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Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, 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 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.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, so that the holiday joy will spread.
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--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 wishes are below. Some of these are stronger wishes than others, but they're in no particular order.
1. Do something good for someone who needs it. Seriously. Tell me, don't tell me, it's all good. Be a listening ear to someone who needs it. Donate to a charity (whether it benefits animals or humans). Give time at a food bank. Give of your time to help a neighbor who needs and wants it. Something. Because I want to live in the kind of world where we do that sort of thing for each other.
2. Any form of art, including icons. Bonus points if it is digital and not physical, as I somewhat lack space. Or would, if all the physical art I own now were properly placed.
3. Renew my pro account on Flickr (currently due to expire in February) (Done, and thank you!!)
4. Tell me a memory - a true story, or one you think is true. Doesn't have to involve me, though it can. Something positive and happy would be best. Something with a sense of community (family or friends) and/or humor would be great.
5. Music recommendations. I like pop, folk, and some country songs. Understandable lyrics important. (Some people/groups I own and like - Billy Joel, Suzanne Vega, October Project, Great Big Sea, Loreena McKennitt, Jimmy Buffett, The Kingston Trio, Emerald Rose....)
6. Can anyone tell me or help me find where in the Portland area I might take un-cracked, unopened thundereggs (geodes) and get them sliced open, possibly sliced in slabs depending on what's inside, polished, etc.? I would prefer a place that will do it (but let me watch and make choices), but could live with a 'pay for X time and do it yourself' place.
7. One Wisconsin quarter (2004). Two South Dakota quarters (just released this month). (Wisconsin done, South Dakotas spoken for, and thank you!!)
8. A Christmas card (or e-card, or note, or...).
9. Amazon.com gift cards. Or other gift cards, if you want.
10. Star Trek DVDs, particularly, the one with the Trouble With Tribbles from the original series (on a 2-disc or a season set - I love the original show, but it's TWT that I really want to get, so either will suffice), and from Deep Space Nine, Trials and Tribble-ations (which occurs in season 5, I believe). Trials and Tribble-ations is also available on the Time Travel collective which I would actually prefer to a whole season of DS9, as DS9 is generally a 'whatever' thing for me.
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, 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 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.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, so that the holiday joy will spread.
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--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 wishes are below. Some of these are stronger wishes than others, but they're in no particular order.
1. Do something good for someone who needs it. Seriously. Tell me, don't tell me, it's all good. Be a listening ear to someone who needs it. Donate to a charity (whether it benefits animals or humans). Give time at a food bank. Give of your time to help a neighbor who needs and wants it. Something. Because I want to live in the kind of world where we do that sort of thing for each other.
2. Any form of art, including icons. Bonus points if it is digital and not physical, as I somewhat lack space. Or would, if all the physical art I own now were properly placed.
4. Tell me a memory - a true story, or one you think is true. Doesn't have to involve me, though it can. Something positive and happy would be best. Something with a sense of community (family or friends) and/or humor would be great.
5. Music recommendations. I like pop, folk, and some country songs. Understandable lyrics important. (Some people/groups I own and like - Billy Joel, Suzanne Vega, October Project, Great Big Sea, Loreena McKennitt, Jimmy Buffett, The Kingston Trio, Emerald Rose....)
6. Can anyone tell me or help me find where in the Portland area I might take un-cracked, unopened thundereggs (geodes) and get them sliced open, possibly sliced in slabs depending on what's inside, polished, etc.? I would prefer a place that will do it (but let me watch and make choices), but could live with a 'pay for X time and do it yourself' place.
8. A Christmas card (or e-card, or note, or...).
9. Amazon.com gift cards. Or other gift cards, if you want.
10. Star Trek DVDs, particularly, the one with the Trouble With Tribbles from the original series (on a 2-disc or a season set - I love the original show, but it's TWT that I really want to get, so either will suffice), and from Deep Space Nine, Trials and Tribble-ations (which occurs in season 5, I believe). Trials and Tribble-ations is also available on the Time Travel collective which I would actually prefer to a whole season of DS9, as DS9 is generally a 'whatever' thing for me.
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