Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2024

  • TWIL: Side Effects of Murad Dark Spot Correcting Serum

    Even a little dab of the wee bottle of Murad Dark Spot Correcting Serum will mess up your fingerprints enough that you can’t use the Touch ID on your iPad. I mean, that’s all supposition. What is certain is that I applied my first dab of this stuff, and then my iPad fingerprint access has…

  • Alexa Is Wrong

    It struck me as strange, recently, when I caught Alexa in a lie. She hasn’t lied to me since she said 2022 was a leap year, and actually that was just a misunderstanding. (She quoted the India Times, and they have different leap years in India.) This time I had a scrap of a song…

  • Etymology of Mighty Leg

    On several occasions (here and here) I have referred to Mom as “Mighty Leg.” Our family speculated that after the polio weakened her arms, her legs grew mighty to compensate. As proof, when I was a child, we played the Mighty Leg game. There wasn’t a lot of physical contact with Mom, because it wasn’t…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/28

    This week the Tongue went from this: … to three attempts to get the tongue the right size. Too big! Too small! Way too small! Midnight! Go to bed! Finally? No, the entire smile and right of nose are off now. I cannot believe this is not done yet. And it’s getting worse.

  • Books of My Youth

    When you were a child, were there were books you never wanted to return to the library? There were three books like that for me. I bought one of them a few years back, and I bought the other two tonight. You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere. I was a repeat offender with this…

  • Conflict

    I’m having some internal conflict. I want to be sympathetic to people who are mentally ill. I know it’s an illness. I’ve had that illness myself. But, good god, mental illness is such a source of suffering for families, for others. I suppose I could take a dodge akin to “Hate the sin, not the…

  • Another Message from Mom From Beyond the Grave and Another Mystery Revealed

    I recently learned from St. Louis Daily Photo that Bob Cassily, founder of the City Museum, was one of the people who helped capture the man who attacked the Pieta. The man who attacked the Pieta was named Lazlo Toth. That name was later adopted by Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci, aka Lazlo Toth,…

  • TWIL: HPV

    You kids today and your HPV, I just don’t know. (Shakes cane in air.) They made the connection between HPV and cancer the year I got married, then they started to pay closer attention, then it was all over the news, and then there was a vaccine. This week I learned a horrifying statistic from…

  • Campaigning

    The door rang. I was closest to the door, that’s the rule, so I opened it. (That’s Gary’s rule. Recently Gary complained about all the rules I set for him, and I snorted because Gary dictates so many rules that there is nothing left to codify.) The man on the porch handed me a pamphlet…

  • Favorite Book

    So I noticed that my favorite movie, Brief Encounter, and favorite book, Jane Eyre, share a similar theme of People In Love Not Having an Affair. I know Brief Encounter appeals to me because the children are considered in the love triangle. Yet in Jane Eyre, the children are not a consideration: they get left…