Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2024

  • TWIL: Cat Tooth Resorption

    Is your elderly cat toothless? If I see a snaggle-toothed cat I assume those teeth fell out, or were pulled out, or were left in some other cat’s haunches. In reality, those teeth might have “resorped”, or just kind of sublimated out of existence. Poor kitties, with the vanishing teeth.

  • Present Day

    Twenty years ago, in 2004, I was working at Elliot and escorting my niece to trail rides and Cradle of Filth concerts. I bought a new red Mini Cooper and discovered BNL. It feels like yesterday. I suppose that twenty years from now, today will feel like just yesterday too. I hope so, anyway. But…

  • Flowers

    I don’t know why it delights me so when flowers bloom. I have done virtually nothing to bring that blossom into the world. (You could compare it to equestrian sports in the Olympics: the human does not do the heavy lifting. (Or that’s my gut reaction. I’m sure it’s a sport, just … is it…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/8

    Beloved Gary, beloved mom, you know who’s next. Cant’t use the tracing device with the new phone yet, so I am just winging it. I got the brow slants wrong, so he looks angrier than the photo. I might keep that.

  • Husbands, appointments, and doctors

    I don’t make medical appointments for my husband, because I wouldn’t want him doing the same to me. I drive him to appointments, but I stay out of the exam room, because he’s a tough guy around me, and I need him to be afraid sometimes. Currently, the tough guy who says, “I can take…

  • Disparate Memories

    The Paris Olympics are bringing up fond memories for me of our visit to Paris. (See archives for Sept-Oct 2010) Gary loved Paris when he was there. Almost no complaints. Somehow, now that fourteen years have passed, he has worked up a comedy routine on how awful Paris was. According to him, the room had…

  • In the lobby at the doctor’s office last Friday

    I am sad to say any active shooter training and SIMULATED gun fire excitement happened after we were there and gone.

  • TWIL: Spaceship colors

    I previously used this blog to chastise NASA for painting its main fuel tank orange, but I was entirely wrong. That “O-ring orange” color is not paint, but the result of a lack of paint. Before you think, as I did, that it’s a “rusted metal orange,” it isn’t. It’s metal covered with orange spray-on…

  • Medical Visit 2 of 2

    I got my yearly mammogram. I have never in my life had such a stellar mammogram experience. I parked well, I arrived early, I was in the first waiting room less than five minutes, changed, in the second waiting room less than five minutes. I even got to use my no-gown mammogram hack again. And…

  • Medical Visit 1 of 2

    The neurologist’s assistant said I was 233 pounds. “Impossible,” I said, “That’s down, and I’ve been eating like a pig since my cat died.” So then we talked about Goldie, and how sad Gary and I are. Then she tidied up, and went to inform on me to the doctor. (I’m not mad. That’s part…