Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2020

  • Swipe Type

    I had to chastise the young people at work. They told me about the dictation feature for texts, but they did not tell me about Swipe to Type. On the iPhone, instead of lifting your fingers when you type, just move your index finger to each letter. You can do it pretty quickly, and it…

  • Gary and Masks

    Gary is doing some magical thinking. He’s collecting face masks as amulets to protect him from the virus. The more face masks he has, the safer we are, though we can only wear one at a time, generally (see below for the exception). I tried to make a face mask, but as we know the…

  • Game Play Suspended Animation

    Gary began feeling much better the other day – so much so that he surprised me with a kiss. There has been no kissing for these three months while he has potentially fought off the virus. In the afterglow of The Kiss we sat in the same room and watched the same television, another thing…

  • The Monkey on My Back Is Back

    A few days ago Amazon suggested I might want to buy more of the pods that go in my espresso machine. Click, click, done. They arrived this morning and I realized that Amazon had pushed on me the full-caf version of the pods, though I have bought decaf for years. I thought, “Well, Gary can…

  • When Gary Wants to Talk

    Gary must have separation anxiety, because he can’t abide a closed door. We’ve worked out our issues with the closed door during work hours, with a few exceptions. The big issue now is the closed bathroom door. Growing up, my family never talked through the closed bathroom door. After I was married I gradually adjusted…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/4

    This week the cenote went from this … …to this … I need to work on my trees and bushes, which look utterly stupid and lumpy now. Maybe a little Bob Ross on YouTube. Maybe more yellow in the background. Oh, The only part I like is the stripey ground on the bottom left. I…

  • Zoom Posters

    So, we’re using Zoom at work now, and everyone else is is being all creative with their backgrounds. I decided to choose the most boring, safe-for-work background I could, then I jazzed it up with a Hang In There Baby poster from my youth. I need other poster ideas, preferably ones like the above that…

  • Another Step Further In The Drug Transition

    Well, this is exciting. I don’t have to wait months for the shingles booster shot before I start the new drug. I’m going to start the new drug in the next few weeks. Here’s what’s going to happen: I will get the Drug Delivery date. One week before that date I stop taking the Gilenya.…

  • Spite Mammals

    I woke up this morning to this chaos on the sidewalk to the front porch. Lirope leaves and mulch were strewn across the sidewalk and pulled into a right-hand corner where nothing grows. At first I blamed the deer. “Damn deer,” I said, “Last season they ate all the Ajuga and licked the shrubs to…