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kassrachel's and elsewhere.)
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 fun ("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 Hanukkah/Christmas/solstice 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 possible things, 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 blog 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. I want my cat to feel better. (*)
2. A donation to your local public library or humane society.
3. My bathroom renovated. The other night, there was water dripping on me from the skylight while I waited for the shower.
4. Earrings. Silver. Dark green or blue stones.
5. The Book of Customs (or something else from the Amazon list).
6. Seeds for herbs and flowers that will grow in window-boxes.
7. Scrunchies. (I'm growing my hair out.)
8. Piano-reduction scores of Handel or Mozart operas.
9. Gardenia-scented talc.
10. Write a story, poem or fic for me.
_ _ _
(*) (The vet is still trying to suss out the right dosage of thyroid med, given that it makes her kidneys act up. And she threw up at least four times yesterday, so I'm to pick up something for the nausea later today. She didn't feel like coming downstairs yesterday, so I spent my evening up in the bedroom with her, reading (Marguerite de Angeli's Butter at the Old Price) and napping (and then headed back downstairs to fuss with poems and surf through fics (like "A Soft Spot for Lost Causes") until 4:30 a.m.)).
kassrachel's and elsewhere.)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 fun ("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 Hanukkah/Christmas/solstice 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 possible things, 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 blog 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. I want my cat to feel better. (*)
2. A donation to your local public library or humane society.
3. My bathroom renovated. The other night, there was water dripping on me from the skylight while I waited for the shower.
4. Earrings. Silver. Dark green or blue stones.
5. The Book of Customs (or something else from the Amazon list).
6. Seeds for herbs and flowers that will grow in window-boxes.
7. Scrunchies. (I'm growing my hair out.)
8. Piano-reduction scores of Handel or Mozart operas.
9. Gardenia-scented talc.
10. Write a story, poem or fic for me.
_ _ _
(*) (The vet is still trying to suss out the right dosage of thyroid med, given that it makes her kidneys act up. And she threw up at least four times yesterday, so I'm to pick up something for the nausea later today. She didn't feel like coming downstairs yesterday, so I spent my evening up in the bedroom with her, reading (Marguerite de Angeli's Butter at the Old Price) and napping (and then headed back downstairs to fuss with poems and surf through fics (like "A Soft Spot for Lost Causes") until 4:30 a.m.)).
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