Wildlife Sighting

Yesterday, I was woken at 4 AM by a flapping sound, and I thought to myself, "That's just my curtains, right?" Then as my eyes adjusted to the light, I saw a dark shape moving quickly across the ceiling and thought, "Guerrilla advertising for The Dark Knight Rises!"

After hiding under a blanket for a couple minutes saying "Don't echolocate me!" I attained a more reasonable state of mind and spent the next half hour waiting for our little baby bat to fly low enough for me to throw a towel on him (he didn't) or fly out the window I generously opened for him (he didn't do that either). Eventually he landed on the closet door and managed to crawl back into the Darkness From Whence It Came (by which I mean whatever sketchy hollow areas behind our walls that are accessible to bats). I spent the whole of Friday hoping it had found its way back outside, but then he reappeared while I was eating dinner. THIS time I trapped him in the porch and persuaded him to exit through the front door. Success! Sooo...bats can get into our house. Things I have learned.

UPDATE: On Sunday night I came in from rehearsal to find a SECOND bat in our room. (Possibly the same one, and he's very persistant.) This time I had the assistance of Mr. Andrew Dirgo, who gallantly trapped it against the wall of my closet with a shoe box. On Monday I decided it was high time I informed security, and yesterday they sent over someone from the carpentry shop to fill up all the holes around our closet with caulk...classy as always, Wooster. So far, no more bats.

SHOPPING :):)

First order of business, for some reason I can't comment on any posts. It isn't a huge deal, but Eryn I think all your finds are lovely and I think a house rule should be clean your own dishes in a TIMELY FASHION since we no longer have the nice housekeeping lady to leave us friendly little notes. :) Also, I miss you bims and I'm SO EXCITED to get back.

Second order of business, yesterday my mother took me out shopping at...

wait for it...

KITCHEN AND COMPANY.

I don't know if it exists anywhere else, but it's not like it's anything special, just a store FULL of kitcheny accessories. Which I now have a lot of. So here goes:

To begin with, my bed is sporting some green mixing bowls, a cutting board, a peeler, and a knife with lemons on it.

Pretty snazzy. (do people still say snazzy?)









Next we have a 3pack of what are probably some pretty crappy cookie sheets (for the mountains of cookies that we'll make the soccer boys eat), and some measuring utensils. One has an egg separator. If anyone ever uses the egg separator I will never stop mocking them. Or, every time someone uses the egg separator they have to take a shot. whichever.






Lastly we have a cooling rack that is severely not proportional (what is the word for that?) to the number of cookies I plan on baking, but it's a start. A garlic press so we ALWAYS use fresh garlic, if anyone buys pre-minced garlic, they have to take a shot, a potato masher cause it's really little and cute, some cool bamboo spoons, a spatula, and a little can opener thingy that I want to decorate cause it's a little ugly.




So there you go! All the things I am bringing that will make our kitchen the BEST KITCHEN in the world, so we can steal a million takeout boxes full of crap from lowry and cook cook cook all the time! :)

Thanksgiving dinner at Corner House?

Games?

I just found 3 odd little card games in my closet, only one of which I've actually played before, but they are all quirky and adorable and small enough to fit in my suitcase so I am bringing them to Woo with me!

Monty Python Fluxx

A sample of cards you can draw:

• Rabbits of Doom! You win if you have the Trojan Rabbit and the Killer Rabbit on the table in front of you.
• Nude Organist
• Unladen Swallow
  
• Outrageous Accent - If you speak with an outrageous accent during your turn, you may play 1 extra card.

Nanofictionary


You draw characters, settings, problems, and resolutions, then make up a story to tie them all together. Example cards!

• Characters: the relentlessly inquisitive reporter, the super-evolved sentient broccoli, the bleary-eyed waitress
• Settings: the dangerous objects factory, the beatnik coffeehouse, a clearing in the forest
• Problems: the interdimensional doorway is closing, "Who ate my brownies?", something is on fire
• Resolutions: they totally got away with it, a war was narrowly averted, he spent 6 weeks in the hospital

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Quidditch Card Game

You can tell that it's OLD because it has the illustrations that used to be on HP merchandise before the movies came along. This is the one I've actually played, and I recall it being fun, but I was also 10, so, you know, I thought anything that had Harry Potter on it was pretty great. Oh wait. That's still true.

You can jinx your opponent with a card that has a turtleneck-wearing Snape who looks like the offspring of the Wicked Witch of the West and a vampire. Also, the illustrator lacked the imagination of whoever designed the movie costumes, because the Quidditch uniforms look exactly like bathrobes. What I'm trying to say is: clearly it's awesome.

House rules?

Anyone have house rules ideas?

1. Wash your own damn dishes

2. Margaritas are meant to be shared

3. So is cheese

4. Don't leave passive aggressive notes because they will be easily ridiculed

Garage Sale Finds Part 2!

Wooster garage sales are definitely the best. If there are any still going on when everyone gets back to campus, we should def hit those up.


Crockpot! Don't worry, there's a lid. Probably from the 70s, but it appears serviceable! I've also picked up a knife and a rolling pin to augment our kitchen supplies.


Drunk Chess! I have already lost spectacularly to both Leann and Trip on this chess set, and look forward to doing so many more times throughout next year!

(Not from a garage sale) I found this at Uptown/Downtown today. It's wonderful! I basically want this woman's job! It has recipes for pigeon pie (I always wondered how they did that! Now I know!) and something Elizabethan called A Tart to Provoke Courage Either in Man or Woman (secret ingredient? sparrow brains) and also a lot of things that we might actually want to eat.

Garage Sale Finds

yard saaaaaaale

This summer in Wooster, I've had a chance to do something that, for lack of a car and driver's license, I wasn't able to do last year: Garage sale hunting!!! I've gone only once with Kelsey and Eryn, who are the real garage sale hunters (reality tv show idea pending), but I've found some great crap *ahem* useful things for the house. If you're reading this blog, you must already know that by "useful thing," I mean that it was cute and only a dollar.

1. Taj Mahal throw pillows

2. Slang flashcards

Sensitivity training = Tool Academy

3. Giraffe cookie jar and antique canning jar

4. PIKACHUUUU!

Just kidding! I found this Pokemon card stand at an outdoor antiques market in Siena. :)

I suck at google images.

SO along with a lot of useless things, I have also managed to procure two director's chairs. I had all sorts of dreams of what we would use them for, but when you search "directors chair beer" on google images, guess what comes up:

Thats right. I guess THAT'S what we'll be doing. Can anyone re-create a face that ridiculous, and, more importantly, is it possible to acquire enough white face paint to look like them?

Since our remake of New Moon seems iffy unless Pat Catans can order in bulk for us, I found ANOTHER picture that more accurately represents what we can do with directors chairs given our resources in Wayne County, Ohio.
Much better. Who wants to go chicken-catching?

If we don't manage to get the chicken, I just need everyone to picture it as a giant mojito, and THAT'S what I plan to use those chairs for. Thanks for nothing google. Maybe I should start using Bing.

JOKES.