Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2013

  • Nola day two

    Required experiences: food, beignets, street theater, second line, jazz We went to the jazz brunch at Court of Two Sisters and had spectacular Eggs Benedict (not offered at our hotel, oddly), jambalaya, ham, shrimp, apple cobbler, bread pudding, curry, bacon, sausage, grits, cornbread, and braised lamb. You know. As you do. (I should apologize to…

  • NOLA day one

    First evening: New Orleans experiences: bourbon street, ghosts We got in at midnight, but I was hungry, so we found fried chicken around the corner on Bourbon street. On the way to the chicken we saw two tough guys with ferocious dogs. The dog peed in the street, and I wondered if some human would…

  • DAMNIT

    “Or I have had a baileys frangelica coffee drink.

  • Or lord that typo will be there a week

    Can’t edit on the iPad. You know I meant chance.

  • I thought there was NO chave I’d see a funeral procession

    … But conveniently for me, someone died and the procession went past our balcony. Gary said “huh, there’s a parade on the street” and I yelled JAZZ FUNERAL and out there like a shot.

  • ParTAY

  • The Return of The Point

  • Back in My Day

    Back in my day, winter storms: 1. Didn’t have names 2. Didn’t lead the national news, especially when they amounted to less than a foot of snow 3. Rarely shut school 4. Were a suprise I find myself planning my day today around the weather. Last week’s named winter storm endud up being fifteen minutes…

  • Music therapy

    Recently I’ve had trouble filling the empty moments of the day. Years ago, if I had an empty moment, my brain would fill it with a daydream involving whatever celebrity caught my fancy. When I was depressed, empty moments were filled by the Criticism Chorus singing cantatas on how wicked I was. Thankfully, that was…

  • Gary and Money

    Gary was one of the “All or Nothing ” workaholics, and it seems the same thing applies to his retirement spending. He’s been almost miserly this last seven months. I just piled the extra money into savings. And a good thing too, because last week he accelerated from “nothing” to “all.” Things he said a…