Thanksgiving has come and gone, and Mojo has managed to survive. Granted, she was so busy running around she didn't have time to do the laundry until yesterday, but say la vee. There is a plus to being anosmic, don'tcha know.  MORE Mojo! »

I think for those who have never experienced a really BAD burn, you imagine the pain will be just an absolutely horrendous nightmare for the duration. I suppose I am somewhat lucky in that respect, as indeed I seem to be lucky in a lot of things lately (except for the actual burning part), in that It's Not As Bad As It Could Have Been.

Oh, yeah, make no mistake about it--it hurts. The pain is what drove me to the hospital in the first place. But it built up. I went into shock pretty quick--in fact I had to talk to myself for a bit while I paced to calm myself down so I wouldn't go entirely into shock and freak out--and it didn't get bad until an hour or two into it. But pretty much run-of-the-mill painkillers took care of it fairly well, although I believe I spent most of the first week snoring away on the couch. And, to be honest, I did absolutely ZERO work. I just couldn't concentrate.  MORE Mojo! »

So two years ago Mojo had her very first ear infection ever, which was most unpleasant. And since then any excuse in the books causes that ear to block up and threaten another infection. Like the cold I had a few weeks ago.

Mojo is now going through a crazy hysterical I'll-try-anything phase to see if she can pinpoint the problem. First theory is that Mojo loves milk and dairy too much and might actually be allergic to it. So Mojo decided to cut dairy out of her diet for a week or two and see what happens.

Unfortunately for Mojo, dairy is the primary ingredient in several Foods of the Gods, including her morning coffee, various cheeses and ... ice cream. It has been sheer agony. And all just to test a hare-brained theory that probably isn't true anyway, but Mojo won't know for certain for a while.  MORE Mojo! »

...and WHY do the manufacturers think we want to look at extreme closeups of the stuff during commercials?

They're breaking it apart and fluffing it up with a fork while the announcer reads a list of people food as if he's been starving in the desert for a month. "Ummm... beef. Chicken.... rice!"

I wouldn't mind so much if the stuff they were fluffing with a fork actually LOOKED like the foodstuffs they are listing, but it doesn't. Instead it looks like vomit. I'm sorry, but it does. It looks like something that has already taken the first three steps of digestion and should be far out of sight in someone's innards and not being fluffed with a fork on my television.  MORE Mojo! »

I purchased the collector's 2-disc version of King Kong for the library and we watched it in preparation for seeing the new release. As my husband was putting it away he commented that he didn't remember it being as disturbing and horrific as it was. I then watched the special features where I found out a) Peter Jackson is directing the remake; b) Peter Jackson is a HUGE original King Kong fan and c) the reason why it was so disturbing is because the Hollywood production code made them take out some 4.5 minutes out of the 1933 original in 1938 and it was only restored for the DVD from a print they found in England.  MORE Mojo! »