Drachenfrau

profile-update: September 2017

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Please don't send any sweets/food! As much as I love them, I am diabetic and have to watch my blood sugar! Thank you! :-)

Heya, my name is Moni. Well actually Monika, but since most of the people wrote Monica and all of my friends and family call me Moni anyway, I decided to change it in my address-box too. :-)

I work in a library and enjoy it, although I don't read as much as I used to read. Being together (since February 14th 2006) with the love of my life @LillyLupin formerly DarthD and I'm really happy! :-) We share the same address of course, but it's all sorted out with Rachel Johnson!

We don't have any pets (would love to live with a dog someday!), but our balcony totally belongs to the birds! :D We feed them all year round: blue and great tits, eurasian jays and magpies are visiting the whole day. We love to watch them, when we're sitting in our living-room, or working in the kittchen. :-)

Me in a nutshell: Introvert philanthrop with misanthropic tendencies.

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“On some days I think it would be better if there were no religions. All religions and all scriptures conceal the potential for violence. That is why we need secular ethics beyond all religions. It is more important for schools to have classes on ethics than religion. Why? Because it’s more important for humanity’s survival to be aware of our commonalities than to constantly emphasize what divides us.”

― Dalai Lama XIV, An Appeal by the Dalai Lama to the World: Ethics Are More Important Than Religion

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Communication is the key!!!

If you can't send your swap in time, please tell me! I have no problem with it, as we all have lifes outside swapbot. But before the deadline ends!!!

♫ Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark. ♫

packages and re-swapping:

I recycle envies. Means, if they are not torn I use them again to protect the environment. You can do this too when you send to me. :-)

I also don't wrap the swaps I send, in nice papers. They may look nice, but I think, this is not necessary. Another way to protect the environment. So you don't have to do that either in the swaps you send me! That doesn't mean, that I don't wrap them up carefully if necessary!

If you don't like/or can't use something I've sent, you can reswap/regift it. I too will give things away, that I can't use or don't need. With that said, I will never claim that I created something, that I didn't!!! When I pass handmade things to someone else, that are not mine, I will say so and I will never send them as a replacement of my part of the swap, but as an extra!

♫ The BBC would like to apologize for the next announcement.♫

I'll angel all of my swaps I host myself.

♫ One day, lad, all this will be yours. What, the curtains? ♫

War, weapons of all kinds, cats, circus, clowns, Diddl, dottees, food-items, Horror/splatter, Inchies, sock monkeys, scented items.

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Please don't send me any paper bits and bops!!! I have so many papers for crafting, I could open a store! No loose memo sheets or sticker flakes! No scrapbooking-supplies too, please!!! No stickers!!!

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I hate tests on animals!!! So I try to avoid those products!

'Stolen' from my sweetie's @LillyLupin profile:

•I don't like scary stuff, so no zombies, evil clowns (or clowns in general actually), horror, splatter or anything else that gives me nightmares

•I don't like brutality. Neither in real life nor in fiction. My mind cannot comprehend what people do to each other (or animals) for absurd or no reason! And I find nothing entertaining about it to watch it

Animals (my favourite: crab, dragon, wolf, sloth, snail, blue and great tit, robins, hippopotamus, octopus, marabou, kiwi, magpies, polar/arctic animals, australian animals, duck, especially baby ducks, starfish, sea horse, hedgehog, fox, turtle, small birds, animals from New Zealand) Jane Austen, Ellen Auerbach

Black&white photographs and movies, books and bookstores, Buddha, British Comedy (my faves are: A bit of Fry and Laurie, Monty Python's flying circus, Fawlty Towers), the British Monarchy (especially Lady Di, Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), blackoutpoetry

Colours (green in all shades, hot pink, berry, mangenta, turquoise, lime, purple, aqua blue; I love bright and hot colours, no pastells), crafting, Cologne the city I was born and still live in.

Downton Abbey, decluttering, dandelions, Disney (my favourite characters: Ariel, Ursula, Anna and Elsa, Hades, Periwinkle, Tinkerbell, Buzz Lightyear, Wall E, Rapunzel, Mary Poppins, Minnie Mouse, Hank the septopus, Dory, Stitch, Vayana/Moana, Maui), Marlene Dietrich

Easter (I love celebrating spring with flowers, bunnies, colourful eggs and the like)

Freedom, fairy garden-items, family and friends, Flower Power-era, freecycle, Feng Shui (I love to declutter and try to make our home comfy. If I get something new, another thing has to go. That works great for me!), fair trade items, flee-markets, flowers (especially lily of the valley, jasmine, forget-me-not, cherry blossom, apple blossom, gerbera, lavender, ranunculus, tulips, frangipani), fairies, Francis of Assisi

Great Britain, gemstones and gemstone-jewelry (my favourite is amethyst), gardening (on our balcony)

Haikus, humor, Hamburg, Hello Kitty, Harry Potter (Especially Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Newt Scamander)

Individuality

@Josietai (she's not only an awesome swapper, but a great friend and like a sister to me!) ♥, Janis Joplin

Love, Lourdes, love of my life, laughing, libraries, lavender (the flower, colour and smell!)

Moon, men who play the piano, mermaids, Monty Python (favourite Python: Michael Palin)

Nature

Ocean

Peace, Paddington bear, Pope Francis, Parkinson-awareness-items (my Dad suffered from it), postcards (see extra section below!)

Queen Elizabeth II

Rivers (they run wild), rain, robots (especially R2D2, BB8, Wall-E), reading (I love and read mostly biographies and autobiographies!)

Sea/seaside, spring and its smells, seashells, Swing, snow and snowmen, swapbot (I have "met" some wonderful friends here and I enjoy to travel all around the world without actually travelling by myself.), Santiago de Compostela (I want to walk the Camino one day!), @susieq11 (a crazy chicken with a heart of gold! We met on May 8th 2017, here in Cologne and she and her husband are so sweet!!!)

Tolerance, trees, Tarja (my niece, born October 27th 2010. I'm her godmother and love her so very much!)

Underwater world, things with rain and umbrella-images

Vintage (20's, 30's, 50's, 70's)

Walking barefoot where ever I can, wind, Werewolves, Woodland-animals

Zoos, Zoovenirs (postcards and magnets)

♫ I'm afraid I'm not personally qualified to confuse cats, but I can recommend an extremely good service. ♫

I believe some people like them sent naked and some, like me and many others, unwritten in an envie. I will respect and send both ways. I always take a look at my partner's profile or ask and I don't judge anyone about the way she/he likes it. :-)

I'm not into handmade-pcs!

I prefer to get my postcards unwritten in an envie (unless the swap-description says otherwise). Thank you! :-)

I'm not very fond of oversized postcards!

I collect:

• Zoo postcards
• wild/native animals
• birds (I love them all! They make me happy!)
• my favourite animals (crab, dragon, wolf, sloth, snail, hippopotamus, octopus, kiwi, hedgehogs, marabou, polar/arctic animals, australian animals, ducks, especially baby ducks, birds, turtles)
• animals in general :D
• local animals from your area
• bicycle/s (for a friend)
• poodles (for a friend)
• old/vintage/black&white
• Disney and Harry Potter themed
• British Royals

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I would love to get a quokka-pc for my collection. =D

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I would love to get any US-state bird-postcard! Thank you for helping! :-)

Alabama

Alaska - recieved from @AmookIslandCreations

Arizona - recieved from @reader44ever

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida recieved from @susieq11

Georgia

Hawaii - recieved from @susieq11

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana - recieved from @TwoTurtles and @justmesks

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana - already in my collection

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan - recieved from @AmookIslandCreations

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio - recieved from @susieq11

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia/DC

Washington

West Virginia - recieved from @susieq11

Wisconsin

Wyoming

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I don't travel much but I LOVE Zoos! So I like to learn all about Zoos from all around the world! :-)

• Zoo postcards (unwritten, in an envelope)
• magnets from Zoos

• animal postcards

• Souvenirs from Hamburg

• Everything Harry Potter, Disney, Downton Abbey and Queen Elizabeth II.

I love:

Avengers ◊ Battlestar Galactica ◊ Big Bang Theory ◊ Castle ◊ Disney (especially Ariel, Frozen, Hercules, Tangled, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Moana/Vayana) ◊ Downton Abbey ◊ Fantasy ◊ Firefly ◊ Golden Girls ◊ Harry Potter (especially Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape and Newt Scamander!) ◊ Hellboy ◊ Hello Kitty ◊ House M.D. ◊ Iron man ◊ Lego ◊ Loki ◊ Lord of the rings ◊ Marvel ◊ Newt Scamander ◊ Once upon a time ◊ Remus Lupin ◊ Science Fiction ◊ Scrubs ◊ Severus Snape ◊ Sex and the City ◊ Sherlock Holmes ◊ Sirius Black ◊ Starsky&Hutch ◊ Star Trek ◊ Star Wars ◊ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ◊ The Hobbit ◊ The Professionals ◊ Toy Story ◊ X-Files ◊ X-Men

The word "gift" means "poison" in the German language.

The word "tag" means "day" in German.

The word "wand" means "wall" in German.

The word "angel" means "fishing rod" in German.

The word "kind" means "child" in German and so means "kinder" = "children".