Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2025

  • Halloween horror

    I hate posts about posts but man, this blog is in shambles! 36 missing posts from March 4 – April 10 last year. 50 previously blocked duplicate posts to re-load. 20 missing images STILL, and … the thing that horrifies me the most: 662 broken links. (Should have tried a little harder to hit the…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/30/2025

    This week Tulips 2025 went from this: … to this.

  • Bed

    “YOU HAVE TO COME ALONG TO HELP ME BUY A NEW MATTRESS,” Gary said. I was surprised to hear this. Gary has been compiling mattress data for over a year now. If you recall from the Honda Fit and the Chevy Bolt, he spends such time researching that technology becomes obsolete before he’s made a…

  • How it was in the Aughts

    Straightening up this blog has made me look at the old days, children, when we just barely had the internet. I point you to posts where you can reminisce about the technology of the Early Aughts. Watching Netflix when it was all DVD based in 2006 Hearing an iPod for the first time in 2007…

  • Blueberry stew returns

    He said he missed the blueberries, so purple chicken is back on the menu.  

  • TWIL: What chicken tenderloins are

    I really did have an entry in TWIL all queued up that was not even remotely scandalous, regarding the etymology of “catty-corner”, but then Gary walked into my room and announced: “I JUST LEARNED WHAT CHICKEN TENDERLOINS ARE.” “What are they?” “IT’S WHAT THEY AREN’T. THEY AREN’T CHICKEN BREASTS AT ALL. THEY’RE MORE DELICATE. THEY’RE…

  • Is this why people drink?

    I woke up chipper. I went grocery shopping at 6 in the morning. I rushed about grabbing up anything that appealed to me. My new plan is to buy food on Saturdays, because that’s the day I’m hungriest. I grabbed an assortment of new apples and high-protein shakes and mini microwave popcorns. I had energy!…

  • Update on the weight-loss orbit

    A new and mildly concerning wrinkle has developed with the weight loss drugs. The appetite suppressant feature is really working. I have so little interest in food lately that I wake up and then eat nothing until (let’s check the time) three in the afternoon. I lost my inclination to cook and chop, of course,…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/23/2025

    The latest Toy Dog Bank was so much worse than the previous two dog banks that I am quite shaken. I am going to do the thing I do when I feel like progress is going backward. No, not another set of croquet balls. I am going way back — back to the start of…

  • A surprising claim from Gary

    “YOU HAVE NEVER COOKED FOOD FOR ME NEVER.” I was surprised to hear Gary make this claim this morning, but I was on my way to work, and he was moaning how long it takes him to make his special blueberry chicken. I had just offered to cook it for him, which provoked the remark…