Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2022

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/31

    This week the dog went from this: .. to this. I don’t know how I forgot that ear on the right. That’ll take a while to fill in.

  • Movie Week: Race [SPOILERS]

    12 Years a Slave – Well, I always love a true story. This was one of my favorites, though at one point I couldn’t watch the flogging any longer, and yes I know the real people couldn’t turn away from the flogging. If I didn’t know there was a “happy” ending I might have given…

  • Movie Week: War [SPOILERS]

    Patton – I had to watch this three hour movie over the course of three days. The first hour was spent establishing Patton as an interesting character: a Renaissance martinet. Oh, and also, explosions. Forty-five minutes of that hour was used up with explosions. Give me an explosion-free version of this movie. I would say…

  • Movie Week: Bad People [SPOILERS]

    No Country for Old Men – I actually enjoyed this movie. I wasn’t expecting to; I had chanced across the gas station coin scene years ago and said, “This is not for me.” I liked the subtlety of the ending, thank you Coen brothers for that choice. And for every bad person there were three…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Fun

    I’ve probably said it before, but the second draft is SO much more fun than the first draft. You are God and you can put everything right in Creation. And Creation is made up of hundreds of puzzle pieces, and if a piece doesn’t fit you GO BACK and change things so it fits. I…

  • Diet Update

    One nice thing about this heart hiccup is that I took a break from the Keto diet and put my body into Mediterranean diet gear instead. Fruit! Not just blackberries! And bread if it’s packed with 27 grains and seeds, minimum. And a new surprise friend, Impossible plant-based burgers, as long as they are sprinkled…

  • Bullets 2022

    Sure, I had three or four stressors before. Pile it on: now my brother is in the hospital. Not septic shock this time, though, it’s his bile ducts again. And to think it all stemmed from a simple gallbladder surgery. I have now watched nine Academy Award winning movies I’ve never seen. Some of them,…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/24

    This week the dog went from this: … to this. I wiped out the shading on the right after I smudged it with my thumb. Also, I’m treating my oil paints too much like watercolors, I think. Maybe.

  • Qs and Rs and Other Waves

    At some point last month I put my left hand against the headboard behind my head and pushed. (You know that move, you’ve done that move, I am not ashamed.) A few days later I noticed some mild pain in my left armpit. I figured I had pulled my chest muscle. Only, a pulled muscle…

  • Before and After

    There’s so much pressure with a laundry room. It’s almost the smallest room in the house, it has the most stuff in it, and it’s expected to be clean because that’s its purpose. Laundry room during cleanup. Laundry room after (I still need to spackle and paint … but maybe I won’t.) So satisfying.