Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2024

  • Pre Opera: Barber of Seville

    First, we shared two dishes at The Clover and the Bee, reviewed here by my friend Michelle. One dish had a fancy French name that translated to White Bread and Fig Jam with Mozzarella. There were no affectations for the name of the other dish: Meat and Cheese. Our plate had spicy salami, cured ham,…

  • TWIL: Teeth

    In six years, if all goes well, humans will be able to regrow teeth. Dentists must hate this. Well, unless they are the only source of the tooth-growing drugs.

  • Fox Family

    At dawn a few days ago I saw something in my yard I had never seen before: a fox family. (This was live, not on the trail cam.) I have seen foxes, of course. They come in pairs, breeding pairs I suppose, and the male eats while the female watches for danger, and then they…

  • Gratitude 2024

    I was feeling a little sad. My current wig is quite flattering, but essentially it is a big pile of nylon lies. I thought, “I suppose if I want to be honest all I can do is have a hair transplant.” I surveyed my body for hairs and discovered, to my surprise, I have only…

  • Weekly Paint Progess: 6/6

    This week Mom on a Boat did NOT progress, because I was carried away doing a repair paint job on the water and dog-damaged floor by my back door. It won’t be a true paint progress post, because I didn’t bother taking the before photo. If I had, you would see a round black spot…

  • Goldie makes good again

    I was in a restless sleep when Goldie yelled insistently from the basement Monday at 3:30 in the morning. Gary was in the great room, awake enough to look at the cat coming up the basement steps. The sound of Gary screaming is what woke me up. “GOLDIE DROP IT DROP THE MOUSE!” Goldie foolishly…

  • Review: La Bohème

    At the start of intermission I asked Friend Anne if La Bohème was usually this hilarious. Puccini’s tragic opera got at least five big belly laughs out of me in the first half. She said it was not usually presented that way. After that, I turned to the man sitting behind us and told him…

  • Pre Opera: La Bohème

    We ate at the Big Sky Cafe this time. We have eaten there before, in fact I have actually eaten crab cakes there with no ill effect. I ordered like a child and had a cheeseburger and a sundae. (Technically a blue cheese cheeseburger with a heirloom tomato and a pecan brittle sundae.) As I…

  • TWIL: There is a grown-up cocktail out there for me

    If pressed to order something at a bar, I usually get a lemon drop martini or a fuzzy navel. You know, like a CHILD. Before the opera I was reviewing my drink options. One had simple syrup, so I asked the waitress if a “jim-let” was sweet or sour. (It was made with lime juice…

  • Review: Persuasion (2022)

    I didn’t want to watch the 2022 adaptation of Persuasion. I haven’t liked any previous adaptation. Sad woman in a bad situation mopes her way back into an old suitor’s heart. Dour. Morose. This new one is wry and sparkling. You know I love it when they break the fourth wall. Fleabag, House of Cards.…