FREE Standard Shipping on Orders $69+ with code:
FREESHIPPING
Cheers
Give a Cheer
Give a Cheer
For august AGC, Fullfills 2 dailies:One, this is a book title (I know it is kinda cheap, but there is a book titled "tim" on Amazon) and recycling. The circle on the left was packaging over the clock shaped like a circle. I painted it using the flourish as a mask upside down. Then I stitched it. It was not pleasant stitching through this material! The title letters were done by taking chipboard letters, painting them with Gesso, then I used a stencil from my daughter's craylola collection for the "flame job" painting on the letters. I backed them with patterned paper scraps, and used a marker to outline them. I then added some stickles for extra emphasis. The paisley was hand cut using a pattern from Scrapbooks etc. The lo itself is from the July 2009 issue of Creating Keepsakes, "Becky's sketch". Here is the journaling. God I need to write a book about this stuff. lol
I can't possibly summarize everything about our friend, Tim in one lo.
Terry and he met while Terry was a dishwasher at Stop 35. Tim worked in the fuel counter, and though Terry was 16 and Tim was about 26, they hit it off as good friends. That there should tell you something about Tim. Tim is a good time friend, who likes to socialize and have a good time. I am not saying he is a fair weather friend, but rather just not a family man, put it that way. Tim is quite an eccentric kind of guy. Orginally, we thought everything he said and did was just over the top; we treated him like our guru. He taught us a lot of things about life in only the way that Tim could. One friend described Tim as "Kramer" from Seinfeld. There is some of this, but there is the negative Nelly Tim too. So, if you could mix "Kramer" and "George" you would have Tim. That is a weird combo, huh? Well, add another character. If you listen to Howard Stern, he has a guy there named Richard Christie. Tim and Richard have so many similarities that it is not funny. I think Richard is actually a little saner, and that is saying a lot. I don't know the exact mechanics behind it, but Tim seemed to get more negative as the years went by. I don't know if it was because we were all aging, and he wanted to be back the way it was or what. I know he enjoyed being the guy we all looked up to. But Tim has issues, and so any normal 16 year old is going to surpass this sort of guru in the life maturity quotient rather quickly. Tim was married before he met us, and divorced. His wife just up and left him. Now we understand why, but then we did not. The first time my friend, Scott met Tim, we went to his house and there was a dead dog in his dog box. When we remind Tim of this first impression he gave him, Tim just says "oh that was Dots. I didn't have time to bury her yet so I had drug her back in her box". WHO doesn't bury their dog right away, I will never know, but Tim didn't. His house was a pig sty. He didn't clean…ever.. But he collected things. And more things. And more. How he got an honorable discharge from the Army, I will never understand. I do know he was written up many many times for his "hygiene problem". Yes, Tim stunk. And this was and still is a very big issue for Tim and those around him. Even if he bathes regularly (which he doesn't) he stinks. And being the sort of folks we were, we did NOT keep quiet about it. I bought him a deodorant stone, and different deodorants, but nothing worked. Tim didn't care. He used lava soap and refused to use a deodorant soap.. That is just Tim. Just a few years ago, after not having any sort of female companion since we met, he had an on and off again relationship with a nice, CLEAN nurse friend of mine, Beckie. I guess she had to force him to bathe. He did so begrudgingly. He says that cavemen lived by their scents and if someone really loves him they will love his scent. I don't know how even a skunk would love that scent. Tim lived with us for about 4 months. He had lost his job and he of course, overstayed his welcome. That's Tim. But he is usually useful in the entertainment, philosophical debate area of life, so he slides…A LOT. But anyway, after he left, that room stunk for eons. We fumigated in every way possible. The same thing happened to our friends/cousin Rachel and Jamie. And Jamie had to clean up for Tim when his mother came to visit (the place is hers). Tim got ANGRY about this. He threatened to never speak to him again. This also happened to me when I cleaned out his Maverick. I am sure a psych major has a name for all this, probably OCD or Borderline Personality or a combo of that and more. But I mentioned the word..Maverick . Tim loves Mavericks. He had about 5 of them sitting at his mother's place for ages. He named them. He would keep one running and just take parts off the other ones when he needed something. Tim had a fire at his mom's a few years back. I will never forget them tossing box, after box, after box out the window. Tim looked like he wanted to throw up. I imagine it was because he is such a pack rat. Would you believe that happened well over 10 years ago and that burnt down house is still there. They never did anything to it. His mom just put a trailer on the land next to it. I am sure to this day that he is going through the stuff in there finding things. I think the worst loss for him was his Playboy collection. Tim had every Playboy magazine from like 1952 up. This loss seemed to devastate him.
One of Tim's other pastimes is or was an avante garde film group called "Artpig". It is comprised of about 5 guys who film weird stuff…think Plan 9 from outer space stuff. I don't even know that it makes any sense some of it…or all of it. But they did make me a very cool wedding video with all their equipment and ideas. Tim loves to be involved in offbeat activities. He says he is Wiccan, which most of the Wiccan's I have met are not like him. I would think he would find some body oils or botanicals from the earth for his problem if he was. However, if he says he is, then he is. I just don't know what sort of witch stinks like that. Tim and I were very very close for a long time. There was a period where if you saw me and Terry, chances were that Tim was with us. There were many many good times. Now I have a family and that occupies most of my time. Tim has been by here maybe twice since the kids were born. We had a major fight right before Anya was born, over some really stupid stuff. But this made me realize how far Tim's mind is going. I had written him a 3 page letter of why I was angry. Well, what did he do? He RE WROTE everything I said in the letter and addressed everything I said with his own spews of opinion and prodder …line by line. It was like 10 pages. WHO DOES THAT? You can say that the weather sucks and you hate it. Well, don't say that to TIM. He does not approve of the word HATE and will argue with you for an hour about why you shouldn't hate the weather. It is insane. How can you have a simple conversation with someone who over analyzes like that? You can't. My life right now is about simplicity and enjoying the moments. Though Tim would say that he does too, he can't. He whines about working. He whines all the time..And SIGHS. I hate that sighing. He seems to think that he shouldn't have to work. That is hard for me because I have a strong work ethic. He doesn't understand why I feel the way I do. I have explained but he still thinks he shouldn't have to work. My mother never worked because she was too unstable, so my Dad worked his fingers to the bone doing two jobs. That, I explained to him is the reason. So he just starts going on about my mother, and why should I think working is such a good thing if my father was so overworked? He didn't understand that if both of them would have worked, then things would have been fine. Tim had political opinions against the grain too. I am not talking about Republicans and Democrats. I can deal with someone who is another party than mine. They have a logical way of thinking. It may not be what I think, but often it is logical. Well, back in the late 90's Tim had this campaign he wanted to start. It was called "vote for yourself". He felt that if everyone voted for themselves, it would show our government that their system sucks and that change is needed. What change could be accomplished by this, I don't think he knew. If you ask me, this idea was ridiculous, but hey that was Tim. At the time it was a funny conversation piece. Tim would preach about "Vote for yourself" to everyone we encountered. Those who didn't know the Tim we did, sometimes would get that glazed "guru" jive look on their face and be like "oh man, that is so far out". Little did they know that Tim was just a nihilist in a beatnik's clothing. But if nothing else, Tim was always gentle and he would have like to think he would do anything for anyone. In the early years this was true. But as any mental condition goes unchecked over time, there are costs. Tim may not be dysfunctionally insane, but I am not convinced he won't be someday. I miss my old friend Tim, but I accept who he has become. I have suggested he see a therapist, and to this I got a very negative reaction. I doubt he ever will. He thinks a therapist would use something against him. I don't get that, as what he is worried about is mostly unpaid bills from the early 90's. But Tim claims he went "underground" to avoid the bills incurred with his divorce. Therefore, a therapist would be a link to the above ground people that he did not want to have. Yeah, "underground". Add paranoia to the list. Yup. Okay Tim Whatever.
Thanks for spreading positivity!
August 30, 2009
August 26, 2009
August 24, 2009
August 23, 2009
August 23, 2009
August 22, 2009
August 22, 2009
August 21, 2009
August 21, 2009