Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2006

  • Big Day

    Big Day

    Saturday was a big long day in which we celebrated our 21st anniversary. This could be an excruciatingly long post, or I could try to go with the post version of the movie montage. —————————————————————————————-Amazingly, we got up at 7:30 to get to the Susan Komen Race for the Cure (or as we did it,…

  • In Which We Are Amused

    I usually don’t blog at work, but I need to record the conversation I just had with Libby and Marcia (whose blog is going to be dead to me soon if she doesn’t update it). I said that Gary is shopping for a new car, has turned on the Prius for some reason, and now…

  • Old News and Notes

    Old News and Notes

    I’m sure I’m not the only kid who wrote notes to a friend in junior high and high school, but I may be the only one who kept them all since 1977. When I turned forty, I decided I was strong enough to take a hard look at who I was at 15. (Evidently, I…

  • Missy Bad.

    I can NOT believe it – as Lucky BWay Girl reminded me (and I thank you) I completely forgot one of the five (count ’em! five!) ways to express affection: Acts of Service. And here I choked on the one Gary loves to do and I love to receive. He is Bongo to my Missy,…

  • You Can Practice for 21 Years and Still Not Get It Right

    You know they say marriage is hard work. That is crap. I know hard work. (I’ve worked with hard work, hard work is a friend of mine.) If it were hard work, I could do it. If it were work, it’d have a goal, and a deadline, and a set pattern of behavior I could…

  • A Very Special Guest Post

    Hola, niños. This is Uncle Alvarez, Ellen’s acoustic guitar. It was Bring-Your-Guitar to Work Day and Ellen and I had an outing. As we were leaving for work, she was packing me in the case and I heard Gary say “You aren’t really taking your guitar to work, are you?” And my beloved said yes,…