Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2023

  • Dave Food

    I thought I was dealing with Dave’s death pretty well. My calorie intake bumped up because I was eating moderately instead of getting permission from MyFitnessPal. But then a few times a week I would eat really recklessly. It was binge eating. The therapist encouraged me to log what I was eating and what happened…

  • Well That Was Lucky

    If ever anyone asks what I want to do with my body after I die, I always proselytize for full body donation. That’s my plan. The documents say to put me on the loading dock at Barnes Hospital downtown. After that, they can do what they want. I am told the medical students are very…

  • This Year’s Birthday Month

    Conveniently, all my major marriage celebrations take place on minor holidays,. The calendar reminds me it’s Flag Day, so that’s my anniversary, or it’s the first day of Spring, which is on or about Gary’s birthday. He is not particular about his exact birthday, because as you know, we celebrate the Birthday Month. (During the…

  • TWIL: Dutch Baby Experiment

    This Week I Learned what happens when you swap out half the all-purpose flour in a Dutch baby pancake with bread flour, and you don’t follow the blending directions, and you put frozen butter in the hot pan — and you just generally set your baby up for failure. Instead of a flat pancake with…

  • Rewriting the Novel: End is in Sight

    Well, the end of the line-editing is in sight. Thirty pages of line edits down, thirteen more to go. I am aiming for a page a day, though to be fair I’m circling and skipping anything that’s too hard, like “the climax falls apart.” (It really does, entirely too much navigating here to there.) I…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/16

    This week the purple clouds went from this: … to this. That’s not a lot of cloud for an exercise in painting clouds.

  • Review: See How They Run

    I saw See How They Run on HBO a week ago and was enchanted. So clever, so self-referential, so full of easy charm. Just darling. Nominated for a BAFTA. Somehow, unhappy people have given it a low score of 6.5 on IMDB. I don’t know why these dour people kept saying, “Not that funny.” “Thinks…

  • Potato

    Me: “Gary, have you seen a raw potato around here? I put on the counter half an hour ago.” Gary (half-asleep in reclining chair): “Huh? Potato?” Me: “I lost a potato somehow. I looked in the garage and the pantry. Let me try the laundry room.” (Moments later) “Well, I got a new potato out…

  • Oscars 2023

    I am liking the winning big graphics on the backdrop, starting with Pinocchio. So, did Jaime Lee Curtis revise or invent her “we just won an Oscar / Mom and Dad I just won an Oscar” after Ke Huy Quan started with “Mom, I just won an Oscar?” I do love they were able to…

  • TWIL2: This Week I Learned – Richard Pryor

    Just yesterday I learned Richard Pryor did not die from MS. He died of a heart attack, probably from too much smoking. I mean he had pretty advanced MS when he died from the heart attack, but still. Seems like Annette Funicello and David Lander are the only celebs I can think of who died…