Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Author: Ellen S______

  • Yearly Physical

    Look at this nonsense from my yearly physical! My physical report still says I have Class I Obesity! I mean, sure, my obesity is First Class (ONLY THE BEST OBESITY FOR MOI) but still. According to their own page it says the lowest BMI for First Class Obesity is 32. I’ve read other things that…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/16/2026

    So this is the previous … This is the progress … And this is the goal. More contrast on the flowers and I am done.

  • Review: Marty Supreme

    Martin Scorcese said that Casino was “all story, no plot.” I liked Casino a lot, though, I think because I didn’t need to hear the “why” behind any of the narrative. I just assumed that life in the Mafia is violent and chaotic and random. Life in table tennis is violent and chaotic too, who…

  • Review: Merrily We Roll Along

    8:00 pm Monday night: I am watching the credits to the 2025 recorded version of Merrily We Roll Along and I am astonished to see it was based on a 1934 play by Kaufman and Hart. And then I am gobsmacked to read that K&H’s 1934 version was told with the same backward narration. 6:00…

  • Tomorrow the teeth are unfettered

    Well, tonight is the last night my teeth will spend in the aligners. It was just a four-month process and they feel like all-new teeth. I mean, cosmetically they’re still too close to the ivory edge of the paint sample card. And my front teeth are still shorter than my canines (just like Mom’s). But…

  • TWIL: Nautical vs statute miles

    I think I am not the only one this week to wonder about mileage. (Because of Artemis, of course, not gas prices.) Evidently measuring statute miles in feet and inches is deficient. I suppose that’s why we ended up with terms like “a country mile” and “as the crow flies.” If you’re navigating huge expanses,…

  • Garden mishap: Spring 2026

    When my neurologist asks me if I’ve fallen in the last six months, and I say yes, and he says, “What were you doing,”I say “Gardening,” because I often fall while I’m gardening. I’m tired, the ground is uneven, and I’m often too hot. Gary’s never around, so it isn’t a crisis, and frankly, I…

  • Splashdown

    Astronauts are back and safe. I can stand down. I can’t tell you how much I’ve been on edge these past ten days. Gary didn’t help this morning when he shared the heat shield worries. Anyway, good work NASA, you waited until April this time. Excellent work on the animated graphics in particular. Early on…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/9/2026

    So this is the previous … This is the progress … And this is the goal.

  • Green moon continued

    They have begun to release the images of the far side of the moon. No one at NASA is talking about the alleged green tint. Disappointed Photoshop users everywhere immediately took the ohotos and cranked up the color saturation. I won’t show you an doctored example. However, I did zoom in on the Earthrise photo…