Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2022

  • The Wet Dry Vac

    For over thirty years the Wet/Dry Vac in the basement has been a sticking point. I’m a grown woman and I am not allowed to use it. I’d like to use it, especially when the basement floods. But no. Gary says he’s afraid I would try to wet-vac up water without cleaning out the dirty…

  • Oscar Movie Re-education Program

    I just looked through a list of all the Oscar-winning movies ranked by IMDB score and somehow I have missed at least a third of the Oscar-winning movies. I have avoided some that were designed to depress me. WAR: BAD To start, I don’t need to be convinced that War is Hell, so it’s been…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Half Done with Revision One

    Well, we are close to the second anniversary of the pandemic, so the novel is two pandemic years old. I guess one year was the outline and one was the first draft? The second draft is half done in six weeks. If a draft takes 3 months, and I have 17 drafts, that’s 51 weeks.…

  • Cavuto News

    If you are curious, read Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto’s experience with MS and Covid. It’s encouraging that he didn’t die, and that his doctors think his vaccines and boosters did some good, though I don’t see them quantifying it. I would think if there were anything that might make one come to Jesus and…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/24

    This week the daisies went from this: … to this. So, just the birds left.

  • Googly Eyes

    A friend posted this on Facebook: I don’t have any Googly eyes, but I made my own. Googly eyes have been purchased, have no fear. That addition needs to be there for a while.

  • Witness Protection Squiirel

    Something was going on outside my guest room window. Whatever it was, it was in the front yard and made a sound alternating between bangs and scratches. I peeked through the blinds and it was a squirrel spread-eagled on the window screen in a classic Looney-Tunes pose. That isn’t a photo — when I turned…

  • Chinese, Healthy?

    A work discussion recently turned to guilty secret comfort food, the food you get when no one is watching you. “Captain D’s hush puppies” I said, and I should have shut up then, but I did not. I did not because someone else said their super-secret sin was Chinese food. “But Chinese food is healthy,”…

  • Tucks

    My crotch affliction is back AGAIN. The lower parts have definitely thinned and rusted to the degree that they are just intermittently tender, sore, and a touch … gory. I have eschewed the rough toilet paper and tried all the creams and unguents in the house. I even tried the Monistat 7, which took me…

  • Absurd Purchases

    I need to memorize the phone number of the credit card fraud department. I ignored a phone call and a text and an email because I thought they were conning me. But, no, they were the good guys, not the bad guys. And of course this is a three- day weekend. Three-day weekends are evidently…