Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2021

  • Much Better Brains

    Oh these brains are so much better than the other set. But are they perfect? Maybe, or maybe not. What about the same brains in green? Already on order.

  • Annual insurance Nonsense

    Sigh. A recap. I have mentioned this before. (Those are only the two most recent posts; I’d say there’s a yearly post on this topic.) When I realized what was going on, I took one trip around the phone circuit: specialty pharmacy transferred me to the insurance who transferred me to the regular pharmacy who…

  • Gary’s Safe

    I am generally cranky when Gary wakes me up, which he did right before midnight. He barged into my room, which is my room because I was thrown out of the marital bed for keeping him awake with my “energy,” and said, “Well I’ve got mine.” “Got your what? Why are you waking me –“…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/25

    This week the dog went from this: … to this: I wanted to compare it with the earlier dog. I like the new one better. I am going back to the guided books. I noticed I do have a book entirely on Flowers. I seem to have painted the section on Peonies. Bunch of peonies…

  • The Little Things

    These things have pleased me lately because I anticipate a bad situation, and then find it has not happened. I know both of these things are very wasteful for the environment, but the burst of joy I get is worthwhile, and as I have said, we have more than made up for it by 1)…

  • German Schmaltz

    My brother’s surgical scar from this past summer still has not healed, and interestingly, the wound specialist blames Dave’s fat. It’s fighting to get out and is tearing apart where they stitched up his muscles. “Wait,” I said, “your muscles are below the fat. It’s muscles, fat, skin.” I thought back to every raw chicken…

  • Sad Little Brains

    Well, I have very poor visual-spatial perception (I think that’s evident from the paintings) and the brain soap I bought is just too small for the mini-skull. Larger brain soap is on order, though.

  • Gary’s Dance

    I made a mistake this past Thursday. I left the guest room door open when I was in a Zoom meeting, and Gary came home and poked his head in. I gave him a barely perceptible nod, because I was paying attention to my meeting, and I am a professional. He began a sinuous dance.…

  • Wee Addition to the Medical Bathroom

    I have made the bathroom into my own 25 year art project. You saw the addition of the epithelial cells chart. I thought, I just need one more thing. A speculum. I did find this festive rainbow speculum … … but I checked the dimensions and given the shelf it’s going on, it’s just too…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/18

    This week the peonies went from this: … and then they took a really surprising turn and went to this: … when they were originally this: Dark, thick peonies. No more peonies ever. What next? Maybe a giant croquet ball? A cylinder? A box? The dog went from this: … to this, and it’s perplexing.…