My Christmas Wishlist
greensaki incited me to participate in the Livejournal Christmas Wishlist Project.
Please, everyone, try to take part in the LJ Christmas Wishlist Campaign. It's a nice way to make Christmas a little brighter for the people you like.
Here are the rules:
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.
My Wishlist
1. Old acquaintances of mine (who I haven't seen in a long time) used to have a big poster in their kitchen. It showed two men with bare upper bodies. One is cradling a baby while the other embraces him. It was beautiful; I really liked that poster. I'd be really happy if someone found a picture like that and sent me a high resolution file of it.
2. If you know any great quotes or poetry, whether you think they are hilarious or moving or romantic or wise - please share them with me. I love quotes and have been collecting snippets from stories and poems for years. I don't care if it's from fanfiction or classical literature or whatever, as long as it evokes emotion or agreement.
3. I adore Terry Prone. Sadly, most of her books aren't available in Germany, and I don't have credit card. So if you have some means of helping me obtain 1. Mirror Mirror, 2. The Best Advice I Ever Got or 3. What Every Working Woman Should Know (Or Do!), I'd be very grateful indeed. (Mind, I'm not asking for getting the books for free.)
4. I have a sponsorship for a fourteen year old girl living in the SOS Children's Village in Chittagong, Bangladesh. I used to send her postcards on a regular basis, but have been neglecting her shamefully for the last year or so. I'd like to make up for this a little. So I'm asking you to, if you like, send her a postcard of your own. I think it would be nice for her to get more mail :-)
5. Music was my first love / and it will be my last / To live without my music / would be impossible to do ... So I'm looking for music files / CDs. Please refer to my user info to find out what I like, and try to infer what else I might enjoy.
6. Hair ties / scrunchies.
I will post more wishes as they occur to me ;-) As of now, that's it.
And before I go to bed, this little meme:
1.) Grab the nearest book.
2.) Open it to page 56.
3.) Find the fifth sentence.
4.) Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"Es geht um das Vertrauen in die ökonomische und gesellschaftliche Grundordnung der Republik"
(It's about trusting in the republic's economic and social basic order.)
Source: "Denkanstöße 2009", ed. Lilo Göttermann, from an essay by Michael Sauga, "Wer arbeitet, ist der Dumme".
Please, everyone, try to take part in the LJ Christmas Wishlist Campaign. It's a nice way to make Christmas a little brighter for the people you like.
Here are the rules:
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.
My Wishlist
1. Old acquaintances of mine (who I haven't seen in a long time) used to have a big poster in their kitchen. It showed two men with bare upper bodies. One is cradling a baby while the other embraces him. It was beautiful; I really liked that poster. I'd be really happy if someone found a picture like that and sent me a high resolution file of it.
2. If you know any great quotes or poetry, whether you think they are hilarious or moving or romantic or wise - please share them with me. I love quotes and have been collecting snippets from stories and poems for years. I don't care if it's from fanfiction or classical literature or whatever, as long as it evokes emotion or agreement.
3. I adore Terry Prone. Sadly, most of her books aren't available in Germany, and I don't have credit card. So if you have some means of helping me obtain 1. Mirror Mirror, 2. The Best Advice I Ever Got or 3. What Every Working Woman Should Know (Or Do!), I'd be very grateful indeed. (Mind, I'm not asking for getting the books for free.)
4. I have a sponsorship for a fourteen year old girl living in the SOS Children's Village in Chittagong, Bangladesh. I used to send her postcards on a regular basis, but have been neglecting her shamefully for the last year or so. I'd like to make up for this a little. So I'm asking you to, if you like, send her a postcard of your own. I think it would be nice for her to get more mail :-)
5. Music was my first love / and it will be my last / To live without my music / would be impossible to do ... So I'm looking for music files / CDs. Please refer to my user info to find out what I like, and try to infer what else I might enjoy.
6. Hair ties / scrunchies.
I will post more wishes as they occur to me ;-) As of now, that's it.
And before I go to bed, this little meme:
1.) Grab the nearest book.
2.) Open it to page 56.
3.) Find the fifth sentence.
4.) Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"Es geht um das Vertrauen in die ökonomische und gesellschaftliche Grundordnung der Republik"
(It's about trusting in the republic's economic and social basic order.)
Source: "Denkanstöße 2009", ed. Lilo Göttermann, from an essay by Michael Sauga, "Wer arbeitet, ist der Dumme".