Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2020

  • Review: Emma

    (I must say, good call filmmakers for releasing your first-run movies on Amazon during the pandemic.) I was complaining to someone that the trailer for Emma looked like they were capitalizing on the physical humor, and that frightened me, because that would be like a trailer for the Three Stooges that capitalized on the wordplay.…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Chapter Four

    Well, this is the day I should be going to class, but I am not, because the community college was closed, and rightly so. I submitted my chapter via email, and supposedly people will be reviewing it and commenting on it. I’m not really sure if it will happen. I commented on one person’s submission.…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/19

    The week the lamp went from this …. to this … I was going to focus on the red petals but then I got caught up in everything else. And the small project went from this … .. to this … It was originally supposed to look like the image below. My canvas was square…

  • Dad’s Taste

    I know that there’s no accounting for taste, and it takes all kinds, but my Dad had the most vile taste in food. These were his favorites: Black licorice Head cheese Olive jalapeño loaf He also liked hard liquor, cheap beer, chalky chocolate, fried bologna, strong coffee, and saltines with butter. All I can guess…

  • Drug Trial

    I am what my mother would call a scab-picker. I have a little problem, then I pick at it, and worry at it, and worry about it until it’s a major problem. Then I back up, look at my new enhanced problem, and say, “Oh, that’s ridiculous, that’ll never happen.” Sometimes, I consign myself to…

  • Ancestry Findings

    All right, I’ve analyzed every DNA-verified ancestor pus one extra generation beyond that. Not only am I 100% Flat White, I had to go back five generations to find even one twig of the family tree born in another country. Some fifth great-grandmother came from Ireland. I bet if I researched her I’d find out…

  • Post-plague Walmart

    Since January Gary has expressly forbidden me from buying the giant big-box blocks o’ of toilet paper that I like to keep in the basement because I like to stock up in case there’s a pandemic or SOME SUCH THING. I now only buy one week’s worth at a time. Of course this week he…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Chapter 3

    This week I read aloud Chapter 3, not too difficult because in this class two pages determine a chapter; however, mine was almost ten. One page was all my own original work, and the rest was mostly Jerry, if Jerry went through a surgery that took an entire Saturday to slice him down to one-fifth…

  • Birthday Month 2020

    How is this month different from all other months? It is Gary’s Birthday Month. He woke me up at midnight March 1 to remind me. This means we must follow Birthday Month Rules: he does no chores and wins all fights. That’s why I was so surprised to hear him vacuuming his La-z-boy and mattress…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/12

    This week the lamp went from this: to this … (The table looks skewed, but that’s because of the angle I took the photo.) The small project went from this … to this: I don’t know why, but the small one looks very 1950s to me.