Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2011

  • Sweetness spin: Gary really wanted to be sure the ice cream cake was just perfect for Father’s Day.

    Since Wilma hasn’t been making his meals for him, Ken has been free to follow his appetites. It would seem he has been denied the AMOUNT of JAM a grown man requires. When Gary and his sister both heard how much peach jam Ken has been putting on his toast, they individually decided to get…

  • Grocery Bullets

    I slept for 14 hours last night AND I took a 90 minute nap today, Still just wiped out. I think: “WALK walk WALK walk” and my body goes: “walk …. walk …. walk …. walk.” But I still have a pressing collection of thoughts that require feedback. Dryer sheets and fabric softener. Why? These…

  • Food Truckin’

    Today was the day Steve From Work and I set out for the urban street food truck experience! Out of the door and on the street all alone There are your food trucks in the circle. While we were there this street was not any less deserted. I was expecting lines! Hubub! Rats eating scraps!…

  • Fun Plans

    Okay! As long as Steve from Work doesn’t bail on me, I’m going to the Falafelwich food truck tomorrow. There are a lot of things I can do on my own, but eating at a food truck downtown isn’t one of them. It sounds like the falafel truck AND the cupcake truck will both be…

  • Paris, Waffle House, Whatever.

    Gary took me to Waffle House for our 26th anniversary. They have new hash brown options. Back in our day the menu stopped at “Chunked.” Now they have “capped” and something else – “peppered,” I think. And CHEESE EGGS. You can’t get them anywhere else; you can’t make them at home. We did talk about…

  • Gary Was In Fine Form Tonight

    GOP VERSUS GOP I think a local cable station needs to broadcast political debates with a split screen live feed of Gary watching political debates. Or, even better, it could be like VH1’s Pop-Up Videos (which I hear is coming back). Just little bubbles popping up during the debate, so you could still hear the…

  • How I Suffer

    Gary says I don’t really have poison ivy, if I did have poison ivy, I would have huge oozing welts like he does when HE has poison ivy. My skin doesn’t itch: it burns. This is why I have spent the day with ice packs on my face. My eye swelling has gone down. In…

  • UPDATED: A Nice Day And How to Spoil It

    It was 75 today, with a light wind, as it was in Eden. Of course, thunderstorms are predicted for tomorrow. I remember when weathermen predicted fair weather for the days too far off to forecast. Now it seems any day within 48 hours will be stormy. Dire thunderstorms: the default weather prediction for the day…

  • Dark Things in Dark Corners

    Sometime last year, the light went out in our refrigerator. We haven’t had it fixed. For a while we kept a flashlight beside it, then a light in it, then a motion activated light that would only detect motions IT made. Then we stopped caring entirely. A few nights ago, Gary open the fridge door,…

  • 1993

    In ’93, I woke up, checked the news, and heard the Monarch levee had broken. “Poor farmers,” I thought. “That’s so sad.” I did not know my levees. The Monarch levee protects the fine people and boutiques and gourmet food shops of Chesterfield Valley. It’s a ten minute drive from my house, and while I…