Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2024

  • Bike Lesson

    (This is yet another installment in what seems to be a continuing series of Bad Dad stories.) I didn’t learn to ride a bike until I was six or seven. Dad taught me. This was his process. The elderly man claimed he was fine, only he did notice I was looking at Dad and Dad…

  • Turkey Test

    Gary does have a few annoying characteristics. When those characteristics begin to grate, I remind myself that what I love is what I hate. So when he’s exceptionally emotional, I remember his emotion is what makes him say “I love you.” (Pro Tip! This is a neat trick if you want to stay married almost…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/29

    This week The Cat went from this: … to this. Don’t know why there’s that stripe of gold under the ear on the right. And I’ll probably knock some of the colors down. And I need to see if Goldie’s nose was really that crooked.

  • Gary Visit

    Gary may have bailed on both his colonoscopy and his sleep study, but he did visit the dermatologist after his skin condition began to spontaneously bleed. I never know what actually goes on in these doctor’s appointments, because what the doctor says in Gary’s memory often gets mixed up with what Gary would have liked…

  • Telegram

    So, I woke up this morning to a news item about how the founder of “Telegram” had been arrested. “Telegram,” I thought, “Why does that sound familiar?” Then I realized that I’d seen it on a list of searches that led people to my blog. (I go there on occasion to see if people Google…

  • United Way Trivia

    I went to the big United Way trivia with the Team That Won It All last year. I offered her a cookie and she declined, so that was a blow, but it was amazing to have her sit in with us for the first round.

  • TWIL: Feral cats at Disney

    Evidently a bunch of feral cats at Disneyland are boning away in Sleeping Beauty castle, making new feral cats, but Disney will not confirm the cats’ purpose is to kill off rodents. (Mickey!) It surprises me there isn’t an equivalent cat bordello at Disneyworld, especially since Cinderella castle isn’t mostly surrounded by water.

  • Convention

    Like everyone else I know, we ate up the Democratic political convention. “…,nominating conventions in the 19th century were very different from the versions Americans watch on TV today. Back then, the winning candidate didn’t give an acceptance speech or even necessarily attend the convention…an unofficial practice that ended with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.”…

  • The Return of the Nonsense

    I have tried to ignore it, but the nonsense I suffered through last summer is back. Welcome to Hot Matron Summer, part two. The MRI showed no lesion wrapped around my lizard brain, so I suppose it truly is the heat setting off my MS spasm symptoms. It’s not as bad as last year, thankfully.…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/22

    This week The Cat went from this: … to this. Might have gone for too much contrast on the face, maybe.