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[dear-mrs-otome]

About Me Tag

Thanks @otonymous dear, for the tag!

the rules are:

1. Tag the person who tagged you

2. Answer the questions.

3. Tag 10 people

•How tall are you?

5′4″

•What color and style is your hair?

Currently giving it a rest from a few years of bleach and fantasy tones (usually purple or blue) so it’s a nice boring auburn, and I keep it mid-chest length!

•What color are your eyes?

Mostly green, with a bit of blue!

•Do you wear glasses?

When I read, or my eyes are tired.

•Do you wear braces?

No, that was years ago, but I do have the dubious honor of a permanent retainer glued behind my teeth. Hey...it beats wearing one to keep the teeth straight I guess?

•What’s your fashion sense?

I guess kind of boho? I like flowy things, patterns and prints mixed with solids, scarves and big funky jewelry, but with some restraint. Still gotta look classy - not like you just rolled out of a Woodstock documentary. I love shopping vintage stores, and I can forgo makeup in a pinch as long as I have my accessories on!

•Full name?

What more do you need than Mrs. O??

•When were you born?

It’s no secret I’m old AF. Let’s put it this way - I graduated high school in the prior century. I remember life before the internet, or cellphones, or CDs.

•Where are you from and where do you live now?

Born and raised and still a West Coast girl.

•What school do you go to?

That is safely in the rear-view.

•What kind of student are you?

I enjoyed school, and was always good at it, though I tended to procrastinate and finish things in horrible cram sessions last minute. Whoops.

•Do you like school?

I did! I still love discovering stuff, and try to challenge myself to learn a new skill on the regular. Never, ever stop learning.

•Favorite subject?

Literature, Creative Writing, Biology

•Favorite TV show?

I don’t really watch TV. At all. I guess just by dint of being the last show I have seen every episode of, I’d say Stranger Things?? Maybe Black Mirror too.

•Favorite Movie?

How can you pick just one?

High Fidelity. The Breakfast Club. You’ve Got Mail. Beauty and the Beast. Pride and Prejudice. Empire of the Sun. The Sound of Music. All the Thor movies. Star Wars. Blade Runner. 

•Favorite books?

Beauty by Robin McKinley is the only book I re-read twice a year, closely followed by The Blue Sword. And most anything else by McKinley.

It’s Problematic, but Heart-Beast by Tanith Lee is one I also re-read, and I will never let my out-of-print copy slip from my clutches. Dark and beautiful gothic horror about my favorite monsters.

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

Anything by Ian McEwan is a must-read. Courtney Milan is my go-to for romance novels. Chuck Palahniuk. Neil Gaiman. Jane Austen. Ilona Andrews for my urban fantasy fixes. A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas for giving me my One True Love, Rhysand.

I’m currently working through The Tiger by John Vaillant and it’s shiver-inducing, delightfully good. 

•Favorite pastime?

Playing otome, writing, cooking! Hiking and bicycling, reading, knitting and sewing.

•Do you have any regrets?

Not particularly. I’m very much a ‘things happen because they’re meant to’ kind of person. If there were things about the past I changed, even the ugly bits, I wouldn’t be where and who I am today.

Maybe the usual - not saying the things that should have been said, to those who are now gone. Always remember that life is short.

•Dream job?

A writer. Or a chef.

•Would you ever like to be married?

Done it, second time is the charm!

•Would you like to have kids?

Too late to say no now, isn’t it? But yes, I have always looked forward to kids, and my three little bugs are my world.

•How many?

^^

•Do you like shopping?

I do! Clothes shopping is fun, but I will go absolutely nuts in a shoe store. And keep me out of the fabric or yarn or bookstores, or you won’t see me again for the rest of the day.

•What countries have you visited?

Born and raised in the US. I’ve been most parts of it, including Alaska and Hawaii, and to Puerto Rico. Mexico. Canada. France. England. Spain. 

•Scariest nightmare you have ever had?

I never remember my dreams. I can’t honestly tell you a nightmare I’ve had.

•Any enemies?

Life is too short for those. Live and let live.

•Any significant other?

Indeed. My husband is the closest thing to a real-life Shigezane you will ever meet, and he’s the light of my life.

Seriously. Get you a man that will still call you his bride, 10 years after your wedding day. <3

•Do you believe in miracles?

Not really. Good things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people. The fall of the dice just sometimes works out better that way.

•How are you?

Grand! Loving the arrival of spring, and living for all the sunshine and flowers...and new otome routes. ;)

Tagging: @otomelin @sakura-daydream @ladyrinielbright I think lots of people have been tagged by now so if you read this and want to hop on, go for it!