Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2018

  • Weird Wordless Fruit

  • Apple Pie Post

    Remember how I was complaining that I had trouble making pie crust? On a whim, I decided to make a pie the other day, to fight off the staycation boredom. I did everything the same as always, only this time I decided to step further into Overworking than Underworking. As I was working it, there…

  • Jerry in Space

    This is an article that Technical Father Jerry Lockett wrote while he was a reporter for the Houston Post in 1963. NASA was training astronauts, and he went to the flight school and put himself through astronaut paces. (Mom evidently annotated the article after the divorce: that’s why there’s a hole.) I’ve had this article…

  • Palette Pants

    I know some painters are tidy, and they clean their brushes on a soft dry cloth. I am lazy, and I clean my brush on my old black jeans. They are from 30 pounds ago, so they weren’t doing anything productive anyway. Same for the shirt. Now that I’ve been painting for months I wish…

  • The Skip Button

    A few months ago I noticed that Gary’s high-tech TiVo was tagging some shows with a green SKIP icon, and a suggestion I hit a green button to skip commercials. Gary was there, so I didn’t have my hands on the remote, or I would have tried it, since I am young and adaptable. A…

  • Review: Aquaman

    First off, DC movies should not be prefaced by trailers for Marvel movies. “Oooh,” Gary whispered after the trailer for Avengers: Endgame. “That looks really good. We have to see that.” And then, right after that excellent Marvel trailer, we saw Aquaman. It was just the worst DC comics movie ever, and I’ve seen Man…

  • Christmas Traditions

    Every year I plan to establish some new Christmas Tradition. This is because our current nuclear family traditions just aren’t good enough. I want to establish something that we can still do in twenty years, and it won’t seem like Christmas otherwise. We have the ornament purchase, that’s a tradition. That’s about the only tradition…

  • Christmas Eve 2018

    I can never remember if the 24th of December is the Big Day or the Eve. No one would ever believe my easy memory jog: the White Christmas prologue the one they never play with its reference to LA.* *(But it’s December the twenty-fourth And I am longing to be up North.)

  • Review: Mary Poppins Returns

    I cried at the Mary Poppins Returns trailer. Somehow, I thought that was a fluke. I was still excited to see the movie. First twenty minutes? No tears. Big girl. Mary Poppins descends from the heavens, the same scene that made me cry in the trailer? Tears. I let them flow. Next twenty minutes. More…

  • Yet Another Thing That Happened at the Dentist: Bling Crowns

    The dental assistant who added my new crown said it was too late to have a Christmas tree or something special added to it. “Tell me more.” I demanded. Evidently, this is a thing people do. They have the lab add something special into their crowns. She said it cost seventy bucks or so. I…