Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2023

  • Daffodil Day

    Every year I wait for the daffodils to bloom. I remember one year they bloomed on February 27th, and I thought that was marvelous. Since then they’ve been up later and later. I don’t know if I count this as being in bloom. Just raise your head. Look at the sun. Even looking so disconsolate,…

  • Manifesting Dental Health

    I’m here to put a cap on the buccal dental saga. When last heard, I had an emergency root canal and went off to heal for two weeks. My jaw was still a little swollen, my tooth still hurt (root canal or not). After the two weeks, my jaw did not hurt at all. The…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/16

    This week the sea went from this: … to this. This is where it was last week before I painted mist over everything. Just as a reference. All I really did was darken the green. (It needs some yellow again, but I might do that with the splatter detail.) That swipe at darkening the green…

  • A Review: Poker Face [no specific spoilers, technically]

    So, I subscribed to the Peacock streaming service just so I could see this show. It’s supposed to be like Columbo: you know who committed the crime up front. And you watch Natasha Lyonne catch them? Yes, please. Here’s the thing. They fell into the Star Trek transporter trap. This woman, unlike Columbo, is supposed…

  • Valentines’s Day In Nursing Homes

    The nice thing about having Time and stability and perseverance be your love language is that it just gets better every year. If I expected gifts on Valentine’s day, thee would come a day when the big gift would be prescription medicine. There’s an 80% chance Touch will fail you if that means sex. Can’t…

  • Wig Disappointments: Headband Wig

    There was some reason I wanted to try this wig beyond self-delusion. I do have an eBay wig that did not suit, and seemed to me I could dismantle this eBay headband wig and then replace the hair in the other, and with some judicious cutting it could be presentable. (I have evidently reached the…

  • Wig Disappointments: Healthy Wigs

    I keep returning wigs that don’t suit me. They don’t suit me because they are designed to look like healthy, young, attractive hair. And I am old and unhealthy. This makes me sad. I don’t think that would ever have looked natural on me, even when I was young. It’s a cruel trick of fate…

  • Gary Aches

    I imagine Gary has made this joke before, given that he initially blames all ills on “the change in the weather,” and now that he is old enough for aches and pains. Even so, I did laugh heartily last night when he called himself The Garometer.

  • Grammarly Report

    I downloaded Grammarly last year to get another level of typo protection, because TypePad’s editor will no longer suffice. Last week it sent me an email with some unsolicited criticism. I liked the Mastery comment best. I am more accurate than 31% of Grammarly users, and I say, what disease do those people have? Are…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/9

    This week the sea went from this: to this. More accurate, but I like it a little less.I’ll have to check the contrast and see if I overcorrected.