Sometimes. . .

. . .I get plastic splints ruthlessly ripped from my nose. . . 

. . .I make all fruit smoothies. . .

. . . I wear bandanas on my head. . .

. . .college students leave preserved marine animals on the desk of college professors. . .

 . . . my broski gets sealed to his family. . .

. . .I cook with jake morris and we wear aprons. . .

. . .me and Jake make mexican food. . .

. . .I get inspired. . .

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)

  

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)

Lion Wrestling

Dracula made fun of my phone. "what phone doesn't have flash on the camera?" (as his voice cracks)
I liked him better when he was eerily silent. . .  

this pic was too dark to see sooooo i made it fun!!

Why are haunted houses fun?  Because we like being scared.  Why do we like being scared?

Adreniline rush.  I know mother doesn't like scary things, but i do.  the internet describes it like this

"Basically, you can get this feeling defending yourself against a lion in the jungle or sitting in a theater showing a horror flick. We, as humans, appear to be "hard-wired" to be drawn to this feeling. It is older than we are as a species, and is tied to our survival; without it, we would have perished and died out long ago."

Anywhooos I had fun wrestling lions, if i'm not working tomorrow i'll do it again but this time at the haunted mill for fhe.  

sun sun sunnnnnnay!

it's a BEAUTIFUL day outside!!! i got off work earlsee and so came home and made some D-lish chicken fettuccine alfredo yum! theres some leftover in the fridge if you want it!

i wanna go play tennis right now! but my tennis playin friends are either in IF,at work,or on missions. . .nuts. . .oh i could call gretchin. maybe i will.the 4th de julio was great!
I and my homies chilled, it was fun!and jordan left us on july2nd. he's in preston england at the moment mtcing. awesome.

speaking of mtcing i'll be doin the same on july29 woooo! on 22 mas dias!! yipee.

no if you'll excuse me i gotta go outside. it'd be a crime not to!

ken from boise!

ha i miss ken from boise. he was a crazy chino foreign exchange student at boys state. he always had a ? or 2 for the speakers at Gem Boys State ha and he always started off "hi, im Ken from Boise"(spoked in a silly asian accent ha the best!!)

Let me quote you a story:

"Let me tell you a story. A long time ago, you were a baby. You sat there, looked around, grinned (but didn’t know why), and drooled on whatever object happened to be placed in your inch-long hands. You didn’t care about possessions. You didn’t know about the worries of the world. You loved grinning and drooling. And away you drooled. something changed since then… somewhere along the way, we all learned to be really bad at just loving the present. We weren’t satisfied with drool anymore, we wanted a new MacBook. We weren’t happy with figuring out noises we could make while blowing spit bubbles, we wanted a flat screen TV." --Britton Kowalk

wise man, glad to have met him. sometimes his insights are whimsically insightful. i was meandering on ponders about this certain piece of literature and thought "hmmmm"

sometimes i still drool. . . and grin and dunno why. . .but not nearly enough. sometimes i get jealous at other peoples possessions or talents and abilities. sometimes i think "that is childish timothy dont be childish. . .in that manner. . .better in a drooly grinny manner chief!" sometimes i call myself chief when im musing. not really.

hey you, be happy with what you got. when you're hungry at 930 and you see some beans and rice in the cupboard and know about some ground beef in the fridge and see some enchillada sauce as well and quite by accident find some tomoato leftover and cheese, make a mexican casserole from scratch (mostovly scratched) and itll turn out delicious. oh dont forget to crunch up some fritos and put them in before the enchillada sauce and leave it on low heat so it all kinda makes a casseroleish deal. yum!

or maybe you'll plan on goin on a hike. but make sure you do it cuz you're itching to go hiking! and take pictures so you can look back at them in 35 years (or so) just like when your brother looks at old ones of your paps and he looks like both of you and neither at the same time

small things should make you happy. like baby drool. and umpiring tball. and lotsa rain. and awesome thunder/lightning. and road trips. and planned road trips thatll never happen. and camping that best had happen soon! and family. and sleep. and not sleeping. and having a day with no zits. or a week. or talking to a friend you haven't seen in forever! (hey angie it was good talkin!) or all of your friends preparing for their missions. or listenin to that song you love that you haven't heard forever. or tryin to find that song though you dunno if you still even have it (rats cant find it) or goin to the zoo with your old chums from before your mission (shout out to andy)(even if they dont have an albino porquipine) also quoting funny movies with your friends. or quoting dumb movies. or quoting funny memories. (smiley face) "i'd feel really stupid right now but you have chocolate all over your teeth!"

anyways thanks britton. be satisfied all. you might not have what you want but tough luck cookie, neither do i! ha i cant jump and touch the bar off the diving board at green canyon, but i can do a gainer (usually) you get the picture. peace out homies