Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2009

  • Putting it Out There

    Wow, I almost made it through the whole season without seeing American Idol once. We made a point of watching the finale, though. I don’t know the background of any of the performers, not even Big Pointy-Haired Guy or Little Pointy-Haired Guy. Neither’s voice made me want to know more about them. However I read…

  • St. Louis: Famous for Booze, Blues, and Shoes

    BoozeThis weekend we went off to the one store in town that sells the Faythe-based Scrumpy cider: The Wine and Cheese Shop located in the old Famous and Barr building in Clayton.. Or, as Gary kept calling it, “Making a booze run for my wife.” I got all of the Scrumpy, all nine bottles, and…

  • Mailbox, etc.

    How shall I explain the level of crisis that hit this home tonight? How else but with the Homeland Security Advisory System. This was the mailbox that was ultimately selected as the Mother of All Mailboxes. Of course, that image is stripped, not loaded. Gary wanted the newspaper box and the extra plate on top…

  • Clothing Revolution part the fourth

    Room in my closet and room in my pants.

  • Clothing Revolution part three

    Did you know there’s this place called Dress Barn? I’d never been there before! And given I will grow out of all THESE clothes in a year they were a good value. I laid out all the clothes so deceptively that I had to be honest with the giant blue granny panties.

  • Clothing Revolution part two

    Is anyone a 16W? If you have to ask what W stands for you are not a W. These clothes are off to Goodwill Monday night unless you send me an email at queenellenofm at gmail.com. Shoes are 8 .

  • Clothing Revolution part one

    This closet was packed before the revolution started.

  • Elton John! Billy Joel!

    Let me first respond to the questions people asked me in real life. “How were your seats?” Seats were not bad. (The steps up to the stage can be seen on the bottom left – white with black lines. There may or may not be two pianos on the stage at this point. Drums came…

  • On the way to the Elton John Billy Joel concert

    I did honk and these people went wild.

  • Another Visitation

    There was a booksale at TeddyJ today. I donated a sack of books Gary culled from our house. All of it crap: Tom Clancy, The DaVinci Code, John Grisham. Later, Friend 3 and I were poking around the books, when a mutual friend, Steve, came by with The DaVinci Code in hand. “Hey, I donated…