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colleenbUSA

colleenbUSA
Date Joined: November 29, 2017
Last Online: January 10, 2025
Birthday: April 4
Country: United States
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About Me

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

I am disabled with 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

Pan-grey-sexual (ie I'm physically attracted to very few people but those that I am aren't dependent on gender) panromantic.

I live in an apartment, with my furbaby. 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.

Favorite Music

Alt Rock above all particularly Imagine Dragos, Mariana's Trench, and The Script

Pop/Top 40- or at least I loved it in the '90s and 00's (think P!nk, Blink 182, etc) as well as Mariana's Trench my current favorite adult pop band.

Pop-Country if that makes any sense- Like Blake Shelton

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

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

And the Glee Albums!

Likes & Dislikes

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 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.

Favorite Crafts

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

Swaps

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 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 bf mails things for me or takes me to the PO, so if something is late that is probably why.

ABCs of me

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

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)

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

Favorite Books Movie and TV

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.

Postcard Preferences

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

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

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

Sticker Subscription ISO

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!

Ratings

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KSENiA rated for BLC: December 2024 What Did You Read? on Jan 10, 2025
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KSENiA rated for BLC 2024 Book Superlatives on Jan 10, 2025
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KSENiA rated for R&W 2025 TBR Planning on Jan 10, 2025
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KSENiA rated for ESG: My Favorite Photo - December on Jan 10, 2025
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Comment: Thank you for sharing.
Zefaniya rated for CPG: This or That Postcard #19-US on Jan 10, 2025
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Comment: Thank you! Such a cute postcard Mickey mouse!
Brokenwings87 rated for R&W 2025 TBR Planning on Jan 8, 2025
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Comment: the math is messing with me...238 added 240, but you have 312? That's a lot of removing? Oh what does moved mean? 222$ my goodness.
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Brokenwings87 rated for LLU 2024 Yearly Wrap-up on Jan 8, 2025
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Comment: You spent 22% of your year on books :D Makes me wonder what the rest covered.
di53 rated for ANYCARD W/PROMPT 144 on Jan 6, 2025
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Comment: Thank you for the Mexico postcard and your answers. Happy New Year!
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Comment: Wow! You went completely audiobooks!! I must try out The Invention of Murder
RooBaRoo rated for LLU 2024 Yearly Wrap-up on Jan 6, 2025
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Comment: Amazing reading year! Noted down a few titles for myself!
LilacSilence rated for BLC 2024 Book Superlatives on Jan 6, 2025
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Comment: Thank you for sharing!
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Comment: Thank you for the sunbathing/floating baby PC. I, too, would rather be bundled than sweating.
Bucket rated for R&W: December 2024 TBR progress on Jan 3, 2025
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Comment: It has been a great year! Thank you so much for hosting this series. It's my very favorite.
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Comment: Thank you for sharing. And for hosting this swap, it's good way to remind me to read what I have and to not be swept up by the new ones (usually).
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Comment: Thank you for sharing! --- Oh, I saw some interesting ones, but my TBR is way-too-full. Some of them are the authors I have already read, so I will get to them eventually (wishful thinking, me).
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Comment: Thank you for sharing your photos! --- Your Jedi is so cute :)

Rating Overview

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Completed Fives Threes Ones
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Comments

MuggleMom on Jan 1, 2025:

xx

MuggleMom

MCGalaxy on Sep 2, 2024:

Pride swap

Byn0604 on Aug 26, 2024:

Profile deco swap bonus!

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AbeRex on Aug 25, 2024:

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AbeRex on Aug 25, 2024:

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AbeRex on Aug 25, 2024:

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ensigncelery on Aug 25, 2024:

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Profile Deco Swap!

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Byn0604 on Aug 18, 2024:

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MuggleMom on Apr 7, 2024:

There are so many things I appreciate about my library and since I've moved so many times

1- libraries have been the constant in my life

2 - bookclubs - online & in person. During COVID, this was a source of great fun and when we resumed in person, we enjoyed the ability to gather and laugh together!

3 - all the free resources such as Libby, OverDrive (I prefer OverDrive), Hoopla and Kanopy! FREE is always better, right?!

4 - author meetings. Tried to go to one in February and it was like a mini rock concert. They only allowed 200ppl in so I skipped out of line when I saw a kid crying because he thought he wouldn't get in...I hope he got in!!

5 - all sorts of free events such as Movies Under the Stars night, craft nights, story time, Lego Club, Manga Club, Tai Chi & Yoga classes, Kpop Club, local artist exhibits, book fairs, plus so much more

LLU: Happy Library Week ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽ‰

xx

MuggleMom

OrigamiGrace on Apr 7, 2024:

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