Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Month: November 2009

  • So Many Bullets, So Little to Say

    TV Bullet 1: Hoarders Season Premiere. It’s on the tiVO and I would have seen it tonight, only Gary took an hour out of my life pinning me down on the guest bed. While he was asleep. And snoring. And with my controller out of arm’s reach. TV Bullet 2: I have decoded the penultimate…

  • A Brief Shining Moment on Black Friday

    On Black Friday, Gary called his sister and suggested we all give each other two presents and that will be it. (And the angel chorus sings.) Unfortunately, during the same conversation the sister-in-law said, “I always buy lots of plastic and paper supplies for Mom and Dad, but … I’ll just put them in a…

  • ScienceWoman also speculates what the relation is between Pricing and Performance of Bass Guitars

    Well, I did try on the Smartwools and every step in those socks was like getting a footrub. Initially. As so often happens, they got bored and didn’t put as much energy into pleasing me as they did at the beginning of the day. And then I saw this comment sent from an actual SockMeister,…

  • Thanks!

    It seems wrong to give thanks if I had some credit in what I’m thankful for. Like, I’m thankful for my husband, but I picked him. I’m thankful for having financial stability. Well, who do I have to thank for that? That would be me. (Wha – did you just say “You could thank your…

  • Sock-off

    ScienceWoman returns. This time I am doing a control study on socks: Does Sock Expense Parallel Sock Quality? Four brand-new socks were purchased for this purpose. Group A: Socks from the grocery store.Price: $5.00 Group B: Pantherella SocksPrice: $13.00 Group C: Smartwool “Best Friend” socks.Price: $17.00 Group D: Marcoliani My house is paid off SocksPrice:…

  • Alarming News

    Way too many alarming stories in the news today. 1) Lou Dobbs is “mulling” a White House bid. I cannot imagine Lou Dobbs mulling anything, but supposedly he’s only at DefCon Mull. If indeed he did mull, the mull would quickly intensify and we’d at DefCon Consider and nuking Miami. 2) Behold, the Son of…

  • A Story From Gary

    I do wish Gary was awake so I could just transcribe the story he told me when I came home from work. I’ll do my best from memory. Gary took the dog on a walk this evening. This was what Gary would describe as a “doggie walk,” as opposed to the alternative, a “daddy walk.”…

  • Best and Worst Time of Year!

    So everyone’s bitching about how early Christmas decorations went up this year – before Thanksgiving, even. But don’t you know that just means Retrospective Time comes even sooner? Ask me how many hours I just spent on Time’s Best and Worst site. Granted, some lists apply to 2008, but this list had a particular appeal…

  • Tasteless

    For a while, Mom’s annual birthday gift was the latest copy of the Truly Tasteless Joke books. She also was a particular fan of the no arms and no legs jokes. (There is a notable omission on that link. “Who’s The Guy With No Arms and No Legs and no Tongue Hanging on the Wall?”…

  • Wooooo! Woooooo!

    Gary and I went to the Bruce Hornsby concert tonight. I see why Becs is so mad about him! He was very personable, and on top of that he and every musician in his band dazzled. And Gary was damn lucky to be there, since I had initially planned to go with Anne from work,…