Wish list meme

[rivkat]

Step One

- Make a post to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all.

- 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, 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.

I wish for:
1. Good health for family & Miss Kitty. She’s only got one fang left, you know.

2. For my next article: Fast, early acceptance into an Ivy League school -- and please let it be Harvard. Amen. (Bonus points for all of you who don’t need to follow the link to place the quote.)

3. Mariebelle hot chocolate.

4. Chocolate from Richart.

5. A better comic sequence for my Lois & Clark cliché challenge story. Failing that, a beta reader who can make suggestions for comic mayhem.

6. A good idea for my Yuletide story.

7. A device to stop time so I can write 5 & 6, and also CJ Andre’s Sex Secrets of the Kryptonians story.

8. Joining Sisabet, a Christmas Carol story with Clark as Scrooge.

9. Placebo to tour the US and give a concert near here that I can attend.

10. And of course, this wacky list of things.

Bonus 11: Advice on what brand of cheap LCD screen I could buy to use with my Mac as an extra screen for vidding.

Comments

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Ah, the wonders of Richart. Are they still in the SONY building?

A long, long time ago, I took a packet of carmel-filled chocolates and a hot chocolate with a bit of Bailey's mixed to see Swingers on a cold January day. My, was that a nice afternoon.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

They were when I left NY. I love the $5 bags of 9 little chocolates they sell -- not particularly pretty, but just as tasty.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

8. Joining Sisabet, a Christmas Carol story with Clark as Scrooge.

Wouldn't it be great? And he would be so resistant to recognizing that it was not a trick - that he really needed to take stock and reassess his life, because that is just Clark. He is the hero, therefore his "Christmas Carol" is just a trick and the writer would really have to do something *big* to make him realize that this is real.

In retrospect, the three ghosts that visited Mr. Carlson at WKRP had it easy.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're so right about that -- getting through Clark's self-satisfaction would be a true Good Work, serving all humanity thereby. Clark would suspect Lex, and then he'd suspect Braniac, and then he'd suspect Bruce, and it wouldn't be until he saw something little, some hitch in Lex's step when he turned away in the future, that he realized that it wasn't a trick.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Yes. You understand perfectly. You should write this as a christmas gift to, um... us.

::nods convincingly::

[chasethecat.livejournal.com]

*joins in the nodding* It really does need to be written. And done justice! *giggles*

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I bought Mariebelle for the packaging (I'm an ephemera slut) and then almost died of chocolate-lust once I tasted what was within that pretty, pretty tin. Guh. I got it in an after-Xmas sale at Anthropologie, so it even approached affordability on my tiny budget. ;)

5. A better comic sequence for my Lois & Clark cliché challenge story. Failing that, a beta reader who can make suggestions for comic mayhem.

I can do it for you, or at least the beta part. I write comedy (I've written it for DS, Blake's 7, and various other fandoms) and am always happy to give suggestions. Send it on to me at telzeyamberdon (at) hotmail.com if you haven't lured in another beta you are happy with yet.

I'm trying to fulfill as many Xmas wishes as I can! At least one every time I see a list!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Telzey, hunh? I loved those books. I haven't reread them in years, though, in fear of what I'd find.

I may well take you up on your kind offer, at least once I get the story transferred from paper to computer. It's about half written, and needs to be done soon to meet the challenge deadline.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

A good idea for my Yuletide story.

Assuming I'm not your person (and your not replying will not make me think that's the case), email me at amilynh at comcast dot net and we can see if you have a fandom I know; I can try to help you brainstorm ideas if you still need help. Alternately, I'm OFTEN on AIM/YIM as AmilynH.