PostMuse

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ~Tom Robbins

I'm trying to tame the dragons, but running out of salve for the burns. ~ PostMuse

I love to send stuff. Really. It makes me so excited to put a ton of mail in my mailbox. I don't put much emphasis on ratings and getting stuff. Nor am I looking for the perfect gift in the mail. I like the connecting part more than the getting.

I don't like getting lots of catalogs, though I do prefer shopping online. To eliminate catalogs from my tiny post office box, I use Catalog Choice. Fabulous service.

This site is an amazing bit of software and staffed by a wonderful pair of administrators, not to mention many wonderful folk who have connected in such delightful ways, so I keep hanging in to see what is around the next corner.

The new groups feature has captured my fancy and I have a fabulous notecard group called Notecards To Go.

I try to stay FAR away from the Forum. Man...I mean it now. I have to stay out of the Forum. So many people complaining. Man, so much pain and suffering in the world, and people still feel compelled to complain about being disappointed with a swap. Wow.

If you have sent me something and I haven't responded, it is because I haven't been to my post office box. Also, if you send me something, and it isn't for an official swap, I will be responding via mail, so that might explain the delay in acknowledgment :-)

I love to make postcards. Name your theme and I'll try to create it.

Enjoy ATCs, though I'm not trading those so much anymore. I am thinking about creating "rolos" now... altered rolodex cards.

I collect camels, stuff relating to bees and honey, snowmen, notecards, and rubber stamps. In rubber stamps I lean away from cute unless it is a camel or snowman.

I've been exchanging postcards for many years. I have specific themes I like to collect;

• UNESCO World Heritage
• Camels
• Bees and/or honey related
• Windmills, especially the new wind turbines.
• Government buildings, especially fond of postcards with political commentary from the sender on the back.
• Mapcards, including regional.
• Books and reading (ie. libraries, bookstores...including ad cards, author homes, fictional characters, etc)
• Anything related to beverages.
• Anything related to food, especially ice cream.

And homemade in all of the above are also greatly appreciated.

I do not like to receive anything religious. I don't celebrate religious holidays, in fact, I don't really celebrate holidays at all. Just a few family traditions that are loosely based on cultural icons related to some holidays.

Colors are wonderful. I love purple, but don't dislike any color.

I don't mind cute as long as it is clever and not associated with lots of merchandising. I've got some damn cute kitty notecards but there isn't a "hello" anywhere on them.

I don't have a television. I work for public television but I don't have a television. Go figure :-)

I read lots. Always have 4-5 books mid-read. What I do not read are big name authors...meaning those authors whose names are bigger than the title of the book. Best seller too often means best marketing. My short To Be Read List is here, though I don't update it enough.

And the stuff you use to write letters.. it is spelled stationery, with an "e." Stationary, with an "a," means "not moving."

The word is surprise (with a r before and after the p), not suprise. I am amazed at how often that word is spelled wrong. I thought it was a typo, but I've seen it spelled wrong way too many times, and have come to the conclusion that people are pronouncing it incorrectly, and spelling it using the incorrect pronunciation.

Firefox won't help with the stationary/stationery problem, but its spellcheck feature will break other bad spelling habits.

Yes, I am pedantic.

In the car (where I spend too much time commuting) I listen to satellite radio, mostly 80s New Wave and indy rock. I never, ever, ever listen to commercial radio stations.

When I don't have satellite radio I listen to WQED which is classical music, or WYEP, which is indy/folk, and mostly online.

I have a few favorite pieces of music but I am pretty much open to anything classical, except opera. I really don't like opera. I've tried... just can't get the hang of it.

Love classical guitar. Love violin. Enjoy most piano. After 17 years of teaching dance to 3-5 year olds in my younger days, I can do without any Tchaikovsky.

Thank you to monstermansmum05 for the above graphic.