A Meme (Let me tell you about the word)

I volunteered to do a tag from Lime. She assigned me the letter O.

Here goes...

This is how it works:
If you comment on this entry and beg for a letter, I will give you one.
Thou shalt write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
Of course, if you want to comment but not be assigned a letter, that's an option too.
I'll only deign to assign letters to those who specifically ask for them if they pass the credit check and promise to take very good care of the letter.

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Occam's razor

An important scientific principle that can and should be applied to life, in a manner of speaking.
Keep it simple, sweetie!

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Occidental

A great street in Seattle's Pioneer Square district, nice walk, good coffee, and if you ignore the monstrosity at the south end of the street, very attractive. Pioneer Square is a great place (at least during the day) to get a coffee, visit the waterfall park, and stop by the Elliot Bay Bookstore.

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Otters

These creatures are just so cute you can hardly even believe they are real. I love sea otters. The Seattle Aquarium has some otters and I could watch them for ages. At the Oak Harbor Marina otters will come up to the walkways and check you out to see whether you might have any snacks for them. They are the kind of animal you just really wish would make good pets.

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Ogre

I love the Shrek movies, both of them. I am a Mike Myers fan, despite his occasional lapse in judgement (I am still working on overlooking his Cat in the Hat sacrilige). So I Married an Axemurderer is genius and I love me some Shrek. Ogres in fairy tales are a grossly misrepresented minority, I say STOP DEMONIZING THE DIFFERENT. Don't teach the babies to be hatahs.

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Oppositional Defiance Disorder

According to one of my favorite amateur psychologists I suffer from this. It is characterized by uncooperative behavior and hostility to authority. I can't imagine what she is talking about.

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Onager

Onagers are amusing, friendly, clever creatures. They work well with others and are comfortable in group settings.

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Orbison
Roy Orbison is heavily featured in the sound track of my life. The man's voice is a wonder of nature and he could write a song, man oh man, could he write a song. He speaks to me. When I first switched over from cassettes to CDs, my very first was a two disc Roy Orbison Collection.

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Orga...

Nuff said.

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Obscure
This is me, I admit it. I don't mean to be obscure, my brain just likes to hold onto and interconnect strange, little known, and useless pieces of information. Some people have mistaken this for exceptional intelligence, those who rely on me to recall appointments, phone numbers, where we parked, or why I left the sugar bowl in the fridge have a vastly different viewpoint on that.

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Ocarina

The music of Eric Tingstad was a mainstay of my parent's music collection. He teamed up with Nancy Rumbel in the mid to late 80s and I was introduced to the ocarina. It has a beautiful sound, and the double ocarina, which is what Nancy Rumbel plays, is just amazing. If you are dying to own one you can pick them up pretty cheap at the Pike Place Market.

(Yeah, I know it is a very dated pic, but it is the only one showing her play, and I wanted you all to see that)

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There ya have it, what O means to me, somewhere a kindergarten teacher is wringing her hands.