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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but I like a lot of varying types of music too.

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn. One of the best books ever written. The John Ford 1941 movie based on the book won the academy award for Best Picture that year, but the book is really much better-reads like Welsh poetry! I also read many history books and biographies and although for the most part I find fiction a waste of time, I do enjoy Andrew Greeley novels, particularly his "Irish" series.

Movies based on Jane Austin books--Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Predjudice. I liked The Da Vinci Code a lot and can't wait for Angels and Demons even though I haven't read Dan Brown's books. Also love an oldy called The Miracle of the Bells-stared Fred MacMurray and a very young Frank Sinatra as a Catholic priest. Anything with Jimmy Stewart, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Rod Taylor I love too. In the Sci-Fi genre, I like the Star Trek movies, but don't care for Star Wars.

TV is my downfall - Antiques Roadshow, House, Heroes, Medium, American Idol, The Mentalist, Ugly Betty, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Friday Night Lights, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters. Favorite new show is FlashForward.

Cross stitch projects that take from a week to a full year. I stitch while I watch TV--less guilt about it if I'm doing something else at the same time! I've done needlepoint, bargello, and rug hooking too.

I live, eat, and breath my departed ancestors and go to cemeteries for FUN! I have Swedish, English, Irish, Welsh, and German Bohemian ancestry. Something that's quite unusual on my Dad's side of my family is that his Dad was 48 years old when he was born (Dad did have five older sisters). My Dad married late in life and was 48 years old when I was born too. So although I was born in 1960, my grandfather, just two generations distant, was born in 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was President! In most families, that would be four generations spread over almost 100 years. Sometimes it was hard, however. Like when my Dad took me to the father/daughter tea in elementary school--all my friends asked my why my Grandfather brought me instead of my Dad!

I am a travel professional in Colorado who does not get to travel near as much as I'd like. Been married 27 years and have two terrific sons (yes, I'm the Mom to the Warner Brothers!). I collect bells and almost anything related to nuns and the 1960s TV show that Sally Field stared in, The Flying Nun (I have a shrine in the basement). My favorite color is purple, and I love moose too. When I was a kid I was going to grow up and marry Rod Taylor. When I was a teenager I was going to grow up and marry Rod Stewart. I went to work for an airline when I was 19 and traveled all over thinking I'd meet Mr. Right in some far away place. So who did I end up marrying? The boy next door! (Alas, his name is NOT Rod!)

I've been into deltiology (collecting postcards!) for many years-since I was a teenager on a study trip in Europe and even earlier. When I was a kid growing up in the 60's, my Dad worked in the Dead Letter Office for the U.S. Postal Service. Postcards most often don't have return addresses on them, so he'd bring them home sometimes if they were found to be undeliverable and if he thought they looked interesting. Some of my favorite ones of that era were 3-D cards-- one of an astronaut on the moon, and one of Snow White and the Seven Dwarf's! I also have a good deal of very old p.c's that were mailed to family members over 100 years ago-those are true keepers! One of those was from my Grandfather to my Dad, mailed from Tenn. to Colorado Springs, CO. On the front, there is a drawing of two gentlemen walking along side a tall building. To the men, the building seems to be moving-well, it's because they're very drunk! On the back, my Grandfather wrote, "Billy, you must NEVER come home like this!". Grandfather was quite the tea-totaler, that's for sure. Another was post marked from the top of Pike's Peak and sent by my Grandmother (who died in 1917!) to her brother. I have bought p.c.'s on eBay (many of places my ancestors lived in), and when I've booked a trip for someone going to a place I don't think I'll ever make it to myself, I'll ask them to bring me back a card or two (booking newspaper reporters to the Middle East is how I've gotten cards from Kuwait, Iran, Afghanistan, and several other countries). I have four boxes full of postcards, one full of ones just from my home state of Colorado, two full of the rest of the USA, and one full of ones from other countries of the world.

It's been almost 6 months since I joined swap-bot! I've come across some really terrific people, and thankfully only a couple of flakers. I'm getting close to having 100 swaps under my belt already! I really like sending cards from my home state of Colorado. Many people have told me that I should work for the tourism office, and in a way here I feel that I do! Every time I have to send a postcard out that is to a place that I don't know of, I pull out my atlas and look it up. Then I google the city and try to learn a bit about it too. Since everytime I buy cards to mail out via swaps I buy one for my own collection too, something I've started doing is making a scanned copy of what I've written on the back of one of the cards that was mailed out and keep it with my copy of the card. That way my thoughts and experiences about the place shown on that card are recorded for my own collection too.

A couple of the things I'm working on to finish collecting with regard to postcards are State Capitol cards and Map cards. Wanna private swap for Colorado? I also just got these that are available for trade for ones below that I don't have; State Map Cards- South Carolina (6 of two types plus a great Hilton Head Island, SC map card). State Capitol Cards available for trade are; Albany, NY (1), Columbia, SC (3), and Atlanta, Georgia (5). Please contact me!

The few U.S. State Capitol cards I don't have at all are: Alabama, Nevada, New Jersey, and Oregon. These remaining U.S. State Capitol cards I have one of, but they're very old (linen style of the 40's mostly). Would like to get a new card of the State Capitol of the following states: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont.

For U.S. State Map Cards, I could use the following: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, West Virginia, and Wisconsin

Finally, a new type of p.c. I'm working on getting a lot of are lighthouse cards. Living in land-locked Colorado makes this tough, but I just got back from GA & SC and got some really neat ones that I would trade for ones I don't have. Please contact me and maybe we can set up a private swap!