Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

  • Whine

    (Wine snobs: perpare to condescend.) To my uneducated palate, beer tastes like flowers and wine tastes like stomach acid. (Or, as one philosophical friend ventured, perhaps my stomach acid tastes like wine.) There are some wines I like. Those would be the wines that tastes like Welches grape juice. Mogen David. There’s a wine. I…

  • My Secret Life

    I was thinking of my niece and the massive secrets adults in her life coerced her into keeping. Like her Mom’s secret marriage. The S_______’s assume the proposition that all knowledge is secret. Any information passed from one S_______ to another ends with “of course, don’t tell [enter name of male member of the family]…

  • Big Day

    Big Day

    Saturday was a big long day in which we celebrated our 21st anniversary. This could be an excruciatingly long post, or I could try to go with the post version of the movie montage. —————————————————————————————-Amazingly, we got up at 7:30 to get to the Susan Komen Race for the Cure (or as we did it,…

  • Old News and Notes

    Old News and Notes

    I’m sure I’m not the only kid who wrote notes to a friend in junior high and high school, but I may be the only one who kept them all since 1977. When I turned forty, I decided I was strong enough to take a hard look at who I was at 15. (Evidently, I…

  • Missy Bad.

    I can NOT believe it – as Lucky BWay Girl reminded me (and I thank you) I completely forgot one of the five (count ’em! five!) ways to express affection: Acts of Service. And here I choked on the one Gary loves to do and I love to receive. He is Bongo to my Missy,…

  • A Very Special Guest Post

    Hola, niños. This is Uncle Alvarez, Ellen’s acoustic guitar. It was Bring-Your-Guitar to Work Day and Ellen and I had an outing. As we were leaving for work, she was packing me in the case and I heard Gary say “You aren’t really taking your guitar to work, are you?” And my beloved said yes,…

  • Me me me Meme

    “Mom” I said this weekend. “You need a blog.” “I wouldn’t have anything to write about.” “Well, you could write about your capers. And if you need a topic evidently there are these things called ‘Memes.’” Mom was disinterested. But I read of a meme on Amandarin, and it mentioned Chronic Listaholic. The first list…

  • Gather ’round Ye Little Children

    Today I… …used a turntable to play a Pete Seeger record. A record that has not been released by Sony (bastards) in MP3 format. … said to Gary “Well if it’s so easy to build a fence, then why was it so hard for us to find anyone to build this fence twenty years ago?”…

  • I Sing the Body Eclectic

    Okay, tonight was spent investing in my iPod. It struck me that I must have at least one song from every iPod genre in my Library. But HA I do not. I am so not well rounded. People, I must be rounded, and rounded well. My goal is to have at least one song of…

  • Mmmmm..Soylent Green

    I just finished watching Soylent Green. (Spoiler alert! Read no more if you don’t know how this classic ends. Oh, and stop having a life and join the Couch Potato Generation.) I’d never seen anything but the big twist ending of Soylent Green. I was surprised by two things. First, as a result of 9…