Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2022

  • Danger in the Skies

    I has to watch this several times to see what freaked out the rabbit by the tree. Watch the top left corner and you will see. Updated — you can spot the bird on the upswoop in the top right of this image:

  • Wordle

    My friends all play Wordle now. This has been my Facebook wall the last few weeks. Really, multiply the above by five. I must have ten friends who play Wordle now and they all give a daily report on their success with the daily puzzle. On the one hand, there are no angry debates because…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Editing

    I’m gutting this first draft. Five pages of dialog? No thank you, two sentences, that’s better. Sometimes, though, I select a sentence or phrase and think, oh, that sounds good. I can’t kill that. I’ll play with it, to try to tuck it in, and then think about painting. Sometimes you just have to paint…

  • New Supreme Court Justice

    Dear Joe Biden – Please please please keep your promise to nominate a black woman and send Anita Hill to the Supreme Court. Would she oppose Clarence Thomas at every turn? You know she would.

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 1/27

    This week the daisies went from this: … to this: Delighted with the wood; dismayed with the teapot spout and surrounding area. Need to white out the surrounding area and then let it dry and add a light wash. And the wire handle needs to move down. And the green pitcher needs a brown wash.

  • Stress Breathing

    In the past when I was stressed my right hand would tingle. But then as I found out during my brother’s health scare last October, big stresses make my entire left leg tingle even more. My other stress indicator is that I can’t draw a deep breath. However, I can gasp just fine. Usually this…

  • Bad Hair

    As you know, my team at work begins most working sessions with a discussion topic. This past week it was Bad Hairstyles of our Youth. I know that most people my age have printed photos. I would keep a good photo and bad ones were encouraged to decompose in the landfill. The exceptions were school…

  • Tongue: 60s Edition

    I was going to bed. “Please don’t come into my room at kiss me at midnight,” I complained, “I never got back to sleep.” Gary said, “Well, you better give me a terrific good-night kiss now. Tongue.” I can’t remember the last time our tongues made contact. But we tried it. And of course we…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Cringey

    I just started the second season of Ricky Gervais’ After Life, and in the first episode they read aloud from a terrible, terrible novel. It made me feel very vulnerable. In some spots I was able to identify why it was bad (famous surgeon scrubs in to give someone an injection) and other spots sounded…

  • Stop the Clock

    Well, the plan was to jump right on that fourth vaccine shot. Nope. Not doing it. Not right now. I called four places near me and half of them did not know about the fourth shot, and the rest said they were only giving first, second, and third shots. No website has been adjusted, of…