Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2022

  • Surprising Family News from Mom Beyond the Grave

    So, what I wanted to write about was how distressing it was that the renters painted the fireplace that I grew up scrubbing with ACID to clean while retaining the original color. That made me start thinking about the Japanese tree mural my long-dead Aunt Dolores painted in the foyer of the house on Jamieson…

  • Breaking News Logos

    I am so delighted now that CNN no longer starts every hour with a ‘BREAKING NEWS’ logo. It just cheapened the news so much. But now the big question: how will they alert us when the news is breaking, now that we’re conditioned to ignore the breaking news graphic on the chiron, the one crying…

  • This Just Happened

    I just complained bitterly to Gary that he hadn’t done or said anything funny for a least a year. “You used to be great blog fodder. I could write up some goofy thing you said and get a blog post out of it. Do something funny.” He just frowned at me, and then looked down,…

  • Shot Five

    Got shot five in Wednesday night. Pharmacist said this might be it for this card. She doesn’t know next steps.

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/16

    This week the blighted Blue Heeler went from this: .. to this version, in which many things have been un-painted to be re-painted later.

  • Clean Teeth

    Another visit to the dentist. When I had my root canal I heard the dentist was too booked with two years of neglected cavities that I couldn’t schedule a regular cleaning for another six months. That means I haven’t had my teeth cleaned for a few years now. I warned the hygienist it was going…

  • 37th Anniversary

    My word, thirty-seven years. It’s just sheer stubbornness now. What have I learned in that time? I’ve learned the care and maintenance of Gary. If anyone is not listening to him, I need to schedule time to literally sit at his knee* and listen to everything he says. If anyone is arguing with him, I…

  • Garden Adventures

    I fell so many times in the front yard last year that it’s on my neurology chart. Up till yesterday we had over a hundred days without an accident. I wasn’t doing anything athletic, I was sitting low on the rock wall, and I tried to stand up and lost my footing. Totter … totter…

  • Shortages

    So far I’ve avoided any affects of the recent shortages. There was a shortage of baby formula, and while I was sympathetic, that didn’t affect me. Now I read there’s a shortage of tampons. That will affect not only pre-menopausal woman but everyone with upholstery. The gasoline crunch is so significant that Gary said, “I…

  • High Tech

    Gary installed some electronic device that sparked, and after that it went in the trash and all our devices needed to be reconfigured. Gary, who is Mr. Technology, did not want to synch his bedroom light to the Alexa again and I swear he reverted to 40 year old technology.