Thoughts for a Sunday night

"you can't stop a bird from flying over your head, but you can stop it from building a nest in your hair"

-Martin Luther (or a Chinese proverb or president Kimball depending on your source)

applicable in many ways.  it could be spiritual with regards to "sin" and "mistakes" or evil thoughts as opposed to evil actions.  also it could be taken in regards to school work piling up (or any type of work or church calling or other responsibilities) 

All in all i think it is sound advice.

A fair question?

I like your sweater. . .but i won't tell you

SO here i am.  Sitting in the library.  trying to muster up the courage to talk to that girl.  you know the one.   the one that is most likely completely unattainable.  she's got that stylish pink sweater on, beautiful long brown hair, and just enough tan to make you think "is she latina? no i don't think so."  my buddy glade says it's easy to just strike up a conversation with someone in the library.  MAYBE thats cuz girls come up to him, and they just stare at me like "why does that creeper keep glancing over at me. . .do i have something on my face? oh my gosh i do have something on my face. ew i gotta go to the bathroom to wash that off." and she subsequently gets up and leaves.  or thats what would happen if i was a creeper and kept glancing at her, but i'm not. so i pretend like i can't see her out of the corner of my eye, but i can. I think think that i see her glance up at me too, but i'm not sure.  That brings out the temptation. . .

Irrational part of the brain: DUDE she totally is checking you out

Rational part of the brain: Um, she is most definitely not checking you out, don't do anything stupid!

Irrational part: No way man, she was totally eye flirting with you, quick she's leaving, make up an excuse to leave too so you can start up a funny conversation on the way out, your sense of humor is your strong point.

Rational part: Pretend like you don't see her and her friend pack up their things and walk away.  It will save you embarrassment and pain.

Irrational: Ya, but then you'll end up an old man filled with regret waiting to die alone.

Rational: No you won't, thats just not normal.  If you were going to have talked to her you would have had to have had a legitimate excuse, and you didn't and now she's gone anyways so don't fret it!

Irrational: maybe if you leave now, you'll accidentally bump into her and be able to strike up a friendly conversation. . .

Rational: well you better get going then, but it better be a legit conversation, not, "hey i like your sweater wanna go out tomorrow?"

Irrational: deal.

"Tim are you talking to yourself on your blog?"

That is not a fair question?

It's a small world after all!

Monday:  I go to the FHE ward activity, "dressed" as a gangsta.  I bring Jake Morris along.  There I see Dave Sparks (one of my best bud's older brothers.)  He invites me to go to a spook alley with a bunch of people from the ward.  One of those people is Lacey Thomlinson, from Dubois.  Then I see Stephanie Nickerson, as I'm talking to Cassy Bell (who we met and went to Taco Bell with 2 mondays ago=funny story too) and she (Stephanie) comes over to talk and I invited her to come, turns out Lacey already had.  Here's where the crazy connections begin to happen:

• Steph(for short) knows lacey because they both grew up in little towns and just know each other.
•  I know lacey cuz she was melissa's friend and you know everyone (especial all the LDSpeople) when you live in Dubois.
• I met stephanie (or so i thought) about 2 months ago when I took Amy Baird on a date to see harry potter 7 part II.  Titain Sweeten took stephanie.  Amy and Stephanie recognized each other because "a long time ago" they had been on the same group date.
• Jake used to work with Steph's older sister at the Hard Hat Cafe, and older sister had set up jake on a date with stephanie.  It was a group date. 
• I was on that group date, but didn't realize it was the same one that Amy and Stephanie were talking about until said monday activities.
• We're driving to the spook alley in Jeremy's truck.  Jeremy knows Stephanie, and apparently Lacey too (not sure how) but he knows Dax Thomlinson too (who was my best buddy in Dubois.)
• Jeremy is one of my home teachers.
• Rob Page is also with us.  His older brother knew Jeremy.  They talk about hydro seeding and such.  We make fun of them for talking about hydro seeding.

said baptism 

those are just a few of the odd connections we made that night.  It was quite entertaining.  speaking of peculiar connections, a couple months ago I went to a baptism in IF with chelsea Izatt.  It was the baptism of a guy who lives in colorado but his friend goes to school here and she's the one who introduced him to the Gospel.  Said boy's bishop's daughter is rooming with chelsea Izatt's friend (they're both "hot shots" at maleluca)  and invited said friend to the baptism and to invite said chelsea to invite friends. I was invited by said chelsea.  Afterwords we went back to said friend and said bishop's daughters apartment for approximately 5 minutes.   on wednesday (yesterday) as i was playing volleyball on campus, a girl comes up to me and says "your name is Tim, right?" (man i love that when it happens! haha you feel so cool) I said yes.  turns out she is the other roommate of said friend and said bishops daughter who recognized me from said 5 approximate minutes.  There were more tangled web connections this week but i've forgotten them. i'll keep you updated (he says to himself.  no one else actually cares haha. . .or reads this. except for jesse. and mo. and catty. thanks guys! haha)

  

Uncertainty Ahead

this sign is found 3 times on main street of rexburg. no seriously it is.

If you were wondering where uncertainty is found, rest assured; it is straight ahead.  Thats ok though.  I'm not sure where (or why) exactly the uncertainty lies but I am certain that ahead it lay.  It lies because it knows not what the future holds, not meaning to mislead.  Leading my choices, uncertainty is only overcome by knowingly stepping into the unknown and being mislead by the certainty of uncertainty.  

It's like the Rexburg city government made a sign just for me as I prepare to move on with the rest of my life.  Thank you mayor.    

I'm deciding on a major and getting ready to register for classes.

It's exciting

Once upon a time in MEXICO

. . .So there i was in mexico with older brother Jesse (well at the end of the dream it was jesse, at this point i think it was some general or military officer) and a couple of other people and we were trying to get to the top secret airplane hidden by the government so we could save the day.  we were being chased by our rivals.  There was a gun fight.  Then we got to the airplane but it was just me and jesse (or his soldier counterpart) and the top secret airplane and its like 8 against 2.  fortunately the airplane had a super high tech fancy gun so i lured them in and jesse(or so) got the rest of them except for the boss and then suddenly it was me and Jesse and we were in the military base (now in the USA)with my rival. he was fighting against us in the gun fight but had to team up for the greater good. . .

So I think we flew to get there. . .but the point is suddenly we were in the top secret air force base and we were searching for a top secret jet with special abilities which would be just what we needed to stop the evil genius' plot to do something evil and geniusy.  Anyways that was surprisingly easy so we get in the Jet.  Jesse is driving, and my rival morphs into my buddy Titan and everyone starts freaking out and saying hey someone is stealing the top secret jet! so we're trying to get lift but we weren't going very fast.  I thought "hey jesse why are you driving so slow there is no way we are going to make it over that fence." We didn't.

  Soooo we had to turn around and try again but this time we are going towards the base but still going way too slow.  surprisingly (but no that surprisingly) no one tries to do anything to stop us. (they most have known our cause was a just one) but I say "Jesse, we aren't going to have room look we need to go to the road so we have more space to lift off!" so we go over there and I'm like oh i hope we don't run anyone off the road, and then i see a car coming up on the side of us (yes, the car passed a top secret jet. i'm telling you jesse was driving like a gramma, or how a gramma would drive if she were driving a JET!!!! COME ON JESSE PICK IT UP A BIT!!)  Anyways I look down and who is there but good ole' stephanie nickerson and her family.  I'm thinking hey thats stephanie nickerson whats she doing here and then she starts waving at me and Titan so I'm like hey look it's stepanie nickerson and titan was like we need to lift off now! so i yell at jesse to speed up and we lifted up and then. . .

I woke up.  thanks a lot boss for calling me and telling me we aren't working today till 4 cuz it rained too much yesterday.  awesome.  now we'll never know if the geniusy plan was foiled or not.  (deep sigh)

i fixed the internet today

on a lovely sunday evening a young man of the age 19 happened upon a volume entitled "Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales." As he read through the fanciful tales of wonder and awe, one especially caught his eye.

The Golden Key

In the winter time, when deep snow lay on the ground, a poor boy was forcced to go out on a sledge to fetch wood. When he had gathered it together, and packed it, he wished, as he was so frozen with cold, not to go home at once, but to light a fire and warm himself a little. So he scraped away the snow, and as he was thus clearing the ground, he found a tiny, gold key. hereupon he thought that where the key was, the lock must be also, and dug in the ground and found an iron chest. "If the key does but fit it!" though he; "no doubt there are precious things in that little box." He searched, but no keyhole was there. At last he discovered one, but so small that it was hardly visible. He tried it, and the key fitted exavtly. Then he turned it once round, and now we must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid, and then we shall learn what wonderful things were lying in that box.

THE END

Really? thats it? did he die from the cold? is he hallucinating cuz he's dying? did he find something and burst from the shackles of poverty. Did he usurp the mystical medallion's good magic and use it for evil or use it to make forest creature friends? Did he use his newfound riches to ease the burdens of others and spread joy through his philantropic ways? or did he perchance become and oppressive tyrant further enlarging the troubles of the peasants underneath him? did this cause a surf uprising years in the future and a revolt against the aristocratic ancestors of this boy, even though said ancestors are generous and benevolent? what happened???? did he realize it was just and old iron box and was whipped upon his return because he took so long musing over a stuoid iron box? why was there no key hole but then suddenly there was a key hole but it was tiny but miraculously the normal sized key fit into a nearly invisible keyhole?

i cant figure out this story/ for reals my best guess is that the kid just dies out there in the cold and there's some deep meaning that obviously portrays that. i dunno. hmmm.