Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2022

  • Trump Hearing

    Before I began watching the Jan 6 Hearings, I viewed it like a Marvel summer blockbuster. Would it would live up to the hype? Or would it just be a rehash of the disappointing prequels: the toothless Impeachment Trial #2, Electric Boogaloo? It was interesting seeing Ivanka jolt like a nervous Bichon Frise and say,…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/9

    This week the Blue Heeler went from this: … to this: This dog’s face is making no sense to me. The legs make no sense. The original photo doesn’t help. I need to bring it Photoshop again.

  • Jan 6 Hearings Tomorrow!

    Screw concert replays and Q&A sessions, THIS is the communal experience I have needed. Two devices: one for Twitter feedbaxk, one for Facebook. When I was a kid my unemployed father watched the Watergate news. I asked the new neighbor if she was watching, and she said she wasn’t around to see the first crucifixion…

  • Post Closing Day

    There have been a few loose ends after selling the house of my youth. A few hours before closing I started to get weepy and forced myself to think bad thoughts about the house, and that led to thinking bad thoughts about my youth. I spent some awful teenage years in that house. Cheered me…

  • Ted Lasso: a Review

    I was complaining about something at work, and a colleague said, “I feel like I should give you a little plastic army man.” He answered my befuddled face with, “Haven’t you seen Ted Lasso?” That was mystifying, then six months later I asked another colleague why his Zoom background was a locker room image and…

  • The Garret and the Bees and the Other Women

    During my first teaching job, I lived in a big three story house with two other women, much like Mary Tyler Moore’s living situation if Rhoda, Phyllis, and Mary were too busy grading papers to speak to each other. (An aside: Mary Tyler Moore lived behind the big window on the third floor (and Rhoda…

  • Gardening Lesson

    I was out in the yard, assembling one of those hardware store decorative garden fences. The panels sort of resemble this. you are supposed to shove a panel into the ground, then working left to right, position the next panel so the hooks on the left slide into the little cylinders on the right. It…

  • Pre-teen Bus

    The summer I turned 11 I discovered the bus. There were no transfers involved, I just walked a mile and a half to the main road that wraps around Saint Louis and hopped on the bus marked SOUTH. I gave them some coins and kept quiet and got off the bus when I saw the…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/2

    This week the Blue Heeler went from this: … to this: I will need to lighten the cushion she’s on so I can get some contrast in there.

  • More Praise for the Post Office

    So, while I was navigating the USPS post office site to find my mis-addressed package, I found they have a new feature: Informed Delivery. If you sign up for it, a few days later they email you photos of the mail coming to your mailbox. For example, today I am getting this piece of junk…