Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2019

  • Teacup Progress

    So this was the start of the teacup painting: After the first glaze I just hated it: But then, adding the cranberry glaze on the bowl and the cream glaze on the cups perked it up: The blue ellipse on the cup is wonky on the right, and somehow adding the blue to the table…

  • This Must Be A First

    I’ve been telling everyone that i’m working at home because it’s just too cold, and it is: the wind chill is below zero. I am taking their word for it. I didn’t leave the house yesterday and I won’t be leaving today. Signs it is cold: The weather forecasters are telling us the temperatures at…

  • Snack

    Gary makes a salad for dinner sometimes. It’s mainly olives and peppers and artichoke hearts and feta. And, a little lettuce. The salad fills up our biggest metal bowl and takes up half a refrigerator shelf. We go through it like an archaeological dig. It takes us over a week. Of course by that time…

  • Mr. Dangervest

    There’s this co-worker. Let’s call him Rex. Let’s call him Rex, because he looks more than a bit like Rex Dangervest from the Lego movie. I was watching the trailer for the new Lego movie when I noticed the similarity. Same stubble and snarky grin. Work “Rex” has shorter hair. He protested that point when…

  • Meat Mambo

    So, since Gary’s adjusting to this new drug, I took over the shopping and cooking duties for the week. Gary only buys meat that has been rendered down to the size and amount he wants. He won’t take a skin off of a chicken breast, or a bone out of a pork chop. I, however,…

  • Hot Cocoa Limbo

    Last week Baby was cold, so I thought I would serve up some hot cocoa. This thought came to me at the grocery. I thought I’d pick up some packets of Swiss Miss instant cocoa. I know, I could make my own, but I wasn’t inclined to buy dry milk and sugar and cocoa and…

  • Das Tut Mir Leid Calypso

    “Das tut mir leid” is about the only bit of German I know. It is from the Sarcastic Grandmother dialect of German, and it means, “Oh, poor pouty baby, sucks to be you.” I was a pouty baby today when I got my copy of David Sedaris’ Calypso from Amazon. “CALYPSO,” it said on the…

  • Typing Diagnosis

    Since October, when we moved into the new office and I got a laptop, my typing has been horrendous. People at work make comments like, “Who wrote defect summary 87 – oh, it was Ellen, I can tell from the typos.” It’s as bad as when Caroline felt my typos warranted an MRI. I’ve been…

  • This Russia Thing with Trump and Russia

    The recent Buzzfeed kerfuffle made me question some fundamental assumptions we are making in our house. Of course, in this house we think Trump is guilty (guilty guilty guilty, as they said in Watergate). However, I did react to the initial Buzzfeed accusations by calling for evidence, which didn’t go over too well with Gary.…

  • Vacation Urge

    The people at Viking River Cruises are sending me one brochure a week. I am only a little tempted. 1) When I think of Vikings and bodies of water: 2) Were I going to spend seven grand on a European vacation, I would rent a car and plant myself in one city and do it…