loolie

Hi! My name is Lauren, I am 29 years old and I'm from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. I'm engaged to the love of my life, Paul - I love spending time with him! I work as a video editor at a TV station. I went to university for an English degree, and attended college for a diploma in Television Broadcasting.

I love to craft and create all sorts of things, including knitting, needlework, things made out of plastic Perler beads, 1" pinback buttons, things made from Japanese Chiyogami paper, and more.

I love video games, especially retro Nintendo games. My favorite games are Super Mario Bros. games, Pac-Man, Katamari Damacy, Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, Zelda, Kirby, and any older arcade games. I also love pinball.

I also love music - I play the piano and the guitar. I played the clarinet in my high school symphonic band.

I have been a vegetarian for my entire life and love cooking vegetarian cuisine and foods from around the world.

I also love to travel and hope to travel the world someday! I am learning how to speak Japanese and hope to travel to Japan someday.

I also love to do yoga, work out at the gym, and go for long walks. I love all animals, especially cats!

Mono, Explosions in the Sky, M83, Portishead, Built to Spill, Neutral Milk Hotel, American Analog Set, Do Make Say Think, Sigur Ros, Broadcast, The Notwist, Lali Puna, The Flaming Lips, Mum, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Smashing Pumpkins (old stuff), Sonic Youth, Xiu Xiu, The XX, Windy & Carl, lots of post-rock/instrumental/experimental/indie bands.

The Time Traveller's Wife, any book by Banana Yoshimoto, any book by Haruki Murakami, The Glass Castle, books by Michael Pollan, The Kite Runner

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service (also, any other Miyazaki movies), The Goonies, Back to the Future, Wall-E, Forks over Knives

Adventure Time, The Office (US), Parks & Rec, South Park, The Colbert Report, X-play, The Sarah Silverman Show, Important Things with Demetri Martin, Ace of Cakes, Dexter, Hell's Kitchen, The Big Bang Theory, America's Funniest Home Videos

Knitting, Needlepoint, Cross-stitch, Making video game inspired crafts, Perler Beads, Crochet, Embroidery, Paper Craft, Origami, Scrapbooking, Card Making

I love all sorts of things!

• Postcards - I prefer them "naked" (written on and stamped)
• Anything Japanese Kawaii, especially San-X characters (Rilakkuma, Nyan Nyan Nyanko, Kogepan, Mamegoma, etc.), Domo Kun, Mameshiba, anything cute!
• Japanese Blind Box Miniatures/Toys - Rement Sets. Also love Tokidoki and Kid Robot.
• Chocolate or candy, especially Japanese or from anywhere around the world that I can't get in Canada!
• LOVE Coffee! Love Starbucks. Love coffee beans as I have a grinder for them! Love any instant coffee to take with me to work!
• Spices from around the world
• Tea (especially fruit flavors, green tea, black tea, white tea)
• Wonderful handmade creations!
• Stationary, stickers, pens, penpal supplies
• Letters from penpals from around the world!
• Anything related to the Japanese language as I am learning how to speak Japanese
• Vegetarian cuisine (love veggie sushi!)
• Wool/yarn, cute fabric, needlepoint/cross stitch supplies, embroidery, patterns, crafty stuff :)
• Outer Space and Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis
• Clothing size - I wear a women's size small/medium.

• Anything made from fur as I am an animal lover and vegetarian
• Tea with licorice, pumpkin spice, chai spice
• Chocolate with raisins or fruit filling
• Don't care for perfume smells, flowery scents, baby powder scent, anything that smells like pumpkin spice

I love to collect postcards! My favorites include any card showing your hometown/city/country/area - any scenery, history, traditions, festivals, anything special about where you live! I prefer to receive a card from your home country, written and stamped from there.

I'd also love any kawaii cards from Japan, or any Nintendo-themed video game cards (especially those showing retro game characters).

I am interested in collecting map cards and flag cards from where you live! I would love to collect US state map cards and country map cards. If you have one from where you live that is missing from my list, that would be wonderful! Here are the ones that I currently have collected:

US State Map Cards: - Alaska (Inside Passage) - California - Illinois - Indiana - Maryland - Michigan - New York - New York (Finger Lakes) - NYC Subway Map - North Carolina - North Dakota - Oklahoma - Pennsylvania - Utah

Canada Province Map Cards: - None! Would like any! :)

Country Map Cards: - Australia - Aruba (old style map) - Belgium - Bulgaria - Canada - Caribbean (old style map) - Cayman Islands (on a world map) - China (Old Shanghai Map Card) - Curacao - Finland - France (Alsace Map Card) - Grenada - Indonesia (Indonesia, Bali, Java Maps) - Isle Margarita, Venezuela - Israel - Japan (showing Festivals on map) - Japan (Hello Kitty map) - Japan - Lithuania - Malaysia (small map in center of multi-views) - Netherlands - New Zealand - Poland - Portugal - Russia - Spain - Switzerland (area of Lake Geneva) - US Virgin Islands - Wales

Flag Cards: - Brazil - Canada - Estonia - Iceland - Norway - Portugal - Turkey - California, USA - Indiana, USA - North Carolina, USA - Diver's Flag from Cayman Islands