Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2008

  • I Don’t Want to Do This Meme, But I Must; I Am Driven

    I’ve seen this meme around and about at least three places. It’s a year-end retrospective, and of all the years I’d like to put in retrospect it would be ’08. To borrow Friend #3’s phrase, 2008 sucked out loud. 1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?Ooooo… that’s a bad start.…

  • Vista

    Not Windows Vista. Picture-frame Vista. Due to the poor economy I now have more framed artwork than there is in Florence Italy. Before I nailed it up, I made paper templates on all the frames, marked with where the center is and where the wire peaks. Then I lived with the paper templates on the…

  • Reader’s Choice Listing

    Okay, what I finally did was to search the comments for every time someone admitted they laughed. That’s why on the left at the top you will see a new link for “It’s Too Much To Read – Just Click Here for the Reader’s Choices” There. I know I’ve done this too late for those…

  • New Holiday

    I hereby establish a new holiday. It will replace Boxing Day. It begins the day after Christmas and it is called Sleeping Day. It actually lasts two days. When it is over you find yourself awake at 3 am with lots of energy.

  • Road Conditions in Florissant

    Both Gary and my families are from Florissant, a suburb of Saint Louis. (It is not pronounced “Fluorescent” but rather “FLOOR-ih-sent.” It’s French! French for “Valley of the Moms.”) It’s a middle-class suburb, and happily it’s becoming more and more diverse the older it gets. So, Gary and I were driving to Florissant on Highway…

  • This is Genius

    What do you do if it’s your first Christmas without a loved one? Celebrate Hanukkah instead. Or, if you are Jewish and this is the first Hanukkah without a loved one, then celebrate Christmas instead this year. The reason this is genius is that you are still celebrating, still eating, still giving gifts, but instead…

  • Sigh. The Holidays Begin.

    Yesterday. Watched Babe. Babe the Pig calls every female animal “Mom” and says almost nothing but “I miss my Mom,” “Don’t die Mom,” and “Can I call you my Mom?” Cried. Today, on the way home. Thought about what to do with the rest of Mom’s ashes. Cried. At home, putting up the Nativity Scene…

  • Clinical Trial Update

    I had a fun-filled day of tests for the clinical trial last Friday. The current blood tests showed that my white blood cells are low. Normal is 4,000 – 11,000; I’m at 1,800; 1,200 gets you dropped from the trial. Soooooo … looks like the “placebo” is working a little too well. Actually, I don’t…

  • Flarp

    I pick at my nails. To overcome this weakness, I’ve taken to obsessively manipulating Silly Putty, even at work, even in meetings. People soon began to envy me my Putty. So, when Christmas rolled about I decided to give out Silly Putty. Trip to Wal-Mart. They had no Silly Putty. Absurd! (Or, may I say,…

  • Christmas Spirit

    Gary’s Christmas-celebrating sister Karen has some cats she takes care of. You might call them feral cats. Or, you might call them domesticated cats Karen has caught roaming the neighborhood, taken to the vet, and sterilized. These cats, after their adoptions (or, again, their abductions), stay in Karen’s garage until they have recovered from surgery.…