Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Author: Ellen S______

  • TWIL: Common-law-marriage

    I don’t know if this is specific to my family, or my age, or my state, but I have had two family members who were in what were described as common-law marriages. One was my grandfather, the other was my tenuous connection to President Harding (second-worst president ever). After he divorced my maternal grandmother (the…

  • Potstickers

    One notable thing happened during Christmas break: two friends came by and we all made potstickers from scratch. I don’t really know how our original plan to make spanakopita morphed into potstickers, except that Marcia is Jewish and claims that Chinese food is Christmas food. And she loves potstickers. Then it morphed into a good-natured…

  • I am filled with boundless hope for the new year

    I have been so, so sick during the middle of my two-week vacation that I now have only three days for my 9-item to-do list. Today I began making progress. At this rate I will be done with everything by Sunday night.

  • 2025 in review

    Big positive stories I think year’s happiest long-term story is the health story In Which a Tremulous Bladder is Whipped into Near-Perfect Shape by Botox. (Too many links to name, but a search above for Botox will get you there.) Second-best story is the tale in which Our Heroine Fits into the Pants She Bought…

  • Wisdom delayed

    None of the cliches apply. It does bring in some retrospection, always, and I confess that something happened this year that makes me look forward to old age. It’s these odd flashes of long-delayed realization that continue to show up. The first happened in 2023 (on the cusp of Hot Matron Summer Part I), when…

  • Best cure for what ails you

    Are you sick? I recommend these practices to make you feel better.

  • Tooth upgrade begins at a bad time

    So, I have embarked on the effort to straighten my teeth. They showed me a video of how the adjustment shall progress and it looks like I shall end up with the same tiny pointy hamster teeth that are not as askew. It really looked the same to me, but as long as parts stop…

  • TYIL: 2025

    This year I learned lots of things. The most notable in each category are below. Let me know via anonymous comment if you knew any of these things already. (There was going to be a poll, but then the illness overtook me.)

  • Oh god I am so sick

    Not Covid. Not flu A or B. Must be RSv. God I am siiick.

  • Gary’s new personality

    I don’t know what to tell you, but I find myself married to a completely different man these last few months. This new Gary vacuums compulsively, up to three times a day. Last week at five am I was awakened by the sound of a tambourine in the “library” room next door, because he was…