Wishlist

[resonant]

It's the time of year when I get to tell people what I want! I love doing that!



1. Foreign sugar. It's a pity to develop a taste for sweets you can't get at home! I'm looking for a few specific things, but I'd love to try just about anything, as long as it isn't mint or coconut.

- from Canada, Dare Maple Leaf Cookies. Also, there's this soft molasses cookie in the shape of a bear claw that I can't remember the name of. It comes in individual orange foil packets inside a cardboard box.

- from Australia, Tim Tams!

- Dark chocolate Tobler bars. I have no idea where they're made, but you can't get them here.

2. Music.

- A good choral performance of the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "O Sanctissima"
- A good performance of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella." English, French, I'm not picky.
- A carol called "Corpus Christi Carol," but not the Jeff Buckley one. It begins "The hen flew east and the hen flew west," and it was played on "Thistle and Shamrock" a long time ago.
- Carly and Lucy Simon doing "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
- Alan Parsons Project, "Lie Down With Dogs"
- Andy Kim, "Rock Me Gently" (shut up)
- Graham Parker, "Wake Up Next To You"
- That samba called "The Duck"
- "Hazel's Hips," any good version
- Jimmy Buffet, "Volcano," "Fins," "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
- Van Morrison, "Moondance"
- Cyndi Lauper, "True Colors"
- The Leonard Cohen version of "Hallelujah"
- A good choral performance of Mozart's "Ave Verum"
- A nice traditional version of "Tam Lin." (I've already got the Steeleye Span version, and I don't like the Fairport Convention version.)
- The Lefte Banke: "Walk Away, Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina"

edited to add: I'm running iTunes on a Mac, which means I can read .mp3, .m4a, and .aiff files, but not .wma files. And I can unpack .zip files but not .rar files, for some reason. OK, never mind, clearly people with sense bother to do a google search for utilities to solve a problem like this ...

3. A line to some contract/freelance editing, proofreading, or nonfiction writing work (particularly how-to writing).

4. Some tech-savvy person to digitize some LPs and cassette tapes for me.

5. Icons. I'd particularly like one that says "We wantss it, preciouss," with any art you choose. And any and all SGA icons.

6. For someone to extend my extra-icon subscription.

7. A paperback book you read and enjoyed and are now ready to pass on.

8. Music you think I'd like, to download or on CD. Or, hey, if you want to spend money, a gift certificate to iTunes or some other buy-by-the-song source would be lovely.

9. Cotton socks.

10. ... um, for someone to restore my enthusiasm for Snapefic, so that I can finish some of these damned unfinished stories?

Contact me at resonant8(at)att(dot)net if you need my address, as long as you promise you're not Alberto Gonzales or an axe-murderer with a really large travel budget.


Instructions:

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.

Spread the word by posting on jaxie926's LJ here, adding your list to the del.icio.us listing here, or using the fandomwishlist community.

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[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

They have Dare maple Leaf cookies in my supermarket. I'm addicted. But I'm on Long Island, not in Canada. yet.