keohusa

About keohusa...

If you've sent me a postcard lately or a message and I'm slow to answer, I'm sorry. Dad died unexpectedly on April 11, 2012.

Hello!

When you send me a postcard, I'd love to know the answer to this question: What are you thankful for?

I'm thankful for
- my faith
- my sister who survived a rare cancer in 2000
- my parents
- my nieces and nephew
- my first cat, Legato, who died in 2009, for teaching me so much
- my current cats, Raven and Nutmeg, who continue to teach me
- my Oma for teaching me cross-stitch
- my stitching group
- my job and my health
- swimming
- Lake Erie - it looks like an ocean
- history
- outer space - it makes me feel so small
- postage stamps I've never seen before
- Postcrossing
- Benjamin Franklin for starting the US Postal Service
- All of the world's postal services for cooperating to deliver postcards

What are some of my dreams?
- to learn to scuba dive
- to not get ear infections every time I go to learn to scuba dive
- to visit more countries
- to get back to Japan again and to Germany more often
- to swim from Ohio to Canada (across Lake Erie)
- to see my sister live to play with her grandchildren (hopefully not soon, though, since my nieces and nephew are 3 to 12 years old!)

What kinds of postcards do I like?
- places, especially UNESCO sites or pretty places or historical places or countries and places not in my collection
- animals (especially endangered or rare animals, ones that live underwater or cats)
- recipes (preferably in German or English so I can cook them, or please tell me the language's name)
- native embroidery (needlework)
- with embroidery designs for me to stitch
- made of unusual materials
- with special effects
- made with embroidery or of fabric
- showing postage stamps or maps
- history
- astronomy (study of outer space, not astrology which is using stars to tell the future)
- with postage stamps on them - I never take stamps off cards
- about helping people with mental illness or drug addiction (not making fun of them).
- Maxi-cards of the above topics
- "Favorites" on my Postcard Wall here are all cards I haven't received

I really enjoy most cards.

Please don't send me erotic or racist postcards, or postcards making fun of people with mental illness or drug addiction.

Due to my work schedule, I can only get my mail on Fridays or Saturdays. I usually log in here only to register cards and to request addresses.

UPDATES:

PS for Everyone- On the Postcrossing Forums, my name is HausMaus.

PS for Japanese Postcrossers - I'm looking for cards of Mount Miyogi in Gumma-ken. I tore the ligaments in my left ankle while hiking there in 1995 and wasn't able to buy postcards.

PS for Italian Postcrossers - My mostly white cat, Raven, was named after Ravenna, Ohio, which was named after Ravenna, Italy, and I'd love a card from there.

PS for Norwegian Postcrossers - Hardanger Embroidery, which I'm learning, is from Hardanger, Norway, so I'd love a card from that ar