Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: July 2022

  • Review: Cape Fear

    I have never wanted to watch Cape Fear. A bully threatens a nice family? No thank you. Yet still, I found myself watching it last weekend. I specifically opted for the old black and white version, thinking it would be more subtle. The ending is not satisfying at all. Now I almost want to watch…

  • Recipe

    Gary creates a weekly salad and eats it for dinner, lunch, and sometimes breakfast. He’s very creative. This is the recipe for a typical salad. The base is a pre-made Chicken Caesar salad from Dierberg’s. This accounts for about 20% of the finished salad. Then Gary layers on the items detailed a year ago in…

  • Two New Shows

    It is summer, the TiVo is not recording anything but old sitcoms and talk shows, it is sticky, and thus the bar is low. These two Netflix shows have given me some pleasure. Is It Cake? Episode One – “Ugh, this show is so cheesy.” Episode Four – “Oh, this show is so delightfully cheesy!”…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Extra Time

    I have been a lazy slug of late. I just been entertaining myself with the news, old movies, the guitar, organizing the garage, and all the other things that I can do with my time not that I’m letting the book stay fallow. It hasn’t even been two months that I’ve been ignoring it. Some…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 7/7

    This week the Blue Heeler went from this: … to this. Feels like the top left needs to be darker, and the nose lost some of its molding. I don’t know. Perhaps I should just stop.

  • Zip-up Bras: a Long-term Review

    Remember the zip-up bra I got in September of last year? I still love it. Well, I love them. I have it in every color but pink. It has been reliable and perfect until I trimmed a hedge last weekend. There was a lot of stooping and swiveling. I already knew the zipper doesn’t do…

  • Fireworks

    Last night Gary discovered that fourth of July fireworks and The Clapper do not mix well.

  • Independence Day 2022

    This is going to be a rough month for patriotic pride. Not too happy about my state. Not too happy about my nation either. Evidently the only the only ethical government official is this girl in her twenties. I forgave her for using “clavicles” and not “clavicle” until I discovered I was the one who…

  • Team Name

    We are all reorganized now at work. I have two bosses now, one for my skill development (both work skills and god help me, social skills) and then another for my task assignments. All the people under these two bosses are then broken up into “high functioning teams” that are then assigned to projects. There…

  • Poor Lina

    I give you the tale of Lina ______, a GIRL who had a BABY at FIVE. Evidently the poor thing had precocious puberty, which seems like progeria but just for your reproductive system. And to think I walked around in my youth being afraid of spontaneous human combustion, when I could have worried about this.