Holiday Meme
Step One
Make a post (public, friends locked, 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 small 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 , 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 friends list (or friends of friends, 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.
Mi Lyst:
One: Nothing manufactured by non-you, and nothing purchased for more than 33¢. This can be suspended at will if it cramps one's style.
Chhiyaasuth: Some figgy pudding, unless that tastes gross.
Gume ugu ni ugu: A haircut.
Vuk lajuneb xchan-vinik: To wake up and be able to see.
Arwanpe ikasma wanpe etu hotnep: "I want more life, fucker!" and/and more time.
Yima yohtt: A pony with two front teeth. Except with the not really.
Chicuacë: To marry off all the happily peeps so I can go live alone and sad in a shack at the foot of the Bitterroot Mountains. And/or to have lasting deep filling meeting of mindbeings and a foreverhome, but that's just crazy talk.
Roa amby valopolo: Million$ so as to enable the enablements (and provide dowry for above).
Merindilogun: The end of spam (sans end of humanity).
Pedwar ar bymtheg a thrigain: Ineffable numinous crepuscular-transcending bioluminescent happiness. And ability to answer my emails and write my nieces and not measure out my life with tea spoons.
Actually Christmas timings can make a me sad currently, and i'm maybe not doing much gifting to otherlings. Except I just bought them there fancy photocard things for the fancy printer thing so I probably should fancy up some cards and make at least a minimal showing.