April and Whit's bdays at Mom's Siam

I have lived in Richmond over 16 years and have passed this place on the corner of Cary and Colonial for about that long, never having donned the door. All that has changed. It's a cute little place - we sat at a table set for 12 upstairs - nice and warm and cozy and our volume didn't bother anyone. I shared Pad Thai and Honey Pork with another guest and both were awesome. Company was better though! Afterwards, we headed to Lissa's house for wine, dessert, and games.



Here's bstudliness all together - in living color.

Happy Twenty-Sexy-th Birthday, Whitney!

To celebrate on Whitney's actual 26th birthday (November 23rd), a handful of us went to see the Christmas Lights at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens and then headed to Rare Olde Times, an authentic Irish pub on Patterson Avenue. Rare Olde Times has live music 6 nights a week - and they have a habit of asking birthday celebrators to join them.


I just embarrassed her by announcing her birthday - and telling them she'd love to sing.


First, she sang "Country Roads" coyly. But the lead singer guy could hear her voice and asked for another...


Next, "Danny Boy." And another? How about "Summertime?"


Whit, April, and Laura.

Can-Can!

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!

We have buy-in!

Apparently, while they may have laughed at me, it wasn't so bad that they totally vetoed the plan. So here we go. A little bit about us:

Out of the group of five, two are in education, two work in the non-profit sector (one as a database guru and one in graphic design), and we have a nurse practioner-in-training. Two of us have been friends since high school. Two of us met in college. Two of us are singing in another's wedding. All five of us met either at West End Presbyterian Church or Franklin Street Community.

Despite our individual differences, quirks, and preferences, the friendship we've found together is amazing, and I know I personally attribute that to "the Tie that binds."

The name of the blog is a derivative of "Bible Study" - the reason we started meeting. It's morphed over time to "B-stud" and then the blog name wasn't too much of a stretch from there. :)

Some weeks we open the Bible, some weeks we don't. As Paul writes in Thessalonians, "We've not only shared the Gospel with you, but our lives as well because you've become so dear to us." Sometimes time together to just catch up, laugh, cry, pray, etc. is what we've needed, so you never know what you're going to get when you show up to that Starbucks.

How 'bout it, gals?

April and Lissa said they wanted to try new places to eat in The Fan in 2008. Simple request. My nerdiness took over.

"Then we can write reviews! We can have a blog! We can be professional bloggers and quit our day jobs and move to the tropics and hang out all day and..."

So here's the blog. Maybe I went a bit overboard, but let's see if at least one of them finds part of the idea redeeming. If so, we're all going to Mom's Siam in Carytown on Friday, November 23rd and a post may follow.

How 'bout it, mah friends?