SoberMermaid3

**7/18/2024 PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH MY RATINGS I AM sometimes medically disabled and I can only get to my cards one or two times a week. Know your cards keep me going!!!

I’m 44, inside I feel in my 20’s, outsside like I’m in my 70’s. I have two teenagers and a husband. I grew up in Renton, WA and didn’t go too far! My training is as a nurse but I pretend I’m a Broadway singer when no one is home. I currently work as an Anticoagulation nurse as I have medical disability. I stopped drinking alcohol 7 years ago hence, I’m a sober mermaid. I share mail and mermaids on IG. Follow me if you like! @mermaidsandmailboxes

My mind never stops generating ideas.

I don’t do judgement... I’m more concerned by someone’s character than their choice of partner, faith, color, or place of origin....so on! I support human beings. I am a huge ally of the LGTBQ + and I believe love is the answer. I’m not into mixing religion and politics. I do have some favorite Politicians.

I started writing again to combat the isolation and loneliness that comes with an invisible, chronic and very painful condition (I look fine to everyone else). I count my blessings and I refuse to give up even though many days I do want to. I try to live like I have little time left, not a lifetime to come. I try to love all people the way they feel they deserve, not the way I think they deserve. Bottom line is everyone deserves the love that we believe we deserve. Mental Health Matters!

I am not picky send me anything!! If you need help. I take all weird items. Send them!

I collect all mermaid cards (Selkies, all mythology) and stamps, I have over 250 postcards. Even duplicates are added to my collection.

My Family heritage is Slavic and Ukrainian so I’d love any Ukrainian items. I don’t discriminate so all Slavic items are welcome. Old USSR postage.

I also collect medical/science related postcards and stamps. Nurses and Female Scientist. I love Royal Mail postcards and stamps. Royal Family related items.Currently my favorite new stamps are from Finland and Ukraine.

If you need extra help picking a card or stamp A- Anatomy (fav subject) Accidnetally Wes Anderson, Antartica, Art, Avant- Garde, Astrology, Autopsy, African American Culture, Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Australian Comedies. B- Beaches, British Royals, Books, Botany, Boxing Alexander McQueen, Ariel, Blood science, Bridgerton, Bacteria. C- Coconuts, Crab/Crustacean, Catholic Art, Cryptids, Cats (Maine Coon fav), Comedy, Culture, Canelo, Classical Music, Coffee, Choir D- Deadliest Catch, Dogs, Disney, Day of the Dead, Discovery, Dolce & Gabbana, Disasters, Doctors (MD, PhD), Dentistry, Drag Queens E- Eighteen-Hundreds, Emergency Medical, Egypt, Eighties movies, Editorial Photography, Environmental issues.
F- Forensics, Fashion, Fast Pitch, Firetrucks, Football, Frida Khalo, Fungi (medical not mushrooms) G- Goonies, Ghosts, German Shepherds, Gymnastics, Geology, Glass, Global Warming, geneology H- Hello Kitty, Haunted, Halloween (anytime), Hawaii (my favorite place) I- Ireland, Iconic Art, Ice Skating and Dancing, Indigenous, Iceland, Inventors. J- Junk Art K- K-pop, Kwaii, Katy Perry L- Lou Paper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leonardo Da Vinci, Little Mermaid, Lady Gaga, Laboratory M- Mermaids, Music, Musicals mystery, mystical, magic, Madonna (Mary and the singer), mail, military, Mother Teresa, Movies, Movie Star, Mortuary, meteorology, makeup, Maui, Mark Ryden N- Nurses Northern Lights, Natural Disasters, Native American (art/culture), National Geographic, NFL, New Mexico.
O- Opera, Obama, Olympics, Oscars P- Pink Places, Pink (artist and fav color),Pathology, Physiology, Pride, Princes, Poetry, pilots, Portraits, Pow-Wow, Project Runway, Postcards, Postcrossing, Petri dishes, Poe, Pharmacy. Q- Queens, Quotes, Queer R- Royal Mail, Rain, Religion (other than Christianity), Roadside attractions, Radiation, Rap (1990’s), Red Carpet, Recycling S- Starbucks, Stars (famous and in the sky), Seattle Seahawks, Singers, Scotland, Shoes (I love shoes), Scientists, science T- Titanic, Tornados, Typhoon, Today Show, Tropical, Trixie Hotel, Twin Stars. U- Ukrainian, Ukraine, Ursula, Upcycle, Unicorns V- Vogue, Versace, Villians, Viruses W- Weather, Warhol, Weird, Witches, WWII X- X-ray Y- Year of the… Z- Zebra

Non Fiction and True Crime (serial killers) or Medical Best Sellers, Favorite Authors, Mary Roach Gregg Olsen (WA Native), Brene’ Brown, I always am listening or reading a book.

Favorite books: The Nurses Secret, Legacy, Invisible Kingdom, Accidentally Wes Anderson, Love and Saffron, The Great Influenza, Angelology, Discovery of Witches, Poisoners Handbook, Spare, Spook, Still, American Mother, Killers of the Flower Moon, Mad Honey, I’m Glad My Mom’s Dead, If You Tell, The Covenant of Water (long but very good), Starvation Heights

ALL Leonardo DiCaprio films so if you got postcards send them my way! Goonies, The Little Mermaid, Jurassic Park, Stardust, Titanic (I saw it 3 times in the theatre), The Notebook (I know cliche, but it’s a great movie), Atonement, A Star is Born, Indiana Jones series, Ghostbusters, Top Gun, Romancing the Stone.1980’s movies. I am fascinated by movie making and directing.

Only Murderers in the Building, Deadliest Catch, The Boys, Bridgerton, The Real Detectives, American Horror Story, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, Glee, Super Store, The Knick, Black Mirror, Mind Hunters,Project Runway, Killing Fields, Monsters Inside Me, Mystery Diagnosis, pretty much anything on Discovery ID channel, Chopped. I stream Hulu and Netflix series and binge series on rainy days.

Collage artist and Photographer, also thrift hunting, Junk journaling, watercolor painting, drawing, collecting interesting ceramics, chalk painting furniture, writing, collecting mermaids, collecting vintage medical items, collecting, pharmacy or apothecary items, collecting vintage decor, collecting enamel pins (mail related, quotes, funny) and vinyl stickers.

Real, human, stories, that’s what inspires me. I am generally interested in anyone who has something they want to share about themselves. Your strange coincidence, six degrees of separation, past and present colliding, I want those stories. Your triumphs and struggles and how you fight or overcame (because that matters). What is the dream you never followed? (mine is Performing Artist, novelist, doctor, interior decorator, fashion designer, comedian, ballerina)

I have some of my own that I hope inspire others too.