Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: September 2020

  • Stop Me If I’ve Said This Before: man of the family

    Abandoned Draft Version: The first neuron feels an electric charge, and when the charge builds up enough that person discharges all the distress to the next neuron down the line. Eventually when enough energy is discharged, you will have activity: a muscle moves, an eyelid blinks. Here’s how most families work. Certain people are nerves.…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 9/17

    The Big picture will be based on this photo: What is that, four colors? Easy. I am this far: The pears went from this … … to this:

  • Shipt Call

    We have been using Shipt to get our groceries. A few days ago we placed an order, and we didn’t pay attention and missed the Shipt text messages, so the shopper had to call Gary to ask a few questions. Gary apologized profusely for not being by the phone to get her texts, then gave…

  • The Reign

    Gary has been feeling a little bit better – enough that he can stay awake for four or five hours a day, so we are back to binge-watching television in the evenings. I came upstairs from painting last weekend and I noticed he was still watching what he’d had on when I started painting two…

  • Can I Take Another Year?

    Dr Fauci says to hunker down. Life won’t go back to normal until the end of 2021. Doctor, I love you, but I cannot hunker any harder. I’m already doing extra hard hunkering. Way harder than a person with an immune system operating at 100%. But solidly at home for another six seasons? Is it…

  • Call For Calm

    I wonder if the Trump politicos knew that the Woodward recordings would come out right before the 9/11 anniversary. I certainly heard the similarities, listening to the documentaries on 9/11. I got to hear both George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani say, “The most important thing For a leader in a crisis is to appear…

  • Stop Me If I’ve Said This Before: sex lives of high school teachers

    Abandoned Draft Version: High school dq t c gay not gay Present Day: I did actually post the story of the high school teacher who got the student pregnant, denied it, and yet married her, losing his job (but probably avoiding a statutory rape charge). I did not mention the other teacher, who hosted an…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 9/10

    This week the crypts went from this … … to this: I don’t like the detail on the arch that I added. But, I like everything else. The stoop looks right now. So, even though the far left crypts should still bee even darker, it’s done. This is the original photo: I never could get…

  • Briar Patch

    I was conversing with the young people at work about our “development objectives.” (If that phrase sounds like corporate double-speak to you, well then congratulations to you. Nice to be independently wealthy. We working class have salaries based, in part, on our personalities. My personality flaws are part of my work review and my managers…

  • Gary. Chair. Hair. Outlet. T-shirt.

    Feel free to rag on the non-mission blue La-z-Boy defiling the room. There’s a tear in the back that I mean to ironically patch with duct tape.