Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2023

  • Looks Like There’s Another Shot on the Way

    Well, if we listened to the World Health Organization, CVS would have additional Covid shots for the aged and immunocompromised right now. But instead, the FDA is mulling over if they want to toss some over-ripe bivalent shots into the arms of the vulnerable, so we’ll have to wait a few weeks. I might have…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/30

    This week the purple clouds went from this: … to this. This is what I was aiming for: \ It’s so odd to me how far off I can be when I have every color at my hands. I just can’t yet translate the colors I have to the colors I want. (Hence the dabs…

  • Gary And Stress

    Street work is going on outside our house. Evidently the lifespan of a suburban street built by the contractor’s son-in-law is about 30 years. We got the note in the mailbox that in four days our stretch of the nepo-street is to be re-poured, and we cant use our driveway. So we must park on…

  • TWIL: Barbara Jordan Had MS

    This week I learned that Barbara Jordan — famous for her defense of the Constitution — not only had MS, but leukemia, and she was likely gay. She didn’t speak publicly about any of it, and supposedly her doctors outed her on the MS after she almost drowned in her pool. It was a different…

  • Congee Hubris

    Oh, my God, I made congee that KC recommended and made a hash of it. I got over-confident. “I’ve made risotto at least fifty times. I can do this,” I thought. No. First, the recipe specified Jasmine rice, but I only noticed that after I bought sushi rice, so then I added jasmine rice to…

  • Head Surgery

    DO YOU KNOW you can get cosmetic surgery ON YOUR SKULL? I have an awful skull. If I were utterly bald I could not leave the house. My head shape is box with a beanie. I am the before side of the image below. All they have to do is tuck that blue padding between…

  • Black Star Sapphire

    I was watching The Naked City last weekend, which features a ring of jewel thieves. A matron was particularly dismayed they took her black star sapphire. And … up popped a memory not accessed for forty-five years. When I was a child of twelve, someone gave me a black star sapphire necklace. (It sounds fancier…

  • High Maintenance Spunky

    Spunky Labia, International Toe Porn Superstar, had complaints. “Appendage!” she cried, “You have not serviced me with a foot peel since before the pandemic!“ “You didn’t seem to need one.” I answered. “I AM HIDEOUS.” “Oh, all right. We still have two of them.” I applied a foot peel and followed all the directions. A…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/23

    This week the purple clouds went from this: … to this: The confusing thing about this one is that other than the clouds, the mountain, and the beach, I have no idea what these things are. Especially the light circular thing at the end of the beach slightly off center. But I like the clouds…

  • Civilization Continues to Decay

    Civilization has gone to hell. First we had the Clydesdales falling over themselves, then the champagne carpet. Now, twice in the past week, I have been conversing with my husband when has gone into the bathroom, and from the clarity of his tone it has been evident he has not closed the bathroom door. And…