Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2012

  • A PSA: Women’s Heart Attack Symptoms

    Here’s a quote from the last post: Yesterday … I was semi-conscious from lack of oxygen. That began Friday, when I went to a lovely Dove Chocolate Sales party hosted at a home I covet. A … home with two short flights of concrete steps that left me a little winded. I never caught my…

  • Is This Thing On?

    The household internet has failed me. Come to find out we have an antique cable modem that probably won’t survive through this post. Strangely, a ceiling fan that stopped working ten years ago began spinning happily while we were at work. It’s stopped now; I don’t know when that happened. Perhaps it stopped yesterday while…

  • I Am A Tacky Wedding Guest

    Well, the nephew has sent out his wedding invitations, and they end with the phrase, “No boxed gifts please.” This was a new one for me, and I was as appalled as anyone. Why not, “Just bring cash!” The horror, the horror. Gary promptly launched his gift protocol, which is, “I will buy you what…

  • No One Cares What I Had for Lunch or Dinner

    … but I had two things I thought I didn’t like. Lunch Pork Belly at the TeddyJ Cafe. I’ve tried pork belly before, and it was flabby and vile. I think the problem was that it was straight pork belly, whereas this was a strata of pork meat with a tasty tasty layer of pork…

  • Lessons Ravioli Has Taught Me

    Lesson One: Money Solves All Ravioli-Based Problems The secret of the Kitchenaid ravioli is to cough up more cash for the pasta roller. It makes silky yet tough dough that can then withstand the ravioli press. And it is as fun to use as that one bank commercial makes it seem. (I think it’s a…

  • Your loss, ravioli maker

    Back to Williams Sonoma you go UPDATE: Last night, right before bed, Gary said, “I don’t think you should return the ravioli maker.” “Why ever not?” I said, calculating what I paid for the ravioli maker. “It’s just kind of jerky to return something just because you don’t like it. If it didn’t work at…

  • Another Reason I’m a Democrat

    People are greedy. People lie, cheat, and steal for money. Democrats: Welfare fraud amounts to 1.9% of welfare payments. Big government waste cost $17.2 billion in 2008. Republicans: Greed and fraud by a small number of republicans brings down the economy.

  • Ravioli Dreams

    I don’t understand ravioli. Ravioli I have known: Egg ravioli at Acero. One of the best things to eat in Saint Louis. Had it, loved it. Another Saint Louis favorite, toasted ravioli. You people outside Saint Louis would call it “deep-fried ravioli.” We prefer “toasted” because there is no batter coating or dusting of powdered…

  • Spunky meets Becs’ Challenge with an overexposed photo to hide her wrinkles

  • Online Community Gathers to Mock Sickly Child

    This is a child who has been asked to pick up her bowl after dinner so she can help her mother clean up. My initial reaction to this video was, “This is a child I would drop kick across the room until she and her bowl were in the sink.” Then I watched a few…