Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2016

  • Symbols are There For Protest

    Various people are up in arms because some sports figure won’t stand for the national anthem. In junior high we had to start the day with the pledge of allegiance. I was one of the kids who never said the end of the pledge, the “liberty and justice for all” part. If only we had…

  • Busy Weekend Part Three, or Sunday Afternoon

    When it opened, everyone went to the Ikea in Saint Louis Midtown. We went Sunday afternoon. I think if I’d been there in a great throng I would have broken free and run for the wall. It’s like the British Tube had a baby with an abattoir and called it a furniture store. I wanted…

  • Busy Weekend Part Two, or Sunday Morning

    Sunday began with a nice healthy breakfast of this: It looks like bundt cake, doesn’t it? It’s actually a phyllo – ricotta – herb torte. I found the recipe at one of the blogs I follow. Magpie Musing? I can’t recall. People at work likened it to something called spanakopita, which I have never had.…

  • Busy Weekend: Part One, or Saturday

    After a dearth, a DEARTH of activity over here, we did enough stuff in two days to fill either one extraordinarily long blog post or three smaller ones. So you get three smaller ones. Because I’m busy over here stringing trash together to hang around my neck -. or what Etsy calls “re-purposed jewelry with…

  • I Continue to be Spatially Challenged

    I saw this photo today at work and turned immediately to the article to read more about this girl who had the stones to do a headstand on the balance beam. Of course, she isn’t doing a headstand. My mind turned this into an optical illusion and pulled the balance beam right under her head,…

  • How Can I Be So Spatially Challenged?

    We went to the Contemporary Art Museum this afternoon. (Warning: one of the installations is of a cow giving birth. I had to walk away.) i knew the CAM was downtown. Google maps confirmed that it’s on Washington, by the Fox theater. The first revelation came when we took the Grand exit. I realized I’ve…