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.

Things We're Making Next Year

...so far the list consists exclusively of baked goods that look like cute animals. Is this a problem? Absolutely not.

Panda Bread


(Obviously.)
http://perfectpandas.com/2008/01/08/panda-bread/

Emily has just suggested Owl Cupcakes!


http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniques/baking/cupcake-decorating-ideas-00000000018322/page3.html

UPDATE:

Oh, also this. Obvi.

Ice Planets

http://tastyplanner.com/blog/articles/the-problem-with-ice-planets

STUFF!!!!

Well hello everyone. Whilst enjoying the benefits of being 21 years old (...with my parents...) I decided that I would write ANOTHER blog post whilst listening to Frank Sinatra to inform everyone of the collection that will be occurring in our abode. As of now. Also, whilst is a pretty cool world.

ANYWAY, my friend's parents just sold their house ( :( ) but she's going to be living in my house all summer ( :) ), so it's basically okay, and it ALSO means that they are trying to get rid of some of the absurd amounts of CRAP they have accumulated throughout the years (I'm allowed to say that cause I'm helping them move out -for payment :)-). This ALSO means that things that they would just throw away are going to meeee :). Sorry about the prominence of smileys in this situation, I'm trying to cut back.

So far (pretty much everything), we have a set of dishes (big plates, little plates, bowls), a couple mugs AND some kinda weirdly-shaped wine glasses (but who cares once there's some Bohemian Highway in them, amiright?). There's a mixing bowl and a tray in there for whatever use as well, and we also have a chance to acquire a hanging parrott-like decorative sculpture that I WILL bring to Wooster unless someone stops me within the next 24 hours. BAM.

Anyway, that's the news from here, I hope everyone's as EXCITED as I am!!!!