Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2020

  • Mask Order

    I know, I know, Gary already has too many masks, but how could I not add this raccoon mask to the pile?

  • Obstinate

    I find that I have some sort of oppositional obstinacy that makes it so that if there is a chorus of people accentuating the positive, I cannot eliminate the negative. I immediately pipe up with “But have you considered ____?” [Fill in this blank with some dire, rare possibility.] This does not make me popular…

  • Wipe

    I found this container of wipes in the larder when the pandemic hit us in March. (Only three months ago. Seems like forever, but still not many days before my country embraces the “death” part of “Give me liberty or give me death.”) We have one wipe left. You don’t know how often I have…

  • Parking at the Space Station

    I am so delighted that we have a spaceship docked at the International Space Station. (I am also delighted that it is the newest, shiniest one, though I know that isn’t in keeping with the International Space Station mission of global cooperation.) During the Dragon docking they mentioned that almost all the docks were filled…

  • New Bathroom Addition

    This new eBay addition to my Medical Bathroom makes me smile. Dad had a similar towel labeled “Hotel Property.” I remember how scandalized I was at 7 when it dawned on me how he got it.

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/25

    This week the crypts in New Orleans went from this …… to this … The small painting went from this … … to this …

  • Some Bad Bunny News

    A friend posted that the latest virus plague is (deep breath) Rabbit hemorrhagic Disease Virus serotype 2 (RHDV-2). At first I was relieved that this particular virus only strikes rabbits. I read a little further and thought, “Perhaps it’s just in Utah,” but then I saw this: “How can you tell if a rabbit has…

  • Driving Mask

    I was driving in the car with Gary, with my mask hanging around my neck (because Gary’s finally over his illness), but I suddenly found myself with the mask over my nose again when: a Dodge Charger passed us on the right and revved his engine aggressively Gary glanced in his blind spot and didn’t…

  • Damian Lewis Day

    I thought Sunday was going to star Damian Lewis. In the morning I finished the last two episodes of The Forsyte Saga. I started to watch that earlier this month because I conflated it with The Pallisers, am adaptation Mom and I obsessed over in the early seventies. I only realized my regrettable error when…

  • Pan

    Gary, after decades of hating the cast iron pan, found a steak recipe that calls for cooking a thick steak in an oven then searing it in a cast iron pan. The pan has been brought up from the basement. So now, he’s using it, and of course doesn’t know how to clean it (which,…