Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2020

  • Halloween

    Ten days to Halloween! I have no idea how Halloween will play out at this house. Gary claims that we will shut the doors, turn off the lights, pretend we aren’t here, sit in the dark, avoid the windows. This pretense will not hold. He loves Halloween. Think of how he loves feeding the raccoons.…

  • November

    Only a week and a half to November! So many exciting things will happen in November. Vaccines! Cures! The virus will disappear, like a miracle! No? Well. There’s some good T.V., and hopefully a revolution. On Nov 1, we will have a much-needed Daylight Saving Time adjustment. I get up with the dawn, and dawn…

  • Tivo

    Gary and I are again establishing ourselves as Werther’s-Certified Old Folks. I am so old I remember my mother’s satin foam Nefertiti coiffure wrap she wore to bed to maintain her salon hairstyle. (I would show you a photo but it is so vintage they may not have had cameras.) Here is how we recently…

  • New Watch

    My brother somehow lost the ability to do basic financial math and made an impulse purchase recently: the new Apple Watch 6. I offset that bad decision by purchasing his previous impulse purchase, the “old” Apple Watch 3. He got the Apple Watch 3 because the Christmas Microsoft Watch failed on its promises, somehow. I…

  • Guitar Performance Anxiety

    I find it reassuring, somehow, to demonstrate the progress I am making with the painting. All the flaws are out there, and hopefully there are fewer and fewer errors as time goes on. I am not as confident with the guitar, though. My husband just told a family member that I can play the guitar…

  • Recall

    For what feels like the first time in my life: Technically, I guess Gary is affected, because he’s the only one who uses the Cottonelle flushable wipes. When I first told him how I had saved him from a pluralibacter gergoviae infection that would access his body through his rectum and then crawl through his…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/15

    This week the sunflowers went from this … … to this … This one is actually fun to do – so much better than the crypts, which I now hate the sight of. The pears are done, so the next glazing project will be this: I am on step one – it’s already way too…

  • Food Frenzy

    Sunday a food frenzy overtook me, and I wore myself out. I didn’t go out and slay a deer and make venison stew, but I DID make someone deliver groceries to me. Then, for convenience, I sliced up all the vegetables and cooked and shredded the pork and chicken. Then I cooked the broccoli, then…

  • Proofreading

    My oldest friend and I have been texting. She just had to go through another round of radiation because of a recurrence of the breast cancer she had six years ago. This is how I responded to the news that she was almost done with the new round of radiation. Because she is my friend,…

  • Clothes

    I have worn the same pair of pajamas and the same two shirts almost every day since the pandemic began. I know there are celebrities who do this as a way to thwart the paparazzi, Mark Zuckerburg does this so he has fewer decisions to make, but I am doing this as a way to…