Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2006

  • Yes! Yes! So like the Monkeys

    I was speaking with Gary today about his job. He said something about how managers so often repeat the same foolish mistakes, and then it trickles down to their underlings who repeat the same foolish mistakes. I replied, “Oh, it’s just like the monkeys.” Ok. Skip this paragraph unless you are curious about the monkeys.…

  • Succinct Emmy Wrap-Up

    So, I watched the Emmys on TiVo. Just not the same. Surprisingly, Gary did not pause on any boobage, as he has with the Academy Awards. Glad: I was glad to see The Girl in the Cafe won three awards. That is a fabulous, meaningful movie. Especially if you wait until the credits. They did…

  • Baked Applebee’s

    Baked Applebee’s

    Friday night Gary and I decided (at the unGodly hour of 9 pm) to go out to dinner and, of course, Starbucks. We got to the Saint Louis Bread Company (aka Panera) and found it closed at 9. (Because who eats at 9 on a Friday?) We decided to tool across the street to the…

  • I Couldn’t Have Tried Any More

    Bwahahahaaha! Victory! I just played Maggie May, and: I kept up with the recordingI strummed in timeI changed to all the chordsAll the chords sounded good except the freaking F, and that has more than a little influenced my decision to incorporate a lack of barre chords into my own distinctive sound. So, I rawk.…

  • Queen Mom Falls for It

    After refusing to allow a link from my blog to hers, Queen Mother has given in. She claims she refused me a link because she thought I might be embarrassed. I didn’t tell her, but when the waitresses at Ozzie’s Sports Bar and Restaurant tried to embarrass me on me birthday I got up on…

  • So we need something new, I guess

    The HELL? No more Pluto? He always did seem out-of-place and out-of-scale. Plus, as Chuck at work explained, there’s no point in telling Pluto he’s dissed because by the time the news gets out there we’ll all be dead anyway. So, last time this happened they had to change the mnemonic from “Mary’s Violet Eyes…

  • Popovers

    Popovers

    On special days, the Queen Mother would make Popovers for breakfast. I particularly enjoyed introducing my friends to Popovers. I loved having a special food that no one else’s Mom could make. (The closest any of them came was Andrea T________, whose mother could make Beer Biscuits.) One Christmas Mom and I gave each other…

  • At This Moment

    At this moment, I am lounging in bed reading Say What You Mean. I have already looked up all my linguistic pet peeves. You ask, “Did you find alot of them?” I slap you upside the head for joining those two words into one. It makes me alittle annoyed. Oddly, I couldn’t find any mention…

  • Queen Mother Again Cheats Death!

    Last time I was at the Queen Mother’s residence, I wanted to turn off her printer. I no longer mess with finding the on/off switch for any appliance (she waved dismissively); I just yank the plug out of the socket. In this case, the plug was on a power strip, so that threw me. Next…

  • I Love You 5.333333

    The niece had her boyfriend say, “I love you” just before he left for an extended vacation in Egypt. She stumbled through some inadequate reply. We all know there is only one correct response to “I love you,” and she didn’t give it. This isn’t the first time she’s been in this spot, but it…