Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2010

  • Ride to and from Father’s Day

    S_____ father’s day celebrations were held Saturday. Right under the wire, they almost had it on the actual day. The day was uneventful, but there is always drama with Gary around. The Drive There Gary: “BP shouldn’t be allowed to write off the disaster as a tax deduction.” Me: “Well, they lost money while doing…

  • Something in the Water

    So, my brother Dave called, and we were chatting, and I asked where his (tentative) girlfriend was. “Oh, she’s at The Water Store.” “Is that code or something? I’m supposed to be studying. Just tell me.” “She’s at The Water Store. Getting water.” “You have stores in New Mexico that sell water.” “Yes.” “JUST water?”…

  • FYI: What to Do if Charter Cable Comes to Your House and then A Month Later Your Cable is Messed Up

    Background information: A month ago, our cable provider came by our house because Blah something, High Def Blah, something, they had to work on Gary’s TV. Before the cable man left he said, I’m not doing blah, but after a week or so if you notice things aren’t working, Switch The Tivo to Antenna. [Capitalization…

  • A Special Guest Post from God

    Okay, all you Glen Beck fans, this is God posting. The Lord your God. At ease. First of all, you are in the wrong place. Evidently Glen Beck made some type of allusion to a poem by Rudyard Kipling. (I don’t know, I don’t watch the Glen Beck show.) So now you all googled “little…

  • July 14, 1985 – Damn! JUNE 14, 1985

    July 14. ( Just – just – shut up. I always confuse June and July. And when I looked up the date in Wikipedia, I thought, I swear to you I THOUGHT “Huh! I never knew that. I thought Bastille day WAS IN JULY. Guess I’m wrong!”) At the time, I didn’t know I was…

  • Illness Strikes the House

    Both Gary and the in-laws have been sick for three weeks. This illness does not manifest by any issue of fluids, or coughing, or sneezing. Symptom 1: fatigue Optional Symptom 2: sore eyes Y-Chromosome-bound Symptom 3: boils Gary and his Dad both have boils. Wilma has not been plagued with boils or buboes. However, she…

  • Feel Free To Skip This Post …

    … because it’s one of those anniversary “why I love my husband” posts. I always skip yours. Uh, sorry. (This is coming out 2 days early because Monday, Official Anniversary Day, we have agreed to call the cable company and get the cable problem resolved, and we dispute what is wrong with the cable, and…

  • It’s Always a Power Issue with Spunky

    Spunky says the Appendage thought she had enough battery power to reply to comment and blog, but turns out she didn’t and the power cable is bad. Spunky is annoyed because she wanted to see if there was a toenail polish named Dark Humor and now she can’t.

  • In the room the women come and go…

    Sometimes, schedules and meetings toss together a perfect mix at lunch. We were three ladies and a gentleman. I mention Gary had been working so hard he hadn’t heard Joran Van Der Sloot had killed another girl. A lady demurred, “Well, he ‘confessed,’ but what does that mean, it’s all just lies.” The gentleman in…

  • The In-Laws Are Overflowing with Encouragement and Approval

    Disclaimer: For our 25th anniversary the in-laws gave us the china bell they got for their 25th anniversary, and we are to pass it on to Gary’s married sister in 15 years. So that’s nice. BUT NICE ENOUGH? You tell me. The In-Law reaction to the Paris trip was, if you recall, “Terrorists! Volcanoes!” We…