...but a good consumer, huh? Which makes me, like, a PATRIOT.

Why, you ask. What has she done THIS time?

Well, I'll tell you.

After a month of seeing them in Costco and ALMOST buying it on the spot, but instead thinking about it and mulling it over and checking out all the online reviews and whatnot, I finally succumbed.  MORE Mojo! »

I did something last week, and I've been ashamed ever since. It has been preying on my mind. It was one of those impulsive, spontaneous things--you know, the sort of thing you just sort of *DO* without thinking, and then when you do think the enormity of it all slowly dawns on you.

Unlike my usual stammery attempts to find someone or something else to blame, I must take full responsibility here. It is yet another illustration of Mojo's storied laziness, this time carried to such an extreme I must now suffer the consequences in a very real and humiliating fashion.  MORE Mojo! »

Now, you see, people, this is why Mojo is not allowed to have nice things.

As you might have guessed from the complete absence of petty complaints and whining, the good stove people did indeed come up on Saturday to bolt together and install the surround, so our wood stove fireplace insert is now complete and fully functional. Well, it's been functional from the getgo, just now it looks prettier, which is all Mojo really cares about. Because after all, that IS the American Way, and Mojo if anything is a True Patriot. Especially in the sense that she gets whiny and irritable and searches and searches to find someone ELSE to blame whenever it so happens she doesn't get her way, but I digress.  MORE Mojo! »

...or, Why Oh Why Did Mojo Buy That Two-Pound Frozen Tiramisu at Costco?

Mojo's Favorite Husband is away on a bidness trip. Mojo's home. The library's closed. Everything's closed. The cat's curled up with the dog on the dog bed. The stove and the fireplace are going strong. A new batch of bread is growing its little yeastie beasties in the kitchen. I re-watched the new Hairspray movie. It's cute and fluffy and harmless. Very sweet. Whoever the kid is who plays Seaweed is gonna go far, Mojo's thinking. Quite charismatic and a heckuva singer. Cute, too. All the kids did good. The newcomer who played Tracy did a bang-up job as well. Plus Mojo just loves Queen Latifah. I could watch her sing the phone book.

It was a nice change of pace from Into Great Silence, which I also watched today. A documentary on a French monastery in the Alps. I enjoyed it, but I realized five minutes into it my Favorite Husband probably couldn't get through it. It was beautifully shot, but he'd be wondering when the explosions were going to start. It was an enjoyable double feature--French monks in silent contemplation followed by idealistic kids dancing and integrating Baltimore television in the Sixties. I caught John Waters in a cameo--he plays the flasher in the first song.

At the end of the movies I discovered a quarter of the tiramisu is gone. That's a HALF A POUND of tiramisu, I'm ashamed to say. In one sitting. I WILL point out it was nearly a FIVE HOUR SITTING, however, with occasional breaks to feed the stove. Therefore I am not to blame for any consequences.

Looks like there's four or five inches on the ground already.

Now I think I'm going to watch the original Hairspray, which I have on tape somewhere. The one with Rikki lake. Or maybe my girl Angela on my Sweeney Todd DVD to prepare me for the new movie. Or maybe I'll rewatch Chicago and see more Queen Latifah. I dunno. For a dessert so laden with caffeine I feel awfully lazy. Maybe I need more.

This is going to be a long evening.

Mojo

Just in case, God forbid, I am somehow incapacitated and can no longer make my wishes known, here is written instructions on how I like to cook and eat hot dogs. Not that I ONLY eat hot dogs, but you know.  MORE Mojo! »

...She goes and blows $40 at Costco to get the Star Wars DVD boxed set!

Of course everyone in the special features is talking about the primal significance of myth and Joseph Campbell and blah blah blah to explain its popularity. But I for one will never forget seeing it for the first time in State College....  MORE Mojo! »