I've finally had time to post this! (Sometimes it's nearly impossible to get things done on a moving planet.)

One overall suggestion is that I really like getting things from my Secret Santa's abode -- your music or that of your friends, local travel brochures, maps, rocks or shells, food -- even crumpled local newspapers used as packing material. (I have in my possession Divine's obituary in Spanish that was in a crumpled newspaper protecting something I had mailordered. )

1. what is your age range?
Let's see, I've been just about every age up to and including 56, but I'm doing research on ages I haven't yet attained.

2. gender?
Goddess, fer-pete's-sake

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Blue, green, blue green, purple, bluish purple, magenta. I avoid orange except in things I eat.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Adventurer Richard Halliburton (but I think I have all of the BOOKS he published -- interested in his periodical work, though), vintage (pre-1940) travel or exploration books, books on early gravestones or gravestone carvers (from your neck of the woods?), books about words and language, printing and typography, books about books.

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Alas, probably out of your price range, as well as mine.

6. what type of music do you like?
Everything from Louis Killen to Louis Prima, shanties and occupational songs to Manhattan Transfer and caberet.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Mudcatters' -- Jed Marum's, Big Mick's, etc. I have Rick Fielding's, Hissyfit, one of InOBU's. Or the Mudcat collections. I'm also looking for a CD (if it exists) of the 1970s recording (double LP -- which I have) of "Canto General" by Mikis Theodorakis, with the French National Chorus and Maria Farandouri. NOT the German recording which seems to be the only CD available.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Uh, Curmudgeon and I probably have the largest private collection in New Hampshire, USA.

9. what is your t-shirt size?
H for homungus (I like 'em roomy). I'm goddess-shaped, so 3X at least. I don't have (alas) a Mudcat T-shirt or sweatshirt.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Maps, hippocampuses, rubber squid, rubberstamps and printing paraphernalia, skulls and interesting bones, rocks, shells, green men, mermaids. . . I think I collect collections.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Gravestone rubbing and research on gravestone carvers, learning how to cut slate, gardening, making bead jewelry, rubberstamp art, needlepoint.


12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

Maybe later (I keep saying that) . . . if I think of anything. Oh, I'm a sucker for fancy scented bath stuff.

Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful.
I'm allergic to penicillin and blue mussels -- and carnations, not that I think this will really help my SS (Aw, no blue mussels!). And I really don't care for the color orange unless it's edible or a flower up against a blue or purple back drop.