Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: July 2006

  • Redbugs

    Right now, if you made me choose between slicing off my thumb and having twenty-plus chigger bites, I would lose the thumb. Chiggers are evil little bastards. And only the babies bite. I was always comforted that you could paint over them with nail polish and they would suffocate and die, entombed in your skin…

  • In Which Things Continue to Be Lost and Then (Sometimes) Found.

    The miraculous vacation just keeps getting more and more miraculous! Miracle #5: Arzaana-fay bought shoes, which I believe I left at the Border’s during the Harry Potter birthday celebration. (She is never too old for Harry Potter, evidently.) Then we shopped at other stores, went home, cleaned up, and then tried to put on the…

  • Miracle #4

    Add another miracle of things Lost and Then Regained: After Nine Days, the Queen Mother is back in her quarters. Raise the flag! The electric power is back.

  • Vacation Update

    It is the miraculous vacation! Day 1 / Miracle 1: I put my debit card and driver’s license in my jeans pocket before we started pedaling the paddleboats in Forest Park. After an hour, I got out of the paddleboat with no debit card and driver’s license. A paddleboat isn’t very big so after a…

  • Meet George Jetson

    During the cleaning frenzy that seized me this morning, I moved all the furniture from one side of the house to the other (the better to mop it with, my dears). This did two things: it trapped the Queen Mother’s wheelchair in the bedroom side of the house, and 2) it inspired Gary to go…

  • Quote of the Day

    Gary: “You’re so much cleaner when your Mom’s around!”

  • Citizen Journalist here

    Citizen Journalist here

    I am here on the frontlines of the power outage, and I can report that people in North Saint Louis County are screaming at the grocery store staff because they have no meat, no milk, and no ice. This is our in-laws’ neighborhood, and we fear the in-laws may start looting. Actually, Gary went and…

  • Egregious Overuse of Electricity Concert

    Here’s my take on the Cheap Trick concert. You don’t give a concert in front of a city of people who have had no power for four days. At least, you don’t give anything other than an acoustic concert. First, they had spotlights on top of their usual lighting. Then, they brought out the guy…

  • Wings

    Wings

    I saw this sign at the Bike Trail. Usually it says “Remote Controlled Aircraft Vehicles Prohibited.” I had to go back that night when I had my camera to record an unhappy woman’s editorial comment:

  • Guitar Setback

    The Guitar Gods have punished me for my hubris. I had my hand arched over a crusty roll, cutting it with a sharp knife, and the knife slipped off the crust and filleted my thumb. Not my bad thumb, which is actually the extra backup third thumb, since they took off the good thumb of…