Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2011

  • Do Not Visit the Grocery Store Under the Influence of Barium

    You may remember last Friday I swallowed some barium, and immediately felt a mad urge for steak. Today the last of the barium seeped out. (It has been a long weekend.) And now that it is gone I find I have another strange urge. I went to the grocery to buy foods I could cook…

  • Zombie Attack

    I took down my lush red honeysuckle, down to the ground, to better kill the poison ivy behind it. And kill it I did. I sprayed it till it was nothing but hairy dessicated vines. Then I cut those vines away from the roots and sprayed an extra dose on the roots. Then I let…

  • Gary Fan Club

    Forgive me, I’ve been willing the Cardinals into the World Series all weekend. Right now it’s 9 to 4, our favor, so I’m taking some time for myself. I also spent a little time on yard work, alternatively known here as Catching Poison Ivy. And – damn! The Brewers scored. I’ll get back with you.…

  • And the Burp Bone’s Connected to the Pee Bone

    So, the barium swallow revealed these things: I do not particularly like barium, even though it is on the periodic table (56, Be). It tastes like dirt. The body can only take so much barium before it burps it back up. Barium really makes you crave steak. That (plus the luxurious valet parking at Missouri…

  • The Still Small Voice of Gary

    A confession: I have plastic bricks in my landscaping. The plastic bricks have a cunning interlocking connection system that real bricks do not have. Real bricks have mortar, but I do not have a hot mortar gun to connect them. Well, after our hot summer the fake bricks have stayed straight, but have given up…

  • Fetal steps

    …like baby steps, only smaller. There are these jeans neither Gary and I can wear, so they are bound for the giveaway bag in the foyer closet. Two days ago I moved them from the bed room to the hall outside the bedroom. Last night they went from the hall to a chair outside the…

  • Three Pressing Questions

    If you know (or have a guess at) the answers to these pressing questions, leave it in the comments. 1. Who chooses the music you hear before a concert? Somehow, I’ve always assumed the music was chosen by the band. I heard an entire new Fountains of Wayne CD before a BNL concert once. Gary…

  • I Love Hiro on the Delmar Loop

    Before the Bangles show, I didn’t want to eat at a chain place or Thai or somewhere I’d been too many times, such as the Chinese place across from the Pageant, or our President’s beloved Pi Pizza. It couldn’t be too far away from the Pageant because Gary didn’t want to speed-walk from dinner to…

  • Bangles! Eeee!

    They have played two of the three songs I know and two others and have just now said hello.

  • Good Day

    Becs has a nest. Going to walk like an Egyptian with The Bangles tomorrow at the Pageant. Cards win! Rally Squirrel has a Wikipedia page (look soon; haters threaten to delete it). It has not been hot for the entire month of September. Gary was able to make it home this evening at a reasonable…