Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2012

  • And lo, the days pass, and there was cheese

    It looks like cheese and smells like cheese. I don’t know how it tastes. Might have to feed it to Mac and see if he lives. Or might have to make an omelet for Gary.

  • Call of Nature

    The Little Insect Squirrels are growing on me now that I can see them up close on the bird camera. They are so tiny and move so fast when you see them across the yard, it’s disgusting, but when you see them up close and watch them play and talk to each other, it’s cute.…

  • Failure Faux Pas

    Recently, Gary was complaining about how he will be laid off in a matter of days (he won’t) and he’ll never get another job (he needn’t), and eventually he trudged off in moderate to high dudgeon. I thought of supportive things to say, and my train of thought went: 1. He really gets a lot…

  • Putting the Urban in Suburban

    Something shiny caught my eye as I trudged up the driveway this afternoon. Shiny Object! Brass and Shiny Object. I picked it up. Oh! Shiny Brass Shell Casing. Now, I’ve found shell casings before, because this is America, and there are deer. But this wasn’t like those. This was button-sized. I turned it over and…

  • Patient, Heal Thyself

    Last Friday, when I drank a cup of coffee and coughed it up a few hours later, I thought I should call my doctor and make an appointment so I could get some of this Prilosec stuff – the Industrial strength version, not the OTC version. I checked in on his blog first, in much…

  • Respect Mah Food AuthoriTAY!

    I don’t understand a thing about Technorati.com. I don’t know who makes the rankings. I don’t know who looks at the rankings. I suspect it’s like some early version of Klout which looks at the words you use and extrapolates from there. Here’s my blog ranking: Technorati Authority: 118 Rank 20802 Living Authority: 134 Rank:…

  • Where Was the Whooping?

    A President of These United States went on the news this afternoon and said same sex marriage was okay by him. And when did I hear about this? GARY told me when he got home at 8. I had turned on CNN for a few minutes at 7, MSNBC was on momentarily as well, plus…

  • The Year In Coughing

    Thanks to Rachel from the cruise, I get to go talk about my health on a panel on my birthday. I will not monopolize the panel, I will not monopolize the panel. I do like talking about my health. Old people talk about health all the time. I’d like to think it’s because we they…

  • Don’t Mention the War!

    Somehow in the last fifteen years several sights have arrived in Saint Louis, and I have missed them. CityGarden, for example, and the Modern Art museum, and a new and improved Transport museum, and the one I visited this past weekend, the Kemp Auto Museum. It’s on the flood plain in Chesterfield Valley that was…

  • Hobby Wrap-up

    Mom always said she could judge her health by the mental redecorating she did. I’ve been feeling quite well lately, but I rarely redecorate. Instead, I feel my interest in hobbies re-surfacing. Cooking: Today I am making a pot roast. It smells delectable. DELECTABLE damn you. I had to turn on the air guard feature…