Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2025

  • New Stickybones Toy

    I have evidently lost all skill in painting. Or perhaps my assigned painting time doesn’t line up with my eye-hand coordination days. Or perhaps I need to stop if I have painted something for two hours. Anyway, I decided if I can’t get joy from painting I can get joy from buying things to paint.…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 1/30/2025

    This week Croquet Balls went from this: … to this, which is SO MUCH WORSE. I need to stop fixing things, like the lid ellipse which was just a bit off, and now it’s awful, but the nice thing about oils is that they dry slowly, so I wiped the new lid off.

  • Gary is too much with me; late and soon

    I was thinking about the marital arguments we once had. Well, I was longing for the marital arguments we once had. They were so much calmer than the current arguments. And they always stemmed from the same straightforward source: abandonment. Not there when I came home. Calling to say he wouldn’t be home. Not calling…

  • Trivia Auction

    Last weekend Friend 4 needed a tenth at a table for a fundraising trivia night. Driving in, I thought, “You don’t know these other people. Don’t say anything dirty. You’d just embarrass yourself [and Friend 4].” I found Friend 4 standing by the silent auction baskets. “It’s all stuff for families,” I complained. She said…

  • Mindhunter again

    I saw both seasons of Mindhunter when they first came out on Netflix.I re-watched it all over again this weekend. After that, the Netflix demographic algorithm conferred with the YouTube algorithm and my Google history. Netflix: Okay, this is the second time this woman has binged this show about serial killers. What do you think,…

  • TWIL: Two new words

    I want to know … do you all know these words? Scry (from an answer in How To Do It) … to practice crystal gazing Salience (from a TeddyJ PowerPoint) … the quality of being particularly notable (I suppose I should have known this, given that I know salient.) It’s like finding a new road…

  • Surprise clinical trial

    I was really surprised to get a letter from the Mayo Clinic, and even more surprised to see it contained a note thanking me for participating in their clinical trial. “Well, good for me,” I thought. “When did I do that?” I didn’t take a dozen tests for the Mayo Clinic like I did for…

  • Wastewater report (here we go again)

    Good lord. Missouri has high Covid wastewater activity. I wanted to leave the house and go see a movie, damnit. What defines “high” though? Higher than ever seen? Or high compared to others, which might be relatively low?

  • Gary’s condition

    This morning, when I put the blue canister of salt back in its place, I made sure to rotate it so the word “iodized” was hidden. I didn’t want to hear how he doesn’t like the metallic taste of iodine. (I just did a tiny taste test and I can’t tell the difference.) It made…

  • Moon-gazing

    One downside of moon-gazing is that sometimes the moon is low on the horizon right over a neighbor’s house. From their perspective I truly do look like I’m staring into their house, especially if the sun is out at the same time as the moon. I don’t know how to combat this. I don’t suppose…