Christmas Wish List Meme
Dec. 15th, 2008 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zana16Yes, I'm doing this meme again this year. Yes, even though I already did a fandom wishlist. Because people keep asking me what I want for Christmas and I can't think of anything I want except the Pros DVDs and I bought them for myself. And then when I went to start this I still couldn't think of anything so I pretty much copied what I wrote last year.
Step One
- Make a post (public, friends locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real-life things (not fics or icons), make sure youinclude 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.
Step Two
- Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, 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--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.
My Wishlist:
1) Peace, love, and understanding. ...Yeah, I'm holding my breath.
2) Nifty Overpriced Tech: this looks like it would be awesome.
3) My Amazon.com wishlist is here.
4) A interesting calendar for my wall. I asked for this last year and got no less than four.
5) Donations to good causes that I won't be donating to because I am poor. These include Friends Committee on National Legislation, American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, Right Sharing of World Resources, Leadership Initiatives which I said a few words about here, 1Well which is a cool SVC org at the Affinity Lab where I work, and more about them here, Heifer International, Christian Peacemaker Teams, any org working in or based in Chiapas, any Fair Trade group, and any environmentalist group. The ones that come immediately to mind are the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Sierra Club and the Nature Conservancy. On the subject of environmentalism, I haven't researched carbon offsets enough to know which ones aren't bullshit, but if you happen to know, let me know please.
Two more places that I've worked at so they have special meaning to me, which are also in need of money but won't give you the same degree of "I'm helping solve big important issues and helping humanity in general" charitable-giving feeling, are William Penn House and Olney Friends School.
6) A higher-paying, enjoyable job that could utilize my education. Also a swift kick in the butt to get me to apply for said job.
7) Interesting socks. Especially kneesocks.
8) I want a subscription to The New York Review of Books but I always feel guilty when I receive this because I never read it the whole way through; I just haven't the time! Other mags I'd like are Cook's Illustrated and Discover.
9) Hugs. Lots and lots of hugs.
10) To magically get into grad school without applying. Also, to magically speak German. The two are only vaguely related.
11) Okay, so this list is only supposed to have ten items. But I'm not good with boxes, and I'm not good at fitting Dharma into my life, so. I'd like a direct realization of emptiness. That's not much to ask for, is it? It's not like I'm asking for enlightenment...
12) Again, not so good with the number thing. Catie Curtis's CD Long Night Moon. Or My Shirt Looks Good on You or A Crash Course in Roses.
13) For my leather coat with the inexplicable stain to come back from the drycleaners good as new! Preeeetty please? I was not given much cause for hope by the drycleaner's staff. In fact, they looked at me like I was nuts. Perhaps because I could not explain a huge, white stain on the side of my leather coat. Perhaps also because I dared to ask how they could have a sign guaranteeing same-day service, then tell me it'll take them three weeks to clean the coat. And no promises that it won't come out two different colors. Woe. Glee! Good as new! Thank you, Christmas gremlins!
14) Kombucha mushrooms. A customer at the Coop was going to give me some but then I think she thought I was hitting on her and so she never did. I spend way too much money on kombucha. It leaves all you coffee freaks in the dust.
15) Fuck it. I want a pony!
Step One
- Make a post (public, friends locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real-life things (not fics or icons), make sure youinclude 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.
Step Two
- Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, 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--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.
My Wishlist:
1) Peace, love, and understanding. ...Yeah, I'm holding my breath.
2) Nifty Overpriced Tech: this looks like it would be awesome.
3) My Amazon.com wishlist is here.
4) A interesting calendar for my wall. I asked for this last year and got no less than four.
5) Donations to good causes that I won't be donating to because I am poor. These include Friends Committee on National Legislation, American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, Right Sharing of World Resources, Leadership Initiatives which I said a few words about here, 1Well which is a cool SVC org at the Affinity Lab where I work, and more about them here, Heifer International, Christian Peacemaker Teams, any org working in or based in Chiapas, any Fair Trade group, and any environmentalist group. The ones that come immediately to mind are the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Sierra Club and the Nature Conservancy. On the subject of environmentalism, I haven't researched carbon offsets enough to know which ones aren't bullshit, but if you happen to know, let me know please.
Two more places that I've worked at so they have special meaning to me, which are also in need of money but won't give you the same degree of "I'm helping solve big important issues and helping humanity in general" charitable-giving feeling, are William Penn House and Olney Friends School.
6) A higher-paying, enjoyable job that could utilize my education. Also a swift kick in the butt to get me to apply for said job.
7) Interesting socks. Especially kneesocks.
8) I want a subscription to The New York Review of Books but I always feel guilty when I receive this because I never read it the whole way through; I just haven't the time! Other mags I'd like are Cook's Illustrated and Discover.
9) Hugs. Lots and lots of hugs.
10) To magically get into grad school without applying. Also, to magically speak German. The two are only vaguely related.
11) Okay, so this list is only supposed to have ten items. But I'm not good with boxes, and I'm not good at fitting Dharma into my life, so. I'd like a direct realization of emptiness. That's not much to ask for, is it? It's not like I'm asking for enlightenment...
12) Again, not so good with the number thing. Catie Curtis's CD Long Night Moon. Or My Shirt Looks Good on You or A Crash Course in Roses.
14) Kombucha mushrooms. A customer at the Coop was going to give me some but then I think she thought I was hitting on her and so she never did. I spend way too much money on kombucha. It leaves all you coffee freaks in the dust.
15) Fuck it. I want a pony!