Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Month: August 2025

  • Drugs: too good

    I apologize for yet another entry in the Illness category, but it was destined to be a blog about health this week. In one five day stretch I scheduled two tests, one office visit, two vaccinations, and one procedure with one day of prep. On top of all that, the neurologist’s office called to tell…

  • Colonoscopy 2025!

    I haven’t had a colonoscopy for years. I did have a luminous white angelic polyp at the last one. This time I had two: a benign white one “like a skin tag,” and a red one that was a “typical pre-cancerous polyp.” Yawn, typical potential cancer, nothing to see here. Taste of prep: It was…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/7/2025

    This week the Dog Bank went from this: … to this. Minimal effort that I put in while drinking my colonoscopy prep. White highlights and interest need to be scumbled in, otherwise he seems like he’s floating in the void. Pleased to see the black covered well. The line at the front bottom of the…

  • Neuro visit 8/2025

    I had another lovely visit with the neurologist, as always. Notable events: He measured my liver numbers, as he usually does, but I gave him an extra reminder because the GP’s office was particularly concerned. Turns out the liver is fine and simply didn’t like the statin for my cholesterol. The drug I take may…

  • Evidently, I am finally over my abandonment issues

    Do you have abandonment issues? Is therapy difficult for you? Would you like to resolve your abandonment issues without therapy? Here’s how you do it. Step 1: Stay married to someone for 4o years. I realized last weekend that Gary went an entire day without speaking to me. In the past if he’d slept all…

  • Further proof I am becoming a man

    The weight loss, once stalled, continues on its erratic path. One week ago, no pants fit. No buttons buttoned. Well, one pair barely buttoned, but I didn’t trust them the next day. The rest didn’t button or zip. Today, seven days later, every pair of pants buttons, and zips, and with one pair there is…

  • TWIL: Colonoscopy prep in the age of GLP-1

    Last Thursday I was one week out from my upcoming colonoscopy. I knew I wasn’t supposed to consume any tomatoes or popcorn, but that was all. I needed a refresher on what foods were allowed. Also, I had a nagging worry. This weight-loss drug slows down bowel traffic, and I was concerned that when the…

  • Gratitude 2025

    Gary’s thinking of a litter robot if we get a kitten. And he also likes the idea of this: I don’t know. I just always cleaned up Goldies messes when he alerted me, especially after the one time I didn’t do it instantly and he flipped the box over. Might be nice for those who…

  • Again with the shoes

    What. The Hell. I again went in to the office, I again looked down at my feet, and I AGAIN saw that my shoes were disintegrating. Not the heels this time. The uppers. Evidently, my lime green sandals are white sandals that WERE coated with suede-like green flocking. They don’t like the office any more…