Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2019

  • Review: Judy

    We went to see Judy last weekend. I can certainly see why Liza Minnelli disavowed it. It’s sympathetic to the causes of Judy Garland’s addiction but pretty harsh about the results. Of course, I had to come back home and research the accuracy, and it turns out everything is dead-on except for the heartwarming parts.…

  • Weekly Paint Progress 10/10 Pre-empted

    No oil painting this week. I’m all about the embroidery now. If you recall, I have to embroider over all the bacon grease spots on my silk shirt. The embroidery is taking up all my relaxation time. It’s nice. It’s kind of like doodling on your clothing. The work around the neck was done on…

  • Special Super Secret Event

    I was plugging away at TeddyJ, rolling the rock up the hill, when a company email came in offering a Special Company Event Opportunity. I registered for it the instant I read the first sentence, not because I wanted it so much, but because it’s the type of thing other people want, and you have…

  • Ball Game

    Yesterday I was lucky enough to go to the most exciting baseball game I have ever seen live. Exciting: It was a day game. I had to work on the weekend and start my day at 6:00, but I got to play hooky at a ball game during the day. Exciting: The price of the…

  • Colors

    Why do people choose pastels for nurseries? Life begins at its most intense. Every moment of a baby’s life is fear and hunger and screaming, except when they sleep, and I understand that isn’t often. Nurseries should be painted in day-glo neon colors. Eventually life becomes a little less stressful: once you can walk and…

  • Liquor Laws

    I always thought that the liquor laws in Missouri were very strict. I believe this was because young kids could drive twenty minutes over on the border into Illinois and buy liquor. It seemed there were lots of liquor laws: can’t order it on Election Day, can’t buy it on Sunday, have to be 21…

  • New Term

    I was at work and invited someone to pedeconference. This person was too young to have watched The West Wing and wasn’t familiar with the term. They were familiar with “walk and talk,” though. Later that day, I had a lot of urgent work to get done and I had a meeting at the same…

  • Gary’s Magical Migraine Thinking

    Gary has spent almost eight years now with his chronic persistent migraine. The pain has lessened since the horror of his initial episode. He’s taking extra epilepsy medication now for the headaches, so his epilepsy symptoms have backed off as well, which is a nice bonus. For some reason, two weeks ago his migraine symptoms…

  • Weekly Paint Progress 10/3

    This week the teacups went from this … To this … And the bowl in back is still not right, but I can’t even see what’s wrong. I actually stopped looking at what was there and started painting what I thought should be there, and it’s only marginally better. So, after picking over each little…

  • Tech

    Gary loves to buy technology, and I hope his interest in technology continues into his old age. I suppose the Internet will keep us up to date when there are technological advances, just like the newspaper did in the past. Think of the advances in the last fifty years. What new stuff will there be…