Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2024

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/31

    This week Granceil went from this: … to this. It’s the left side of the eye on the left that’s off.

  • Teri Garr

    Actress Teri Garr has died of MS. She was diagnosed around the same time I was. I vaguely remember the TV guide article in which (I believe) she said she wanted people to know that it was okay, that you can have a mild case of MS. She did have an aneurysm a few years…

  • A miracle has happened

    Gary realized he only has skin sores where he has hair. While his fundamental problem is still histamine, he decided his skin problem is actually a histamine problem plus a hair problem. And then, this. HE LOPPED OFF HIS HAIR. I truly gasped. I’m waiting for him to complain about fatigue again so I can…

  • Quiet election

    It’s, what, a week and a day until the presidential election? I feel like it’s been too quiet. No door-to-door canvassing. No one but the one Republican came by, but he was campaigning on behalf of a Congressman. And he was rebuffed. And, perhaps people see the “Blue dot” yard sign and know we are…

  • TWGL: Plural of fetus

    Gary was talking about childbirth, and plural childbirth, and said something like “There would just be too many feti to be able to” [blah blah didn’t get past “feti”]. I said, “Feti? Did you mean fetuses?” Gary bristled and said, “Octopus, octopi, fetus, feti.” When asked, Judge Alexa ruled that “the plural of octupus is…

  • Bladder Botox: update

    Well, I don’t know, but it certainly seems like the botox did not have as much of an effect on my bladder this time. The lack of urgency is still as good, and I am not waking up in the middle of the night, but the force and frequency seem to be back to one…

  • Telescope

    Gary got tired of me moping back into the house after not seeing the Northern Lights, and not seeing the comet, and not seeing the meteor shower, and decided I need a telescope. It might not do any good for the things I missed but at least I could look at planets with reliable set…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/24

    This week Granceil went from this: … to this. The temptation to futz with the bottom left of the jacket is strong, but I’m going to resist until the very end.

  • Gary’s skin: progress?

    I love this MyChart application that lets you keep track of medical appointments, vaccines, lab results, especially now there’s a new feature where you get to see the communications behind the scenes. For example, the neurologist saw Gary’s skin and ordered some blood cell tests. I looked at the blood cell tests and they looked…

  • Never fantasized about this

    Here is what I did this weekend: I helped my seventy-year-old husband apply for social security. It made me wonder, before computers, how did they discourage the elderly from applying for social security? Did they put the social security offices on the 10th floor and disable the elevators? Because the computer application is hard, and…