Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2011

  • Wrap-up

    The Cheese-Barley (nee Mushroom) soup is wonderful, once you dilute it with a splash of milk. Gary refuses to eat it. Celebrity Hat did a tour at work and is back home now. I suppose she’s retired. Wilma is going to start physical therapy tomorrow. At every visit she flashes something at Gary, or lowers…

  • 240 Minute Meals

    I’ve always been puzzled by cookbooks promising “Thirty-Minute Meals!” Aren’t most meals thirty minutes? Thirty minutes at 350. Any casserole is thirty minutes. Chicken anything is thirty minutes. A whole turkey or a roast is more, but the prep time for both is two minutes to rinse and drop in the oven. (In my mind,…

  • Late to the Game

    So this past week: I bought Bossypants. Bloggers read this months ago. I began playing Words with Friends. Bloggers did this a year ago. I’m not ready to play it with anyone but myself and a small circle of Friend. (Marcia, #3). I made cake balls. Bloggers made these a year ago. I wanted to…

  • UPDATED:Words You Play on Words With Friends When You Are Really Tired

    Words that were accepted: Mels. Ungot. I intended to play ingot, but ungot was a higher score.Why not try? Ungot. Ridiculous. Then, realizing words with friends has low standards, I just began typing things that looked as if they might be words. Nu. Drolled. (I droll, I will droll, I once drolled.) Alow. Agon. Wifi…

  • I Am Resisting the Urge to Photoshop This

    I Am Resisting the Urge to Photoshop This

    I crawled out of the basement this evening, annoyed at myself for succumbing to the hype. All day we heard about the massive storm system headed our way. Usually I wait to hear a storm is a mile away and headed right at me, but today I went to the mattresses in the basement after…

  • Duck Sighting

    Today we were driving South on 270 toward Page, and we saw flashing lights ahead. Traffic was still moving at 65mph past the two police cars parked in the passing lane. I mention that because it’s part of a word problem. “If Gary is traveling at 65 mph past two police cars parked end to…

  • Love Cicadas

    I. What Provoked It: a. Gary was taken with the waffle fries at the new Chick-fil-A. (Which Gary calls “Chick-Fill-Uh.” just to annoy me.) When I called from work and mentioned we had several healthy alternatives at home, he drove through Arby’s for another waffle fry experience. b. When asked in the drive through what…

  • Genetics

    Wilma’s still fine. I know I’ve been spending my time away from my blog this weekend, and I’d think that was reasonable if I’d spent any of it with the S______s. But instead I just stayed tucked in with MY S______. Gary and I went to visit Wilma in the ICU on Saturday at noon,…

  • Communication Styles of the People of the Christian Northeast Hospital

    Cardiac Surgeons – They speak frankly. This how three surgeons explained to Wilma what would happen if she didn’t have the bypass. “You’ll die.” “One day, boom, you’ll drop over dead from a heart attack.” “There’s a 100% chance you’ll die.” Knowing that Wilma has her own reserved Trump-sized mansion in the afterlife, I threw…

  • UPDATE: Sister Karen Saves WIlma’s Life

    Because Mom had such limited arm function, she established early on that if she said to do something we kids had to do it. We didn’t do everything she said, but if it was a physical order like “clean that” or “pick that up” then we didn’t question. Mom always knew what Mom wanted. This…