That holiday meme that's been going around ...

[apocalypsos]

I like this. It's cute. *g*

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.

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1. Anything off my Amazon.com wishlist.

2. A Hogwarts-esque scarf for any house, although I'm partial to Slytherin or Gryffindor simply for the colors.

3. Donate to Africare or the American Cancer Society or something.

4. Clothes. God, any clothes. I love clothes. (EDIT: Damn, I should have added my sizes yesterday. I'm a medium in tops and clingy T-shirts, a large in baggy T-shirts and hoodies, a 6/7 in pants and skirts, and God forbid anybody wants to buy me shoes, I'm a size seven. My style is pretty much half Old Navy/American Eagle Outfitters and half Hot Topic/Spencer's Gifts, so there's your starting point. :))

5. Another tattoo.

6. The kind of fucked-up fics I like. Comedy-drama disaster crossovers with the weirdest, sexiest pairings. (Also, Charlie/Claire PWP is always welcome, and is in fact encouraged with a great big smile and some embarrassingly childish giggling and even a little toddler-esque bouncing around the room.)

7. Do something really nice for somebody else who isn't me and tell me about it. Hell, do something nice for a total stranger. People everywhere have been fighting waaaaaay too much lately (see: the election, two sports brawls in as many days) and I don't need anything as much as I'd just like to see more people being nice to one another. (Yes, I can be this annoyingly saccharine sometimes. Sue me. ;p)

8. A drawing of any of my original story characters. I'd kill right now to have those art-school-level drawing abilities everybody and their brother seemed to have on Buffy and Angel specifically to draw Sean, Toby, Tig, or Scarlett.

9. Go to somebody else's list and do something for them. Not that I'm complaining, it's just that there are eight hundred people reading this journal right now and if only one person did any of these things for me, that would be waaaaay more than I would ever expect. So, you know, share the love. *g*

10. Mail. I love mail, especially stuff from outside the U.S. Send me a letter or something. Send me music I wouldn't normally hear from other countries, or little tchotchkes I can show off and say, "See this? It came from (foreign land I really want to visit)!"

Hee. I just read over the list, and I think I watched way too much of the Hallmark Channel today. And since it's a wish list, I was going to put "six-pack abs" on there, but I'm going to have to get those myself if I want 'em. :)

If you want to send me something, my email is in my userinfo, but give me a week or so because I've been meaning to get a post office box forever and a day for stuff like this, and this is the perfect opportunity for me to go get one.

See, now you guys have to do wishlists, because I'm feeling all generous and in the holiday spirit. (I'm not sure I'll be able to afford to buy too many things for people, but if something strikes my fancy, I might. And I'm definitely available for fic, mail, and the occasional icon. :))

Comments

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

i'm in australia at the moment (though i'm usually in the uk) - is there anything you would like from either of these countries? uk might be a bit tricky seeing as i won't be back there for six months.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Anything interesting I wouldn't possibly get in the US would be cool.

[ingole.livejournal.com]

Send her Tim Tams and Cherry Ripes.

[doortje.livejournal.com]

I can send you something from Holland. Is there anything special you would like from here?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Anything interesting I probably couldn't get in the US.

[dorei.livejournal.com]

Here's your #7. I paid my friend's car payment this month so her truck wouldn't be repo'd.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That's so cool. :)

[conuly]

Might be able to get you a scarf.

[ilanalynn.livejournal.com]

I could get you something from Germany pretty easily. :)

[divabat.livejournal.com]

Will send you mail from Malaysia! :D

[divabat.livejournal.com]

btw.

(a) I've donated to the Malaysian AIDS Council and Amnesty International this year :D

(b) I'm making a master list of all the Wishlists on my other journal, plotbunnymuse. The entry is at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/plotbunnymuse/706.html

I was wondering if you'd like to contribute your wishlist to this list? Do let me know. Thanks :D

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Sure, go ahead and put mine up there. :)

[mystic-savage.livejournal.com]

#3. Have given some money to the organizations I mentioned on my November 3rd post, among them: Human Rights Watch and the Red Cross.

[conuly]

You've forced me to make a wishlist at amazon. Darn you!

[vass]

I can send mail from Australia, and possibly something in a Really Tacky Souvenir.

[justitia.livejournal.com]

I can send you something from England.

I could also send you season 6 of Charmed, if you want it.

[bumponalog.livejournal.com]

If you get kazza - try downloading The Muttonbirds - who are a realyy excellent Kiwi group. I think you would enjoy Queens English.
I'll have to check out those characters now I guess...

X - Bump

[elfbystarlight.livejournal.com]

I can do post from England. Email me (lj email addy) when your postbox is set up.
This is fun :D

#7ish

[akacat]

Well, I did it last week so I didn't do it specifically for you, but...

Remember the pet shelter that was robbed? I sent them $100.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Clothes. God, any clothes. I love clothes.

Size?

And address? Cause they'll be no mail without the mailbox.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm a medium in tops, except with T-shirts and hoodies that I usually buy in large, and a 6/7 in pants and skirts. (Damn, I should have added that to the post.)

I'll email the address. And thanks. :)

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

O.o I'm thinking of sending you clothes, too, and you're the exact same size as me.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Mind if I send you snarky T-shirts?

I saw one that made me think of you:

The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is on the list.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Well, give me a good description of one of your characters and I'll see what I can do. Not that I'm that good or anything (see my previous efforts here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/opportunemoment/52763.html#cutid1) but I like drawing, so...

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I'd echo that. The good description and I'll see what I can do part, that is. I can't promise much, but I'll do my best...

(And I'd send it from Germany, too. Not that Germany's overly interesting, but oh well...)

[juleskicks.livejournal.com]

Could totally make you a scarf, as my Mum's been teaching me to knit.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Send me your address and I'll send you some written words.

I think you might be able to help me with the fourth thing on my list.

[black-tulips.livejournal.com]

I could send you something from Sweden if you want to? Email me with your address if you're interested :)

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Cool idea, TP....

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Technically, it's not my idea, but you so have to do it, too. Hint, hint. :)

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah yeah....already posted.... :P

[thedivinegoat.livejournal.com]

Send me your address thedivinegoat at gmail dot com and I'll sent you something local.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

Send your address to Maenad33@yahoo dot com

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

I'll make sure to get you some fun music, in mix-disc form. It won't be from another country, but it will be esoteric.

Get an address to tabula-rasa@NOSPAMDAMMITverizon.net.

[kaytethinks.livejournal.com]

My #7: I registered at Books for Soldiers (http://www.booksforsoldiers.com/forum/index.php) to get addresses, and wrote christmas cards to one person in each of the Navy, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, and one person deployed in Iraq.

The only reason I'm telling you this is that like 800 or more people read your journal, I thought if you posted the link tons more people would do the same.

[fmith.livejournal.com]

Number seven-- I bought the girl some paid LJ time. I've done number nine a few times, and I'll do number ten if I can get an address. I travel a lot, and maybe I've got something I can send you. Are photographs okay? Email me: michel.et.patricia[at]gmail.com.

[piagorgeous.livejournal.com]

I'm from the Philippines, and I'll be sending something for you from here. Any requests? Address please? piagorgeous@hellokitty.com

# 7

[aunt-reexy.livejournal.com]

During a heat wave about a month ago, I gave an old lady a ride home from the grocery store in my nicely air-conditioned car so she wouldn't have to walk home in the heat.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I'm working on number 9 right now.
I've already hit up a couple of lists with wish granting.
(That's how I came here in the first place.)

[roga.livejournal.com]

Hi!
I can send you something from Israel, if you like. Anything from a postcard to modern Hebrew rock, take your pic :-)

# 7

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I just gave 75 lbs of dog food/cat food and another 25 lbs of kitty litter to my local animal shelter; as well as donating to two other shelters who have special needs puppies and kitties. And I'm getting ready to donate a stack o' books to the local library for their book sale.

[velvetandlace.livejournal.com]

Hi, random person here offering mail from Australia! Email me your address at the address in my userinfo and I'll be only too happy to oblige!

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Number 9---working on it.

Number 7---also working on it (I'm planning on buying my brother an xBox for Christmas, since he's wanted one forever and he did so well on his quiz show)

I shall also send you mail, if you want. Even though I live in the US.

[nutters83.livejournal.com]

I'm a total stranger, lol. But I could send you Spanish music with yousendit, if you like. I'd need your email address, though.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's pigwidgeon_the_unholy @ yahoo.com. Thanks. :)

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I'm mostly dealing in postcards. I can send you one that you'll like which has English spelling on, if you want :). Send your address on over to to an_tredhek@hotmail.com...

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Hello, total stranger here, fulfilling #7 and #9. I've been wandering around LJ, elfing random wish lists. Also, for Thanksgiving, my roomies and I invited over two international students who had nowhere else to go, and one girl who gets along horribly with her family, just to stuff them all to the gills with turkey and home-cooked food, then spend a fun evening with friends.

Cheers!

[zeelee-penguin.livejournal.com]

Troll, send me your address at cleamajor @ yahoo.com and I can totally do something from that list.

Oh, and my own wishlist is here, so. Yeah. *cough*

clothes

[rippersgirl06.livejournal.com]

Do you mind used clothes? I'm trying to clean out my stuff, so if you don't mind used (they are washed & clean though, don't worry, lol) send your addy to me at rippersbooklover @ hotmail . com.