Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2013

  • This is how I pack for three nights in chicago

    Marcia has more and she isn’t even staying overnight.

  • Finally WINDFARM

    Finally WINDFARM

    Evidently the trick is to add it the wrong way and also copy / paste

  • Apologies to the feed readers

    I’m trying to get the hang of the new publishing rules …. Patience

  • Cheetoes carrots throw down

  • Leaving the House!

    Tomorrow morning I’m leaving the house! Piling into a car, driving to Chicago with Friends 2, 3, and Mr. 2, and then tearing up River North. I will see new things! Drive new streets! See Book of Mormon! Eat Eggs Benedict! Watch the season finale of Downton Abbey while eating room service! Stay an extra…

  • State of My Evening

    Driving home late from work, I dreaded walking in again to an empty house. I started thinking about low-maintenance pets. Lizards? Would a lizard greet me when I came in? What about a bird? A parrot! Then I began to wonder what phrases a parrot would pick up. Obviously, “Hon, can you get me an…

  • That Stopping Point

    I have a dreadful habit of allllmmmost finishing a project, and then abandoning it. The basement is alllllllllmmmmost finished. I got this far: I made a pile in the center of the basement. A pile of everything that will go on the shelves once they are assembled. Then, Gary helped me put together the frame…

  • A Rose For Mac, by William Faulkner

    Tonight, Gary was unloading some groceries. “Vegetarian lasagna?” I asked. “It’s Mac’s favorite,” he said. ===================================== Gary wants to leave the house as it was when Mac was here. He wants to believe Mac’s just around the corner, napping. I haven’t been allowed to pick up Mac’s dessicated food. His water is pretty close to…

  • The Big Snow of My Youth

    Nemo has been making me remember the big blizzard of my youth. I look about ten, so it would be – 1973. We got a foot overnight. So nice when the internet confirms my reality. Of course in my mind I am six and that yardstick is totally covered. I also recall the St.Louis Blizzard…

  • CNN Tickles Me

    So there is a manhunt on for a nut job who killed three people. First, though, he sent CNN a package containing this: It tickles me so much that CNN keeps showing the photo of the DVD and NEVER even suggests they might play what is on the DVD. Must be driving the nut job…