Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2020

  • Mask Couture in Practice

    Why look, you CAN make a face mask out of toddler underwear. I have been assured by my friends that this is a level of creepiness that even they cannot abide, so I won’t be wearing it out and about.

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/9

    Time to pick the next thing. I’m going to try to step away from any exact representations, do something big and really loose based generally on this Mexican sinkhole: … minus the rusty rail. Here’s the start. Loose, I say. The lemons continue. This is a copy of something that’s already loose, so that makes…

  • Doctor’s Appointments in Practice

    Neurology virtual visit I’ll be darned: except for the reflexes, he did everything – and he mentioned he had a new patient earlier and he’d had her husband check her reflexes. He even had me prop up my iPhone by the baseboard and watched me try to walk a straight line. I thought the blood…

  • Doctor’s Appointments in Theory

    Six months ago. I scheduled my therapist and neurologist appointments for today. I usually do this so I can take a half-day sick day and not have to worry about making up the time. Last week I planned to cancel them both so I could continue with my confinement, and at the same time I…

  • Slumber Party

    Last night, Gary and I ordered a pizza for the first time in two years. It was a no-contact delivery pizza. You pay and tip on-line and they just put it on the doorstep. Much better than listening to Gary making small talk with the delivery person. The excitement of the carbs, combined with the…

  • A Little Nervous

    Yesterday, Gary said, “We need to leave the house and buy peanuts for the raccoons.” “We?” I thought, loudly. And I am certain my left eyebrow echoed that. I thought of the video we’ve all seen of women walking around downtown Kosovo as bullets fly. I’ve often wondered what on earth drew those women out…

  • Mask Couture

    Well, I haven’t sewn any masks for the doctors and nurses. I’d hate to think the only thing between a doctor and a virus was my sewing skill. Now that the only life that would be lost is mine, I’m starting to think creatively. So, how do I make a mask out of the supplies…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/2

    This week the lamp finished up. Or at least I have reached peak disgust. It started like this: … and it ended up like this: Some things I like, especially the cast shadows on the table, and the water in the vase, and the base of the lamp. I don’t like the tulips at all.…

  • A Pepy’s Diary Entry for the New Plague

    This is the day I usually catalog corporate April Fool’s jokes, but April Fool’s is cancelled this year. Google isn’t even doing anything. Instead, a most excellent jape for April First: Pepy’s Coronavirus Diary from The Fence.