About Mojo Mama

I'm a mom and a wife.  We've been married for 5 years, and yet it feels like we've been married forever.  Words that have been used to describe me include: quirky, eccentric, intense, and "Rabid Chipmunk" (something about my cheeks and how I sometimes talk really fast when I get excited).  I have two wonderful little boys who know how to push every button I have, and then turn around and make it all better again with those puppy dog eyes.

When I get uncomfortable, I babble.  A lot.  About inappropriate things.  For example, at one job interview, the interviewer made me anxious, and I started rambling about my breasts.  Needless to say, I didn't get the job.

I'm a little neurotic, occasionally strange, and love to laugh and make others laugh.

I love gummy bears, but they give me stomach aches.



100 Facts About Me:
(Since it seems to be a good place to start!)
  1. I love fruit juice.
  2. But it gives me stomach aches that weirdly radiate to headaches.
  3. I'm allergic to pork.  I love pork, it does not love me.
  4. I'm an animal person.
  5. I have a cat.  I think a dog would fit into our home better, but I'm allergic to them too.
  6. My cat's name is "Kitty".  That's all she'll answer to.
  7. I've held a wider variety of jobs than most people I know.
  8. I've worked in coffee stands.
  9. I've worked in a floral shop.
  10. Of the five different call center jobs I've worked, one was credit card customer service. (I don't recommend that one.)
  11. One of them was working for Verizon doing 411 for AT&T which was being bought out by Cingular at the time.
  12. I probably talked to your mom.
  13. I can't touch my toes.  Not even close.  I am freakishly NOT-flexible.
  14. I almost joined the Army.
  15. Perhaps only 5% of all my sex dreams -- um... yeah, they happen a lot -- involve Mr. Mojo.
  16. Mr. Mojo and I got married in 2005.  I was 6 months pregnant with son #1 and barefoot because my feet were too swollen for my shoes.
  17. I was born and raised Mormon, and am considered "inactive" now.  Mr. Mojo is not Mormon.
  18. I bruise like a son of a heifer.
  19. My natural hair color is auburn/red.  I dye it on occasion in various other shades of red, be it more mahogany, burgundy, fire-engine red, or strawberry blonde.  I've also gone black, purple, blue, and maroon.
  20. About 75% of the time, though, my carpet matches my drapes.
  21. I didn't know what that meant when I was first asked.  I thought they literally meant my carpet and my drapes.
  22. I answered, "I don't have drapes. My rental has Venetian blinds."
  23. Someday, I'd like to own a home.
  24. I'll paint one wall burgundy.
  25. We have this very strange ability to attract some of the worst landlords in our area.  We've had one or two amazing landlords, but most of the rest... suck.  A lot.
  26. I used to blog on another blog, way back when, and fell away for a while.  But now I'm back!  (From outer space...)
  27. I'm a part-time night owl.
  28. Sometimes I stay up late, and sometimes I'm out by eleven.
  29. Every day, something comes up that I wish I could call my dad about.
  30. I'm learning, even after a year has gone by, the hurt for those you've lost never goes away.
  31. I drive a minivan wannabe.
  32. It's a Chevy Astrovan.  Not your basic Astrovan, but an after-market version built for traveling.  (They call it a "Conversion Van".)
  33. It was my mother's for several years, and now it's mine.
  34. I get along with my mother on occasion.
  35. I almost never get along with my mother-in-law.
  36. I'm pretty sure she wants me dead.
  37. I try to avoid eating anything at her house, as she's crazy enough to maybe try and poison me.
  38. I kind of want a daughter.
  39. But not enough to try for one.
  40. I am probably one of the most miserable pregnant women I know.
  41. I have a very short attention span, easily distracted by... just about everything.
  42. Oooh... shiny.
  43. I have made ONE pot of rice that came out totally edible.  Every last spoonful.
  44. Every other pot of rice I've made was either overcooked or undercooked.
  45. I've had more fires start up on my stove than I'd like to admit.
  46. And yet through it all, my husband still insists that I'm a good cook.
  47. I love my husband.
  48. Just not his mom.
  49. I bought one of those digital scales with the BMI measurement built in, thinking how cool it was.
  50. I avoid it like the plague, because it tells me I'm fat.
  51. I'm only photogenic when I take photos of myself.
  52. And even then, only in about one out of thirty photos turns out halfway decent.  (On a good day.)
  53. I love to watch porn television shows on my computer.
  54. If it wasn't for Hulu, I'd probably have completely lost most of my shows.
  55. We have a tv...
  56. ... it's usually turned on to Qubo or PBS.
  57. I don't know what I'd do without my laptop.
  58. Homicide or something, probably.
  59. I have a love affair with shoes.
  60. According to my husband, I have an obscene number of shoes.
  61. I tend to have a preference toward heels and boots.
  62. I have huge amounts of makeup.
  63. I do occasional work as a freelance makeup artist, but not very often.
  64. Unless I'm on birth control, I break out like a teenager mid-puberty.
  65. I've been pregnant six seven confirmed times.
  66. I've had four five miscarriages.
  67. I have two sons.
  68. I frequently lose my cellphone.
  69. If you watch my Twitter, you'll see when I lose it when I ask any of the random folks out there that I'm friends with to please call my phone so that I can find it again.
  70. I love yogurt.
  71. I miss being able to use the bathroom with the door closed.  Someday, I will be able to do so again.
  72. I used to need sound all the time, and almost always had music playing.
  73. Now I have two kids.
  74. I treasure the rare moments of quiet that I have now, sometimes even driving in silence.
  75. I wish I'd known HALF the stuff I know now... ten years ago.
  76. I have a weakness for smutty romance novels.
  77. I have floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in my living room.
  78. The entire top shelf is dedicated to smutty romance novels.
  79. Two of my favorite novelists are Julie Garwood and Diana Gabaldon.
  80. I can't stand Coke or Pepsi.
  81. They both taste the same to me.
  82. I LOVE the new Moutain Dew Twisted. -- though I am now on a non-pop diet.
  83. I can sit and eat several Otter Pops in one sitting.
  84. While I was pregnant with Son #2, I was doing just that and cut my lip open with a pair of shears.
  85. Long story behind that.
  86. I tend to wound myself with sharp implements a lot.
  87. Once, I stabbed myself in the back of the throat with a steak knife.
  88. I was trying to lick cheesecake off the knife.
  89. Subway sandwiches give me hiccups.
  90. I can't swim.
  91. I'm afraid of clowns, spiders, drowning, heights, and driving at night.
  92. I've been in five car wrecks in the seven years that I've been driving.
  93. Only two of those wrecks were my fault.
  94. I love my kids, but I don't tend to like other people's kids very much.
  95. I fantasize about Adam Baldwin.
  96. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
  97. Someday, I want to visit Europe.
  98. I've always wanted to attend a blogging conference.
  99. I used to write for BlissfullyDomestic.com.
  100. While I'm not necessarily OCD, I have some things that I do very obsessively, and it REALLY bothers me if they are out of sync with how I want/need them.
Also, I am in no small way THRILLED that I have my own QR-Code for this blog:


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