Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2022

  • Zoom Dress Code

    The TeddyJ powers that be are making optimistic plans to have us all back in the office in April. I think it’s April. I didn’t pay close attention because I will not be going back in the office, thank you, no. I’ll change over to home-based; the pay is the same. For those going in…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/17

    This week the daisies went from this: … to this: I think it will all start to pull together next week when the flowers get some depth.

  • Smells: the Second

    For the past few days Gary has been very dismayed by the smells that have been coming out of him. I have encountered Gary’s smells in the past, and it is true, sometimes he goes through episodes of gas that are bad. Regrettably bad. Labrador-level bad. Called on the carpet before HR bad. Bad. However,…

  • Smells: the First

    Last week at the dentist, the assistant put the lead (?) blanket over my chest for the X-rays, and I smelled the most delicious smell. I immediately assumed it was some strawberry gum-numbing agent drooled on the blanket by the precious user. I didn’t care, I just sniffed it. And then it smelled so good,…

  • Walgreens Super Bowl Vaccine Appointment

    So, there I was, at the Walgreens, ready for my fourth vaccine. I walked in, there were about ten people in the whole store and they were all at the register. Fine, because I was headed back to the pharmacy. The entirely closed, shuttered pharmacy. The sign showing that pharmacy was “open” was right next…

  • It’s a Conversation, Right?

    So, I keep hearing that Biden had a phone call with Putin, and that Biden said X, or Y, or Z. It’s been a week of this, and I haven’t heard from American media what Putin said. Did he say, “I have no idea what you’re talking about?” or “I can invade who I want,”…

  • India Leap Month

    As I said last week, the daffodils are on their way. I needed to draw a daffodil on the calendar to mark the last day of February, which is often the advent of the daffodils. And for that, I needed to know if the last day was the 28th, or the 29th, so I asked…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Fun with Exposition and Kinky Hat Porn

    Well, this draft is turning into a simplification draft. For example, the heroine doesn’t need two supplemental father figures. The stepfather and the foster father have now merged, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. I suppose because I had a stepfather. This draft is also doling out the exposition so…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/10

    This week the daisies went from this: … to this: Currently in the ugly adolescent stage.

  • Big Finance

    I am tremendously stressed by the prospect of selling my late mother’s house. I can only imagine how I would have felt selling it right after she died, instead of renting it out. So now that I’m selling, I worry that: Every move I make is wrong There are too many moving parts and I…