Entry 382: Rurally Screwed

One day when Lance was reading Newsweek he read an article about a woman who had lived in New York City, but then married a man who moved her out to the country. They live on a farm with chickens, a wood furnace, and a less than year old baby. The ladies husband is being deployed tomorrow for a year and she has been blogging about it. Lance is addicted to her blog and you can check out Rurally Screwed here.

Entry 381: The Wheels On The Bus Don't Go Round And Round

Julie loves riding the bus to and from work. It gives her a chance to clear her mind everyday and she enjoys the people who ride with her. As you can see from the picture above today was not one of those days because her bus broke down. It broke down on the interstate and after 15-20 minutes they finally fixed the problem. All in all just another day in the life of Julie.

Entry 380: Snacks

Tomorrow is the beginning of MAP testing. MAP testing, for those that don't know, is the standardized test that the state of Missouri gives all students. Lance's department this year will be testing 35 students with everyone taking seven tests and we try to supply snacks for them during the tests. That means he needs about 250 bottles of water and snacks. Lance has always been embarrassed because he has always had to go through Wal-Mart and just load up on around $150 worth of snacks. Julie always laughed at Lance because people would just stare at him. This year, however, Lance got wise and sent someone else out to do it. Let the good times start tomorrow.

Entry 379: Ready For Opening Day

Julie enjoys shopping and Lance doesn't, but the one thing we both enjoy doing is shopping for Kansas City Royals gear. With opening day 4 days away we decided that we should both buy one new Royals thing for the upcoming season. After hitting four stores we both finally decided on what we wanted. Julie bought a vintage Royals shirt and Lance ended up with a new Royals sweatshirt. We are ready for opening day.

Entry 378: Touchdown

Yes we both realize that football season is long over, but in our house touchdown has a double meaning. When we first got Bobby from the pound they told us that he was potty trained. Boy did they lie to us on that one. Within the first week Bobby had peed on the carpet numerous times and left us many little "presents" during the day. Lance got pretty frustrated and took it upon himself to potty train the little guy. At first it was a struggle, but eventually Lance got him trained to do his business outside.

Now when Bobby has to use the bathroom, he has a little routine that he goes through. He will first jump at the door and then run to find Lance (he will never go and look for Julie for some reason). Once he finds Lance he will whine until Lance lets him out. Bobby will then run around the yard until he finds the perfect spot and squats (yes we are both aware of the fact that we know way to much about Bobby's bathroom habits). Now for the reason we titled this post touchdown, when Bobby finally does his business we yell touchdown and give him a treat when he runs in all excited. Anyone that says animals are not like your kids have never met our dogs.

Entry 377: The "D" Word

Lance went to pick up Julie from work today and on the drive home he asked her if she wanted to see the school he would be teaching at next year and Julie agreed. As we were driving by the school there was a girl walking out and Julie commented that she looked like a dork. Lance had her explain why she thought that and she told him that it was because the girl was carrying an instrument (Julie says they called the kids that carried instruments home dorks when she was younger). After the explanation Julie turned to Lance and said, "You're still the biggest dork in the world." You can just feel the love.

Entry 376: A Butt Chewing Avoided

Back in October of 2010 we decided that we wanted to continue with being Kansas City Royals season ticket holders, but we wanted to upgrade from 20 games to 40 games. We both really enjoyed going to the games last season and decided that we wanted to go even more this year. Yes we both realize that the Royals are terrible and won't be good at all this year, but it doesn't matter to us. Lance enjoys watching the games and Julie enjoys watching also (people and game).

Now on to how the Kansas City Royals avoided a major butt chewing. When we bought our season tickets, we also decided to buy parking passes. It seemed like a great idea, but when we got our season tickets in the mail the parking passes weren't there. Lance called the ticket office and they said that for some reason a few people didn't get their parking passes. She got our name and season ticket holder number and she told Lance that she was going to send them out immediately. Well 10 days passed and there were still no parking passes, so Lance called again and they said that they were sending them all out that Friday. Well another week passed and still no parking passes, so Julie said that if we didn't get them today she was going to call them nd give them a piece of her mind. As most people know Lance is a pretty laid back guy, but Julie will give you a piece of her mind when she is upset and holds nothing back. Luckily for the Royals the parking passes were at the door when Lance got home today, so the butt chewing was avoided. It wouldn't have been pretty, trust me.