wish-list meme

[cellio]

I find it difficult to ask for gifts -- which is different from asking for things I think I'm entitled to -- but this one seemed interesting and there aren't any actual expectations or anything, so what the heck.

Step One:

* Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes [focus seems to be on yourself]. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Jenny/Giles icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for $HOLIDAY is a new car/computer/house/TV.")

* If you wish for real-world things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. [My email address is in my profile. My physical address is in the phone directory in the city given in the profile.]

* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread. [N.B. The link to the original post has long since been lost, so I don't know whose this is.]

Step Two:

* Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

* If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use -- or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free -- do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf and to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not -- it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

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Not in any particular order:

1. A copy of Wizards and Warriors on DVD.
2. Ginger bread or cookies or similar with lots of ginger.
3. A miniature (25mm scale) for my current D&D character, colored/painted. (The character is a sorceress with a particular affinity for fire who does not think a bikini is appropriate adventurer garb. Sword ok due to a couple levels of paladin. A real bonus would be also representing the owl familiar.)
4. A copy of The Little Prince in Hebrew.
5. A long, thorough massage.
6. For someone to come over, partition the hard drive, install Linux on the other partition, and make it work with all the peripherals, so this wouldn't be a Windows-only box.
7. For a dear friend to have a healthy baby in a couple months.
8. To meet more of my online friends.
9. For my husband to be more fond of cats.
10. Normal vision. (Ok, there had to be one impossible thing here. :-) )

Comments

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

If I can do half of one of the items on your list, is that acceptable? I can fill your mailbox with GNU/Linux distros (and BSD), but I'm not coming over to partition and install. And I don't think even Santa can make sure *all* of the handware and peripherals work.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I don't think number 1 exists, more's the pity.

[aliza250.livejournal.com]

8. To meet more of my online friends.

I'll be in Rockville, Maryland, 2 or 3 times in the first half of next year. Assuming the scheduling works out, you are hereby invited to come down and spend Shabbat in my parents' house (kosher home, shomer shabbat, easy walking distance from at least 4 shuls [O/C/C/Sefardi]), and go to a gaming party at moviebear's and zenlizard's house with me after Shabbat is over.

For the weekend, I'll lend you my sister's copy of The Little Prince in Hebrew.

I'll even bake you Kosher ginger cookies at the same time. :-)

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...good information to have.

[magid.livejournal.com]

How are you about crystallized ginger? Fr'instance, chocolate-dipped crystallized ginger? I think it's cool enough these days that it could be shipped (and I'm assuming it would arrive more intact/less stale than if I tried to send gingerbread).

(And I'd like to meet you in person too. Hopefully it'll work out one of these days...)

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Re: 10, Why is normal vision impossible?

Re: 5, you need to come out here. We have Dr. Jane/James.

With love

[lefkowitzga.livejournal.com]

You are a very good human being. And a much-appreciated friend.