worth of classes online that way we can go on Vicarage and possibly to Cambridge with out it adversely effecting my degree getting efforts too much. I'm glad to have something to work towards seeing as employment prospects in St Louis have been grim and boring... I'm still kicking it with Lawyers. Ryan Patterson.. please don't be a douche bag lawyer.. I know you wont because your not a douche bag.. but the non douche bags are hard to come by.

Darren and I really miss everyone. We are wondering who will be in Southern California in early August. This is when we may have time to go. LET US KNOW

Love
becca

St louis is cold, then kind of warm, then cold again. We almost fell down our stairs, for ice's sake, so I sprinkled salt and pepper all over the ground then it was ok. We have been going to tapas bars a lot. "Tapas" as in Spanish food, not as in some other kind of place.

My spring term starts in only a few days. I am excited to start studying systematic theology in a class called "Lutheran Mind." The languages have been good, but my bread and butter is the theology. It is what drew me back to the church and to the Lutheran faith and now to seminary.

Whenever I tell people that I go to Concordia Seminary, they seem confused. I don't think most people know what a seminary is. I was thinking that maybe I should say that I am a divinity student, but I suppose that could be confusing as well. I will say thus verbatium: "I attend Concordia Seminary where I am studying Systematic, Pastoral, Historical, and Exegetical Theology for the purpose of attaining ordination into the Holy Ministry." or I could just say that I am studying to be a pastor.

We got Netflix again. It's good to welcome back an old friend. We do have cable too and have become fond of various shows. Most involve eating and traveling: "The adventures of Mark and Olly living with the Mek Tribe," "No Reservations with Anthony Bordein" "Extreme meals with Andrew Zimern" "Antiques roadshow" Tcm, Lost. We have become tving people. It is fun sometimes, but it mostly necessity. It is too cold to romp and play outside in the park and at the zoo and in AwesomeTown USA. We read books too though. I got Becca Harry Potter books. She is on #3 and I am on #4. We are reading them because we like witchcraft. I am interested in dark magic and sorcery and casting evil spells. I like to pretend that I am at Hogwarts when I walk to class because Concordia kind of looks like it. I pretend that Professors Feuerhaun, Warnick and Wessleschmidt are like Dumbledore and Snape and Hagrid. I use my Nestle-Aland Greek text for an owl. And my Biblia Hebraica Stuttgardensia is a wand. Parsing Hebrew verbs is like making a potion for Snape and translating the book of Ephesians is like winning the quiddich cup. or not.

hi. happy leap year.

It's Cold in Heeere

We had a super good time with Kate and Zach. I think they would attest to St Louis offering a good time too all. It was nice to show them around and regain a little excitement about what the city has to offer. Mostly it was wonderful to have them good friends around.

This weekend we saw Cloverfield with some good people that we know in St Louis. We went to the "Ghetto Theater" so to speak. There have been story's told about this place because of what the audience says when you are watching movies.
For example, at a not to distant screening of the Hulk this was heard:
Cell Phone call in the middle of movie: "Uh ha, yeah, The hulk, He green"

We heard:

Scene in Cloverfield, general mayhem taking place: "Homegurl better take off them heels"

You get the point. I found it much more entertaining then the actual movie. Darren and I made a pact to go see blockbusters at this delightful establishment in the future. Summer, it gonna rule!

It's movie week.. tonight we see "There Will be Blood", I have high hopes.

I leave you with pictures from Kate and Zach's St Louis/Harbaugh experience.

Christmastimes Part Deux

Rock Band ruled! Papa Duke was even better

Christmastimes

Week in Preview

The Great Kate and Zach will be coming tomorrow. The very talented Zach has a show at White Flag Projects here in St Louis. It's going to rule! I can't wait to show our good friends around town.
I hope to post some good time pictures of our trip out west soon... we played a lot of Rock Star and Guitar Hero so there are many good time videos to show as well. But alas I've been lazy.

We are busy working, working, working. Darren started back to school yesterday and is trying to pull off a 25 hour work week at the same time... ug. He affectionately refers to Hebrew as "The Brew" but I simply view it as cruel and unusual punishment. I'm confident he will smite it!
I'm still temping and really hating the vioxx SO.. contemplating going back to school.. this time I'm actually applying.

Cheers for now
b

Happy New Year!

We went to the Casino!

Happy new year!

Hope 2008 is awesum!

i have 3 big breaks coming up: mid feb-marchy, mid may-juney, and late augusty. I hope we can get out to california Sur for one of them.

it is cold here, like in the single digits. let me go outside quick and see if it is still cold.
DAMN! yes. it is.

We had a great time with Becca's family in Nor Cal for Christmas. Videos to come.

We had a good New Year's Eve. We went to the new casino in town, Lumiare place. I drank Bud then played the slots and I won 10,000 dollars. It was cool. I spent it all on a new corvette that I crashed into the river though. Oh well.