Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2025

  • TWIL: Skunk season

    Five days ago, I was awakened between three and four a.m. by a skunk just outside my bedroom window. The smell woke me. It wasn’t a fresh skunk spray: I could still breathe. It was just the smell that says a skunk is nearby. The smell was accompanied by the sound of an animal scrabbling…

  • Drama Hungry

    There is a nasty combination when you are well into your sixties: at least for women. Well, at least for me. There’s an increase in appetite – all the appetites – coupled sadly with a decrease in drama. Looking forward to eating the dinner you planned to make? It will be good, but not as…

  • Valentine

    On this Valentine’s Day, I realize I have had a lot of love in my life for someone who actively shoves love away. At the moment, I am not feeling any love. It is noon and I have already had two (two!) squabbles with Gary. Thank God I don’t have children and grandchildren or potentially…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/13/2025

    This week the Croquet Balls went from this: … to this. When it was originally this: I don’t know how I managed to make the three primary colors so ugly. Sigh.

  • Medical week: Gary report

    Gary had to go to the doctor late last week to have medical professionals look at his UTI, his blood, and to check how he’s faring on the antibiotics. He didn’t look good. It took him ten minutes to leave a urine sample. He and his cane hobbled out of the bathroom slowly down the…

  • Medical week: neurologist report

    I feel like I’m always at one doctor’s office or another. Urologist every three months, GP every year, neurologist every year, it’s a lot. “I need you to see a dermatologist once a year,” the neurologist said last week. “Oh, come ON.” “You’ve been on this medicine since 2007, when the clinical trial began, and…

  • Medical week: bladder botox report

    Since I’m on the three-month schedule, I’ve had theee doses of the bladder botox now. The last one was two weeks ago. Dose 1 Pain: Hurt like someone poking needles in your bladder. Concurrent Chit-chat: Bad Diagnostic tests. Results: Heaven. 80% improvement. Still triggered by some things; still had rage pees if Gary provoked me.…

  • TWIL: Pickle jar

    This week I learned that since 2012, a never-ending supply of pickles has been placed in a busy St. Louis intersection. Evidently the rest of the city knows this, and I don’t. This is because the pickles are between the north and southbound lanes in front of Nordstroms at West County mall. I’ve never seen…

  • Paint issue

    So last April, I climbed up to the left top edge of this sage green painted wall, so I could fix the sloppy paint job Gary had done. But when I got up there, I found I had fixed it already. Evidently. Last week I glanced up and found that the sloppy paint was back.…

  • What is this monstrosity

    Let’s define our terms. This is a popover. This pitiful pale button below is not a popover That monstrosity is what my new microwave is trying to pass off as a popover. Such a false use of the term. I mean, you could describe it as “What happens when a popover enters the density of…