The Wonderfully Fantastic and Sometimes Curious Life of John Patrick Rausch

Merry Christmas to all! As the year draws to a close I wanted to look back at some of the highlights that made this year crazy and awesome!  January - March for Life in DC, best friends Tristan and Maria got married! Big Denver road trip.  Last Semester in Rolla- had a blast goofing around with friends, invested a lot of time at the Newman center, had fun with the Funhouse Gang, made some solid memories.  May- Graduated from Rolla with my degree in Mechanical Engineering, solo kayaked 300 miles on the Missouri, visited a bunch of friends all over Missouri. First time going to a wedding of friends from Highschool (what a blast!) Read Fellowship of the Ring June - worked the family farm for Blueberry Season, reconnected with old Highschool friends that were still in the area! July - spent the month living on the road traveling 5000 miles around the US hitting a ton of fun spots and making incredible memories. Read Two Towers.  August - moved to St.Louis to start my new job! Started explo

      I've lived in 9 places in 5 years, but I never figured that moving into St.Louis would be the hardest of all the moves....     Late on the last day of July I finished my month long road trip and moved into my buddy John's house in St.Louis to start my first job the next day. It was a hasty move and I just brought what I needed from home to survive. Over the next couple weeks I ran back and forth to home a few times grabbing my remaining items. I soon possessed what I needed for surviving, yet I was far from equipped for living.      In the following months the move to St.Louis and the foray into adulting proved quite difficult and it is only now at the time of writing that I feel myself coming over a bit of a hurdle. For the first couple of months I found myself driving nearly every weekend to Kansas City to hangout with my friends. After graduation is seemed that everyone moved to KC and I didn't know anyone in St.Louis. This began to drag on me considerably and my i