Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2024

  • Gary’s hair

    Gary is still coming off the steroids, and he’s having trouble regulating his temperature. Yesterday he said, “I think it’s time to shave off all my hair.” He’s been growing his hair all through the pandemic. It’s below his nipples now. Yes! I thought. Oh God yes please. He added, “I can use my beard…

  • TWIL: Balsam of Peru

    Gary has decided he’s allergic to drywall dust AND to food. He’s been keeping a food diary of things he reacts to and it seems to be all foods. (Or, as I so so gently suggested, Dr. Pepper? That was brutally shot down.) I did wonder if a person could be allergic to all foods,…

  • Possible Christmas Ornaments

    It’s beginning to get the slightest bit chilly. Time to start thinking of Christmas ornament(s) to commemorate the events of this year. Dead cat – Many sappy cats with angel wings, all wrong for the late Goldie. This Day of the Dead cat has more of a Goldie vibe. Allergens – Just last night Gary…

  • Clink

    I have to say, I’m pretty easy-going about Gary. My spouse gets up to all kinds of nonsense that other wives would not tolerate. But there is one thing he does now that is making me insane. It’s the way he eats cornflakes. Up to now he has been loyal to Raisin Bran. But in…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/17

    This week Granceil went from this: … to this.

  • Gary sans steroids

    Yesterday, Gary woke up to his first day without added steroids. Despair, doom, “I will never get better.” It is true: his inflamed skin doesn’t seem to be any better. Today, Gary woke up from his second day without added steroids. Cheery, sunny, “I just need to learn to live with this.” This is more…

  • Cookie throwdown

    Work is having another attendance-required on-site event like the one in February, and I feel a need to show my devotion to my co-workers with cookies. Of course, I will be shaping my love into ATK’s Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal cookie form, but KC made me wonder if maybe this time I should up my game…

  • Weak pitiful northern lights

    Friends got better photos by leaving the city, and if this ever happens again I might do that. But then, I still feel that any recordings of immobile auroras only visible with night mode are far inferior to the real ones they have up north. Though, if I saw those I’d think “well, there are…

  • TWIL: Compliments from across the world

    I read this fascinating article from the BBC analyzing why some people might not take compliments well. They feel the reason may be cultural. “One study of Nigerian English speakers found that 94% of collected compliments were accepted, compared to 88% in a study of South Africans, 66% in a study of Americans, and 61%…

  • Gary Loopy: Yogurt

    Gary, steroid-crazed, stormed into my room last week. “ELLEN ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME YOU SAID YOU WOULD CHECK THE EXPIRATION DATES ON THESE YOGURTS AND I JUST ATE TWO AND THE EXPIRATION DATE IS NOVEMBER THIRD!” “Yes?” “NOVEMBER THIRD! NOVEMBER!” “Gary. What month do you think it is? Because it is October.” (Looks…