Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2013

  • The End of Mac

    I think the last time Mac seemed normal was at 6 Tuesday, when he slept on my chest. Gradually over the evening he lost mental acuity. By 1 am I had entirely given up and commenced crying, and we said out goodbyes. It was sweet that he fell asleep for fifteen minutes with his face…

  • Updated: Dog Slump

    Dog woke up at 4:45 this morning in full Weather Alert Mode. When he does this I turn on the TV and usually find there is an impending weather situation, and I calm him down, or at least try. Today’s weather didn’t arrive until 3:30 in the afternoon, and by then the dog had stress…

  • Pre-C Word

    Remember when Gary had that colonoscopy? He had two polyps, both of the angelic variety? They cut them out, did biopsies, and they were pre-cancerous. BUM bum BUUUUUUUUM. My take on it was, “Awesome, you’ve had pre-emptive cancer surgery.” His take was more complicated. Somehow he held these opposing viewpoints in his mind simultaneously: “Gah!…

  • Basement Progress

    First, the junk men came out and hauled away all my carefully organized junk. I took some photos to compare the before and after. Before After Before after I know! They look exactly the same. Then I found the photo that will express how much progress has been made. Tony and Alex standing by my…

  • Karma

    Years ago, I bought Gary this tool chest, which he almost immediately broke. I put something too heavy in a drawer, it got off the track, and Gary used brute force to twist the drawer into a half-out position – where it stayed stuck for at least a decade. Does that go with the tidy…

  • Adventures In Trivia, Act Three: The Mojo Protects Us

    Previously on Adventures In Trivia: After buying a trivia win and Munchkins, we buy cake and wine for our bereaved friend Meredith. When we set off for Meredith’s house, Caroline said she wasn’t sure but Meredith might live in a sketchy neighborhood. Of course, as the driver, I needed more detail. Caroline: “Go east into…

  • Adventures In Trivia, Act Two: The Mojo Fades then Rises Again

    Previously on Adventures in Trivia: We buy ourselves half of a trivia victory. Of course, we were close, and those points may have been ours all along. So, whether we cheated or not, we were very jazzed after our “victory.” (Quick aside: let me take this opportunity to apologize the French for calling them sore…

  • Adventures In Trivia, Act One: The Mojo Rises

    I picked up Caroline and Marcia in the Mini and we tooled off to trivia. We ended up with just us and Anne at a ten-person table. Sure, the odds were against us, but I was doping. I’d just taken my first megadose of Vitamin D. Given it was just the four of us against…

  • Vitamin D

    Monday: No New Lesions! No! New! Lesions! Later That Same Week: The neurologist’s office called and said the results of the vitamin D test he ran were low. Low normal is 30; I am 13. When I was first diagnosed, that doctor said they speculated MS had something to do with how vitamin D is…

  • Pre-Shelf Elf

    I need to say this before the Christmas tree and this ornament go back to the basement. This ornament has been – I can’t say “in my family,” that makes it sound like an heirloom. Start again. I did not throw this little elf away when Mom died, though I threw away his five brother…