DarkDreamer's Forbidden Forest

Sunday Leftover Thanksgiving Dinner.....

mdarkdreamer — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:53:56 GMT

Well, one of my neices (Rachel) came over on Sunday for a Leftover Turkey dinner! She brought her boyfirend Jeff, and we all sat down and watched Kingsman and ate. I really enjoyed having them over.

We had Turkey, Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Rainbow Carrots, Brussels Sprouts, Ambers homemade Cranberry Sause (And, of course something is always forgotten...the item? The Spagetti Squash. It was still in the fridge hehe)

~DarkDreamer

Hugs Today

mdarkdreamer — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:16:19 GMT

*Thinking of my Friends & Family*

Nui and I went to Dads for a Thanksgiving Lunch. It was a nice visit and the food was actually not bad!

We will be cooking our "Thanksgiving" meal on Saturday and then my niece Racheal will be coming over Sunday for a Thanksgiving Leftovers meal. Then were going to send her home (Collage) with some food.

~DarkDreamer

Yeah...

mdarkdreamer — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 02:40:35 GMT

Wow...there is nothing like being accosted at the grocery store.

I was pushing my cart, grabbing for the coffee when a few men in Trump shirts yelled at me....

Man 1 - Hey faggotity cunt!
Man 2 - You just wait and see what you get now!

Then they made shakeing fists gestures at me as they laughed and walked off.

~DarkDreamer

Dead Pyrex Ziti....

mdarkdreamer — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:54:27 GMT

ARGH!!!!! *HEAD-DESK*

I am SO frackin livid I could just....*Groaning-sigh*

I made Ziti tonight...I make an Awsome sauce (Spaghetti / Ziti, I use it for both). I use meat, mushrooms, onion, red bell pepper, garlic cloves, and chopped collard greens (sometimes spinach) and I do two things (Like a seasoning) to the sauce I wont mention couse its my secret.

Anywhoo, when I make it I make two bakeing dishes worth and then separate them and eat them for a week yadda yadda...

So, I made it tonight and when the alarm went off and I opend the oven, I discoverd that at some point while bakeing, the frackin pyrex bakeing dish exploded! And not only did I lose that one, the other was coverd in shatterings of glass as well!

Its such a waste...it all has to go into the garbage...

~DarkDreamer

Exploded baking dish and now my dead Ziti...

The exploded baking dish. I just cant believe it did that....

The other dish that was beside it...covered in shattered pyrex...next to it were the large shards I could lift out....

National Cat Day (Home edition)

mdarkdreamer — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:17:31 GMT

Nui's Mother got me a Tardis Bird Feeder for my Birthday and the cats have kind of taken it over.

~DarkDreamer

Pickle got on it and perched! HA!

Then LuLu kept rubbing her face with the 'light' on top and playing with the rope you hang it with....

Miko kept meowing at it, which is funny couse she is a feral rescue and usually keeps silent and all ghost cat. For those in the know about her mouth allergy, she has 6 teeth now. Shes doing good but sleeps ALOT *Snort*

National Cat Day!!!!

mdarkdreamer — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 03:57:51 GMT

Well! Today is National Cat Day!

So...hey out there to all the cats of my flist friends!

~DarkDreamer

I love the subtle Tardis in the background hehehe....

Happy Anniversary!

mdarkdreamer — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:18:52 GMT

So wonderful to have found a fellow Geek/Nerd/Dork....

Happy 7 years! Love you to Gallifrey and back Nui!

~DarkDreamer

At The Renaissance Fair

At a Sci-fi convention....

Memory and artical

mdarkdreamer — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:49:42 GMT

Funny thing is, I love Trees. Always have.

I was climbing them as early as I can remember and felt my most at peace when surounded by them, or were chillin out up in one.

I remember Dad comeing out into the yard to get me for dinner and walking up to the tree and looking up at me, then as I was getting down he asked "Do you want a Tree House or something?" I said "No, becouse you would have to pound nails into it right?" He agreed and I was adament "No I dont want to hurt the Tree".

About a week later he gave me a few boards that I could just wedge between branches to make a flat sitting space. Removable and no harm to the tree.

I always thought that was cool of him. He didnt think I was stupid for careing about the Tree.

~DarkDreamer

So, I was on FB and I saw a post from Mark Ruffalo (Who by the way, is a fellow Wisconsinite) where he posted a artical he really liked and where he says "This is a beautiful article on one of my greatest loves: Trees." (I wonder if its a Wisconsin thing hehehe), anyway, I thought I would share the link.

His FB page: https://www.facebook.com/MarkRuffalo/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

The Article: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/26/the-hidden-life-of-trees-peter-wohlleben/?mc_cid=533d31dcb0&mc_eid=c1fdb6faf8

Empty Birthday....

mdarkdreamer — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:36:23 GMT

Well, today is Moms Birthday...*Sigh*

Its hard to beleave shes been gone 6 years now....

~DarkDreamer

We Remember....

mdarkdreamer — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:47:07 GMT

I remember Mom calling me and saying "Put on the news, now. Hurry, it's important".

Every Sept 11th, I watch the History Channel.

I watch these shows on events that unfolded...*Sigh*...I have to watch these shows. Oddly I feel its important. There is that saying "Those that don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it" or something like that. I think you all know what I mean....

Shows like "Voices from inside the Towers", this is the blurb describing the show...'An aural account of what went on inside the World Trade Center Towers on Sept.11 includes the recordings victims left on message machines; 911 calls; accounts by survivors; and families recalling the last words of loved ones. Also: a time line of the events of the day'. I watch the show every year since it came out....

~DarkDreamer

Well, is was the 7th.....

mdarkdreamer — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:21:02 GMT

I am now 48 as of the 7th of September. *Sigh*

And, for the first time in 20+ years, I worked on my birthday. Sucked, but I have been lucky. I know many have to work on there B-Day and I had many years free of that heheh...

I wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone here on LJ (And on FB), who wished me a Happy Birthday!

~DarkDreamer

I thought it was cool, I was hunting 'Tardis Cakes' and there was actualy one with my name! And spelled right! HA!

Thank you for the laughs Gene....Sigh

mdarkdreamer — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 02:26:17 GMT

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), Born in Milwaukee, WI. Known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author.

National Dog Day (Yesterday)

mdarkdreamer — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 22:19:44 GMT

HAPPY NATIONAL DOG DAY!!
(A day late)

I swear I have been battleing with Photobucket for months now trying to get it to work. FINALY it is now and I can upload pics again!

Anyway, at least I got it on the day on FB. So here is Riven! Enjoying His Day. He got to nap like the cat he thinks he is! HA!

He is getting so grey in the face, and Old Man lumpy. Hes what now, 11? Or close to, I don't have his papers near me but he got to just chill. Hes been having a lot of seizures so it was a nice quiet day for him.

~DarkDreamer

Riven: Na! Na I na ready for pics, let me to my fuuuur first!

Riven: Ya ok now I ready!

Riven: N-Na...Na. I na make muddy prints. That the Small Furry things ya, that na meee. that the Small Furrys.
Dark: Riv, they are to big to be the cats, and they don't go outside to get into mud.
Riven: Na. They na mine.

Memorial Day

mdarkdreamer — Mon, 30 May 2016 19:53:30 GMT

So, today is Memorial Day and for once, I dont work an 11 hour shift, only a 5 hour. Some of you know, but some may not, I work with developmently disabled adults in independent living.

The individuals I work with, live in apartments, so they dont get to grill and such. My Partner Nui, was kind enough while I worked an 11 hour shift yesterday to cook up a bunch of burgers and dogs and then made cupcakes for the group. So today I get to bring in grilled food and dessert.

They are going to be thrilled I tell ya. Thank you Nui for makeing my clients Memorial Day enjoyable, and normal.

~DarkDreamer

Mothers Day

mdarkdreamer — Sun, 08 May 2016 17:11:18 GMT

I always feel odd acknowledging Mom on Mothers Day.

Normaly you say 'Happy' Mothers Day, but Mom is no longer here, so its not 'Happy' in that way. I guess for those of us that dont have our Mothers anymore, its more of a "Happy Memory of Mother on this Day".

So I guess thats it....

Happy Memory of Mother on this Day, Mom. I miss your laugh and your wisdom. But more, I just miss you.

~DarkDreamer

Happy Birthday Nui!

mdarkdreamer — Sun, 08 May 2016 17:06:20 GMT

Nui's Birthday is on Mothers Day. So, Nui's Mom & I plotted a suprize for her. Nui is from KY, and therefore, she does not get to see her Mother often and it had actualy been 2 years since she saw her last.

So, we devised her mother driving up and suprizing her. I took Nui to a resteront and sudenly, her Mom walked in behind her and whisperd into her ear "Is there room for one more person here?" Nui jumped up and was squeeing and hugging her...its was awsome.

Best suprize I ever helped with! Happy Birthday Nui, and Happy Mothers Day Nui's Mom.

~DarkDreamer

Ponders

mdarkdreamer — Thu, 05 May 2016 18:38:55 GMT

Hhehe....

~DarkDreamer

Waves

mdarkdreamer — Wed, 04 May 2016 14:58:35 GMT

*Passes Coffee around to all my friends to celebrate!*

~DarkDreamer

Happy National Superhero Day!!!!

mdarkdreamer — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:16:53 GMT

Hugs to all my Friends!

Hope you have a...Super Day! *Snort*

~DarkDreamer

Wow....

mdarkdreamer — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:45:03 GMT

Nui woke me up yesterday and I began my morning slog thru the house and went to the kitchen to get my Coffee...looked out the window and...WTF?

There was a Turkey in the back yard, eating the leftover birdseed! HA! I mean, I know the wild birdseed we get says "Attracts a Wide Varaiety of Wild Birds"...but this is just silly!

~DarkDreamer

Yup! Done!

mdarkdreamer — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:21:44 GMT

It is Thursday. So lets Throw Back the hands of time, shall we?

mdarkdreamer — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 01:10:17 GMT

Thought I would do this on here as well for those that don't do FB.

~DarkDreamer

This is one of my favorite pics of me.

Mom took it with my Minolta camera, (I asked her to show me how to use it and she did, and pretty much kept it for herself after that hehe) and actually developed it herself. She would put the negatives thru this hand turning thing in the closet, she would be sitting on the floor in there and you could hear the thing chugging as she cranked the handle, and you couldn't open the door couse it would ruin the film....She used to do that, and then the kitty litter tubs that she would fill with the solutions to dip everything in down in the basement. She would have them on the washer and dryer and I swear the machines always smelled like those chemicals, then she would hang them, or lay them out on the ping pong table on rags to dry...

I miss my Mom...she had so much fun doing the hands on of her pictures back in the day.

Anyway, as I said, this is one of my favorite pics of me, despite the time in my life it was taken. This was not long after I was attacked, less then a month or so. I was 13 years old here.

Thank you Dad!

mdarkdreamer — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:28:46 GMT

Dad called me on Valentines and sayed "You working the 21st?" I sayed no and he goes "Ok, just a moment, Ill call you back".

So after much confused blinking on my part and my partner giggling at my confusion, Dad called back and sayed "So, Happy Valentines, I got you and Amber two tickets to Shen Yun".

I was shocked, and pleased to say the least! We had a great time!

~DarkDreamer

https://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/

A Great Day!

mdarkdreamer — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 02:46:48 GMT

Well, today, Nui and I did....NOTHING!

It was awesome. Watching movies and chillin. Days off work are never days off couse you have to go shopping and such, today it was an all day PJ's day! (Yesterday we went to see DeadPool, which was awesome by the way)

I made breakfast, which was Egg in a Hole (Rip a hole in bread, crack an egg in and pan fry) and sausage, and she cooked dinner, which was Duck breast with raspberry sauce and roasted asparagus and potatoes.

~DarkDreamer

Happy Valentines!

mdarkdreamer — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:42:21 GMT

In my book, Valentines Day needs some of these 4 things. You can do them all, or a variation of the group, but really, even if its just one of them....

~DarkDreamer <----*Hugs Nui*

Yes....the Romantic gesture!

....and some sweet poetry....

....perhaps lovely roses....

....but Oooo don't forget the chocolates!

DarkDreamer's ~~Forbidden Forest~~