Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2021

  • I Am Old

    I was in a meeting and was chastised for referring to myself as old. The Young People at Work were discussing “coozies,” and I asked them to define the term. They cried, “Coozies! You know! Coozies!” with increasing animation. Then they actually defined coozies, and they were what I suspected them to be, I just…

  • Birthday!

    Today I am now 59 years old. Next birthday might shake me but this one does not seem like a big deal. What IS a big deal is that my husband selected this as my promised birthday gift. It’s a bug trap. Sticky paper slides into it somewhere, which is a fair trade if it…

  • Vaccines Coming?

    ABC news thinks boosters for the immune compromised are on the way! But even as I get excited from a selfish point of view, I would think getting all the young kids vaccinated before they go back to school would be the priority. The World Health Organization said “Let’s get other countries vaccinated before the…

  • Gary and the Flies

    Gary’s bathroom, the master bathroom, is plagued every summer with tiny little flies. Last week Gary came out of his bathroom, found me in the kitchen, and said he’d had a revelation. He saw a moth in the bathroom, and squished it, then wondered what in earth a moth was doing in there. There is…

  • Peculiar

    Last Tuesday I woke up and lay there about ten minutes, as is my wont in the morning if I visited the bathroom several times during the “wee” hours. I lay there thinking about moms I know. It occurred to me I hadn’t seen my mom for several weeks. I swear I lay there searching…

  • State of the Scratch

    The new car continues to collect dings and scratches like it’s made of butter. I thought I would calm down about it when it got some other scratches, for example, the abuse the wheel cover took when I scraped the curb in the hospital lot. I don’t look at the wheel damage every time I…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/5

    I liked the multiple bird baths. I liked the three chances to get something right. Working on three versions of the same thing allowed me to break away from the idea that I have to duplicate the one true version. So this week, the new subject is my new nemesis: I need to wait till…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Complicated Plots

    I like a good twisty well-woven plot. I recently watched a film noir movie, The Crooked Web, which was all plot, with all the twists I could ask for. And it was awful. [SPOILERS]There’s a Restaurant Guy, a Plucky Waitress who loves him, and her Brother. 15 minutes in, switcheroo, they are now Restaurant Guy,…

  • Room Temp Meds

    When I started the Mayzent a year ago, I remember I was instructed to refrigerate it until I opened it, which seemed odd, given those instructions are the opposite of every other thing you put in your refrigerator. We don’t buy refrigerated mayonnaise at the store, then bring it home and open it, and then…

  • Not the Point

    I have posted often about how impressed I am with hotels that take the end of the toilet paper and fold it into a point. I recently became aware that there is a toilet paper with wavy perforations: It would seem the Charmin people tested this out. And I say: Test this? This is like…