Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

Friend #3 is the only one of the Numbered Friends still at TeddyJ. And even that will not last for long: today was the first of her two (two!) two retirement parties. It was well attended by thirty coworkers from the last 18 years, and they all went around and shared stories of her generosity…

I saw a man in a hat recently. At work. The idea. Brazenly wearing a hat in mixed company at work. And not a sedate and modest hat, like a bowler, or a deerstalker. No. The man was wearing the most provocative of all hats. A fedora. At. Work. Here I am, stitching up necklines…

There was a call today for citizens to boycott work, school, shopping, etc. to protest I.C.E. (”Immigration and Customs Enforcement” emphasis on “FORCE”). I did boycott all these things today. What I did not boycott was my bathroom, because what actually took me out all day was an awful, awful stomachache. I am running the…

I was gutted to hear that Roomba’s parent company, iRobot, is going into bankruptcy. Mom and I were both early Roomba adopters. I still have the early virtual “walls” from my first one. I currently have \ a heavy-duty basement Roomba, a pet model ground floor Roomba, and a mopping “Scooba”. I know there are…

I was in bed at nine o’clock last night when I realized I had forgotten to go to the dentist. I was supposed to have contacted him sometime during the day — way before nine o’clock at night — because I’d had some dental work, and one element of it had to be removed. He…

Ten years ago I bought a suit. It was my favorite, even though I did not attain the hourglass figure of the model. On me the suit looked more like this: I now weigh what I weighed when I bought that suit. Oddly, the weight isn’t where it was 10 years ago. The belly and…

I woke up with chills, no appetite, and again the sensation of have been hit by a truck. I was barely hanging on at work and I knew I would have to be on my game for two hour-long meetings. I needed to be awake, and I needed nutrition, and I realized I had just…

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.

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…

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…