Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2020

  • Further Decor Negotiations

    Well, Gary won the battle of the loveseat. I have given up and now every morning I rearrange the living room. I have let it go. I had to let it go becuase there is a new battle front: the Battle of The Spinning Utensil Holder. At some point when Gary was cooking he bought…

  • Impossible

    I was visiting the drive through at The Teat, and saw they had an Impossible meatless sandwich. I’ve wanted to try one of the Impossible burgers, preferably a Whopper, preferably next to an original all-meat Whopper so I could do a taste-test and call it a Whopp-off, but that never happened. But here it was…

  • Pearl Harbor Day

    I did a little research, and by that I mean I did one search in Wikipedia, and it seems obvious that no American holiday is ever discontinued. Each outdated holiday is supplanted by another holiday. We initially celebrated Armistice Day/ Remembrance Day on 11/11 with the rest of the world, probably even handed out poppies,…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Resolution

    I wrote the first chapter and now I am obediently following the Internet instructions on How To Write a Novel, and they tell me that I am to write the resolution early on. You need to know how your character ends up, and that way you know to start at the opposite end of the…

  • Outage

    Last week the cable company cut the cord on me for several hours. It was inconvenient, of course, given that I was working at the time. The only work I could do was attend meetings on the cell phone. I had no internet, no tv signal, no dial tone, and no Alexa. And so, these…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 12/3 (with added easel footage)

    This week the peonies went from this … to this: I currently hate this. I don’t recall hating the sunflowers like this. I think that’s because I shaded the sunflowers as I went along. Right now I’m in the color blocking stage and this could be in acrylic for all the nuance it has. I…

  • Heterogeneous

    Well that’s embarrassing. A reporter just used the word “heterogeneous” and he pronounced it in a way I never would have imagined. He said “Hetero-genius,” as if he was describing Einstein’s sexual preference. Stupid reporter, I thought, he’s going to get tweets about that. It’s Het-er-AH-Jen-us. Then, I remembered the banal facade incidents and I…

  • Easel

    I want a new easel. I love the easel Gary got me a few years ago, but it’s a French easel, great for travel and watercolors, not great for big oil paintings, at least not great for horizontal 24 inch wide paintings like the last few. It’s delicate, but that means it’s a little spindly,…