Pictures and meme

[mothwing]

My neighbourhood is firmly in the grips of autumn and the light around dusk makes the trees in front of our house look beautiful. 

A - accent - apparently I have a Northern German accent in my native tongue, though I myself can't hear it. In foreign languages I've got a German accent, too, obviously, though my considerable ego demands that I add that strangers I meet in English speaking countries usually find it hard to place me if I haven't told them where I'm from and even ask me if I'm from an English speaking country myself. 
B - breast size - damn nuisance. My chest size makes it hard for me to find bras that fit me in any shop anywhere ever. 
C - chore you hate - searching for matching socks and then rolling them up, I hate that. I'm also not too big on defrosting the freezer and removing hair from drains. 
D - dad's name: Joachim. 
E - essential make-up item: (subtle) foundation and mascara. 
F - favourite perfume: I'm not really any good with perfumes. I'm wearing Betty Barclay's "PureStyle" a lot at the moment. 
G - gold or silver - silver. Gold makes me look pasty, so the only gold piece I wear is a ring I inherited from my Oma. 
H - hometown - Hamburg. 
I - insomnia - hardly ever. 
J - job title - Studienrätin (teacher). 
K - kids - we're working towards that, but it's going to be a damn hard struggle, and I'm not sure if we will ever really have the money. We always aimed for our early thirties, but those are around the corner, and Crocky is very gloomy at the prospect of us ever making it. I was always certain I'd have children at some point, but at the moment I often question this being a good idea. I am not particularly fond of parenting and young children. 
L - living arrangements - a flat in the North of Bremen together with Crocky. We have seperate offices, although we sleep together. 
M - mum's birthplace - the Ruhrpott (Essen-Stehle). The part of town that she grew up in does not really exist anymore, though, and since it was mostly ruins and bombed-out houses that makes sense. 
N - number of apples you've eaten - one today, I think it was a Pink Lady. I don't like them much. 
O - overnight hospital stays - none yet, thankfully, unless you count the time when I stayed with my grandmother. 
P - phobia - heights, though I'm also not particularly partial to the dark - I'm like Mildred Hubble that way. 
Q - quest - becoming more organised and more effective about the amount of time I need to get things done. 
R - religious affiliation - lapsed (northern German and therefore already very laid-back and liberal) Lutheran. 
S - siblings - one younger brother, who is studying Biochemistry at the moment and has just started working on his Bachelor's project. In my head, he's much younger and has just passed his A-levels. 
T - time you wake up - 6:00am. 
U - unnatural hair colour you've worn - blonde, brown, black, red. I've been permanently dying my hair for five years now, since my genes decided to put their foot down and start turning my hair grey. I'm half grey now already, at 29. I'm not quite ready yet to return to my ~natural haircolour~, thank you very much. 
V - vegetable you refuse to eat - oh several, I'm picky. Onions and garlick, which make me ill and give me sensations similar to a mild hangover the next day. Corn, cooked/baked peppers and tomatoes because of the odd sweetness they develop. 
W - worst habit - really bad time efficiency and procrastination.  
X - x-rays you've had - teeth and jaw (braces), chest/lungs (no, I don't have asthma, but thanks for asking), knees (fine, too, which doesn't mean that they don't still ache when the weather changes). 
Y - yummy food you make - even though I'm the designated cook in our relationship my cooking skills are basic at best. I was fond of my peppermint frosted cupcakes I made, though. 
Z - zany quirk - not quite sure what exactly a "zany quirk" is, but I'll try. Um.
a.) When I'm tired and trying to think I use the tip of my tongue to draw simple shapes or letters onto my palate. 
b.) when I'm crossing my legs I usually also cross the big toe of the leg that is under the other one.
c.) I've changed my handwriting twelve times in my life. 
d.) It really annoys me when people have a very pronounced idiolect and use certain words over and over again and I have to pull myself together not to start using that word, too, to annoy them. I usually don't, but the urge, oooh, the urge. It was the same with education department buzzwords back at my uni.