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Holiday wish meme.
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, or link to this post (it'll be public) 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.
1. Pretty things to make me smile - pictures/links to things you found would be fine for this. (The less physical space occupied by the pretty things, the better, so stuffies on the computer is actually ideal.)
2. A PocketPC. Yes, I know, we've gone from easy to impossible. This one is actually quite pointless. I want one that has reasonable display and can handle Word files and music files, with a fair amount of memory. I have costed them out. I can buy such a thing. It is not worth the price to me. Nonetheless, if anyone has a line on some place that sells refurbished models at reasonable prices or the like, who knows. I can live without it, tho'.
3. Someone else to smile. If you haven't done anything for charity this holiday season - consider it? There's food drives, there's gift drives for children, there's donations, there's volunteering one place or another...just think about it. The world needs more of that. (But please, if you volunteer as a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army, don't tell me. It's in a good cause, but I'd still feel bad for encouraging it.... *grin*)
4. Compliments. I'm having a bit of a stressy time right now trying to get too much done. If you happen to think, reading this item, of something you like about me - let me know. I could use the lift to my mood. :)
5. Network help. I want to put in a router with a built-in firewall, highly configurable. I will settle for one without a firewall. The device needs to be able to support DHCP and must not block IPSEC (or can be configured not to) and must not have a timeout that I can't configure (since I don't care for getting dumped off my mu*s). It should also allow one to play MMORPG's through it, though that seems to be easier to achieve than mu*s. At any rate, any advice out there? Linksys has already ticked me off by producing a beastie that said it was configurable but had a timeout you could neither turn off nor configure. (Being able to set it to an hour and a half or two hours would be plenty, for my purposes.)
6. The rest of my ornaments to appear. I have found some of them but not others. (Of all the people reading this, I realize that only one is likely to be able to help with this. Scott, would you care to help me shuffle boxes about in the under-eaves storage so I can get to the further-back ones, later this week? :)
7. More book recommendations. Or movies, in a pinch. I already have enough for ages, but that doesn't mean I don't want more. Things that might be suited to Deliria (if you're not familiar with it, think de Lint - it's not a bad starting place). Things that might not including fantasy, or good character-focused science fiction.
8. More players for Ephemera. Okay, so this is a silly one, but I want it all the same. I want to see the stories grow and sprawl in the way they only do with more numbers.
9. Snow. Please, please, I want snow some time this winter, preferably by Christmas. Down low enough that I can see it without having to drive to the mountains, please. (Yes, I realize this isn't really anything you can fulfill. And if anyone reading this decides to 'help' by sending me confetti or tossing it over me - well. Please don't. Or toss it over me outdoors. I really don't want to have to get confetti out of the carpet, amusing as the image is.)
10. A vacuum. I want to get something more householdish, preferably bagless, and I'm not sure what I should get. I haven't started the research. Anyone happen to have already done it for me? :)
...yes, I was stretching. And I apologize for the two spendy items on it but even info pointing to them would be cool, and it was hard to come up with this many things to put in the list.
- 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, or link to this post (it'll be public) 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.
1. Pretty things to make me smile - pictures/links to things you found would be fine for this. (The less physical space occupied by the pretty things, the better, so stuffies on the computer is actually ideal.)
2. A PocketPC. Yes, I know, we've gone from easy to impossible. This one is actually quite pointless. I want one that has reasonable display and can handle Word files and music files, with a fair amount of memory. I have costed them out. I can buy such a thing. It is not worth the price to me. Nonetheless, if anyone has a line on some place that sells refurbished models at reasonable prices or the like, who knows. I can live without it, tho'.
3. Someone else to smile. If you haven't done anything for charity this holiday season - consider it? There's food drives, there's gift drives for children, there's donations, there's volunteering one place or another...just think about it. The world needs more of that. (But please, if you volunteer as a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army, don't tell me. It's in a good cause, but I'd still feel bad for encouraging it.... *grin*)
4. Compliments. I'm having a bit of a stressy time right now trying to get too much done. If you happen to think, reading this item, of something you like about me - let me know. I could use the lift to my mood. :)
5. Network help. I want to put in a router with a built-in firewall, highly configurable. I will settle for one without a firewall. The device needs to be able to support DHCP and must not block IPSEC (or can be configured not to) and must not have a timeout that I can't configure (since I don't care for getting dumped off my mu*s). It should also allow one to play MMORPG's through it, though that seems to be easier to achieve than mu*s. At any rate, any advice out there? Linksys has already ticked me off by producing a beastie that said it was configurable but had a timeout you could neither turn off nor configure. (Being able to set it to an hour and a half or two hours would be plenty, for my purposes.)
6. The rest of my ornaments to appear. I have found some of them but not others. (Of all the people reading this, I realize that only one is likely to be able to help with this. Scott, would you care to help me shuffle boxes about in the under-eaves storage so I can get to the further-back ones, later this week? :)
7. More book recommendations. Or movies, in a pinch. I already have enough for ages, but that doesn't mean I don't want more. Things that might be suited to Deliria (if you're not familiar with it, think de Lint - it's not a bad starting place). Things that might not including fantasy, or good character-focused science fiction.
8. More players for Ephemera. Okay, so this is a silly one, but I want it all the same. I want to see the stories grow and sprawl in the way they only do with more numbers.
9. Snow. Please, please, I want snow some time this winter, preferably by Christmas. Down low enough that I can see it without having to drive to the mountains, please. (Yes, I realize this isn't really anything you can fulfill. And if anyone reading this decides to 'help' by sending me confetti or tossing it over me - well. Please don't. Or toss it over me outdoors. I really don't want to have to get confetti out of the carpet, amusing as the image is.)
10. A vacuum. I want to get something more householdish, preferably bagless, and I'm not sure what I should get. I haven't started the research. Anyone happen to have already done it for me? :)
...yes, I was stretching. And I apologize for the two spendy items on it but even info pointing to them would be cool, and it was hard to come up with this many things to put in the list.
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3. This season, I have donated to the Salvation Army, to the December 6 Fund of Toronto to help women against violence, and adopted a tiger through the WWF. Hope that all counts! :)
4. Compliments: One of the things I adore about you is your ability to lift my spirits when things are seeming bleak. Whether you can do so from personal experience (e.g. with asthma or allergy discussions we've had) or just with some kind words, you always manage to make me feel better. You are kind and generous and aren't afraid to reach out to those around you (I remember a small package full of little trinkets one holiday season that managed to perk me up...thank you!).
7. Vampire-wise: Any of the Sonja Blue books by Nancy A. Collins.. the first being Sunglasses After Dark, followed by In the Blood and Paint It Black. I understand there are a few others out there, but I understand that Collins also wrote A Dozen Black Roses after that series that is about Sonja Blue but wrote it for the World of Darkness. I've been dying to check this one out.
Sci-Fi-wise: Canadian author Julie E. Czerneda's A Thousand Words for Stranger. A co-worker is actually friends with her. It's been a while since I've read this one, but I might see about re-reading it. I remember enjoying it and thinking what a quick read it was.
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How I have managed to become friends with a technically savvy, kind-hearted, interesting person who is into some of the same role-playing genres that I am, I don't know. But I consider myself very, very lucky to know you.
You often have sound advice to give on things and are always willing to share it -- but not in a bossy way. I really appreciate getting to see a little glimpse of other people's lives and your life is like a calm oasis in a swirl of chaos. It gives me hope that someday I'm going to be able to achieve some of my dreams too. :)