Liebster award!

{From KatySue--thanks!!}

rules:

1. You must post eleven facts about yourself.

2. You must also answer the eleven questions the awarder has given you and make up eleven questions for your awardees to answer in turn.

3. Tag eleven fellow bloggers

4. Notify them that you've awarded them

5. No tagging back

6. And the eleven blogs you tag must have less than 200 followers.

// FACT:

1. I just discovered in the last few months that I'm allergic to corn and somewhat lactose intolerant (i.e. I can eat most lactose foods, just not milk).  The corn allergy makes me especially sad.
2. My absolute favorite music at the moment is Owl City, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Yiruma. 
3. I'm really bad at sitting still.
4. Lately I've had a lot of dreams about real life, mostly bad dreams.
5. I use "elven" as a synonym for "eleven," because of reasons. :)
6. I'm the bona fide awkward "heroine" and kitchen klutz.  (And not in a cute "Molly Hooper" way, unfortunately.)
7. I watch Good Mythical Morning every day! 
8. As you can probably tell, I kind of live in my own world.  Every time I consider becoming even slightly more "like everyone else," something happens to make me change my mind.
9. On the other hand...I've found out that being a Trekkie is really cool because a lot of other people are Trekkies!
10. Speaking of fandoms, I think it's totally normal fun to watch Russian opera with Spanish subtitles on YouTube, late at night.
11. I plan to get a pet corgi within the next 6 years! :)

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1. Rain or Shine?

Both are nice, but I always miss rain!

2. What was your favorite cartoon / movie growing up?

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!  Animated Disney movies, too.  Then when I was a bit older, the Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) series.

3. If you could be any character from a book, who would you be?

Dr. Watson, because I've always wanted to live at 221b.  XD 

4. What is your favorite dessert?

Apple cake, probably...so much nostalgia.  ❤   

5. Favorite specialty drink (Starbucks/Biggby/Etc.)

Echoing everyone else: Starbucks' pumpkin spice latte, and the eggnog latte, too (sans nutmeg).  It's like dessert in a coffee!  And it's pretty special to our family--we share a Venti every weekend after my sister's orchestra practice.

6. Favorite screen/literary couple?

Jonathan & Mina in Dracula (the book).  And, of course, Eugene & Tatyana in Eugene Onegin.  And Myshkin & Nastasya in The Idiot, if circumstances had been different (just when I thought I'd got over Victorian romance, all angst and feels, the Russian authors wring my heart).  Also, Razumov/Natalie in Under Western Eyes. 

7. What is your favorite restaurant?
Right now, either a local Indian restaurant or a local fish-n-chips (BEST ever).

8. What is your favorite color and why?

Black (so classy), gray (emotional, like the sea), white (symbolic, color of sunlight), off-white (warm and cosy), and blue.  Another ocean analogy, I guess, but the color blue is so profound, to me.

9. If you had to eat one food forever, what would it be?

Pizza.  :)

10. Mascara or blush?

Mascara.  I like being pale.  No, seriously. 

11. Is your hair color natural?
Yes, dark brown, and always has been.  :)  Funny story about that...I was sitting in church a couple weeks ago, and the light from the stained glass window "colored" my hair bright cherry red.  For a split second, one of the other ladies thought I had dyed my hair, lol!


// ELEVEN QUESTIONS

1. Favorite vegetable?
2. Is there anything you like now that you used to dislike?
3. Monkeys--cute or creepy?
4. What do you do when you're bored?
5. Do you like to garden?
6. What is your favorite color and why?
7. Your favorite screen/literary couple?
8. If you could be any character from a book, who would you be?
9. What is your favorite dessert?
10. Do you have any traditions you made up yourself?
11. Do you usually get snow in December?

I tag ANYBODY who would like to do this, and more specifically:  Emiko, Lydia, Helen, Celtic Traveler, and Abby!