Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2020

  • Yard Sign 2020

    Here is a quandary. As I said during the 2016 election, I don’t like yard signs. Put another way, I like getting along with my neighbors more than I like yard signs. So here is the 2020 yard sign debate. The neighbors are selling their house. The instant Kamala Harris was announced Gary started looking…

  • Republican National Convention

    I watched both the political conventions. (I watched the RNC, unlike Stephen Colbert, and watch this if you haven’t seen his screed already.) I always watch both, so it couldn’t be different this year. But you know what was different? This year the Republicans actually made me lean their way, just for a moment. Most…

  • Bacon Burner

    This pan was despised in Mom’s household. We called it the Bacon Burner. I was well into my marriage before I learned it is officially called a broiler pan, and it usually comes with a new oven. It’s like an oven fetus you don’t expect when you buy a new oven, but there it is.…

  • Stop Me If I’ve Said This Before: drafts

    I see other bloggers refer to posts they’ve found in their Drafts folder. I think, “I wish I had a Drafts folder. I publish everything, no matter how crappy it is.” Evidently not! A recent search to see if I have have yet bragged about how much I love my new bacon burner (broiler pan)…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/27

    This week the crypts went from this … … to this: … and the new project is pears! This is from the glazing book, so there will be dozens of layers of very thin paint. I zoomed in on that. All I have right now is very sketchy sketch.

  • Breathing Update

    Well, last week I had work worries and brother worries weighing on my diaphragm, and I was unable to take a deep breath. You know, when you feel like your yawn impulse is suppressed. I know many people can’t catch a deep breath when they are stressed. Anxiety, I said, and I did what I…

  • Biden Time

    I have a long history with Candidate Joe Biden. I didn’t know much about him until the end of his first run for President in 1988, when he decided to lift a section of a British politician’s speech without using the words “quote” or “unquote”. I thought (quote), “Plagarist.” And I wrote him off. In…

  • Girls Night In: Covid Edition

    Back in the days of the Girl’s Night Out, it seemed that every GNO had a theme. Girl’s Sabbath Out. Conservabration. Biblical GNO. Mormon Inquisition. The GNOS have fallen off of late. Now that the Covid makes them impossible, of course, we want them. Initially the Friends wanted a socially distant in-person get together. Six…

  • Delusional

    I apologize if I have mentioned this before. A few months back, Gary was driving back from his family’s house and became convinced he had flies in his hair and (giggle) a snake in his pants. He told me this story when he got home, I looked up “delusions in older men,” and I became…

  • Prime Watch Party: Opera

    So, last night Friend Anne and I watched The Barber of Seville. It is a cousin of the Marriage of Figaro, which is by a entirely different composer. Both use the same set of characters, given they are both based on the same backstory. I’ve only ever heard the “Figaro” song from this opera (“Figaro…