Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2010

  • New Blender

    Blender the First: Twenty-five years ago we got a Black and Decker blender for our wedding. That blender was still working twenty years later when I gave it away to someone who needed a blender. This was a mistake, because it led to … Blender the Second: I bought a blender at Walmart, and it…

  • My Tree

    When I was five, we had an aluminum Christmas tree, yes, with the wheel of color. (Not shown. Because it isn’t my photo.) I was five, and I told my mother I loved that tree and I wanted that tree for my wedding gift. Of course, I had no recall of this at my wedding,…

  • This Week in My Luck

    Well, I got good news from the clinical trial nurse. If she wasn’t speaking out of turn, I won’t pay anything for the drug. When I complained on behalf of all other people with MS in the world who might feel Four Thousand Dollars a Month (not a typo) is excessive, she explained that somehow…

  • This years Christmas ornament

  • Leaves of Cheese

    Last week I was browsing on-line cheese. I saw an entry for cheese leaves, a suggested add-on to my order for just $5. “That would be great!” I thought,”Cheese leaves! How cute.” I could just envision them. Very thin slices of dark yellow-orange cheddar cheese cut into leaf shapes. Perhaps some would have veins of…

  • Updated: i passed! Please Wish Me Luck

    I bit off an entire fingernail, then yelled at Gary, then ate buttered popcorn and a chocolate eclair. I am taking Series 66 (Son of Series 7) Thursday afternoon at 15:30. They use military time just to mess with my head. Wish me luck or whatever you did with the Series 7.

  • Facts and feelings

    Last night I was watching Anderson Cooper almost tear his sexy grey hair out over a conversation he was having with a birther. By chance Gary was watching the same thing in another room and began screaming. You can skip it, or you could watch it below. It is amazing, just to watch Anderson walk…