Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: September 2012

  • So now we’re playing the political MS card?

    I just saw this tweet: I did love Michelle Obama’s speech tonight, but I blinked a few times at the reminder that her father had MS and never complained. Was it an obvious comparison to Anne Romney, who has MS and was devastated and had to buy a dancing horse to cheer herself up? It…

  • CNN Is Freaking Me Out

    I kept catching the tail end of some PSA, in which a woman pleasantly tells me she had pain in her abdomen, and come to find out IT WAS CANCER, and she advises all of us to “be brave and go to the doctor” if we have unexplained pain for over two weeks. It might…

  • Pew! Pew pew! Bullets!

    Hopefully in twenty or so years we will remember to walk in to Mattress Firm (nee Giant) and remember to say, “Just give us you firmest mattress.” That’s essentially how it went down today, and a Stearns and Foster mattress that goes by “Adele” is coming on Friday. While Gary was wrapping up the details…

  • Update on the Meds

    Emotionally: Over a week on the half dose of drugs, and my emotions are still in check. I’ve been a little bummed out that ants are spiteful when exterminated. Every morning I wake to half a dozen ants dead or dying on my kitchen sill. I can think of no reason for them to make…