Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2006

  • Better F*cials Through Chemistry

    Unreal – I am researching on the Internet which chemical in Clean and Clear Warming Face Scrub causes the endothermic water reaction that makes it “warm.” I am further following my scientific bent by using the left half of my face as the control while the right half tests the claims of Eucerin Anti-reddening Cream.…

  • Big Summer House

    Big House Returns! Gary had another installment in the series of Big House Dreams. Gary dreamed that we had a house: a house so big you could play golf in the hallways. There were plants and water features in the hallways, which made them particularly conducive to golf. Evidently there was a big airport shutdown.…

  • The Queen Mom’s Birthday

    A few notable things happened on the Queen Mother’s birthday: 1) She got a card from a friend showing an old lady in a crown and caftan with a caption something like “Queen for a Day”, which the friend amended to ready “Queen Mother for a day ever.” 2) She got another card which presented…

  • Birthday Week 2006

    Birthday Week 2006

    When we were first married, one of the many (Many. MA-NY.) things Gary and I had to work through was the birthday issue. My family celebrates one’s birthday, remarkably, on the day one was born. The in-laws like to play around with which day shall be the Feast of the Birthday. The date is not…

  • Nuns! Nuns! Nuns!

    First: a geography lesson. Let’s start you in East Saint Louis, Illinois. You are standing on the bank of the Mississippi River and looking West. You are looking at the Arch. You are in great danger because you are in East Saint Louis. (Well you are.) Go west. Swim west, that is. Hurry! Swim faster!…

  • Happy Almost Birthday

    The night before I turned twenty-one, I was sleeping over at my Aunt Carleen’s apartment. She took the opportunity to tell me the best years of my life were now officially over and everything would be going downhill from here. I was horrified. I am glad to report Aunt Carleen was completely wrong. I really…

  • South Asian Non-Terrorist

    Well, the visit of the niece and nephew was punctuated by some War Fallout. Arhan-fay and Arzaana-fay were walking with us in the mall, and a family walked past us in the other direction, led by a pot-bellied man. As he passed, I saw my niece’s head whip around and her jaw dropped open, and…

  • In Which I Do Not Have Cancer

    I have been so wiped out for the last day and a half. Of course, I assumed it was some MS-related fatigue related to the heat. Then I started thinking…cancer? I just now diagnosed it. Mom’s doctor visit Friday morning threw off my schedule, and it was just too hot later to walk across the…

  • Auntie Dearest

    Gary and I differ on the role of the Aunt. Technically, I’m an Aunt-in-Law, because my brother has no kids, but Gary’s sister Sandy has the two kids, Arhan-fay and Arzaana-fay. Gary and I have had many conversations about the kids. They all boil down to this: Step One: Gary asks for information about the…

  • Meme Du Week

    Meme Du Week

    Because none of the photos of my thumb came out clearly (the smiley scar with the ink eyes and nose makes me so happy) I am piling on along with Mister Zero (with whom We Shall Not F*ck, which is what I think every time I visit her page) and with the Evil Genius, now…