Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2025

  • Cats

    I visited a local business the other day, and I was greeted by two cats. One was a ginger cat with giant feet. He was a long-legged big-shouldered athlete. Golden eyes that matched his fur. He looked like the first cat they would consider for the Olympic Cat Team. The other was a black and…

  • Credit card chat

    I am still battling the credit card fraudster. Not directly, but through the credit card company. I do have the new card, but sadly, one of the Autopays it transferred to my pure new card pays the criminal’s cable bill month after month. I told them I could keep disputing the recurring cable charge, and…

  • TWIL: Fridgescaping

    People with too much refrigerator space (me) and a need for just one corner of their house that they can decorate as they please (me) have taken to decorating the insides of their refrigerators. It is called Fridgescaping. It was hot last fall and I missed it, as I neither Tik nor Tok. What I…

  • I might rather have a colonoscopy

    I am lucky in that I’ve never even had polyps, even after three colonoscopies, so three years ago I got to opt for Cologuard at-home tests instead of being fully sedated, live and on-camera. The one at-home Cologuard exam I took in 2022 was a cakewalk. I see that I was all blasé about whether…

  • Bullets of how very little was accomplished during vacation

    Accomplishment 1: Made doctor’s appointments. Regrettably, with the tests and appointments I will see a doctor once every week for the next two months, and I’m not even sick. Today’s visit was to the allergist, where I found while I might be allergic to old-school penicillin, I can suck up third-generation derivative Cefdinir like diet…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/5/2025

    This week the Iris went from this: … to this. Ugh. And it looks worse. It’s important to remember it’s getting another wash of black (or dark blue, not sure) over the background. But it looks like I did nothing after working on it over an hour. And I tell you that right hand side…

  • Twice in a season

    I just spent half an hour in the bowels of TeddyJ waiting out a tornado warning. Once again the tornado was targeting a friend’s house. This time I had the sense to say “I am sure you are fine” and “I bet your pets are sleeping through it.”

  • Opera Double-Header: This House

    Pre-Opera Events I again backed in to the parking space before dinner. Anne has changed my life with this new skill. I even backed in to the grocery store this past weekend, even without Anne walking me through it. We ate at Madrina, which was terrific. Lovely decor, Frank on the playlist, and a new…

  • Opera Double-Header: Die Fledermaus

    We had to reschedule the first opera of the season, so last week we attended on Friday and Saturday. We saw Die Fledermaus on Friday night. Pre-Opera Events We ate at Pan D’Olive. I made poor choices. My arancini, lentil soup, and hazelnut ice cream were all underwhelming. And the place was noisy, full of…

  • TWIL: The limitations of recycling centers

    The refrigerator deliverymen left behind both a wooden pallet and a pallet-sized square of insulation. I was able to tear the pallet apart with my bare hands (after a fight with Gary), but the insulation was too hard to break apart. It was plastic on one side and foam on the other and I just…