Hello, are you there, world? It's me, Meghan.

If excitement could be manufactured in it's purest form, today I would be an excellent spokesperson for it. As of last night, we are officially connected to the outside world via internet and telephone.

Thanks to Cox Communications, the most expensive cable service provider in all the land, we can now communicate with friends and family freely (freely as in openly and at our own free will).

Here's the important info you need:

House Phone: Call us for it. We've been getting lots of random calls.

Meghan's Email: meghanbusch@netscape.net

Troy's Email: mrtroydr@hotmail.com

Our cell numbers remain the same.

Thanks for your patience with our lack of communication, guys. In other news, some of you may know that we were planning on visiting Chicago the weekend of June 21st. Unfortunately that will no longer be happening (if you have questions, call me for details). For those of you we were hoping to see, we're incredibly bummed we won't be able to hang with you that weekend as planned. Summer, Rob & Chuck, we will miss tearing up Chitown with you BIG time.

As soon as we get our jobs in order, we'll be planning a trip home to visit.

Much love,

Meg

Burgers and the Sea

A Theory: If seafood is more delicious the closer you get to the sea... Troy and I had some exceptional burgers last night. Could beef be more delicious when we're closer to cows?

Deep thoughts by Meghan in Arkansas.

Not in Kansas. Well, kind of.

It's official. We're moving to Arkansas on May 30th, 2009 to be closer to Hayley. And Walmart. But mostly Hayley.

We've wanted to do this for a while now--be closer to Hayley, not move to Arkansas--and a series of events that opened doors for us led us to believe that this was the time to do it.

I've taken a job at CJRW, an advertising agency in Springdale, Arkansas. Their biggest client is Tyson Chicken, but they also do work for the University of Arkansas and TGI Fridays packaged goods. So, buy them. I realize in the past I've asked you to purchase Buicks, lease Fords, donate to Make a Wish, refinance with Quicken Loans and buy NFL Fatheads. But picking up some Tyson's nuggets in your local grocer's freezer seems most reasonable.

We'll be moving to a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom apartment in Rogers, Arkansas. The apartment community is called The Greens at Blossom Way and it boasts ammenities like a 9-hole golf course, pools, sauna, tanning beds, full gym and fresh baked cookies daily. It was between Blossom Way and another apartment community run by super-southerners who said the community's best features were 2 muskrats and a family of geese that inhabit the area.

We'll be within 10 minutes of Hayley's school, Central Park Elementary of Bentonville, and about 15 to 20 minutes away from CJRW. Troy will be looking for positions when we arrive, and we've set the goal of buying a house before December so we can reap the tax benefit for first-time home buyers.

We can't wait for you to visit. Seriously, please visit. We'll take you to Walmart, buy you some nice... Walmart... stuff.

We hope to see you before we go. We hope to document our move and post updates to the blog often.

Hugs and Tumbleweeds,

Meghan & the Fam