Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2018

  • Wreath in a (Mail) Box

    To all the ladies out there with neighbors to impressIt’s easy to do, just follow these stepsOne – cut a hole in a wreathTwo – put some junk on that wreathThree – thread that wreath through the boxAnd that’s the way you do it. (Apologies) You can’t really tell too well from the photo, but…

  • The Messiah

    Anne and Marcia asked if I wanted to go see Handel’s Messiah with them. In preparation, I studied up in Wikipedia. After reading that “Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel,” I thought, “well that can’t be right, America wasn’t even founded until 1776,” which is so wrong in at…

  • Mall Shopping

    This is the Scale of Futility: 10: Clicking Unsubscribe. 10 out of 10 Most Futile Things to Do. 9: Shopping at the mall for something your grandmother had forty years ago that you want right now. Almost as futile as unsubscribing. I just got back from the mall. I went on a fool’s errand to…

  • Jeans Day

    Where I work you can only wear jeans if you have paid a charity for the privilege, and then it’s just for the day that particular charity is gathering funds in the lobby. You wear the charity’s sticker to attest that you paid for the jeans privilege. I wear my sticker on my bottom, because…

  • Oil Painting Lack of Progress

    Well, I have utterly screwed myself with my painting. Instead of working on my “teacup on a white napkin” opus, I’ve turned instead to recreating one of my favorite photos of Gary: Gary at Bath. And of course, painting someone I love has all kinds of extra baggage, plus I’m trying a glazing technique instead…

  • Time vs Result

    I remember when we first had someone mow our lawn a neighbor made a point to tell us that it only took the service five minutes to finish the whole lawn. We thought that was great. The neighbor thought the lawn company was ripping us off. The man who built our wall told us the…

  • Presidential Funeral

    Ten years ago, as a new hire, I was skimming through the company rules, and was surprised to see that if any U.S. President dies we get a day off. I told my boss. She said that the stock market closes out of respect to the President (even ones who have left office), but because…

  • Gary and the Illness

    Well, now that they suspect Gary might be hypothyroid, I feel terrible that I sniped at him for sleeping all the time. For the first few years of his retirement, I felt fine about the constant sleeping. I would say, “You body needs to catch up for all that sleep you missed when you worked.”…

  • Game

    We have been playing one of the new-style board games The Kids Play Today. If you don’t know: Dungeons and Dragons, which was popular when I was in high school, has heavily influenced today’s games, and even the simplest modern game is extraordinarily complex. We bought one called Mansions of Madness. which is odd in…

  • Gary Stalks the Deer

    I truly believed that Gary would tire of the wildlife camera after a year. He’s never held on to a hobby for more than a few months. I think it has been three years now, and he has burned through three cameras and countless SIM cards, batteries, battery chargers, and bags of dog food. We…