Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2024

  • House closing

    Well it has been two years and one month, but probate finally closed on my brother’s house, the buyer found a lender he liked, and I stayed in Saint Louis and a mobile notary came to my house and witnessed all my signatures. (She absolutely lives in the vicinity: we talked about the golf carts…

  • Creepy photos from yesterday

    Granceil is like the silent sister in the Twilight Zone movie. ========= I saw this outside the door yesterday morning. Bright red blood or perhaps wine. Some might say those are bird footprints to the left of the circle, or little sideways hearts? It looks to me as if a small female animal became a…

  • Gary dream

    Following a long fallow period that lasted through the pandemic, Gary has had a notable dream. Sadly, it isn’t the recurring Big House Dream, but it is a recurring dream. He is in grade school, playing cards with a childhood friend, Dave. Dave’s mom allowsa homeless man accompanied by A DEER (Gary?) to live in…

  • TWIL: Rats are fun pets

    Rats (not mice, mice are evil) can do amazing tricks. They come when called, and stand up and spin and walk on their hind legs, and many more things. (I kind of get the feeling they don’t do those things unless they see the treats in your hand.)

  • The return of the mouse detective

    The Mouse Detective returned to see how many traps had been sprung in the corner of the basement. Three sprung traps. One dead mouse. I told her they must be coming in through the garage as she surmised. “More probably from the outside,” she said. “See the breeze?” and she pointed at a nearby cobweb.…

  • Another Round of PT

    I have hurt my right rotator cuff three times. I was in the driver’s seat and tried to pick up a heavy bag from the rear passenger side. The doctor prescribed rest and it was soon resolved. I did the same dumb move, rested as before, kept resting, until my shoulder froze, and then I…

  • Eternal Weekly Paint Progress: 12/5

    This week Granceil went from this: … to this. That’s closer to the goal, which was this. I give up. No more portraits. Unless someday I return to Granceil and start over entirely. And as is my wont, my next thing will be easy: drapery and croquet balls in primary colors or something. Later: I’m…

  • The Actual Moon Phenomenon Earthshine Captured

    (Hey, if you are in a feed-reader you might want to click through and visit yesterday’s post and comments and see how I was actually duped by the internet into buying the wrong bra. Then read the wholesome post below.) ========== Well, by some amazing chance I thought about sunset and moonset at just the…

  • UPDATE: Not a Knix bra, but a fraud! Review: Knix Bra

    I should have checked the URL and gone via the web site, not a search. This bra below was a cheap knockoff. More in comments. Trying again! ====================== A while back, AH mentioned the Knix bra in the comments. I regret to say the Knix bra did not work for me. Sounded good: front closure,…

  • Curtains

    The tab-top living room curtains were stretched and dated, the curtains in Gary’s bedroom tore, and after thirty years the linen curtains in the kitchen disintegrated like a vampire in the sun. I feel like the young version of me would have bought three new sets of curtains. Well, six new sets, because I would…