I need some mojo.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I’m moving across the country in about a month. (July 13, to be precise.) Leaving my childhood home in upstate New York to go to Longview, Texas, an announcement that usually results in dropped jaws and doofy stares and interrogations. “Why do you want to move to Texas?” “What’s in Longview?” “TEXAS?!?!” Same question, fifteen different phrasings, repeat until I pass out.

But I’m doing it, anyway. It’s my first time out on my own, so I’m extremely inexperienced and more than a little scared. I have an apartment waiting for me, and I think I got the electricity scheduled to be turned on, and I’m fairly certain I have car insurance and a phone line.

I do not have much furniture (in fact, what I’m bringing with me is a single desk, and what I have waiting down there are three chairs), the title to my truck, or a job.

I was supposed to get transferred from the Staples I work at up here to one down there, but it doesn’t seem to be going properly. I’m applying to a couple places, but I’ll still need some Job Mojo, if anybody has any of that.

I’ll also need some Moving Mojo, as I have to find a way to pack everything I own into the back of a Jeep Cherokee and trek it down 1,700 miles of highway, preferably without losing or breaking anything.

Oh, and I’ll need some Finding A Mattress For Cheap, And Possibly Also A Nice Dinette Set And Stuff Mojo too.

And Not Getting Too Panicky To Move Mojo would be excellent.

If there was anything worth doing in Longview to haul you guys out for I’d propose a Minidope, but unless you want to cram yourselves into a 530-square-foot apartment and then play minigolf across the street I don’t have much to offer you.

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Big Gris Gris and Major Mojo being sent as I type this. Best wishes with your huge changes.

Zenster

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Don’t know diddly about Job Mojo, but if you want Cuban Mojo, which is a kick ass marinade:

3 heads garlic
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
1 and 1/2 cups sour orange juice
(If you can’t get sour orange juice in your area, order by clicking the link above.)
(In a pinch, use two parts orange to one part lemon and one part lime)
1 cup minced onion
2 teaspoons oregano
1 cup Spanish olive oil

Mash garlic, salt, and peppercorns into a paste, using a mortar and pestle. Stir in sour orange juice, onion, and oregano. Let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes or longer.

In a saucepan, heat olive oil to medium hot and remove from heat. Whisk in the garlic-orange juice mixture (prepared above) until well blended.

And if you only want a little bit, as in Mojito, a drink, then:

1 tsp sugar
sprig of sweet mint
juice of ½ lime
a glass filled with ice cubes
one shot white rum

Pour all the ingredients over the ice cubes. Mix, serve, and enjoy!

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I can loan you my man-child boy-cat for a while … but wait, he’s a yoyo (sorry, it’s dorky, I know, what can I say).

I can send out best wishes, though. And if you need any references, I will do that as well. I don’t know you, but you post here, so you must be brilliant like the rest of us.

Good luck with everything. Congratulations on making some big exciting changes!!

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It’ll be fine, honey. Scary, I know…but you are moving for all the RIGHT reasons, so in the long run…it’ll be worth it.

But I am sending love and best wishes and prayers anyway.

My Love,

Cheri

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Good luck hun !!

.:sprinkles Mississippi Mojo on racinchikki:.