willowsmarika

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"You spend half of your life trying to fall behind. using your headphones to drown out your mind." ~ regina spektor

°° about me °° (updated 09/07/2012) hi :) i'm marika, 24 years old & a college student, studying medical laboratory science. i live in hungary. i'm a vegetarian. i'm homesick for a place i've never been to. last year i took some time off & lived in london for six months. it was amazing. now i'm back in school & having a quarter life crisis. hopefully i figure out what i want to do with my life. fingers crossed.

°° i love °° the smell of the rain, stay awake at night & sleep during the day, watching the snow fall, preparing for halloween, being alone, daydreaming, ice cream, drawing, painting, reading, travelling, photography, fanfiction, butterflies, fairies, winter, snow, fog, blanket forts, the sea/ocean, dreamcatchers, quotes, weird things, halloween, movies, owls, coffee, tea, pagan things, witchcraft, buddha figurines, mythology, celtic things, tv shows, corsets, listening to music, reading on a park bench, the smell of the first snow in the winter, watching the stars on a summer night, the fall, steampunk, victorian era, vintage stuff, cinematography, the word 'wonderlust' and 'walkabout', making tea or coffee, the smell of coffee, learning languages, smiling, silence, tumblr, over sized sweaters, scarves, coffee & teapot warmers, alice in wonderland, space, scifi, listening to the same song over and over again, until i can't listen to it anymore

--> those songs currently:

of monsters and men - king and lionheart & mountain sound

bison - switzerland & setting our tables

the lumineers - stubborn love

alt-j - something good

festival - bind us all

the battle of the land and sea - saltwater queen

°° tv shows °°

also true blood, l word, x-files, taken, pushing daisies, six feet under, dexter, millennium, torchwood, skins, being human, the big bang theory, dead like me, haven, spaced, the sarah connor chronicles, misfits, fringe, friends, miranda, jericho, modern family, once upon a time, chuck, sherlock, luther, community, breaking bad, grimm, lost, caprica, gilmore girls, american horror story, an idiot abroad, carnivale, eureka, teen wolf

°° movies °° donnie darko, imagine me & you, little miss sunshine, the man from earth, practical magic, elizabethtown, juno, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, mulholland drive, moulin rouge, 500 days of summer, brokeback mountain, memento, the fall, the fifth element, the matrix, the virgin suicides, wall-e, thor, the avengers

°° music °° sarah mclachlan, ac/dc, placebo, evanescence, the corrs, kt tunstall, dido, travis, metric, she & him, dr horrible's sing-along blog, regina spektor, bear mccreary, murray gold, the bird & the bee, carbon leaf, alanis morissette, the smiths, laura marling, belle & sebastian, adele, echo & the bunnymen, florence & the machine, massive attack, johnny cash, sweet talk radio, mumford & sons, death cab for cutie, tori amos, lisa hannigan, norah jones, oasis, arcade fire, damien rice, iron & wine, muse, coldplay, the paper kites, edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros, ingrid michaelson, jed whedon, nirvana, feist, emilinia torrini, of monsters and men, fiona apple, birdy, first aid kit, the lumineers, the tallest man on earth, the pierces, alt-j, festival, bison, the battle of land & sea

°° people °° sofia coppola, joss whedon, russell t. davies, quentin tarantino, jane espenson, brian fuller, julie gardner, c.s. lewis, virginia woolf, mark twain, franz kafka, friedrich nietzsche, neil gaiman, sylvia plath, e. e. cummings, albert einstein, carl sagan, stephen hawking, lawrence krauss, douglas adams, j.j. abrams, salvador dali, felicia day, ben edlund, stephen fry, john green

°° colors °° purple, black

°° flavor °° mint (i love everything mint flavored; tea, coffe, chocolate, everything), coffee, caramel, vanilla

°° i'd like to recieve °° coffee, tea, crafts magazines, photos, letters, quotes, books (i love sci-fis, children books, biographies, books about mythical creatures, mythology, legends, space, the universe, physics, pagan/witchcraft), mix cds, dvds, stickers, anything with fairies/halloween/butterflies/witches/owls/alice in wonderland, witchcraft/wicca/pagan stuff, anything anne taintor, marilyn monroe, doctor who, whedonverse related, postcards, buddha figurines, candy, chocolate (I love white chocolate, don't like dark chocolate), scrapbooking stuff, dreamcatchers, hair accessories, jewellery (funky, crazy, whimsy, celtic, steampunk style), incense, scifi/space related things, steampunk stuff, socks, scarves, baking supplies & decorations (we don't have much of them here), nail polish, scrapbooking stuff (ribbons, papers, stickers, etc), stuff with/about mythical creatures; dragons, unicorns, anything halloween related, really, anything (again, we don't have that much of those here) also, i'm looking for these teas, coffees, if you can get me these i will love you forever.

°° please don't send °° make up, body lotion, things like that

i'm not picky though, i appreciate everything you send :)

°° swaps for my family °°

• my mom

she loves gemstone, celtic & native american jewelry, reading, chocolate, hats, cooking/baking

• my little brother

he's really into computer games & sci-fi, fantasy stuff. he also loves chocolate, candy, gummi bears

°° about swaps °°

i always send my swaps, so if you didn't receive something, please let me know before rating. i resend if necessary. thanks :) i also send packages that i'd like to receive, always including some extra stuff. i like making someone's day a little better :) i'm open to private swaps, just message me :) few stuff for trade, if you want something from these just let me know :)

" think of me as an anomaly within an impossibility, and get on with your tea." ~ dw

" if I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." ~ c.s. lewis

" very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.." ~ joss whedon