This guy is good...

He keeps going and going. Nothing is going to shake him...

Good stuff...good stuff

1. Go to Google
2. Type in "Find Chuck Norris"
3. Click the "I feel lucky" button
4. Enjoy

Repeat as desired....

Blog of note

Here's a blog I saw today that I thought was funny...check it out if you bored.

Tacky Christmas Yards

We love the musings!!

Randomness for all of y'all:

-I started my new job on Monday and I think it's going to be a grand time!! I really really enjoy this area and my peers are very cool. More to come about this later.

-Fantasy football: How can one person really be so bad at this. I know there are a lot of stats to read and homework to do, but it can't be that hard, can it? For the second year in a row I got trashed on my first week and this year I put some serious effort in my draft. Obviosly hard work doth not equal positive results all the time. Maybe it's just my bad attitude that creeping into it all. Here's a perfect example: I get the number two pick for the draft, Steven Jackson, who's going to be my rainmaker....I mean my ace in the hole, my rock, my boy! Week #1 he fumbles twice and gets a whopping 1 point. Great!

- Heather is pregnant and I'm excited.

Stay tuned for more updates from the road around OKC!

One more step

Heather and I drove to Edmond today and signed the lease on our new place. I am very excited about all the change about to happen and I can't wait to start in my new role. Irronically it is less than a mile from the head campus for lifechurch.tv. As I stood in the house today I couldn't help but think about how this will be the place my first child will be when we bring him/her home from the hospital. Crazy.

On a even more surreal and amazing note, our friends Nate and Ginna had their first child on this morning around 7am in Fort Worth. We drove down to see the whole family, and he is absolutely adorable. I've know plenty of people that have had kiddos but I can say honestly that this is the most excited that I've been to see a baby..ever! God is great and has worked in every detail in this baby's life already. (God even granted Nate the ability to tell the future...you should send him an email and ask him to predict something!!). Congrats Killorens, we cannot wait to see the little guy's life take shape.

More news and pictures coming very soon!!

T-minus 5 days

As of Monday morning I will have 5 more days of working at Starbucks in the capacity that I have always known it. After Friday afternoon I will no longer be working solely in a store but now will be in charge of managing several stores. I cannot believe it!! After almost 10 years of putting on uniform and tying on that apron I will be seeing the other side of the counter on a regular basis when I go to work. There are the positives and negatives of both but I know that I will miss it.
I started at Starbucks when I was 19 years old and had no idea who I was, what I wanted to do for a living, or where I was going in life. It was just a job and something to do while I went to school at the time. I had no idea how to communicate with people or how to form a relationship with a stranger to save my life. The amount of change that I have gone through because of my job at Starbucks is unreal, and I can truly say that through all the stuff that I have experienced, I would not change a thing about the ride. I have met so many people, had amazing conversations,and been able to so many unreal things all within the framework of serving coffee. I am in full agreement with Orin Smith, former CFO, CEO and president of Starbucks, when he said, "We are in the people business serving coffee". Starbucks has never fully been about the coffee, although it is the best in the world, but about the experience and I can say that legendary experience takes place on both sides of the counter every day.
I'll keep you all posted on the progress of the new job.

True, true

Good Times with Craigslist

I posted our apartment for rent on Craigslist and have received an amazing response. However today when I opened my email I saw this little gem just awaiting me in my inbox:

Do you have squirrels? I don't like squirrels. If you have squirrels, you must be willing to lower the asking price or eradicate the pests for me. I can loan you my blow gun, but due to prior misunderstandings with city officials, I cannot undertake the exterminations myself.

Don't worry. If you've ever hunter howler monkeys in Central America then Tulsa squirrels are a piece of cake in comparison!

Next, and I could probably find this out for myself, but are there any known neighborhood restrictions on pagan fertility rituals?

Finally, what smell photographic?

I look forward to hearing back from you.

I just wanted to share that with all of you. (Thanks Andy).

Kinda dorky but cool

The 18th hole at Southern Hills

So the PGA Championship has been here in Tulsa for the past week and needless to say madness had consumed this town. I was able to make it over to Southern Hills for two days of the tournament which was amazing. It's one thing to see Colonial and quite another to be involved in a major, especially the last major of the year. The course was beautiful the weather was hot, and there were more people than I have ever seen on a golf course in my life. I was able to sit right at the 18th green on Saturday and watch Erin Ells, John Daly, and many others finish their rounds on the hardest hole on the course (to say it looked challenging is an understatement).

As the last group teed off I witnessed a mass of humanity round the corner of the 18th fairway as Tiger prepared to hit his second shot. Taking a nice 5 iron he flew the ball up over two massive bunkers and past a downhill lie, which would have sent his ball back 50 yards into the fairway, onto the green. As he walked up the fairway to putt in and finish his round everyone stood to their feet and went crazy. He tipped his hat tapped his ball in and walked into the clubhouse like it was nothing. Awesome, just awesome. One thing I can confirm from being so close is that he definitely has the best teeth for a non-three putter in the PGA.



In all seriousness however, seeing him in person solidifies in my mind that he is truly as good as everyone touts and I have a better understanding as to why he is consistently number one in the world ranking time and time again. The stuff he does looks good on TV but in person is just beyond my understanding. I can now tell my children that I saw Tiger at a major...awesome!



The other cool thing was the Tiger's wife, Elin, came into my store every morning to get her and Tiger's drink to take back to him before he began his round. She was very quite but really nice and unassuming. So here is the dork in me....you might be a golfer, attorney, computer expert but I am a coffee expert...it's what I do. And here was my time to shine!!! I had the honor of making Tiger Woods latte all week long which is, to me, the best. I can honestly say that although it was a small thing, I did have a hand in making his experience in Tulsa a positive one.

On a side note: there had been rumors that he likes his lattes made with tigers milk which I neither cannot confirm not deny...it'll be my little secret which I will only release on my death bed. =) Good times!!

Updates updates updates...and updates

SO....after talking to my friend Andy the other day I have come to the conclusion that I must fire my media relations director. Yes, I know it may come to a shock to many of you but we haven't had a Lundy post for a while, and I have no one else to blame but him. So farewell media man (and thanks for the advice Andy =) ).

But back to reality...I do realize that there hasn't been much happening on the ole Lundy blog for a while so I want to apologize and take a second to update everyone on what's happening in our world. I'll try to break it all down in categories to keep it organized.

Family

The biggest news to 1613 East 19th St. is that Heather is pregnant!! As of today she is 13 weeks along and all is going well. Some of you may or may not know, but the baby road has not been an easy one for us and over the past couple of years we have experienced quite a bit of frustration, sadness and confusion over our struggle to have children. However, in Gods good timing, we got pregnant just when we least expected it and it's all worked out very well. Heather has been very ill but seems to feeling better as the weeks pass by.

We recently had our second sonogram and for the first time saw little arms, legs, mouth moving and eyes opening and closing. It is such a surreal feeling for us both and I don't think it's hit me fully just yet. However thank you to all of you who have prayed for us and kept us in your thoughts as we truly see the fruition of Gods work happening right before our eyes. Baby Lundy will be born in early February, so keep checking back for updates on his/her progress. =)





Job

As some of you know the biggest reason we moved to Tulsa was due to an opportunity I had with my job possibly advance to the next level as a district manager. Therefore it is with much happiness that I tell all of you that I was promoted to district manager and will be starting in my new position on September 10th. The position will be in Oklahoma City which means that as of this very moment we are packing things up again and preparing to move during the dog days of summer. Oklahoma City is a very promising place and we are very excited for a change of scenery. We have found a great house in Edmond (where I might be placed) which is just big enough for Heather, the baby and I plus a visitor (start taking numbers now!!!). I am excited for an opportunity to test my skills in this new arena and I am pumped to be surrounded by some great people who will be coaching and mentoring me thru the process.


Golf

Tiger Woods is 7 under here in Tulsa at the PGA Championship.






That's about all I can think about for right now. I do have so many stories and thoughts to post, so please check back in as I will make every effort to post and update the blog to let all of you readers know what's going on with the Lundys =) Thanks for reading.

Snaggletooth

Post Secret

Last night Heather and I went to a lecture at Tulsa University with the man above, Frank Warren, who is the creator of a project titled "Post Secret". The idea is, to put it in very basic terms, as follows: people buy or create post cards and write a secret on them and send them to his home address (some have return addresses, some don't). That's it...nothing more to it. The results have been pretty amazing. What started as Warren handing out 300 blank cards at subway stations and street corners has taken a life of it's own to the point where Warren now received 100-200 postcards a day. (Read more about Warren's website and the project at Wikipedia here).

Every week he compiles all the cards he receives and the Saturday night will sift through them all, finding the 20 he finds most web worthy and posts them on his website, postsecret.com. Here are some examples:





And then there is my personal favorite:




I did not send this one in either, just for the record! =)

The lecture was actually very cool and thought provoking. One of the most interesting things he mentioned relates to something that is near to my heart. He talked about how when he publishes these cards on his sight or in one of his books, he feels like he is adding a voice to this voiceless community of people out there who are alone, afraid, or who just want to vent their thoughts for someone to listen. He spoke about how in the society we live in today people are so busy and on the move that no one has time for one another, and because everyone is so disconnected we have raised a generation of people who don't know how to relate to one another in a face to face manner. Warren feels like the project, now several years and 100,000 post cards in the making has taken on it's own life and has become about so much more than just people telling secrets....I'll let you decided what you think about it. Either way, visit his sight and give it a chance, you might be surprised at what you see.

All that being said, I thought it would be interesting to see if any of you who read this would be willing to post your secret here on the sight. If you want to, please hit respond to this post, and post something anonymously that you think would relate. Maybe no one will....maybe someone will be vulnerable, who knows??

Where I work

Some of you might be curious as to where my new store is in Tulsa, and why it's such a big deal that I'm here. My new store is in the heart of the retail district in Tulsa in a very high end shopping center called Utica Square.

Check out their website here.

Runner "Runs" Around the World

Well, in my never ending quest to compare myself to everyone, I've now met my match. On March 26th, Robert Garside was officially nominated in the Guinness World Book of records as being the first person to run around the world, a mere 30,000 miles and 6 years after he began.

Read more about it here and here.

Ok...but can he make a latte??? I bet he walked a little...

Home sweet home??

Today I decided I would take a few hours and drive back to the town that I know as my first hometown (my real hometown will always be Fort Worth), that is Coweta Oklahoma, which is about 20 minutes south east of Tulsa. I drove back through all the streets and places where I spent so much time when I was young and it just wasn't the same. I don't really know what I expected but whatever I thought it would be, it wasn't. I thought a lot about my experiences as a young man and I think the thing that really bummed me out was that I wanted someone to recollect with me...someone who was there with me then, and when could relate to what I was talking about. And as I thought about that I realized that my experience is just that, mine and mine only. There is no way that I could sit in front of you and tell you what I saw, heard, smelled, etc. and expect you to ever understand or appreciate it the way I did or would want you to. Crazy...

As I think further on all of those experiences of my youth, I have come to realize that although none of you will ever know exactly what I'm speaking of when I do speak of them, you, in some way, have or are experiencing the end result of all of them. They are what made me who I am today. This flips me out as I think about how God has laid the framework for all these things to happen and for me to experience to lead me to Him and to His saving grace. How would I have known as a kid riding my bike with my best friends that God would have me back in that exact place 15+ years later. It's too much to think about really. It makes me sad to think that I still to this day trust Him so little to take care of me and to lead me in the right direction when I can look back and see how for almost 30 years He's been there taking care of me. What do I need to learn from this? What does this say about where He has me now and where will I be in the future? Thank God that He is leading this and not me.

All that being said, while I was there today I took pictures and video of some of the memorable places that shaped who I am today. I am going to post them at our picture site, and then be looking for a video to come very soon (sorry for those of you who have been wanting one...they are coming =) ). I know they won't express exactly what I felt as I shot them, but if you are curious as to where I'm from then come check them out and let me know what you think.

My wife

As Heather and I work our way through each new day and what challenge each has brought us so far, I wanted to stop and say a bit about my wonderful wife. Let me state first off I (well my job and I) have uprooted her from the one place she has always lived, namely Fort Worth, and in her case that means leaving all her family and friends as well....all of them. As we sat here in our new city the other night we both agreed that it's not just that we miss our friends and family a ton, but there's also the issue that when you are new and alone you have no options with personal contact. You can't just call up your buddies at the drop of a hat and go hang out...at least not yet. So there's that. Also, I started work yesterday which leaves my bride at home by herself during the day. I'm not saying we won't meet people or that this is just too hard for us (come on people, we've only been here a week) I'm just stating what's going on now.
So, back to my bride. She has held up so well, and is taking this with such a great spirit. This is not easy for either of us, especially her and I realize that. She is such a trooper, such a wonderful companion and has been such a servant and caretaker to me during this whole time. What an amazing woman.
I remember when I first saw Heather singing on stage 8 years ago at a little club in Burleson Texas and I would have never dreamed that she would even talk to me. And look at us now. My wife is the most amazing woman in the world, and has always been the one there for me to jabber to about work (and I jabber), to voice my ideas/frustrations/complaints to, to listen to me practice my speeches, to iron my clothes for a big day, to pray for me when I'm not there, etc. etc. etc. I love this woman more than words could express and there is no one I would rather make this move and change with than her.

Thank you sweetie for who you are and what you always do for me every single day.

Love you =)

Monkey

Ok kids, first day over and in the bag, and what a whirlwind. Maybe it's because I've been off a week (actually two weeks off of my normal routine) or maybe it's just because I'm in a new area, but this will take some getting used to. I am so accustomed to just being in a place where I know where I'm going, who I will see, and how they will react like the back of my hand. Not so much anymore. I am going to be challanged (and actually already have been) in my leadership style, how I handle myself with certain personalities, and what I say around EVERYONE. I am in a really uncomfortable position right now, but I know that each day will get better and better. I just have never had to focus so much energy in keeping my mouth shut and watching. I'm tired of preparing for this that and the other and I would rather just dig in and start working with my people as opposed to meeting meeting and then meeting again. But such is life, and I need to understand the backside of the business first in order to be succssful at all. Wow...here we go =).

First day

So I sit here in our study this morning at 5:30am, coffee brewing in the background as I prepare to go in for my first day at my new store. I'm excited, scared, nervous, etc. It is new territory and as David Daniels said before we left, God has all this laid out for us anyways so why be terrified...rather as God told Joshua, "be strong and very courageous".

A few random notes:

• NCAA tourney bracket came out and our new local hometown boys, Oral Roberts University made it in this year with a 14 seed in the East division. They will play on Thursday again Washington State at 2:30pm. Check them out.
• My prediction for my friend Andy...Aggies win in first round, but get pounded by Louisville in the second.
• Take time today to greet someone you maybe have always noticed but never said hi to (a co-worker, student, neighbor). Who knows what is going on in their life at that moment in which you could play a significant role.

Well the coffee is done, so I must go prepare for the day. Pray for Heather and I as we continue our adventure in these unknown parts.

Much Love

First Week

Well, here we are in Tulsa. It's been 5 days already and so far things have been great. Tulsa is (or can be) a much hipper town than I thought...it's all in where you go in town. The move was interesting to say the least and I will expound on this later, but until then you can check out some pics of the move by clicking the link to the right.

Heather and I are holding together well, but are having a fun time learning a new city.

Several key things we've learned in the small time we've been here:

• We don't know our directions (i.e. North, South, East and West) as well as we thought
• We realize how important it is to greet people who have just moved in, and we have not met any of our neighbors.
• We are realizing exactly how important community is. As we sat at dinner the other night, we saw many couples and friends hanging out, laughing, talking...we both looked at each other with that feeling that we just wanted someone to talk to. (Thanks to all of you who have called, sent texts or emailed us...it's kept us going, and we miss you all a ton).

We still have a lot to learn, a lot to explore, and a lot to get used to, but all in all I think Tulsa is a great town. We have a great house with a great guest bedroom (hint hint) and we are ready for any of you to come visit soon. It's getting late, and I must turn in for my first day at work tomorrow, but check back soon for more updates.