Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2022

  • Clone Army

    This was a little creepy. They say the pundit on the left is Col. Jack Jacobs and the one in the right is allegedly Joe Cirincione, but come on. How are they not Colonel Jack Jacobs and Clone Jack Jacobs? The man on the left was cloned when he was about thirty, and they are…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/10

    This week the daisies went from this: … to this: And it was originally this: I don’t hate this.

  • This is Me

    I am in regular contact with a woman I don’t trust. (For anonymity, I just want you all to know that this “woman I don’t trust” could be “anyone I know.”) I was imagining how I would defend myself if someone called me out on not trusting this seemingly agreeable woman. My imaginary defense was,…

  • Control

    Last night Gary andI were watching the Marvelous Mrs Maisel and bantering the way you do when Amy Sherman-Palladino’s cadence gets in your head, when he paused the television. “I have to pee,” he said. “I have to pee,” I said. “I call the nearest bathroom.” “I have to pee more,” he said. “Who has…

  • Too Close to Home

    Well, here’s more drama within a 10 mile radius. In a few days NBC will be airing The Thing About Pam. I think the reason I didn’t know about Pam is because her case was followed locally by the Fox News station, and if they had any journalistic pride they’d re-brand themselves as “Mongoose News”…

  • Basket Weaving

    I want to establish that this new basket-weaving hobby will be short-lived. All I need to do is weave one basket, just one, to get that skill under my belt so if things get dystopian I can make a basket and fill it with cheese and crackers both made from scratch. This is it. This…

  • Car in Cold

    Well. It’s been cold. If you’ve looked at the mileage for an electric car you’ll have seen the asterisk that says mileage will vary based on the external temperature. Evidently they like it around 70. It was in the teens recently last week, and I noticed that the round trip that took 30% of my…

  • Soooo Close

    Temps got up to a record-setting 82 Wednesday. If you look really closely at the yellow bud you can see petals. That’s close enough for me. So, daffodils are only a few days late.

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/3

    This week the daisies went from this: … to this:

  • ‘Snail’ Mask

    I was looking at some items Amazon suggested for Gary and saw this: “Ooh, good call, Amazon. Gary does need that,” I thought. “It is his birthday month.” I looked at a few reviews. Some troubling reviews said it smelled. More troubling were the reviews that said, “This mask helped me be the snail I…