Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2025

  • Birthday month 2025

    Well, it’s official. Gone are the days of the expansive birthday month in which the birthday boy is omnipotent. I forgot entirely that it was Gary’s birthday month. He’s so dispirited that he has doesn’t care. His official answer is, “You already do everything I want,” which would sound great, only what he wants is…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/20/2025

    This week the Stickybones went from this: … to this. Man, that was an academic exercise. It sparked absolutely no joy. I’m calling it done out of boredom.

  • My new job

    In this house I am chief cheesemaker, basketweaver, and now … barber. He made me stop before it was entirely right. (That little clump by the collar will madden me.) He claims to be pleased, though.

  • Addicted to metrics

    The weight loss sites tell you that when you’re on this drug, you should only weigh yourself once a month. “Don’t weigh yourself once a day” they cry. I’m not weighing myself once a day. I’m weighing myself multiple times a day. I weigh myself before bed, and when I wake up, I’m half a…

  • Semi circle of spots

    [Today’s 503 error was brought to you by the new server farm hosting the blog. That was the previous reason from a few months back as well.] This is a close-up view of my face. Inside the green lines are a new constellation which I call the semi-circulus,which is Latin for semi-circle. “What is that?”…

  • TWIL: Blind daffodils

    Daffodils that have leaves but no bloom are called “blind daffodils”. Some experts write articles on the causes of “daffodil blindness” but most don’t go that far. No one says “Why are my daffodils blind?” My daffodils are fully sighted, thank you, finally.

  • Signs of spring

    Not only are the daffodils up and blooming, finally, and not only are all the animals boning, but we have the true harbinger of spring. The tornadoes* are spiraling. The biggest outbreak was last night. After a week of threats about the impending bomb cyclone, the news got to report on the actual outbreak. At…

  • Blood Moon 2025

    Once again, I was enticed by the “Blood” moon eclipse, and again I ask, is my blood just a different color than everyone else?I did not see anything resembling blood red, even though I set the alarm and got up at 2 am. I saw the same brownish tan moon I saw the last time…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/13/2025

    This week the Stickybones went from this: … to this.

  • Monthly weight loss update: Month 1 done

    The good: 8 pounds down, better sleep numbers, better respiratory rate. The bad: One night I woke up nauseated and belched so long and loud it woke Gary up and as it continued he cried out “IS THERE A BEAR IN THE HOUSE?” It is possible that the scale reads low just because I have…