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4/5 I've had terrible anxiety, which was affecting my sleep, for over a week. But what was causing it is mostly now passed, and it turned out fine. I'm now catching up on ratings. I'm sorry for the delay!- I got through most of April 4th and now my brain is melting, LOL

2/3/25 Well, it looks like for at least the next month, my weekends will mostly be eaten up by dealing with side effects from my rheumatoid arthritis medication, which I inject on Friday nights. I did my first injection last Friday night and slept past noon on Saturday. I'll get done what I can on the weekends but it'll depend on how I feel. The brain fog was intense to say the least.

1/8/25 I've had a sinus infection for the past few weeks, I'm working on ratings right now, I'll try to rate everything I received tonight, but might not be quite up to it. I'll do my best to catch up over the next few days. (I got through some on to 1/2/25) I'm going in order of date recieved.

9/30/24 I have been diagnosed with an unknown form of autoimmune joint inflammation, most like either rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. I will be starting on a new medication, but it could take 2-3 months to work. I've checked all my swaps for bad swappers and am up to date on ratings.

I am not doing decos anymore, so please DO NOT send me any!

I ALWAYS check my swaps to remove people every few days as well as the day before and day of the swap!

I only rate every few days due to my health, but I'll rate everything received in the prior days to the day I rate! I also do NOT check my swap-bot email or swap-bot every day. If you message me or email me, please give me a few days to respond.

I love to read, swap, listen to music, and sip on tea or flavored coffee. All while cuddling my adorable dog!

I am disabled with rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and bipolar disorder. Jedi, my bichepoo (bichon frise & mini poodle mix, we think, LOL) is my emotional support dog. I was also recently diagnosed with mild to moderate autism.

Pronouns: she/her

Grey-sexual (ie I'm physically attracted to very few people but those that I am aren't dependent on gender) cupio-romantic (I don't feel romantic attraction, but do desire a romantic relationship.) Obviously still figuring things out!

I live in an apartment, with my furbaby and my mom. I live in a medium-sized town smack between Milwaukee, WI, and Chicago, IL. The most famous person to come out of my hometown/current town of residence is Mark Ruffalo.

I've added my Google Photo album of my ISO, If you have any of these I have ones to swap or I'd love to receive them in a swap!

Likes

Dogs and coffee drinks are two obsessions of mine. I can name most dog breeds by sight or description. I love Starbucks!!

I've also recently fallen in love with kawaii penguins, dogs, and hedgehogs! Anything with them would be amazing!

My favorite colors are pink, purple, teal, and mint green. I love books, chocolate, coffee, tea, and dogs, as well as anything to do with those things.

I collect coffee mugs. I also collect bookish items (my favorite are candles) as well as dog-themed items.

I love candy, mostly chocolate, I prefer milk or white with some other flavor or a filling, caramel, mint, raspberry, peppermint, orange, coffee.

I love candles, I really love the ones with sweet or book themed scents.

Tea: NO MORE TEA!! LOL thanks but I'm backed up for years!

Stickers: craft quality stickers, animals, food or drink, non-religious holiday stickers

Washi samples- especially these themes: food/drinks, small shops, animals of any kind, mail/swapping/postcard, rainbows/rain/weater

Dislikes:

Hard to open envelopes, please don't tape every available edge, it's frustrating try to get them open, and I am terrified I'll cut something if I use scissors, so it just stresses me out.

Colors: greens-not of the shade mentioned in likes, orange, and brown.

Scents: floral or woodsy or smoke

Topics/themes: Sexism, racism, misogyny, harm to animals or children, violence against anyone esp sexual violence, religious items, homophobic; spiders or cockroaches or scorpions

Tea: Caffeinated

Stickers: Cheap or kids stickers, religious, puffy

Please DO NOT send me seeds! I have no where to plant them!

Please NO bath or body items! My mom is extremely sensitive to strong scents and I have eczema!

Please do NOT send me recipes unless requested! I'm a very picky eater as well as having some food intolerances, and my mom who is my roommate and does most of the cooking, is diabetic.

I HATE when people send me religious items-especially promoting a specific religion or church. Please do not include or send anything religious including bible verses. I respect your religion please respect my right to not be religious.

A- arctic fox

B- bichons or bichepoo (bichon/mini poodle mix), books

C- coffee, cats (not as good as dogs but still ;) ), chocolate (i prefer milk or white), cake, cupcakes

D- dogs, desserts, The Dresden Files, doors (stickers of, or postcards of cool doors)

E- Eeyore, Earth,, the four elements (Earth, Air, Fire, & Water)

F-fudge, Four Bears (stickers, postcards, etc), flames (depictions of), fox

G- gummy candy, graphs, grains! (give me all the carbs and corn! LOL)

H- Hot cocoa-especially flavored, hearts (non-traditional colors & rainbow) hot tubs, home (I'm a homebody!)

I- Icicles, Ice cream, ice castles, Icing, iced coffee.

J- jars (stickers of, with things inside), jeans-wearing them

K-kittens, kawaii- especially hedgehogs, dogs, and penguins; kettles, koalas (or at least images of them)

L-lotion (though I prefer to pick out my own as I have allergies), lasagna, labels-pdt/address ones

M- mugs, mug cake mix, mysteries, music

N- Nutella, nut butter

O-otters, outer space

P- puppies, penguins, poodles, pink, purple, PDT Labels, postix (stickers, washi, etc)

Q- quilts, quiet

R- reading, romance [though not the clean stuff ;)]

S-spicy books, stickers (good quality, non-kiddie), stickii club (stickers, sticky notes, etc); Strange Planet comics

T- tea- tea-themed items (I have too many bags of tea!), Teal, thrillers, traveling postcards

U-unicorns

V- vampires, vacations

W- wolves, washi rolls, washi samples

X- xats

Y- yin-yangs, yappy little dogs (or at least mine, and images of them.)

Z- zany people

Dean Koontz, Marissa Meyer, Jim Butcher, Amanda Foody and Ellen Hopkins are some of my favorite authors.

I DO NOT SUPPORT what JKR has said on social media and I ask that you don't buy me licensed merchandise for HP stuff, if it's not licensed and JKR doesn't make money off it of, buy away, or just send something from your stash!

I love the Harry Potter series both the books and the movies, though the books were better! I also love The Lunar Chronicles series, The Dresden Files, Stalking Jack the Ripper series and Odd Thomas series as well as. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is my all-time favorite book.

I like most YA books unless they have names I can't figure out with my dyslexia. I also enjoy sci-fi/fantasy and New Adult Romance.

My favorite movies are The Breakfast Club, Saved, A Walk to Remeber, Bring it On (only the first one), and many other 80s-00s teen movies, especially John Huges' movies.

My favorite TV shows include: Pretty Little Liars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, This is Us, Marvel's Runaways, The Vampire Diaries, and The Handmaid's Tale.

My ABCs are a great place for a boarder list but here's the quick rundown.

I love animals especially dogs, penguins, or anything cute and fuzzy.

Coffee, tea, chocolate, or book postcards are sure to get a heart!

I'm not big on touristy cards. I don't like religious cards.

Alt Rock above all particularly Imagine Dragos, and The Script

As well as Pop-Punk/Emo-Pop/Rock-Mariana's Trench, Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy

Pop/Top 40- or at least I loved it in the '90s and 00's (think P!nk, Blink 182, etc). As well as Taylor Swift

Soundtracks- 10 Things I Hate About You, RENT (movie cast), and A Walk to Remember Soundtrack

Broadway- WIcked, RENT (Broadway cast), and Avenue Q

I'm only really doing traveling postcards at the moment, in addition to decorating my planners, due to lack of space and energy.

I click for having sent the item on the date I put it in the mailbox, even if it's a holiday or Sunday and it will be picked up the next day, so if the date on the envelope doesn't match the sent day, this is why.

If something doesn't arrive, in 3-4 weeks please contact me, and I'll do my best to resend, please try to contact me before rating me a 1 or 3. I will never not send something,

I will message you if I will be sending late, which will happen very rarely! I don't have a car, due to my disability, so my mom mails things for me or takes me to the PO, so if something is late that is probably why.