Casa Grigio

Mr. Condescending has invited me to invite him to my house - you know, like one of those rousing getting-to-know-you games we've all been forced to play on the first day of grade school/summer camp/college. So! You are all invited to my house, where Mr. C will be the guest of honor this evening. Moreover, you are invited to invite me to your house afterward so I can get to know YOU a little better! Please answer the following, preferably with photo evidence, and anything else you see fit to share:

What books are on your favorite shelf?
What DVD's are on your favorite shelf?
What are your TWO favorite cookbooks?
Select 1-3 recipes you will cook for your special guest.
What will we be drinking that is available?

Welcome to my house, where you will enter via the farmer's porch rather than the front door proper.



Upon entering, you will be greeted by this fellow. Don't worry, he'll bark a lot but he won't bite. Give him a graham cracker and he'll shut right up.



Once you've befriended Harold, I'll feed you obscene amounts of food. We have a grand total of two cookbooks in my house, and one of them doesn't even belong to us. I've barely cracked either of them, so I will probably make something entirely different.



If you come at breakfast time, I may make French toast with cinnamon, omelettes whatever way you like 'em, or banana blueberry pancakes.



If you come for lunch or dinner, I'll probably serve you my specialty, vegetarian burritos. Or if you're lucky enough to be here for dessert, and even if it's not dessert time I will probably feed you dessert, I'll bake fresh banana bread from scratch and/or peppermint cookies with chocolate kisses on top, also from scratch.



If someone's gone shopping, I can offer you a variety of juice drinks, the most notable being punch flavored Juicy Juice. No, we don't have children in the house. The Juicy Juice is mine. I confess. I can also offer you milk, with or without lactose! If you want to provide your own booze, I can make you delicious punch with sherbet in it! Sorry but you'll have to wait til next year if you want me to buy the booze.

But if, like today, no one's gone shopping in a while, then you're stuck with cancer-ridden tap water. I hope you like tumors.

If it's nice out, we'll eat on the patio.



As you can see by this picture, it's not nice out today. It's quite cold and wet, actually. So we will be dining inside. After we eat, we've got a lot of choices for activities! We could go up to the family room...



...and watch a movie from either my collection or the rest of my family's (but good luck finding anything worth watching, as all the best movies seem to disappear into the black hole of my sister's room. We could have a scavenger hunt if you're into that sort of thing, a.k.a. if you're one of my four-year-old campers). Unfortunately I don't have the funds to buy all my favorite movies. If this collection could truly encompass my favorites, you'd also see plenty more by Pixar, The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz, the complete works of Hayao Miyazaki, and The Lakehouse.



Since my movie selection is so limited, maybe you'd rather take a walk. There's a reservoir nearby that we can walk to.



On the way, we're sure to encounter all sorts of fascinating wildlife!!



I'm sure you'll be tired after our walk, so why don't we go lounge around in my room? It's the color of a lemon! Welcome to the yellow submarineeeee



While we're up there, you can browse my bookshelf. I hope you like fiction, especially fantasy, because I don't have a ton of other genres to offer. Some poetry, some classics, two or three different Bibles, and yeah. That about covers it.



If you were looking for something that requires less thought than reading, I wouldn't object to snuggling. Hmm. This is what the ceiling looks like from my bed.



Well, it's been a long day. Tomorrow I'll come visit you!! =D

P.S. DON'T FORGET TO VOTE TODAY!