A Girl Named Timi

The Girl From Bow?

Do you even know where Bow Washington Is? 

Most people don't

Bow is about an hour north of Seattle and right off one of the most beautiful drives in Washington State Chuckanut Drive.

This is where I grew up...

Farm Country!

The type of farm life where we named our cows

T-Bone

Roast

and

Hamburger

A farming community where the day after school was out for the summer, the kids went out and started working in the fields.

Strawberries, raspberries, peas, cucumbers, blueberries, and corn.

If you didn't work in the fields then you helped your folks on the dairy farm.

The girls in my neighborhood rode in posses on horseback.

We rode to the little grocery for soda and penny candy, bare back, in cut off jeans and halter tops. We rode as soon as we could get out the door in the mornings until it started getting dark.

It was the 1970's man!

I've made it no secret that I wasn't the best student in school.

I did however do really well in socializing, and penmanship. 

I had teachers tell me that I should learn to measure well because all I'll ever be doing is cooking for all my kids.

Well  I still don't know how to measure very well, and

I don't have any kids, but I can do retail math quickly in my head.

You know... % off, buy one get one free, average sales, total sales, and that kind of stuff.

I can also do Fakebusy like nobodies business

 and throw one hell-of-a party!

Those are my skills and that's how my resume reads.

 

A few months ago I got an email from a really nice lady in New York City

asking me for my phone number because she wanted to talk to me about an opportunity.

I was like

Yeah right! 

She probably needed me to send her a $5000 Wal-Mart money order!

You know one of those scam emails.

Well I looked at the bottom of the email at the company name and it looked interesting so I did a google search.

HOLY SHIT!!!

It was legitimate!

It was a TV production company!

So of course I had to call and find out what she wanted to talk to me about.

I called and chatted with the nice woman

who talked to me for a long time about Come Junk With Us and my blog AGirlNamedTimi.

Then she told me about a new TV show they were producing.

They asked me to audition for a new TV show!

Now this was exciting but yet super scary all at the same time.

ME?  Timi?  Really?

So PJ and I worked on an audition tape for what seemed like forever.

This was the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life!

WORSE than math problems in 7th grade on a chalk board in front of the entire class room!

Not only was it  hard to do, but it made PJ and I fight more than me making sneaky trips to the casino.

Those people in front of cameras on your favorite shows make it look super easy

It's not!

And.....................

I sucked!

 But I sent off my tape anyway. I didn't get the job, and I was totally ok with it.

It was just really fun to get asked.

It was like getting picked first for kick ball teams knowing full well that you SUCK the worst at kick ball.  It was just nice to not be last picked for a change.

THEN...................

Last month I got asked to submit some information to a magazine about myself and my little company

Come Junk With Us.

So I did.

Thinking...............that's cool but magazines are for other people.

I once had a guy friend (whom I thought I loved more than breathing) Paul Williams tell me that if I wanted to impress him I would have to be published first.

Well SHIT!

Guess we are going to have to break up (even though he didn't know we were dating, only I thought that) because that was never going to happen.

Being published... that's for... well educated, talented, pretty people.

Not girls from Bow that don't know how to measure properly.

GUESS WHAT????

Here it is!

September 2010

A Girl Named Timi on the pages of Romantic Homes Magazine

I KNOW!

Shit!

Who would have guessed?  Not me!

Now  I know you are all thinking

Oh this is great.

This is going to go to her head and she will forget where she came from and who she is and it's just going to be a freakin nightmare next time I see her.

PJ won't let it happen.

When I opened the package I got with the magazine in it I was jumping around all excited.
What did PJ say?

"Hey, you need to go pick up dog poop so I can mow!"

He handed me a shovel.

I know there was that story I wrote last summer that was published in the Paula Deen online Magazine last year but this is totally different!
This has pictures and everything!

Now, to all of those who offered no encouragement, (including you Paul...)  I'd like to quote the great comedienne Kathy Griffin (my idol) who said "SUCK THIS!"

I have lots more exciting news, but I'm going to have to run to town right now to buy up all the copies I can find!

Thank you Tres Birds Photography for the fabulous pictures submitted to Romantic Homes Magazine!