Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2011

  • Brain Dead

    I hate off-line shopping. 1. There is No Search Saturday I was able to find many things on my shopping list. The only thing left was bias tape. I kept thinking, “Where is the bias tape. In MY day they had something called BIAS tape that you could use to finish a curve. BI. ASS.…

  • Process on the Project du Jour

    The Work on the hat continues apace. A steady apace. Thursday. I complained to the lunch crowd that the Scarlett hat looks good full frontal but not so good in profile. I said I was thinking of getting some material covered wire. gluing ostrich feathers to it, and then spiraling from the edge to the…

  • THESE are the crabcakes at Almonds in Clayton

    Looks like we have crabcakes when the Mini gets serviced.

  • Gary Gets Stylin

    Here’s a quiz. Of these shirts, which one would my husband never ever wear? Pretty easy quiz. I can’t have the only husband who would scream if I handed him the shirt on the top right. “Flowers! It has flowers! I can’t wear flowers!” This prohibition applies to ties as well. No flowers. A shirt…

  • Assembling the materials for The Hat

    Okay. I’ve got this and this: And this: It looks like the feathers at the ends will lay together. (Before you moan the loss of Momma’s poteers my boa, remember you can shake it and the feathers fall out.) So those will cover the bottom of the brim and the crown. The brim will be…

  • Seriously, We Didn’t Call This LobsterHospice? Really?

    These bad boys are going to be dismantled and put in my belly soon with some butter. Once you start a tradition, you have to uphold it. I am again celebrating my Mom’s life and teachings by killing a lobster with my bare hands on the anniversary of her death. I thought Gary might want…

  • Mom In Three Boxes

    Today was the day Mom died three years ago, so today was the deadline I gave myself for getting her files completely sorted, and it is Done. I put the lid on the last box and announced “Mom is officially dead.” Gary said, “Your Mom will never really be gone,” and that is true. When…

  • The Cracker Barrel Story

    I kept this a secret for a few days, because it felt like a betrayal to write it down. Surprisingly, the party involved unlocked the figurative lockbox and all can be revealed. There is a lot of cursing in this one. And seriously, enough TMI that I kept it under wraps. So think about that.…

  • I Stand Corrected

    Errata 1: Gary wanted to correct me. “That tumor tree in the backyard is NOT an oak. I asked the tree guy. He said it was something, like a ‘Shinsplint cypress.’” “Shag bark hickory?” “No” “Sweetgum?” “No.” “Sassafrass?” “No.” “Shining Sumac?” “No.” So I’ve decided it’s a sycamore. Errata 2: I was dead wrong about…

  • Miscellaneum

    “Miscellaneum” is an impossible word. As miscellanea means, in the usual sense, “a miscellaneous collection of different things”, a single miscellaneum is logically impossible because variety and diversity(in their usual senses) are attributes of groups of things, not of individual things; for example, a populace can be varied and diverse, but a person cannot be…