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ysobelStep One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. 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 Big Bird/LA Chicken 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/DW, so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your flist (or network page, 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 list, in no particular order:
1) Donations to IFOPA. FOP has redefined "rare" for me (the other day on some news show they were talking about someone with a rare kind of bone cancer ... and the number they gave for those diagnosed annually in the US was ten times the number of known FOP cases in the US), and it doesn't get a lot of press the way heart disease and lung cancer and breast cancer do, but the research these people are doing is really important to me.
If you would like to donate in my name (er, it would still be credited to you, but listed as an "In Honor Of ___" instead of a general donation), please use my real name rather than isa/ysa.
B) Donations of time or money to a local charity, particularly ones relating to animal rescue/care/adoption or domestic violence.
III) Remixing of -- or (for the more artistically inclined) illustrations for -- any of my stories. (Art can also apply to OCs; poke me and I can babble.)
fork) Fill my fandom stocking?
5) An amazon kindle (or similar sort of e-reader). If nothing else, it will allow me to read what I want in bed without risking good-natured mockery from my nighttime aide when "what I want" turns out to be paranormal erotica or something. *grin*
F) An ittle bitty computer, for writing.
VII) A netflix account.
knife) A roommate. Preferably, one who is awesome, smart, funny, crazy in good ways but not in bad, not too extroverted, preferably fannish, loves cooking and planning meals, and won't leave for a really long time.
9) A service dog. One that's, you know, trained, and stuff.
J) A transporter, so I can visit all the awesome people I know out there. <3 (Or, conversely, if you happen to end up in visiting distance of where I live, and don't mind doing an extra side trip to swing by and say hi, that would work too.)
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. 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 Big Bird/LA Chicken 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/DW, so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your flist (or network page, 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 list, in no particular order:
1) Donations to IFOPA. FOP has redefined "rare" for me (the other day on some news show they were talking about someone with a rare kind of bone cancer ... and the number they gave for those diagnosed annually in the US was ten times the number of known FOP cases in the US), and it doesn't get a lot of press the way heart disease and lung cancer and breast cancer do, but the research these people are doing is really important to me.
If you would like to donate in my name (er, it would still be credited to you, but listed as an "In Honor Of ___" instead of a general donation), please use my real name rather than isa/ysa.
B) Donations of time or money to a local charity, particularly ones relating to animal rescue/care/adoption or domestic violence.
III) Remixing of -- or (for the more artistically inclined) illustrations for -- any of my stories. (Art can also apply to OCs; poke me and I can babble.)
fork) Fill my fandom stocking?
5) An amazon kindle (or similar sort of e-reader). If nothing else, it will allow me to read what I want in bed without risking good-natured mockery from my nighttime aide when "what I want" turns out to be paranormal erotica or something. *grin*
F) An ittle bitty computer, for writing.
VII) A netflix account.
knife) A roommate. Preferably, one who is awesome, smart, funny, crazy in good ways but not in bad, not too extroverted, preferably fannish, loves cooking and planning meals, and won't leave for a really long time.
9) A service dog. One that's, you know, trained, and stuff.
J) A transporter, so I can visit all the awesome people I know out there. <3 (Or, conversely, if you happen to end up in visiting distance of where I live, and don't mind doing an extra side trip to swing by and say hi, that would work too.)