907

“This far” is our adventure into Seminary that we each have been on for quite some time with the Lord, but in His mercy and grace has recently started to take shape. Noel and Greg are both going to Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, PA starting in the pfall. Ambridge not being one of the major metropolitan areas in the United States may not be a familiar location to all so think of Pittsburgh (2 Super Bowls in the past 4 years, current resting place of Lord Stanley's cup---for now that is; I think they have a baseball team too) Industrial city by the river, a kind of Chicago Jr.* Now travel into the boonies over the hills to the west about 20 miles where all the steel refineries have closed down*... you've made it to Ambridge!! Seriously, we're very excited. The Chapel is nestled between the local Hair Salon on one side and Barber shop on the other. The main Campus offices are slightly overshadowed by the Sunoco and just past a short bar crawl you'll find the 8-lane bowling alley... simply fantastic! If Barney Fife grew a lumberjack beard and could down a Rook's Fish Sandwich, he would fit in well in Ambridge.

So, as you can see, we're excited about the community. Classes start on 9/07 and both Noel and Greg will begin their 3-year studies towards Master of Divinity degrees and eventual ordination into the Anglican church (whatever she looks like 3 years from now).

We have recently found a home in Ambridge, on 907 Melrose Ave. It's a property owned by St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Church (winner of the coolest Saint name award*) and is a Triplex (think duplex with an extra plex shoved in the middle). We'll be on one of the end units with 2 bedrooms- we'll need to put up our guests! An unprecedented 2 bathrooms, and a basement with washer AND dryer! Once again we're very excited.



For those who know us uncannily well (or have a thing for numbers), we feel as though God has given us a coincidental sign of His affirmation by way of the 907 connection, which just so happens to be our wedding anniversary.



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bondage of the wit

So, Greg just decided that tonight's more of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer over Planet Earth: Ice Worlds kind of night. I say, well, either sure beats what we did last night. We agonized last night (and for the better part of a fortnight) about the name for this blog. I know. You're saying, but wait, Greg is a part of this equation: king of puns, winner of wit wars! But, amigos, at times like this, it is a curse...what good is a head full of wit with the inability to put the proverbial rubber to the road and hone it into a workable blog title??? I know that reading this, you're also thinking, so then they came up with PfeiferPfiles?!?! Well, let us assist you in the genius behind this title (with the aid of one of our favorite sites...dictionary.com):

pfile
–noun
1. a pfolder, cabinet, or other container in which Greg and Noel's cyber papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or repference.
2. a collection of Greg and Noel's papers, records, memories, whims, wisdom, parties, photos, mental vomit, etc., arranged in a semi-convenient order

–verb (used with transient)

1. to place in a pfile.

2. to arrange (papers, deets, non-sensical musings) in convenient order for storage, repference, education, entertainment, to please donors (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and appease family.

-philes
a combining pform meaning “lovers of,” “enthusiasts pfor” that is specified by the initial element: Anglophile; bibliophile; demophile, Pfeiferphile.

pensieve
"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure." ~Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

So, you see, enthusiasts, this is actually a title quite up to par with our usual verbal superiority (complex). Thank you for being PfeiferPfiles, we would not have made it this far without you. Definition of "this far" coming in the next cyber edition of the PfeiferPfiles.