Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: July 2024

  • In Which I am Reminded I am Old

    I think of myself as liberal. In the context of my family, I am moderately liberal, but only because my family consists of one other person, and that person is Gary. If you just thought “You can’t have a family without children,” then take a step to the right of me. Yesterday made me realize…

  • Final Botox Update!

    I watched the Olympics for six hours last weekend without using the bathroom. This morning I was tested to see I wasn’t holding on to my urine and never giving it up, and no I am not. In fact, I was surprised to hear I still had a cup or two in there even after…

  • Spitting for the greater good

    NARCOMS (North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis) is a group that maintains a database of people with MS. I’ve filled out their on-line questionnaire dutifully for decades now. They use that data as the basis for research papers such asMeasures of general and abdominal obesity and disability severity in a large population of people…

  • TWIL: Barron Trump’s Height

    I mean, I knew former president Trump’s son was tall, but then I saw it all spelled out: six feet NINE inches tall. (He’s yuuuge, no child has ever been that tall, the doctors, they don’t believe it.) Evidently he goes to university in the fall. I wonder if he’ll behave, or become a liberal…

  • Review: Challenger (second half)

    I did in fact take a break from the Challenger book after reading the first half. I needed it. I feel far too emotional about the space program, probably because it set off the loss of my home and family. (A pretty contractor encountered Jerry at his new NASA job and it was all over…

  • Pet Omen

    I was reading through the In Which We Mock Our Pets category, getting a retrospective of all the Goldie posts, and ran into the last few posts about Mac the Dog. First, the dog was sick for hours, and yet I spoke of how sudden it all was. I had almost an entire day to…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 7/25

    This week Moms Face on a Boat went from this: … to this. Just the nose left. And, compared to the original, the cheek’s funny. And her jaw by her ear. And her temple.

  • Drug nonsense

    Remember earlier this year, when I was so pleased with my new hands-off approach to health insurance? I just pointed out some anomalies to the people being paid and let them get to work on it. One anomaly was that Gary was charged $5,000 for a procedure or drug that I could not identify. I…

  • Gary vs Ellen: Cat Qualifications

    Gary is talking a little less about Replacement Cat. I am still not interested. I am eating so much sugar that I have grown a litter of kittens under my skin. There’s an entire kitten nestled in my wattle and two smaller ones curled up on top of my hips. Yesterday, these were Gary’s specifications…

  • Gary Campaigns

    Today, Gary: “So have you thought any more about adopting a cat?” Two and a half hours later, Gary: “Have you made up your mind about the kitten?” Half an hour later, Gary: “I read here that if you get a kitten you have to get two.” Shortly thereafter, Me: “Stop it. Just stop.” ====…