Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: July 2023

  • State of the Sickness

    I felt for a while that I might have the croup forever. Like long covid, only long croup. But now I am improvimg. Why do I suspect that I am better? I haven’t taken cough medicine for days, and all I have is an occasional cough. Sadly, my bladder is still wobbly, and the new…

  • TWIL: Cough Drops

    How long have I been using Halls cherry cough drops? Decades? This week I learned they have inspiring mottoes on the paper. On further research I find that people take umbrage because the mottoes seem to encourage you to get back to work. “March forward” is the only one with a pro-work message on mine.…

  • Weed of the Summer

    Every summer one weed reigns supreme. Some are easy to pull up (chickweed), others are stubborn (those outrageously tough tall things that start with “A”). This summer it’s easy. It’s whatever this nonsense is. I fear it may be Missouri Ironweed, and the best way to tell would be to let it run rampant and…

  • Foxes in Love

    It’s not often the male and female foxes feed together. One’s usually on the lookout. But this couple is on a date, and the video runs out just when they almost kiss.

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 7/27

    This week Hunky Gary went from this: … to this. Eyes have shifted, mouth is too busy. Could be worse.

  • Bonjour-Hello, Fridge

    We have had this refrigerator for eight years. I open that door dozens of times a day. Today, I noticed something new. It’s French. “Composer le’ evidently means “dial.” Eight years. Today I notice we have an international fridge. Huh. Why do I have a Quebecois fridge? I remembered I deliberately ordered one without an…

  • Again I Am Spartacus

    Some of you may remember when I participated in the clinical trial for Gilenya, the first MS pill. (The saga starts here, back in 2007.) I was Spartacus, or at least Tony Curtis taking the hit for Spartacus, or at least an MS patient testing a drug that might help other MS patients. Ten or…

  • Sweet on the Y

    I’ve spent a lot of time in bed with … well, the croup, and with my thoughts, and I have realized two things: first, how my fantasy men behave, and second, how I behave around men. How my fantasy men behave. Elated. Happy. Delighted to be speaking to me, having sex with me, spinning me…

  • TWIL: Organization

    So this is the virus that’s been keeping me at home. It gives your kids croup in their tiny windpipes, it gives me this wheezy cough. Confirmed by the CDC: “HPIV-1 is generally responsible for outbreaks of croup in the fall. In the United States, the outbreaks tend to be more widespread in odd-numbered years.”…

  • Family History

    I don’t know what led me on a genelogical expedition this week, but I found the family ancestral motto on the Wikipedia page. “Vincit Qui Patitur” It translates to “He who suffers, wins,” and could I have have a more perfect motto? No. If only I had stopped reading there. Sadly, just a few lines…