The Wishing Meme. It goes to 11.
Nov. 22nd, 2004 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiStep 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'm sort of mentally tweaking the purpose of the list - it's for Hanukah & for my birthday, which is in mid-January, and it's for all of 2005.
1. A healthy baby this Spring
2. A speaker-thingy for my iPod - you know, the kind that charges it while it plays through the speakers
3. A new Asst. Secretary for Membership for FictionAlley - anyone with nonprofit-organizational experience is asked to email me, or the help desk (help@fictionalley.org).
4. Someone with grant-application experience. Same contact method.
5. Someone with scholarship-setup-and-awarding-experience. Same contact method. See a pattern?
6. Any live Edie Reader, Roddy Frame (acoustic), Hue & Cry or recent Finn Bros mp3s or CDs. Or a recording of Wet Wet Wet's Marti Pellow as Billy Flynn in Chicago from London - hey, I'm a child of the 80s! Ideally sent via YouSendIt
7. Those really cool Oakley sunglasses that are also an mp3 player
8. Peace, love and understanding
9. Entires into FictionAlley's upcoming "Time Flies" New Year's Challenge. Watch this space for details. :)
10. A secular "Happy Holidays" icon which has a lot of pink fairy lights on it, and/or assistence with creating my own mood theme.
11. Cards! Postcards! Letters! Sketches! Ficlets! At my new PO Box!
I've been looking through wish lists to see if anyone is requesting any songs that I have, but I haven't seen any so far. Sigh, not enough Finn Bros fans in the fandom? ;)
- 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'm sort of mentally tweaking the purpose of the list - it's for Hanukah & for my birthday, which is in mid-January, and it's for all of 2005.
1. A healthy baby this Spring
2. A speaker-thingy for my iPod - you know, the kind that charges it while it plays through the speakers
3. A new Asst. Secretary for Membership for FictionAlley - anyone with nonprofit-organizational experience is asked to email me, or the help desk (help@fictionalley.org).
4. Someone with grant-application experience. Same contact method.
5. Someone with scholarship-setup-and-awarding-experience. Same contact method. See a pattern?
6. Any live Edie Reader, Roddy Frame (acoustic), Hue & Cry or recent Finn Bros mp3s or CDs. Or a recording of Wet Wet Wet's Marti Pellow as Billy Flynn in Chicago from London - hey, I'm a child of the 80s! Ideally sent via YouSendIt
7. Those really cool Oakley sunglasses that are also an mp3 player
8. Peace, love and understanding
9. Entires into FictionAlley's upcoming "Time Flies" New Year's Challenge. Watch this space for details. :)
10. A secular "Happy Holidays" icon which has a lot of pink fairy lights on it, and/or assistence with creating my own mood theme.
11. Cards! Postcards! Letters! Sketches! Ficlets! At my new PO Box!
PO Box 402213, Miami Beach, FL 33140
I've been looking through wish lists to see if anyone is requesting any songs that I have, but I haven't seen any so far. Sigh, not enough Finn Bros fans in the fandom? ;)
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Date: 2004-11-22 05:06 pm (UTC)I'm glad you got a PO Box. I think it will simplify things for you.
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Date: 2004-11-22 06:03 pm (UTC)finn bros
Date: 2004-11-22 07:14 pm (UTC)I've had both items (new album and KFOG concert) available from the iTunes store in my basket for ages -- I've just been too poor to purchase them!
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Date: 2004-11-22 07:18 pm (UTC)tackypretty glittery card from me.(no subject)
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