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I'm missing a swap!

If I owe you a swap and it's uber late, please let me know! I KNOW I have a bigger swap (forums) that I needed to get out, but can not for the life of me find it.

PLEASE pm or email me if you have a forum swap from me that I haven't gotten out to you (no one's contacted me about a late one, and there's no useful search function in out PMs yet to try to find it!). I really want to get all my swaps out, but I can't figure out what swap I'm missing (I'd put one aside 'till I got my system fixed, and can't find the messages or paper I'd printed the info out on).

Thanks.

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NOTE (16JUL08):

Needless to say....I'm farfar behind. I have no desire to try to get pity by making it sound like a sobb story....got into an arguement with bf's family...got to the point that they were grabbing at me and trying to drag me around....I hit one of them.....from there voluntarily went into detox, and now, to avoid legal and military problems (btw....no matter WHAT really happens.....the military family is ALWAYS right....and my bf's family is 100% military....work or service (so am I, but that makes no difference....they don't approve of my background and upbringing...blahblah) I chose to enter rehab as well. And as might be discerned from this fun fun few weeks I've had.....swaps have not been on the to do list. I was in the poo list for one partner already before this happened...now I'm in it for at least half a dozen of you.

I have had several packaged and just waiting for me to get $ to send them (unfortunately I can't drill 'till I'm done doing the rehab, so I've not gotten paid, but I'll have that taken care of), and a few that would have been packaged right when this little joy-fest began.

Everything will be out before I go (only 28 days...leave August 8th...have to miss my daughter's B-day on Aug 17th....and get back 2 days before my own...boy oh boy is her late party gonna be a biggun'!), including forum swaps. Feel free to double check with me if you still think I may have forgotten about them.

I am sorry, I've had many swaps flaked on me, but don't often bother to follow through with them because I understand just how pissed off the whole deal would make me if I focused on it, I know it's an ass move on my end to flake on you guys; no matter the excuse...

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Some things I like: I like...ELEPHANTS! (hehe, love 'em...but I abhor the idea that someday I may actually have to rely on my collection if we ever have a financial emergency (and yes....I am an Ebay addict grin), Happy Bunny, Dog of Glee,Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl, BeGoths, Emily The Strange, Ruby Gloom (and other oddball and goth characters), Horror gore type figures (such as Mc Farlane Toys and such....LOVE 'em), Fantasy and SCI-FI art (light, cutsy and especially dark styles) (Brom, Luis Royo, Boris Vallejo, Jasmine Beckith, Amy Brown, Froud, Dorian Grey, etc), neato novelty items (you know, the ones that make you grin just to see 'em), Stationary sets (2 sheets, 1 envie.....as I've posted somewhere else, I like my stationary like I like my Dishes....one or two of each kind, and really neato.....any extras I use to give away), Novelty Bandages, Medical supplies (I know, wierd...but I hate doing medical support -military- and there not being enough supplies, or the right type there to use...so I make sure I always have better and more medical supplies than the unit I'm to help is likely to have so that I'm prepared for as much as I can be...), memos and mini memos, Kawaii Style everything (ex: Kawaii, Sanrio, San-x, Crux, Q-Lia, etc.)...especially characters like Goth and Punk Hello Kitty, Badtz Maru, Mashi Maru, Nyanko Kitty (not sure if that's the right name....the sleepy cat), Ghost....all the neato, silly, humouros characters), humorous things (more of the sarcastic and cynical types), Edward Gorey things, Tim Burton Things, Goth its and bits, Penguins, neat notebooks and note pads, bunches of anything cool to use to put in goodie bags, neat designed and colored envelopes, novelty erasers (more the toy/puzzle types in various shapes), any craft kits, stamping/embossing and paper crafting supplies, buyers for the address labels I make grin...etc.

Goth...in all it's forms, all sorts of 80's (and that's a whole ton of different categories in itself), industrial, jungle, alternative (1990's type), classic rock, some top 40's type, indie, female singers (bjork, poe, tori, ani deFranco, indigo girls, etc.--and I always get a kick out of my little brother referring to this genra as "popularly known as: angry dyke music"...he's ever the smart arse grin)

Bookdock Saints, Ravenous, A Tale of Two Sisters, Sweeny Todd, The 9s, The Wishing Stairs, Mirror Mask, Rent, Labrinth, The Dark Crystal, Southland Tales...

House, CSI LV, Family Guy, Carnivale, Oz, South Park...>>HEROS...omgosh, this is my current addiction, and an unhealthy one it is! I watched my first episode on Friday (Feb 1, 2008)....and I'm almost caught up with the present season (almost 30 forty-one minute episodes in 3 days.... gah!)....and I thought DVR fed my "watching TV when I need it" habit..... Netflix Unlimited Instant Viewing will be the INSOMNIA of me! chuckle...

I have to say...I'm not too pleased now that the latest season of Heros is out (now Nov 2008)...no where near as good as the first ones...blah. Fringe is decent...kinda makes me yearn for the quality and depth of the X-Files (and I hardly ever watched that either...), but it's worth sticking around after House every week.

near anything I can get the supplies and teach myself to do...paper crafts of all kinds, leather craft....Especially Herb crafting and making soaps (glycerin only so far)and toiletries...painting (furniture and wall murals mostly lately), sewing(a bit),...I would like to get into tanning, candel making, lye soap making, and crocheting; so any lil' KITS or supplies to get me on my way with these crafts would be greatly appreciated :^)

I've realized that I find the best and most unique edibles in swaps....

I'd love to receive coffees (flavored or specialty especially), cocoas, novelty snacks and candies, Asian snacks, cookies, and candies (yay!), foreign candies (and even chocolates sometimes)...

Some favorites:

• mens Pockey (pockey of any sort, really....not so much plain strawberry or plain chocolate though)

• Shrimp flavored "chips" (Asian snack)

• the chocolate filled puff cookies (hello kitty, panda bear, etc...Asian snacks)

• Novelty shaped gummies (heh...got such a kick out of a Haggis shapped gummie I saw once grin)

• novelty gums

• Ramune flavored candies

• Sipaaah straws (we can only get them in chocolate and strawberry in the USA...and they aren't popular, so they're uber cheap --$2 and down compared to the $4-6 USD they cost in other countries....so I can send those out if anyone'd like them cheaper--) ANY of the other flavors would be great! My daughter and her friends LOVE them.

• Ritter Sport, Ferro Rocher, and other goodgoodgood chocolates...of course, any chocolate would melt in the heat, so I wouldn't want any sent between May and September

Heck...anything you think I might enjoy'd be great too :^)

I saw this on another few profiles and realized how much of an issue it is sometimes for some.

Re-Gift away....be it for someone who can use it more....or just to get it out of your way if it's not the thing for you. No matter why, I have absolutely NO problem with you re-swapping something I send you...even if I've made it for you, what better way for our crafts to move around and be seen and experienced than through the swap circuits :^D