Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2009

  • Autumn Light

    This afternoon, like every afternoon, I drove over my favorite hill. Saint Louisans, if you head west it’s on the Page Extension before the Maryland Heights Expressway. You know it: suddenly the river valley spreads out full of clouds. I hunted for a photo to show you scattered Dots, and eventually got on the (virtual)…

  • In Which Strangers Do Not Appreciate Gary’s Tone

    These two tales date back to our Vegas vacation. Bear in mind Gary was feverish at the time, and he does not travel well. I think the reason he and his entire family don’t travel well is that travel is exciting, and the S______s have a high excitement baseline. Waking up at home and making…

  • Health

    Check this out. After six weeks of illness (and a few weeks of laziness preceding) I finally re-hung some prints Gary knocked down. Don’t worry, I just straightened out the second from the left. The thing is, this means I am returned to health. I have missed my health, such as it is. Before the…

  • Outraged Over the State of Movies Today!

    My fever is done and my cough is suppressed. (Suppressed, thanks to the lung-numbing meds. They got stuck in my throat yesterday and became scary swallowing-suppressants. Then my stomach didn’t like them and then they were gone.) Gary, sadly, is not better but worse. Worse and raving. He’s making an unnatural amount of True Blood…

  • Where the Wild Things Weren’t

    So these thoughts crossed my mind this afternoon: “So evidently someone’s made a movie out of this children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are. Must be after my time. I know that the made the Narnia books into a movie, but that’s really more of a young adult book. Isn’t this wild things book like…

  • How Hoarding Starts

    There was a time I would never have left a dirty house when I went on vacation. And I could not abode being sick in a dirty house. However, I no longer have the will to live, since I have been sick with what Gary now calls the “Feral Boar Flu” for five weeks now.…

  • Cirque du Sowhatthehellisgoingon

    Glossary of Terms: Cirque du Soleil: “a dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment.” There are acrobats and clowns and contortionists, plus actors and actresses, and a good deal of amazing effects. O: The permanent Cirque show at the Bellagio. It combines the spectacle of a Cirque show with water skills like diving and…

  • BNL Concert in the Godforsaken Town of Primm Nevada

    I had a little culture shock when we drove from the Bellagio to the BNL concert (40 miles outside Vegas in Primm Nevada). Desert mountains are made out of dirt! I’m sorry to offend any mountain dwellers, but I had just gone from the Bellagio … … to Buffalo Bills: … which is not the…

  • Spunky also enjoys the tub.

  • Breakfast

    I had the chocolate éclair ( not shown).