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colleenbUSA

colleenbUSA
Date Joined: November 29, 2017
Last Online: May 7, 2024
Birthday: April 4
Country: United States
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About Me

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I have A LOT going on right now and am very busy. But my swaps are still going out on time.

3/16 I'm up-to-date on ratings!

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

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) is my emotional support dog. I was also recently diagnosed with mild to moderate autism spectrum disorder.

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!

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-

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

E- Eeorye

F-fudge, Four Bears (stickers, postcards, etc)

G-

H- hot cocoa (especially flavored!)

I- ice cream, iced coffee

J-

K-kittens, kawaii- especially hedgehogs, dogs, and penguins

L-

M- mugs, mug cake mix, mysteries

N- Nutella

O-otters

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

Q-

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

S-spicy books, stickers, stickii club (stickers, sticky notes, etc)

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

U-

V-

W- wolves, washi rolls, washi samples

X-

Y-

Z-

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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Comment: Thank you for sending me your list. I found a few books on your list that I am going to add to my TBR. Personally, I am on the lookout for different books than the ones I normally read. Take care and always carry a book!
Doulton rated for GEEK of the Week PC Swap #214 on May 4, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for the great postcard of the Houses of Parliament. I sent a postcard about London too.I was there in 1985. I'd like to go back to that future.
LilacSilence rated for R&W: April 2024 TBR progress on May 3, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing. -- I love to see what others have on TBR and am overly happy when I see something I have on my TBR, too :)
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Comment: What's missing from all of my data? Again thank you for hosting all of these! <3
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Comment: All the books!
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Comment: Thank you!
Brokenwings87 rated for R&W: April 2024 TBR progress on May 1, 2024
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Comment: I look forward to what my TBR stats are next year O_O all this work this year getting the list built and then hopefully only have new releases added next year. Thank you so much for hosting these.
grammypammy rated for CPG-This or That Postcard #4-US on May 1, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for the nice postcard and for sharing your choices with me! We matched on #1 & #2.
CMBOND rated for BLC: April 2024 What Did You Read? on May 1, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for your list of books for April! We have several in common!
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Comment: Thank you for sharing
Vickyen rated for BLC: March 2024 What Did You Read? on Apr 30, 2024
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Comment: Hi Colleen! Sorry for the late rating-I appreciate you resending the email to me and sharing your reads! Looks like some good ones! All the best! Hugs, Happy Reading, and Swapping! ☺️
KSENiA rated for R&W What I read in March 2024 EMail on Apr 29, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing
CajunLady rated for GEEK of the Week PC Swap #212 on Apr 27, 2024
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Comment: Thank you!
AlexysBellew rated for Puppy Dog PC Swap #56 US Only on Apr 26, 2024
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Comment: Love the postcard! I wish you and your puppy good health!
ccmmsu rated for SSS: Washi Tape #2 on Apr 26, 2024
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Comment: Oh my gosh, how cute is this swap???!!!! The bear washi tags! The books, mail, and aussie animals washi tape! I'm in love. :D All of these washis are new to me. Thank you, Colleen! Oh, and love the pride cards, too.
Psychopomp rated for Puppy Dog PC Swap #56 US Only on Apr 26, 2024
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Comment: What a cutie pie on this postcard! Hope you and Jedi are feeling better- allergies are no fun!
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Comment: I love that your library has cosy wee areas to curl up and read! Sounds perfect to me!
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Comment: I am going to try some of the books you gave the narrator a high rating for, hopefully I can get more into audio books :)
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Comment: I think I need to start listening to more audio books so I can get some more reading done. I think I need to find a narrator that I like. You done well with the amount you read.
Myself333 rated for LSS - Alphabet Playlists - I on Apr 18, 2024
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Comment: Thanks for the playlist Colleen!

Rating Overview

Overall Hearts Stars Hosted
5.0000 2167 518 532
Completed Fives Threes Ones
1657 2696 0 0
Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Uncategorized
644 934 79 0
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Comments

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 πŸ€“πŸ“šπŸŽ‰

xx

MuggleMom

OrigamiGrace on Apr 7, 2024:

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HappyMom on Mar 10, 2024:

Hi Colleen! Happy Spring! Here are some good vibes and positive mojo for you - ESG: March Motivation 1

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UKrebel85 on Mar 10, 2024:

Hello, I hope I have done this properly as its the first time I have done one of these types of swaps.

ESG: March Motivation

ESG: March Motivation ESG: March Motivation

ambhi2024 on Mar 10, 2024:

Good morning! I hope you have a great week ahead!

ESG: March Motivation

Zefaniya on Feb 25, 2024:

Hello, hello! Thank you so much for the feb. wish for the cute PDT labels!!

DarkSkullMistress42 on Feb 14, 2024:

What awesome address labels, each sheet with something I love! Thank you so so much!

bostianh on Feb 10, 2024:

CPG Valentine's Day Profile Bling!

Happy Valentine's Day!

OrigamiGrace on Feb 10, 2024:

Thank you for the cute PDT labels from my Feb wishlist at CPG! Much appreciated!

OrigamiGrace on Feb 10, 2024:

CPG Valentine's Day Profile Bling!

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