manders2280

Updated 7 May 2022

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Every few weeks I head to central Wisconsin to visit my husband's parents for a few days, 210mi/340km from our home to theirs. They are 89 and live in their home.

Our big news is that we have an apartment for my in-laws, near us in Minneapolis. This senior living community is my first choice and I think they'll enjoy it. There are lots of activities and restaurant-style dining (it's a thing) so my MIL can stop cooking. The VA hospital is nearby and my FIL can go there for healthcare. They'll move around the end of June.

My kitchen is my craft room because I love cooking and baking. We are vegetarians, doing our bit for climate change. These days I'm simplifying complicated recipes, like crustless cheese-less quiche with three ingredients plus salt, pepper and herbs. What are your favorite foods? How do you make them? I drink lots of tea, mostly herbal now, if a swap suggests sending tea in sealed packets.

I send the blank postcards I receive to family and friends and people on Postcrossing. Please send colorful and cheerful postcards that you'd happily send your family and friends. If you're sending me a naked postcard, please send one that's a favorite of yours, sender's choice or for a swap with a theme.

No, thank you. Sorry, no hearts. Postcards to color, postcards for Christian holidays and legends, and Zazzle postcards. Those cheap sepia 32-pcs Vintage Travel Sights Landscape Retro Postcards. Not those childish Distributed by Michael's Inc. designs. Please, no junk.

Omurice is a wonderful quick dinner. I make it with Trader Joe's Japanese Fried Rice and extra frozen vegetables, thin omelettes that we lay over the fried rice, and ketchup. And now it's turning up in kawaii like Ojipan and I love them all!

My favorite kawaii has a face. I love food with faces and anchovies with legs and animals in an unlikely milieu like cat servers at faux Starbucks. I enjoy most characters, especially San-X.

No, thanks. Poo and bottoms aren't kawaii to me. 3D stickers from sheets and sticker flakes, especially PVC and puffy. Real photos made cute aren't so cute to me. Unicorns are too sweet for me.

• Christian holidays, etc. I'm Jewish.
• Ephemera, scrap book paper, die cuts, and the like. My phone is my planner.
• Extras. I have plenty of kawaii, stickers and washi tape.
• Food. We keep kosher and we are vegetarians.
• Glitter, sequins and other tiny metallic or plastic bits
• Plastic, if possible. Reuse all those bubble mailers!
• Postcards: see above
• Tobacco smoke residue aka thirdhand smoke. See also thirdhandsmoke.org.
• Unicorns, except the Unicorn Tapestries dating from the late Middle Ages.