Wishing only wounds the heart

[geebs]

Thought this was a fun little meme going around (ganked from brandywine421:

The Ten Things Christmas Wishlist Meme:


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 fun ("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 possible things, 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 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. Once a wish has been granted, it will be crossed off my list.

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.

Here's mine:

1) a .45, preferably a Springfield Armory XD-45 or a Heckler & Koch HK45C.

2) a new car, preferably a Dodge Challenger SRT8 or a Nissan GT-R or a Cadillac CTS-V. (Hey, it said you could wish big!)

3) a new laptop

4) a flatscreen TV (not like a big-ass one, something in the 19 to 26 inch range)

5) a PS3 and/or an Xbox 360

6) a threesome with a hottie asian chick with an English or Australian accent and a cute short haired blond with green eyes of similar heights, in the 5'3" to 5'8" range (because I always have to ask for that. And I know, could I be more specific?!)

7) a meet-cute with my soulmate (might as well ask for something lame and corny)

8) a gphone (yeah, I just got a sidekick LX a few months ago. So I wouldn't buy one for myself, but I wouldn't turn down a gphone I didn't have to pay for. And at least with it I wouldn't have to change service providers)

9) tickets to Spring Awakening or Wicked

10) The "perfect" burger, with a side of nachos.

Yeah, kinda selfish, since I only wished for things for myself. I'm a jerk that way.

Comments

[turdburgler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, kinda selfish, since I only wished for things for myself. I'm a jerk that way.

That's what it's supposed to be, silly. Only lying bastards wish for lame stuff like "world peace" and "no more hungry mouths!" (besides, no one in the world has the power to grant either of those wishes so the idea of wishing for stuff like that is specious anyway)

So what was the "perfect burger" anyway? meat, cheese, bacon, egg, and a bunch of veggies and sauces?

[geebs.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but I will once I taste it! While the egg on the burger gets points for the unhealthiness factor, it isn't all that great. Definitely krispy kreme donuts as buns. Two patties, at least two slices of cheese, and four strips of bacon. Perhaps blackned bleu like they do at the vortex (i.e., actual bleu cheese, not a squirt of bleu cheese dressing like the do at Buffalo Wild Wings) or chili. But not both. Or mebbe both. Ida know. I prolly just grossed everyone out with that.