What are your household "signature" items and quirks? Here's what you can expect if you end up at my place:
- Random outbursts of clarinet playing, or perhaps saxophone or flute or piano; otherwise, an unusually quiet house, with no TV playing in the background and infrequent sounds from the phone or my clock radio.
- Dragons all over the house, plus a ginormous one on the front lawn.
- The scent of sesame oil, ginger and garlic pervading the entire house (except for the upstairs bathroom, which tends to smell more like roses).
- Cookbooks, astronomy magazines, and some random book on the dining room table. (Currently the random book is The Art of War; before that, it was Naked Lunch.)
- Occasionally being awakened at 4:00 a.m. by the aroma of fresh baked goods or some pasta dish, because my daughter cooks at weird hours.
- Caches of building materials in odd places, like in the sewing room.
