Christmas Wish List: The Meme
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feliciakwNot many of my f-list have posted the meme his year, but there are a few things that have been on my mind, either recently or for a while.
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 custom-made 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 so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
Surf around your friendslist (or friends' 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.
My Wish List
1. Fundage for the adoption of our baby.*
2. The opportunity to meet (and converse with, however briefly) Jensen Ackles.
4. Another year on LJ.
5. Icons - Jensen Ackles, Dean Winchester, Supernatural, Addams Family (TV show, musical, or original Charles Addams cartoons), Edward Gorey, Peanuts, Muppets, lovely stock photos . . . Icons for any emotion or mood, but most especially happiness, friendship, family, surprise, puzzlement, bzuh, eating, cooking/baking, etc.
6. Izhi's "visions!Dean" fic.
6b. Any visions!Dean fic.
7. To know and feel (because knowing and feeling are not the same thing) that I'm useful and purposeful because I am who I am.
8. - 10. For right now, the above eight are all that I'm really feeling, or can think of. Things like "To be a better wife and friend," and "To learn to love better and more completely" are more resolutions than wishes, things that I need to work on myself, things that others can't really give me outside of Christ working on me and in me.
* If this is something you feel moved to do, please DM me. Every little bit will be set aside for this purpose. It would be a gift not only to me, but to my husband as well. And the baby, and the birth parents who choose us.
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 custom-made 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 so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
Surf around your friendslist (or friends' 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.
My Wish List
1. Fundage for the adoption of our baby.*
2. The opportunity to meet (and converse with, however briefly) Jensen Ackles.
4. Another year on LJ.
5. Icons - Jensen Ackles, Dean Winchester, Supernatural, Addams Family (TV show, musical, or original Charles Addams cartoons), Edward Gorey, Peanuts, Muppets, lovely stock photos . . . Icons for any emotion or mood, but most especially happiness, friendship, family, surprise, puzzlement, bzuh, eating, cooking/baking, etc.
6. Izhi's "visions!Dean" fic.
6b. Any visions!Dean fic.
7. To know and feel (because knowing and feeling are not the same thing) that I'm useful and purposeful because I am who I am.
8. - 10. For right now, the above eight are all that I'm really feeling, or can think of. Things like "To be a better wife and friend," and "To learn to love better and more completely" are more resolutions than wishes, things that I need to work on myself, things that others can't really give me outside of Christ working on me and in me.
* If this is something you feel moved to do, please DM me. Every little bit will be set aside for this purpose. It would be a gift not only to me, but to my husband as well. And the baby, and the birth parents who choose us.
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Date: 2011-12-04 06:12 pm (UTC)