Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2024

  • Gary Loopy: Hail

    Gary hasn’t had all of the mania I had when I was on steroids (albeit I was on 40% more). He says his epilepsy and migraine meds being him down so he isn’t as driven as I was. However, he has had some bursts of loopiness. The first one was The Hail Incident. He came…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/10

    I heightened the colors and pulled together the palette and the tracing for Granceil. I added the purple, not because I saw it but because it should be there. Huh. New tracing projector made her noticeably more narrow. Weird. You know, perhaps putting the canvas on an easel that has wheels isn’t prime tracing procedure.…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Some spots

    I did a lot of work on the novel over the weekend. I would say three of the seven chapters need major transitions to incorporate new text, plus one chapter needs to be created out of whole cloth. What this means is that most of it is polished, and parts are back to the shitty…

  • Man Breast Equivalent

    Here’s what I thought about yesterday morning. Women have breasts. If you have them you know. They catch a lot of attention. Even when you are older, and you aren’t as inclined to ratchet them up, they’ll still encounter a fixed stare. Or you’ll sense someone tall behind your shoulder and your hand will instinctively…

  • New Bathroom Feature

    When I researched how to get into a locked bathroom door, I discovered that I can purchase decorative hinge pin finials. Here’s one for the medical bathroom: … and one for the door to the basement in honor of Goldie. They are very heavy, made from what seems to be brass. Took three weeks to…

  • TWIL: Steroid interactions

    No one here likes licorice, luckily, but I recently learned that steroids and licorice are not two great tastes that taste great together. Per WebMD, “Licorice can decrease how quickly the body breaks down corticosteroids. This can increase the effects and side effects of corticosteroids.” So, good to know. Hopefully, I never need to use…

  • Bladder botox: start the clock

    Bladder Botox Part Two I got some more botox last Wednesday, because what I got three months ago was effective but short term. At the end of the three month minimum I was back to my usually spotty self. Three things of note from this visit: Ow. It hurt a bit more this time, not…

  • Fox sounds

    The other evening, around 8:00 at night, I was sitting in my room and heard a fox scream. Fox screams are very distinctive. I heard it the next morning too. I didn’t look outside, because I didn’t want to witness what was going on. Look at the little fox on the left of the video…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/3

    This week in my continuing effort to get away from realism, I will begin painting my Granceil. Grandmother Lucille, my Mom’s mom.) (It occurs to me that someday there will be a Grandmother Jennifer.) This began as a black-and-white photo that was then tinted with color by my Aunt Delores. I used an iPhone to…

  • Gary considers his voting options

    Now that the election’s only about a month away, Gary’s considering how to do his civic duty in his current sickly state. Back when the bleeding sores were sapping all his strength, he felt he might need the wheelchair if he was going to wait in line for hours. I hauled the mystery hospital wheelchair…