Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2025

  • I am calling it. Daffodil day 2025

    Is there an actual flower? No. But I see yellow, that’s all I ask for. Finally! Eleven days into March. Never been this late. Ever.

  • Raccoon hobby enters a new age

    Even though Gary has been horrifically ill, he still fulfills his wildlife duties. He takes a 40-pound bag of shelled peanuts, lays it across the top of his walker, and inches across the yard to fill the seed trays on the other side of the house. Until recently he did this at night so the…

  • TWIL: Why my driveway is covered in bird poop

    Frankly, I’m no stickler for driveway tidiness, but this is an excessive ratio of bird poop to driveway. It happened overnight. I’m fairly certain it’s the crows, just because Gary’s switched from feeding the crows before the raccoons, instead of the opposite, so we have just an absurd number of crows. Then I did some…

  • Mouse Detective: Episode Three

    The Mouse Detective returned for a follow-up visit. Seriously, I get excited when the doorbell rings and the Rottler van is outside, because I know she’ll know where the vermin are and what they had for dinner and what religion they practice. I was ready for her. “Mouse poop. Fluff is moving. Steel wool is…

  • NARCOMS summary

    Well! Who knew that if a person dutifully fills out a survey for twenty years, she will eventually get a summary consisting of three line charts? All are self-assessed. One shows Mental Quality of Life. (High numbers are good.) One shows Physical Quality of Life. (High numbers are good. Yes! I know! I see it…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/6/2025

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

  • My favorite part of KDHX relocates

    Keith Dudding may have been foist from KDHX, but he has a new home on the internet. Same show, interviews, same Keith. If it is 11:00 am on Saturday morning, and you go to www.rootsfm.org you will see this screen: If you scroll down through the listings you will will see Keith’s show at its…

  • Black and White Optic/Ocular Migraine

    Well, I had a novel experience yesterday. I was getting ready to run Gary to the hospital for a blood test. (An aside: He passed the blood test. My personal friend the Prostate is in peak form again.) While I was getting ready I got an optic migraine. (An aside: My first one (reported here)…

  • Oscars 2025

    My predictions were a bust. I only called best picture (Anora) and supporting actor (Culkin). (And seriously how much did Kieran call on his relationship with his brother Maccauley for his portrayal? That must be fraught.) Was the thing with Adam Sandler necessary? The bickering couple with the iPhone – did the man chastise the…

  • TWIL: Grizzles

    I was watching All Creatures Great and Small, and [SPOILERS] there is now a baby, Jimmy. At one point the closed captioning said: JIMMY GRIZZLES I assumed this was some baby term I missed on account of being all childless and happy. Oddly when I tried to call the closed captioning up on a different…