Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2023

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 5/11

    This week the cloud collage went from this: To essentially the same thing. That took two hours. Bizarre.

  • Coach Envy

    Because Big Dot shared her connections to the Coronation, I had to add my own. See that narrow-hipped, small-thighed slip of a 32-year-old standing, looking at the gold state coach? There I am, center frame. P.S. This is the only photo Gary took of the Gold State Coach. When we took our spontaneous trip to…

  • The Truncated Reign of Beachy Hitler

    Beachy Hitler is Out. Bye bye, Beachy Hitler. I loved you, then you turned on me. Even bangs couldn’t save you. You were meant for a four month tenure, but you are being bounced out of office after four weeks. You are now in the basement. The bunker, as it were. Your replacement? The less…

  • Face Shaming

    Earlier this week I was in a small six-person meeting. I looked exactly like this. Someone on the call was making chit-chat and remarked, “We can tell what Ellen did yesterday: she got some sun.” “No … Why do you think I got sun?” I was genuinely perplexed. “Because of your face. You got a…

  • TWIL: Ghosts and the Brain

    The Hook: Some Facebook link to some article on Cracked. I wish I learned from superior sources. I need to work on that. Well, here. I found the same information on Wired. That’s a step up. A woman was having brain surgery, and during one tug on a neuron in left her temporoparietal junction, she…

  • The Coronation

    I was awakened at a ridiculous hour (4 am) by my subconscious. My alarm was set for the BBC commencement at 5 am, but my subconscious said, “You’re going to miss the processional.” I am first grateful I am not a real Queen, because my first thought on seeing Charles and Camilla was “Robes are…

  • Opera Wear

    Of course, two of my four opera getups no longer fit. (To my delight though my black chiffon pants and the liners still fit just fine.) To replace the two kimonos that don’t fit, I am taking a big risk and I have purchased two colors of this unusual item: Not the ripped jeans, but…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 5/4

    Okay, this week we start all the clouds, from a webpage about clouds. I retrofit the clouds to where they were when I scribbled them on the page. Here’s the collage of originals: … Geez, you can tell from the cumulonimbus that I do not get clouds. But it balanced out to grey on one…

  • Inching Out

    Gary’s still a little hesitant for me to leave the house. I’m not going out into mosh pits, but he still needs to adjust. For example, I went to the Bread Company last weekend and picked up an order INSIDE. I wore a mask, of course. Open door, walk ten steps, pick up bag. (Show…

  • A Surprising Thought

    When we were setting up the will, an unsettling thing happened. There’s a conversation when the lawyer makes you think of all kinds of scenarios beyond Surviving Spouse Gets All the Money. What if you die together? Who should do x, who should get y? It was all very involved, and the lawyer asked me…