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Drew — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:13:43 +0000

Wow, this has been a fantastic week. And to top it all off my brother Matt messaged me to check out my alma mater’s web site, WVU.edu. Thinking it would be like checking out WVU’s web site any other time, I punched it in. One small difference from most times though: I’m on the frontpage! It looks like I’m the featured picture this week along with a girl that I graduated with last December. We had the same major and several classes together. Here’s a snapshot just in case they take me and Sheneika down:

Congratulations Miss Mountaineer

Emily — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We want to say a big well done to our good friend Sarah Erwin who was just recently crowned Miss Mountaineer of West Virginia University. Sarah is a wonderful person and must have won the votes hands down! She is the most bubbly person I have ever met and puts a smile on the grumpiest of strangers. I remember when I worked at the rehab hospital in Morgantown and would bump into her as she was doing her student training as an occupational therapist, she would always cheer my day up for the few minutes we said hello.

So....congratulations Sarah you totally deserved becoming Miss Mountaineer, we love you. Emily and Drew

Congratulations to my Graduate

Emily — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:17:20 +0000

He’s finally made it. Today Drew made the walk to commemorate three and a half years of hard work. He looked dashing in the long robe and funny hat with a white tassel representing the college of Arts and Sciences. He also adorned 3 pins that marked his achievement of being on the Dean’s list 3 times. AND he graduated summa cum laude (with highest praise)…. where does it end!! He’s just too much for me, but I am very proud of him. Congratulations Drew, here’s to another 4 years of the same success!!

5. Remembering America August 2006: Morgantown

Nigel — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:35:41 +0000

Someone once said that Morgantown was the sort of place you could drive through without a second glance. Not true. The official Morgantown website tells us that “Morgantown, WV has been recognized as one of the best small cities in the Country. World-class healthcare, recreation, education, and art facilities complement our strong business community”. And the website wouldn’t lie to us, would it? Morgantown has much going for it. It has an arboretum (as if there weren’t enough trees in WV already). It has a well-recommended university with a transportation system reminiscient of the flights of fancy of Walt Disney. It is surely the Thrift Store capital of the USA if not the whole world. Emily was worried about what we might do in Morgantown for 2 weeks. Silly. Just visiting the Thrift Stores alone would take at least 14 days. We must have visited most of them. One was huge. Old clothes as far as the eye could see. We were overcome. Forget Macey’s or Harrods. For a really awful, sorry, awesome retail experience this Thrift Hyperstore was the one to go for. I jest not. Thrift Stores have an important place in the scheme of things (especially if you don’t have much money). Besides, once you have worn someone else’s pants a few times they become your own. The Salvation Army Store was my favourite. Small and compact. A Thrift Store of human proportions. It’s main attraction was dirt cheap bottles of Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper. Admittedly, the old Dr had lost his fizz (isn’t that true for us all), but the Mountain Dew still packed a punch. I loved those dinky little transportation pods. Straight from the Magic Kingdom. We had to try. The station was empty. We’d have a pod to ourselves. A swarm of students arrived with the first pod. Same with the next. It was no use but to play sardines or give up the attempt. It was dark by the time we arrived at the university (Academic Land in the Magic Kingdom). We saw the main attraction. Looking through the street window was the very chair that Drew had sat in that very morning in his Japanese class. Our holiday was complete. By the time we started back the station was closed. It said so at the entrance. We charged up the stairs. Pods were moving but not in our direction. It took us 20 minutes to realise we were standing in the wrong place. We ran around the corner. Deserted. It would be a long walk home. Keep the faith. After 15 minutes a pod cheekily darted around the corner. It was ours. We could have smothered it with kisses. Our other trip to the university was to see the movie United 93. This was topical as we had only just visited the actual site near Shanksville, PA. A truly moving experience. It was an ordinary field with ordinary grass and ordinary trees. It looked as though nothing much could have happened there. Yet, it had been a place of true, extraordinary heroism where ordinary people had fought with evil for the sake of the good. People had left tee shirts, badges, clothes, all fading in the light. The Stars and Stripes, fraying at the edges, flapped in the breeze. It had been a triumph of goodness over evil and had been achieved through the actions of ordinary men and women. They will not be forgotten.

You’ve Been Accepted

Drew — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been checking our mail everyday for the past several weeks hoping everyday to open up our little mailbox here at Timberline and find lying there an envelope yielding the logo of Southeastern Seminary. Yesterday was that day, and as you can probably guess from the title of this post, I’ve been accepted! Well, on a conditional basis that I first graduate from WVU. So, all I have to do is kick one more semester of WVU flat in the teeth and we’ll be off to Wake Forest to engage in philosophical and theological anti-pelagian pauline polemics! Bam! That’s exciting, and we’re excited about getting an “upgrade.” What means this? Well, we really feel like it will be an upgrade to move to North Carolina and carry on to the next stage of our lives: Emily back to nursing school. Me to seminary. And who knows except God alone what that future holds?! I wonder how much upcoming excitement he sees in our lives. That we may always love his command. =)

In other news, Emily and I are headed to Huntington this weekend, the city where we first fell in love and were introduced to one another. Our plans our to see friends and have a fun road trip away from Morgantown. If we can remember, we’ll take along our digital camera and post pictures after we get back.

Speaking of posting pictures, hop on over to the Photo Gallery and peep 91 recently added photos of our trip to Grandma’s house in Columbus. They’re not to be missed.

Anything else to share with y’all? Can’t think right now, but hopefully Emily will come on here and add anything I’ve forgotten.

This week’s food of the week is: Reese Peanut Butter Cup Klondike Bars
Wow, they’re good.

This week’s song of the week is: Eternal Flame by The Bangles

This week’s drink of the week is: Rockstar Juiced

This week’s person of the week is: Emily Clare (Hayes) Maust — she’s out of control

This week’s leisure time activity of the week is: Camping

This week’s stupid thing of the week is: The Dominion Post — the Morgantown newspaper! it’s horrible. while Israel is having peace talks with Hamas, they slap a story about a poodle being mauled on the front page!!!

This week’s thing we bought this week is: an Electric Hand Mixer — wow, you haven’t had mashed potatoes until you’ve had our super creamy taters!

If you have eaten, drunk, listened to, read about, done, or otherwise come across any of the above Things of the Week, leave us a comment telling us about it, and we’ll hook you up with a special surprise!

We’ve Moved

Drew — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whoever thinks that they can move all their stuff/junk in one day is supremely mistaken. Emily and I thought when my parents brought up a U-Haul, we could just chuck everything thing in there and that would be the end of it; but, since the U-Haul, we have made 3 more trips to the old apartment on Donley Street. Today, Tuesday May 2, we consider ourselves moved to our new, wonderful, clean, neutral, spacious, air-conditioned 818 Timberline apartment.

We checked our new mailbox for the first time yesterday and found a letter from HealthSouth addressed to Emily offering her a brand-spanking new, scrub-wearing job! It’s looking like she’ll start on or around May 15th. Other things we’ve received recently in our mailbox include a wedding invitation to celebrate the union of one Matthew Duane Maust to Christina Brie Ann Salyer. The “honor of [our] presence [was requested] on Saturday, the twentieth of May two thousand and six at eleven o’clock at Memorial Baptist Church in Beckley, West Virginia.” That all translates to May 20th @ 11:00am. What fun that day shall entail for both families as we celebrate this magnanimous Caucasian occasion.

Less reader-friendly news includes the momentous occasion of this week being the final week of my penultimate semester at WVU. Four exams tomorrow (yikes) and one on Thursday, and then I am free to toss ice until the kids (baby goats, not children) come home.

Thanks and props go out to everyone that loves us and reads our web page on a cotidial basis. You are the wind beneath our wings.

Sincerely, most tactfully yours in love and much embraces,
drew

Ps. Come over for dinner. We’ll bake you bread in our new (my mom’s old) bread maker!

U.S. Reception

Drew — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:00:00 +0000

Wow, it has been almost a month since our last update. We’ve been a little bit busy. Last week was WVU’s Spring Break and Emily and I went with the Baptist group here on campus, WVUMCM, down to Charleston, WV, for the week. We stayed at West Charleston Baptist Church and ministered alongside them to the homeless, hungry, and helpless. It was an eye-opening experience not in the sense that we saw people in conditions unimaginable but…

…it was eye-opening in seeing the amazing ministry that this church is doing in Charleston. That church is very much the hands and feet of Christ in that city, ministering in every and any way possible that they might win some. We had a wonderful week down there. You can go to the WVUMCM website and browse to the Picture Gallery where you will find pictures and several videos of us during the week.

Many people have been wondering and inquiring about Emily’s journey to a WV driver’s license. Well, as of about two weeks ago, Emily has her learner’s permit (you can find pictures of her with it and the car in the downloads section under pictures). She studied like crazy for the learner’s test, and it has paid off. One problem we are experiencing is that with the Learner’s Permit, Emily must be accompanied by someone 21 years of age and older, and I, unfortunately and until April 1, am only 20! So, for the large part, Emily hasn’t been able to do as much driving as she would like. The good news is that she will be able to go at the beginning of April to get her “proper” driver’s license (a license has to have the permit for 1 month).

What else is going on with us?! I’m glad you asked. My parents and church have planned a “domestic” reception and celebration for this Saturday, March 25, at Calvary Baptist Church starting at noon. A very short service in the sanctuary will be followed by a Powerpoint presentation by Emily, and then food and fellowship in the church hall. Everyone and anyone is invited to come celebrate with my family this Saturday at Calvary; and if you’re family, it’s obligatory!

Together Again

Drew — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:00:00 +0000

After 11 months of immigration madness, we are pleased to back together again and starting our life together in Morgantown, WV. I am finishing my penultimate semester of university at WVU, and Emily (at the moment) is waking up at 1pm, lounging on the couch, and studying to take her driver’s test.