This is my norm

By the way…I wanted to say some stuff about day #2 of my quest…I’ll have to recap tomorrow…i’m tired now 🙂 It was a good chapter though and had some good thoughts to ponder. More on that later …night.

Well my birthday is coming to a close and it has been nice. Poor BJ had all types of things planned for me tonight but all of them fell through. But we still had a nice evening. He took me out to eat, my choice, so I picked Italian;I wanted to try a new place so we went to Baris . It was really good food, casual atmosphere, but nice and we had a good dinner. Talked about life and just enjoyed each other. It was a great time.

Then we came home and watched Message in a Bottle, which is a good movie, LONG, and then has a sad ending, so I was sort of bummed out. But oh well, it had a nice love story to it.

Now BJ is trying to redeem his coupon that HE gave ME for Christmas this year…in his card to me he wrote, ” this coupon is good for one free back rub to me (BJ) by you (Lindsay) any time I want and is non-expirable. ”

Now somehow it seems like I should be the one getting the backrub, being that it is my birthday…. 🙂

Anywhooo, I’m about to go off to bed. I had alot of runs today and I’m pretty pooped. And gotta do it all again tomorrow, except earlier! So nighty night….its been a great day and here I am a year older. I feel it. I like 22. I think I’ll stay this age for a while 🙂 Maybe forever. I feel like it is going to be a great year….kind of reminds me of how I felt at 17….17 was a great year….the year I fell in love ❤

Today is my 22nd birthday! We don’t have much planned, or I should say , I don’t have much planned…BJ usually has a few things up his sleeve 🙂 We are about to go to Camille’s for brunch. It is a new sidewalk cafe up here and its really good and cute!

Last night we watched The Recruit. Cool movie with a twist ending. I got it for Christmas. And yesterday I went shopping with the money I got for Christmas. I was in need of some new dress clothes for work. I found some great deals since it is after Christmas and for like the first time ever EVERYTHING fit. But it was fun and I got some great stuff.

Well I have to get ready for brunch and then work. This is my first time to ever have to work on my birthday. Kind of weird….one of the many changes of almost graduating. What a bummer 😦

So today I started a quest….I am reading the Purpose Driven Life bye Rick Warren. It is a 40 day reading to enable you to find your purpose in God. It states that we live appoximately 25,000 days in a lifetime, so 40 should be the least we can do to give to God to show us how to walk in His purpose in life.

So I finished chapter one and I’m ready for more. It is awesome. Its wierd because I have been wanting to read this book for a long time and never have gotten around to it. But I think that now I am ready for the book. God’s timing is so awesome. I think if I had read this book three years ago, I would have loved it, but it wouldn’t have had the impact that it will have now in my life. God has brought me to a place that I should remain in forever, to a place that all I have is Him, that I need to look to Him for everything daily, not just when big things come my way. If I can focus on asking Him to guide my every step, He will lead me to situations daily that I am destined for. I’m so excited about reading this book. I am ready for God to show me the plan, show me a little glimpse of what I have been placed on His earth to do. Basically that is all we are here for, not for ourselves or for someone else, but for Him to do His work. And I’m ready.

Steps to finding life’s purpose:

-Consider my dreams

-Clarify my values

-Set some goals

-Figure out what I am good at

-Aim High

-Go For IT!!

-Be disciplined

-Believe you can achieve your goals

-Involve others

-Never give up

“Obsession with self in these matters is a DEAD END; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.” -2Timothy 2:7

So today is my first day as a runner at Fletcher. Its not too busy right now and I haven’t been able to do any runs yet. It will be an easy way to make a little money onthe side though so that will be nice.

My commercial for Wendy’s is running now. How embarrassing. I can’t believe that I did that. I wonder if I look like a complete goof or if people will know it is me or not. I HOPE NOT!

It was really funny to do. All the people in Wendy’s were looking at us while they ate their lunch. I got to meet Rusty Garrett and Angela Montoya from Channel 10 news. It was a good experience but totally hilarious. I am hoping the one that I had to speak in didn’t make the cut. I hate the way my voice sounds when its recorded.

Well….here I am sitting and waiting to be called upon to do a run.

Its cold outside finally and was sleeting earlier today. They say it is supposed to snow between now and Friday. I hope it does. It is even forcasted to snow in Houston! I think that would be soo cool. We’ll see if it actually happens or not. Houston doesn’t see much snow.

Ok so those of you who don’t know me…birthday is a big deal…it has officially become one week until my birthday. I don’t know why its a big deal…it is just so fun! Its not that I get presents or whatever, its just a fun day for me. Usually I get my hair cut on my birthday or something done to it…..and i just have a day of fun and reflection. Last year was the most relaxing birthday…we celebrated early therefore on my birthDay me and BJ just chilled.

So this year is the big 22….sounds so cool to me. Don’t know why , but I’ve really been looking forward to being 22. Sounds more mature or something. Like my adult like is actually starting. 21 was fun, but it just sounded like the epitomy of the typical college girl or something…I don’t think that makes sense but I don’t know. .. I guess because in many people’s minds it is associated with being able to drink…So 22 stands alone and says…”I have arrived in responsible adulthood.” I’m a dork I know….

Anywho…we’ve been married now for over 1 1/2 years. Isn’t that amazing….seems like the time is just whizzing by. Soon we will be graduating and then on with our careers…having babies, being parents, being grandparents….LIFE.

Every year, especially recently, it dawns on me how fast life really does go by. I want my life to count for something in God’s eyes. This past semester I have really felt like I was in God’s will in some big things, and it is so cool. I want to feel like that all the time…I want to feel in God’s will in the morning when I run, when I eat lunch, when I go grocery shopping. God can’t be like a coat that I put on when I feel like it is needed…..not to be sacreligious…but God should be like underwear…you need them and Him everyday! But don’t get so used to Him that you just forget about him until you need Him again. I have some huge decisions coming up in my life and I want to hear God so clearly because I am used to hearing him daily.

God…Let me hear you daily, that I may become familiar with your voice. Let me push for a deeper relationship with you.

Today me and Sarah ran. We’ve been doing really good!! In Jan. we are going to kick it up to runnning every day for 1 month. And see how much progress we make 🙂 Today was hard. We took Maya with us so we took turns pushing the stroller (which is one of those running strollers) and it was HARD!!!!! We were tired when we finished. We must have looked funny, both of us about to die and Maya just checking out the scenery and looking back at us like we were freaks. She was smiling and looking at us as if to say , ” Man I can really feel this workout!” HUH, we were barely running because it was so hard. But we will build up to it eventually. The bad thing is that Maya will keep growing, so it will get harder. Holy Moly.

I woke up early today and it felt great. It is amazing how much you can do when you go to bed early. So today we have to finish all of our Christmas shopping probably with all of the other masses of people finishing their Christmas shopping. We just have a few things but we don’t know what we are getting these people. So it should be interesting. But the thing is we have so many errands to run, plus we are having people over for dinner tonight. So we will be running around all day 🙂 I love agendas. They make you feel so accomplished at the end of the day.

Look out Shoppers… here we come!!!!!!!!!

I definately did not sleep good last night. My stomach was sooooo upset all evening and through the night. It was like to the point where I knew if I could just be sick I would feel so much better. But I have a thing with throwing up and it just doesn’t happen for me. I have to be deathly sick to have to throw up.

Anyway, needless to say, I feel better today but a little tired. Between being sick and BJ snoring, I just didn’t sleep so good. BUT, I got to sleep in today so that was wonderful.

Still haven’t got my Christmas cards mailed and its like what….7 days until Christmas…..but the plan is o get them in the mail so they will go out Monday morning. Better late than never I think!

So we are babysitting Maya today. She is the smiliest baby ever. And the great thing was that she cried for literally all of two seconds and then went on with her little one year old life as usual. Which was a relief to be because no one likes to be stuck with a baby that cries the entire day. So she played and now she is down for her nap.

Let me tell you, I have no idea how stay at home mom’s get anything done. I am the kind of person that would just want to sit there and play all day with the little kiddo.

So we are having a fun day…well BJ hasn’t exactly made it over to join in on the fun yet…but he will. Which will be fun to watch, because I haven’t got a chance to see him around many babies yet, but when he is its so cute. He will be a great father one day!

Well….I guess I will go find something to entertain myself while the little one is sacked out….

The List Eater

This is kind of long…but ridiculous too!! All you Aggies out there….never quite understood you. Craziness!!!!

Hope you enjoy 🙂

So for those of you who have been reading my online journal…this will be old news, but for you newbies welcome to the adventures in Munson Land 🙂 I decided to switch to this site because I like it better than LiveJournal. I am a major journaler (duh, I am a journalism major…go figure.) and like to keep track of the things that go on in my life, especially now that I am married.

I got married a little over a year ago to a wonderful man and my high school sweetheart 🙂 We have been together almost five years and it has been a wonderful journey. I think that each day of our marriage I am able to discover new things about BJ as well as myself. Its wonderful and sometimes I don’t like what I find in myself. But that is what marriage is for…its a journey to help one another along the road.

Anyway, we just finished our semesters here at Baylor and now only one more to go. Graduation is becoming a reality finally!! Its so exciting. So now we are setting in for the holidays.

I figured this would be a great way for our family to keep track of us during the months that are pretty hectic and seems like we have no contact with the outside world for weeks 🙂 Now you can rest-assure that we are still alive in the little town of Waco!

Maybe I can even talk BJ into posting every-once-in-a-while 🙂 Don’t get your hopes up!

Hoobie