Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2021

  • Speed Covid

    I woke up a week ago with a runny nose, headache, weird throat congestion, and a cough. I also wheezed when I was on my back. I remembered my friend who had Covid said for the first few days it just felt like a bad cold. I also remember she said the first few pharmacy…

  • Garyoke 2

    Back in the day, Gary and I had Karaoke software on our old IBM PC, and we called it Garyoke. That PC died, and none of the replacement software had the Doris Day / Dean Martin songs we liked. Gary bought himself a Christmas present: one of those Alexa devices that has a video screen.…

  • Rewriting the Novel: I Miss the Novel

    Many nights for the past six months I went to bed guilty because I’d gone another day without working on the novel. Now that I am supposed to let the book rest for a month, I want to pick at it and futz with it all day every single day. All I let myself do…

  • Nervy

    In the last week I have been encouraged to kill off some of my nerves. I don’t like it. I understand why people kill their nerves if the nerves do nothing but cause them pain, but I have to assume those people have nerves to spare. My nerves, on the other hand, are coated with…

  • New Chair Redux

    Yesterday was a bad day, with work frustrations and spousal frustrations and health frustrations. I’d been crying on and off for no reason since the weekend anyway. (I say “for no reason” but of course I watched the pivotal first episode of a certain show that rebooted on HBO Max.) Late in the afternoon I…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 12/16

    This week the Ball pitcher went from this: … to this: I knew this was going to happen: I get all fiddly with the background and reflections and now they compete with the foreground. Also, I need to lose the blue strip that goes up to the top, or else extend it to the edge…

  • New Chair

    Just about everything in “my” room suits me, with one exception. My office chair simply doesn’t fit in with the wallpaper and cherry wood and Queen Anne aesthetic. Even after research I couldn’t find a chair that fit my brief: Ladylike Rolling, but not a typical office chair No black metal arms or legs Weight…

  • Updated: Immunocompromised News is Less Exciting than First Thought

    Well, I have read some more about this Covid solution for the immunocompromised and evidently there was one thing I misunderstood about the new protections. I thought when they said it was “prophylactic” that you would take it to protect yourself before you stepped out in the world. Now I see that “The treatment ……

  • Domestic Mystery #2

    I was fishing about in the dishwaasher, extractiving something from the fork and spoon area. Of those compartments in the fork and spoon area we have one with a lid. It’s semi-loose lid, but not so loose that something could just show up in there without warning. Last week this showed up in that compartment…

  • Domestic Mystery #1

    The smoke detector downstairs began to chirp, and we had it so long I decided to assume it was the chirp that says “Don’t trust me, I am an aged smoke detector” and I just got a new one. The new one chirps too. Nothing is raising an alarm, just a pouty “pay attention to…