Deep In The Forrest

My earliest memories of Thanksgiving included watching my Mom and Dad work together to make the best homemade dressing in the entire world. He would stand at the table, mixing it all together, adding the sage, celery, seasonings... both of them did their parts, but it became a running joke in the family that we were eating "Daddy's famous dressing". Still, his recipe and his love lives on. (Although perhaps the icon pic to the left will turn you all Vegan! ha-ha!) We raised a few Turkeys growing up, but I made cuddly pets out of them, certainly, and not one of them ever landed on a dinner table. I wish that were the case for all of these sweet birds in the world. But of course, I'm one of those kooks who enjoys the company of our animals more than I do most people... I won't apologize for that! ;) Daddy delighted, actually reveled in holiday traditions, so between the two of them, we have been steeped in traditions of spending the holidays as a family, sitting do...

Spam annoys me so much. It's everywhere, some places we can't do anything about it, and some we can. I love visitors to my blog, and I indeed adore comments, but I am not desperate enough for comments that I let the "Spam" ones pass as legitimate luv to my page. Therefore, I had to make changes to the security features and again enable the Word Verification feature. I regret having to do this because I try to make reading and visiting me easy and enjoyable, and most people hate the word verification feature, but I have had more than my fair share of idiotic spam comments lately, on old posts and the like so I am gonna try that for a while. Please bear with me.

I don't know if I have mentioned it or not, but there is a comedy series on Fox called "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" (Danny DeVito plays a big role in this), which is one of the funniest comedy series I have seen in some time. I love it. Anyways, they came out with a Christmas special that is only on DVD, I'm watching it right now. If you have never seen "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" I highly recommend checking it out. Meanwhile, check out the preview of the Christmas show (warning: Naked Danny DeVito which is pretty disgusting, but will definitely make you LOL). Click Here If You Cannot View Above Video Other than that, just general weekend stuff going on. Trying to get ready both mentally, and physically for the upcoming holidays. This week is Thanksgiving week and I don't know how this is going to go, hopefully we can all keep our spirits up. I'll say it again, 2009 has not been an easy year for many of us. The important thing...

The time has come for you to see how much "Dion" (Dionysus), my German Shepherd Puppy, has grown. He's made a lot of progress. He no longer looks starved, he's learning a lot, and he's getting to be such a handsome dog. He is going to be a big and gorgeous Shepherd. He just doesn't have anything to herd haha... well, except us. All is going o.k. this week. The workload is still very hectic at work, but that's just the way it is going to be for a while. I just need to remind myself always to be happy that I have a job. Even though we screw things up for ourselves, and get all tangled up in too much, we need to try to simplify as much as we can, and make sure to take time to breathe, meditate and relax and enjoy the scenery on this rock. It is amazing how comical people begin to look running around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to beat each other to "nowhere", acting like rude assholes, cutting each other off at the pass, stressing...

Not only have I been busy with so much lately, and a lot going on at work, I have been a little lazy too. Just haven't felt enough energy to gather my thoughts and post. There are so many things that go through my head on a daily basis, that I wish I could get it all into words, and post it. Perhaps I might entertain you guys then. But if I do not catch the thought and write it down or record it whenever it happens, later on the feeling or sentiment passes and it turns sour... not even worthy of blogging. I don't know how that happens. The ideas seem really good at the time, and I jot down a note or two that I think will remind me of what I wanted to write about and later when I go back to it, I'll read and think to myself, "Geez, I don't really feel like finishing that." To recap the last few days? Wow, I can't think of anything to make it sound interesting honestly. Work. That sums it up pretty well, and then when I am not working, over the weekend I was...

Those who know me well know that I am the worst housekeeper on Earth. It is strange because when I do start something, I am rather "OCD" about it, and will clean in pretty heavy detail. The photo to the left could not be less like me. A Stepford wife I am not. In fact I have always been more like "one of the guys" who likes to have fun, play video games, and of course mostly just enjoy treats of a physical nature (safe way to say it right?) Sometimes, I wish I was the epitome of "Domestic Goddess", but then I think on the larger scale of all that is, it's a small and unimportant shred of talent that I missed out on. Sometimes I do have my "moments"... like today. I made great progress in the room I have been neglecting, but meaning to clean for a long time, I am proud of that. We'll see. The rest of the weekend, Mr. J had been sick, he says with a sinus infection, I thought he probably had a cold. I got a little sniffly and spent the wee...

BBC shared this in e-mail the other day and I had to put it up... It is me in cartoon form (well the before pic could use a bout triple thighs and arse, but you get the picture...) It's me at heart. I want to talk more, say more and vent more, but I need just a bit more time to gather thoughts. This has been a tiring week.

Ok I made it this week! To be fair, I will have to say that these were all taken from my Halloween 2009 collection, which are mainly taken from a gig we attended Saturday night for a 60s rock band we are friends with called, The Vynals . Craig and the gang do a bang-up job of some of the great 60s songs. Artists they cover include, "Paul Revere and the Raiders", "The Zombies", "The Beatles" and more! We enjoyed the gig quite a bit and I will just briefly cover a few event highlights in this week's "Weekly Words Challenge" brought to us by the lovely M.C. "Tink", now on Facebook. I started out trying to figure out what the heck I wanted to be, and had a hard time settling on my costume. But I finally wimped out and went for the easy "Goth" look... As you can see here, I go right along with the nightlife as my undead-looking self. I had my fun little self-portrait photo shoot, and then it was time to head out to see The Vyna...

Halloween came and went so fast, and I find myself here at the face of November wondering what I have really accomplished in 2009. It hasn't been that much, not that I am able to really scratch together on paper right at this moment. I am going to have to take stock and see where I am, gather my thoughts and start looking at the upcoming holiday season. This is going to be so very surreal, the first Thanksgiving and Christmas ever without Daddy. It's something we have to do, and learn to get through it and continue moving, always moving. We went to a show of a friend of ours, his band is called "The Vynals". They play a lot of 60s music, and he has always supported our band so we try to support his when we can. It was pretty fun. Most everyone wore costume, myself included, and there were some characters at the gig. I'll have to blog about in more depth and post a few pics. Just don't have much time right at the moment. Another week looms ahead, got so much to...