Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2021

  • Rewriting the Novel: the Drudgery

    Okay, I just had my narrator speculate what a very petite woman might look like pregnant, and it was something about how she would be baby from her crotch to her chin and there would be a baby arm sticking out of her nose. This is because I am bored. I have a draft of…

  • I Have Personally Contributed to Half of the 100k Views

    This video has just the right proportion of weird and funny for me. It makes me laugh every time.

  • My Continuing Fight Against the Apnea, Part III

    So, Gary’s gone from using his Oxygen ring monitor to test the efficacy if different sleeping positions to simply sticking in denial gear. He’s landed on: “One of the three summaries it gives shows I’m in the green zone. No problem.” So I offered myself up as a control. I could wear the ring to…

  • An Easy Solution

    The container ship stuck in the Suez Canal is the hot story. I have a simple question. At what point do they just blow it up? I’m sure they can do some kind of controlled explosion that will blow the debris toward either shore, leaving a hole other ships could navigate through in single file.…

  • Unbumped Bullets!

    Wednesday evening at 5 pm I checked my email, and there was an invitation from the county to schedule a time for my vaccine! I’d been resigned that I would need to wait until next Monday. I don’t know what category I was in. I had read that we immune-suppressed were being pushed to the…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/25

    This week we consider a new still life: the salt shaker still life. The town went from this: … to this:

  • Gary’s Continuing Fight Against the Apnea, Part II

    Ok, so when Gary finally accepts he’s got to wear a mask for the apnea, there will be another problem. The pulmonologist the PA recommended was Dr S______, the anti-hospice pulmonologist who made Mom’s last day even worse, and I don’t know how I feel about that. At first I gave it a hard nope.…

  • Gary’s Continuing Fight Against the Apnea, Part I

    Gary’s been creeping toward getting a C-Pap to deal with his sleep issues. So far, after being told be probably has sleep apnea, he has purchased an Oxygen ring monitor and found that yes, his oxygen does dip under 90 up to 40 times a night. Since then he has gone through these stages of…

  • AARP Old

    In the current issue of AARP magazine (no, really, it’s useful), there’s an article about a woman who was unprepared when her husband died and she had to deal with the finances. Gary and I share the money chores, so that won’t happen to us. Instead, Gary will have no idea how to maintain the…

  • I Am Obsessed

    You can’t just have extra soap and not use it. Extra soap Pro tip: use a water-pik to clean your skulls. Okay. Now I’m done.