Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2010

  • Steak Versus Steak

    A few weeks ago I made a roast. I’m afraid I over-researched the roast and found myself Googling, “premium dry-aged beef.” Overpriced status food! Have we met? I’m sure the other overpriced status foods have mentioned my name. Now, I could have gotten a supermarket hunk of meat and used Alton Brown’s method to age…

  • A New Show

    My Strange Addiction– why was I not TOLD ABOUT THIS SHOW? Of course, it just premiered five minutes before I tuned in by chance and saw a woman addicted to sleeping (platonically) with her turned on (platonically) blow dryer, but who cares because there was also a woman addicted to eating toilet paper. I immediately…

  • Because it Feels Like Sunday Bullets

    I truly have no sense of what day it is today. Every day of the last five days has felt like Sunday. Yule LogI always wondered about the Yule Log, a four hour television show solely of a log burning in Gracie Mansion. It (usually) plays in New York on Christmas morning. I have wondered…

  • Interfacing

    For the last few days we have played with the Kinect, slept, ate, and let the dog out. (An aside: When you all let your dogs out so they can squat in the snow, does anyone else think of that scene in The Long Winter when Pa Ingalls has to rescue the cows because their…

  • Christmas Pain

    All Over Body Pain from the Kinect. We only played the first level of Adventure games and I hurt. All I did was plug holes in the wall, jump on the river raft, and pop bubbles in space. We didn’t even open up the game in which we beat the shit out of each other.…

  • Hugh Hefner to Wed Again

    So, Hef is engaged. This makes me think of my favorite People magazine cover ever:

  • Bad Bad Christian

    “Hmmm … I’m supposed to wake Gary up because it’s midnight and we can exchange presents now. Let’s check the news first. What’s on CNN … some heavy Taliban thing? No, a Jesus thing. Fox .. Another Jesus thing? What’s with the Jesus, it’s … oh … I am going to hell.”

  • Ohhhhhh …

    I wondered why on earth my stats were so high, then I saw it was because I had a hundred searches for “babka.” Then I wondered if it was some Jewish holiday, because babka recipe searches peak on Jewish holidays. Then I realized what day it is. Happy Official Festivus, everyone.

  • Christmas Shopping

    Gary’s Love Language is unquestionably Giving Gifts. Gary’s family told him this year that he loves them too much every year and he needs to back OFF. Sadly, this happened after he bought a dining room table of gifts and then brought up a card table to fill with gifts for the family dogs, plus…

  • December 22, 2010

    For the first time in years, blood draws are avoidable. And I had my last blood draw yesterday. It wasn’t for the trial or a check-up, it was for a blood test required by my life insurance. This test wasn’t required of anyone else at work, all of whom have the same insurance, so must…