Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2010

  • Responsibility Sucks

    Tonight when I got home I walked in with a copy of the new BNL CD, All In Good Time. (Yeah, I’ll link that.) I did get a chance to read the liner notes and find the obligatory typo ([We] “use…. Yamaha Guitar’s.”) What I didn’t find were a lot of new songs with really…

  • Continued S_____ Miscommunication

    A few years ago, we got the S_____s a copy of The Cosby Show to add to their cache of 50s-80s family television. It’s been a challenge keeping up with their desires (no witches, monsters, talking animals or PORN like Frasier). Gary checked back with his Dad after a week and asked, “So, did you…

  • Andria Stanley and her Tweetus

    The tweets from @AndriaStanley today amazed me. I don’t read AndriaStanley’s blog because I read enough parent-oriented blogs to suit me. (And a big hello to Owen Mia Henry Leta/Marlo and Ezra. Kisses!) But I enjoy her tweets, so her lunch tweet surprised me. I said to the assemblage at TeddyJ: “Jesus! This woman is…

  • More From Mom On the Other Side

    We found a cookbook in which Mom stored almost all of her old driver’s license or ID photos. So, I bring you Thirty-two years of Mom Since obviously she was keeping them so I could step back and prepare myself. Below: Thirty-two, just divorced. HAPPY smile. A ten year jump to 42. I am not…

  • Chuck Berry

  • Yellow! Get Over It, Sulu!

    “Do they think we’re MORONS?” That’s Gary’s response every time we see this Quattron Sharp commercial with George Takei. Then we are required to point to the next yellow thing we see on screen, and gasp “Yellow! HOW DID THAT GET THERE? The first time, I responded to Gary’s “Do they think we’re MORONS?” with…

  • An Excellent Lenten Celebration

    A few weeks ago the work team was talking. “I think you are all aware that I am going to hell,” Steve announced. We all nodded our heads, because we know Steve. (You know Steve as He Who Still Has Not Manned up and eaten shredded wheat and olive oil in front of me.) He…

  • New News

    Do My NEW Glasses make me look Fat? This are my new green glasses. The Hot Assistant took the photo; I was hoping there was a good reflection of her in the glasses but no such luck. I Make a NEW Taste Friend I can’t count the times CatherineG has mentioned she’s had quinoa for…

  • Early to Bed

    I need to be in bed in 14 minutes! Gary and I both had to be awake this moning for 8:30 appointments. Mine was to see my neurologist (not the one I saw Friday) about this swallowing / choking issue. (When I told Gary why I’d made the appointment, he said, “No way! I’ve been…

  • On Mirrors

    Somewhere in MiddleSex there is a German word that describes the way the middle-aged avoid mirrors. I was confronted with unexpected mirrors all day today. First, I was at Snooty West County Hair Salon getting a hair cut from [Hot] Steve. I focused my pupils on his face in the mirror, but there were a…