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I wasn’t going to get a flu shot this year, mostly because I am a giant pussy and the memory of last year’s post-shot achy upper arm (what? IT HURT LIKE HELL DAMMIT) still lingers, but at my last OB appointment the friendly nurse drawing blood for a test asked if I wanted to go ahead and get the (mercury-free) injection at the same time and I couldn’t think of a good non-wimpy reason to say no, thanks anyway, I’d rather do something less painful to my arm, like whack it fifty-seven thousand times with a meat tenderizer.
For whatever reason this shot didn’t hurt at all afterwards, and I instantly felt both virtuous and impervious to disease. Foolishly, I assumed that one injection would have the power to keep me snot-free throughout the long winter months, while all around me people were felled in droves, hacking and sneezing and futilely gnawing at zinc lozenges.
This is why I am totally pissed off that I’ve had the same damn cold for DAYS AND DAYS ON END over here, thanks to Typhoid Riley. I got the shot! I’m supposed to be the picture of health, not a consumptive shadow-eyed mucus machine trailing disgusting little piles of kleenex wherever I go. I CALL BULLSHIT.
I will also note that my son and husband, neither of whom received a flu shot, have merrily bounced back from this shared virus and I—the only one fortified by anti-flu fairy dust—am the one that still sounds like a phlegmatic elephant seal.
(BULLSHIT.)
Adding to my general feeling of goopiness and malaise is the weather, which has turned from snow (pretty!) to a nonstop aggressive downpouring of rain (sucky!). I mean, it’s not like rain is exactly an anomaly here in the Northwest, but this is a deluge of the build-the-arks variety—on each of my (eight thousand) lumbering trips to the bathroom last night I could hear water cascading from the skies and smashing into our house. Our rain chain that hangs outside the bedroom window has been jangling frantically, totally overloaded and tinkling a desperate little oh dear oh dear chime.
So while I ponder my cold-symptom-relief choices (Mucinex, steamy shower, lustful piglike rooting in leftover Halloween candy stash) and the rain transforms Seattle into a traffic-snarled swampland, distract me from the dreariness, will you? What’s the one thing you would like most this holiday season, and I’m talking selfish materialism here so no “world peace” type answers allowed. If you could have any boxed-and-wrapped present this year, what would it be?
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Stuff I Like:
Eureka Enviro Floor Steamer.
Why did I not buy this YEARS ago? WHY? OH MY GOD MY LIFE IS FOREVER CHANGED.
Neutrogena Healthy Skin Clear Skin Cream.
Maaaajor difference in my skin since I started using this. I alternate with Pond's so my face doesn't get too dried out.
Magic Bullet.
I use this almost every single day to make a smoothie. Really a surprisingly awesome little kitchen tool.
Neutrogena Revitalizing Lip Balm.
Amazing lip balm that gives natural color and somehow makes your lips look more full.
Voluspa Candle.
Discovered via Jennie. These candles smell wonderful (at least the Goji/Orange scent does), and I love the pretty tin.
NARS Flamenco Lipstick.
Whoorl was right, this is the perfect red lipstick.
Boo rain! There was freezing rain here in Toronto yesterday so now the sidewalks are all slippy.
If I could have anything, it would probably be an external hard drive where I could backup all my stuff. That would be pretty sweet.
An iphone or a macbook. I’ve been lusting after the iphone for months now (ooh, shiny!). And my pc seems like it wants to die (ooh, bummer!). So either or. Ideally both.
Actually, ideally I would want a week or two on a nearly deserted tropical island. But that is difficult to wrap.
My engagement ring from my boyfriend. Which I think I actually AM going to get. :) I told him I wanted my mother’s engagement ring, which was sitting in my jewelry box, needing to be resized, cleaned, etc. It disappeared last week on the day he was going Christmas shopping, so…I think I’ll have it Christmas day.
Also, I want a KitchenAid mixer. And lots of money. :)
An iphone or a macbook. I’ve been lusting after the iphone for months now (ooh, shiny!). And my pc seems like it wants to die (ooh, bummer!). So either or. Ideally both.
Actually, ideally I would want a week or two on a nearly deserted tropical island. But that is difficult to wrap.
(I keep getting a “cannot find server” message. Sorry if this double posts. Damn dying PC)
Also, what Denise said about the Kitchen Aid mixer and lots of money.
Apparently I am indecisive. Or greedy.
I want one of the Flip cameras. One thing I miss about my point and shoot is the ability to capture video quickly. Also, a gift card to Victoria’s Secret because I would like a fancy bra but I can’t justify $60+ for one. That’s like 30 bucks a boob, way too rich for my bust.
I want a digital camera. Want want want! Oh and I want someone to tell me who is building the ark? Because the RAIN! First the snow and now the downpour. Someone out there in the local internets area must be building a nice, warm, DRY boat for me to live in when my house floats away? Please tell me your name. Thank you! Oh and did I mention I’d also like World Peace but you said that I couldn’t want that.
You have leftover Halloween candy?!?
Pregnancy = suppressed immune system. Otherwise, your body would reject the fetus as a foreign object.
I want a handyman at my beck and call. He does not even have to be boxed and wrapped!
I’ve got my eye on a Crumpler 6 million dollar bag..I recently got another lens for my camera and have outgrown my current bag. Everything else mentioned sounds pretty cool too. :)
This might be akin to “world peace” but what I DON’T want for Christmas…my 18 year old (hygenically challenged, loves to argue with you because he is always right) step son spending the week with us. Fun! Merry Christmas!
I guess I want a drama free week.
I would like my basement finished. It has seriously been in transition for almost two years. I would love to see some “lube” tube sitting around because that would mean someone was acutally doing SOMETHING! I am sick of having to put up a sheet in the bathroom to take a bath in the whirlpool tub and then getting out and stepping on the cold concrete sheetrock dust filled floor. Plus the atmosphere I get to look at while trying to relax is 2×4 framing, half sheetrocked this and that, and plumbing sticking out of the walls begging someone to please put a damn fixture on it already!
I want a GPS. The number of times this fall that it would have been helpful just isn’t funny. I have been stuck on two highways with accidents, it just the past month. When I was visiting my sister, I realised I no longer really know my way around the area I grew up. I know essentially how to get places but I no longer know the short cuts.
oooh, if I was wishing big I’d say “a car”– but public transporation is pretty good in Glasgow so I will go with what my heart really wants– a new camera body. The subassembly on my Rebel took a dump when I was shooting the Queen Elizabeth II (argh), so I glued the two mirrors together to get it to work again, only this means I don’t have auto-focus capability. It’s been a great learning experience yadda yadda, but I WANT the new Canon 40D :
I would really like a fuel belt. Yes, friends, a FUEL BELT. I am running my first marathon this spring and my entire list to Santa (oh, yes, I believe!) consists of various sweat-sucking, blister-preventing, super-hydrating running accoutrement.
I want the perfect art/ photography/ decorative pieces for my living room walls. I took me a year to decide on paint colors–now that that’s done I can only imagine how much longer my (new! pretty!) walls will remain bare, thanks entirely to my crippling self doubt. Santa, I want EFFORTLESS STYLE for Christmas.
A job that makes me happy and pays well and also a winning powerball ticket for a few hundred million bucks. I’d do good with it and share, don’t you fret.
I want the new Blade Runner 5-DVD box set and the new Twin Peaks DVD box set.
Although Seattle is known for the rain and all of that, people who live here know that our rain is generally not activity defeating. It is generally just a misty rain that messes up your hair.
This crap is awful. Completely activity defeating.
As for holiday wants, I want a better nonstick skillet and a new ipod nano.
Oh…I’m asking for Tiffany earrings from grandma. Fingers crossed!
Is “new job” a valid answer? Because that’s totally what I’d like. If not, then how about “big box of cash so I can quit my job”?
I would like a new lens and flash for my camera because as soon as my kid sees the red laser dot of doom indicating the flash is setting, she runs.
Oh and for this morning, nay, evening sickness to go away because I like food a lot, damnit, and puking is really cramping my style.
There are a million things I want that are way beyond Christmas-gift-level (need my house decorated, new tires for the car, etc.), but I think if I had to list something that’s kinda reasonable, probably a zoom lens for my D50.
I really want The Griddler from Cuisinart – it’s a panini press/griddle/electric grill that has removable plates you can put in the dishwasher for easy clean up. Am I an adult or what with that kind of feature totally turning me on?
My husband wants a digital camcorder (Panasonic some-model-or-other) so that he can record all the little details he can of the little one we have on the way. I wish I could get it for him, but I think this may have to wait unfortunately since we just spent all of our money on a chair and a long trip to my grandma’s funeral.
Ooh, Anne & Rumblelizard: ME TOO.
Can’t tell you what I want! Too busy googleing “rain chain”.
A subscription to cable with DVR. We’re trying to save money, so we only have the regular channels. I want TiVo!!!
A subscription to cable with DVR. We’re trying to save money, so we only have the regular channels. I want the Food Network with TiVo!!!
A wide angle lens for my camera! And a tuition waiver for my next quarter at the UW!
I agree, this rain, it sucketh.
Dyson. AMEN.
I would like Alton Brown’s collection of cook books, becauase that man has transformed my cooking and the way I look at food. I’m tired of checking them out from the library, and then re-checking them out, and then paying over due fees, and I love the library, but really I need my own copies.
Also, new winter boots. The kind that keep your feet toasty warm and comfortable on long winter walks through the woods
Either a digital camera or my own room. An office that is off-limits to all other (small) people in the house so that I can write and not dodge the finger prints on the computer screen. When I plug something in, dammit, it STAYS plugged in. In my room, there will be no ground-in oatios on the floor. No weird food blobs I can’t (and won’t) identify. I will be all alone!! Oh, and the walls will be sound proofed so any banging or “mine” fighting won’t be heard. La, la, la, I can’t HEAR you!!!
A quad processor, quad core (AMD) server with 4T of RAID5 storage and 16G of RAM. Or finish my office (with Server Room).
I already got my present early that I wanted, my brother bought it for me. I wanted an MP3 player. Yup, I’m the only person on the face of this earth that didn’t have one yet. But aha! I do now :)
But for an unrealistic gift that I’d like to receive from my super rich step grandmother? The $900 dollars that is due in January for tuition….
An iBook. Or about $3,000 to completely replace my wardrobe with a stylish, yet sensible one. Including socks and underwear. Holla! Oh, also a basement with a floor and painted walls (as opposed to the dungeon look mine is sporting at the moment).
I would like a new key ring with the following keys:
1. Keys to a brand new BMW x5
2. A new House with a bedroom for a baby!
That’s a lot to ask for – but the keyring could be wrapped and tied up with a pretty bow.
Rain chain? I assume this is something like a wind chime but for rain…
Roomba!!!
I want an endless spree at sephora. But why, I don’t go anywhere?
I just fell in love with fleece vests from eddie bauer and I would like to have a few more. I have a feeling I will be wearing this one out.
Also? My husband wants a huge, dumb flatscreen even though he already has one, so I would like the means to give him a big smile on Christmas morning. I don’t think that one is about to happen though.
Hope you feel better soon girl, sorry you are full-o-snot…
Torsten asked what I wanted (within the budget that we set for ourselves) and I told him a pretty, colorless (i.e. metal and MAYBE some small diamonds) necklace that I could wear every day and not have to worry about matching to my outfit. So he started browsing online and then called me over to look at two necklaces that he thought fit the bill. One had purple stones and the other blue.
Luckily, I had your recommendation from one of your other sites about Red Envelope, so I went on there and showed him a necklace they had that was more along the lines of what I was thinking. So hopefully now he’s got a more accurate idea.
Anything from titlenine.com
I have come THISCLOSE to baring my jiggly butt at several people while jogging in the last few weeks. My old workout clothes are too big (and also 15 years old and from WalMart) and I think I deserve better.
Of course, I don’t want to buy them MYSELF.
I want new floors to magically appear in my house without all of the sweaty butt cracked workers actually being in my house. I would love Kitchen Aid Mixer and numerous kitchen items that are expensive but I would not purchase for myself. Finally, I would like a whole new wardrobe that is in style and cute and covers my baby gut/big butt in a fashionable way ;)
I want a GPS thingy for my car. A nice one that talks and will be my friend and help me out when I’m lost. Which is always.
Oooh! And new carpeting.
Yup, pregnancy = 9 month vacation for your immune system. Your germ-fighting cells are flipping through Vogue and examining their nails as cold viruses parade through.
However, flu shots only protect you against influenza. If you had influenza, you would know it. All the cases of actual influenza I’ve ever seen in my short career as a doc have showed up in the ER convinced that they were about to die. So, you know…you’re good on that front.
In terms of presents–there are any number of things I want, but they’re mostly intangible or unlikely, like a job after I finish residency this summer or a brownstone in Brooklyn for under a million dollars. I did tell my husband that I wanted some old-skool plaid flannel PJ’s and some slippers, and a package arrived about a week later, so I’m guessing that’s what I’ll get. (The fact that he lit up and said “HOT” when I mentioned the PJ’s may mean that they’ll be a little more fun than I anticipated).
New car.
It’s like M-n-M’s, I can’t stop at just one.
2)Leather chair, sofa table.
3)iBook.
4)Smaller ass.
5)Employed husband.
My flu shot hurt like a bastard (I’m not a wimp about needles, but for days afterward OUCH), and I too have been suffering with the cold of death for weeks. I don’t have a fetus growing, either. (I do think that the traveling over the holidays was a setback, though.) However, the flu shot only protects against CERTAIN strains of the virus – the ones they think you’ll get this year. I don’t think it applies to just plain old colds, either. Which is lame.
Present? I liked Dawn’s answer about a new job and/or a box of cash. I’d also go with a housekeeper, a giant pile of books, and a new computer desk.
Not only a shiny new Macbook Pro, but being able to take it out of the box and have all my things magically put on it. Because that’s the part where it’s all going to hell, I just know it. (Note that I am switching from PC to Mac, so this isn’t an Apple complaint… more like a me whine.)
I would love a ridiculously expensive handbag, because that’s something I wouldn’t buy for myself. Thanks to Whoorl I have been coveting a grey leather Orla Kiely from Anthropologie.
I’d also really like a piece of jewelry from my boyfriend…he has great taste and has given me some nice things in the past but I haven’t gotten any jewelry in a couple of years…
I realize I’m not following instructions, but more than anything in the world, I want a referral for our baby girl from Vietnam.
As of tomorrow, we’ll have been on the waiting list for 8 months (and in the process for well over a year), and I am desperate to see our daughter’s face.
I’ll take whatever material gifts I get, of course, but that’s the only thing I really want.
An iMac.
And 20 pounds of bacon.
I linked from Swistle, so no naked heiney methods of finding you here. But I want to play the I get anything game.
NEW CAR, NEW CAR, NEW CAR!!! ME, ME, ME!!!!
Seriously, I drive a 97 cavalier with 155,000 miles on it. Don’t I deserve it?
joining the chorus— iphone, for sure.
crossing crossing crossing my fingers (!)
Ok, so Lawyerish’s comment is AWESOME. And makes me look like a selfish ho when I write what I want, but…
I want a personal trainer. Tall, dark, and kickin’ ass. Someone to yell at me at ridiculously early hours of the morning and pull my butt back to its upright position. (Can you wrap that really, though? You can cut little holes in the wrapping paper for him to breathe if you want…)
Good luck to you Lawyerish! We’ll send good thoughts your way….
I would like for my baby to sleep better at night. But I would also like to find some way to put her first birthday in January on hold, maybe rewind the clock a little bit, or somehow just bottle up her baby-ness because I am suddenly so sad to see her becoming less baby and more toddler.
Oh, and an affordable house in the bay area.
A thingamabob that will allow me to listen to my iPod in my car. And new yoga clothes are always a plus.
1. Someone (preferably a hunky someone) to design my web site and blog for me so I won’t be admitted to the ER for dehydration after all the bitter, salty tears I shed while shrieking “WTF, CSS?”
2. a diamond-studded cashmere pony
Clothes. (sorry, boring)
I want a camera just like yours. My parents said I should just write “pony” on my Christmas list instead, as it was just as likely. Sigh.
What the heck is a “rain chain”? This must be a Seattle thing. We’re having serious snow here at the moment, and it’s very slippery outside. I fell crossing the street to get coffee.
What I would like for Christmas:
1) a Cuisinart Griddler,
2) a Kitchenaid stand mixer,
3) an iPhone (not available in Canada),
4) a laptop,
5) a new kitten (my old one is past warranty)
6) my own home, so I don’t have to live under the Elephant Twins upstairs anymore
Someone to pay off all my student loans.
What? You can’t wrap that?
Well. Then enough diamonds to hock to pay off my student loans. :)
Sorta-maybe-kinda realistic:
I’d like someone to wrestle up all the art prints and expensive portraits we’ve purchased and get them framed for me to hang on the bare walls of my new house.
Not-gonna-happen-but-I-can-dream: Two weeks in Tuscany. Sans squiddos.
Hope you are up to your full-snacking strength soon!
Wow this is a fun thread… and I now I feel extremely greedy because I want everything everyone else said!
And yes, good luck Lawyerish.
My one to add… not exactly boxed and wrappable, but I would really like to put a gas fireplace into our house.
My husband and I really want a wii. Of course, we failed to mention this to anyone who might purchase it for us until it was far too late to hold out any hope of getting one. Our second choice? An external hard drive. Holy crap are we ever geeky.
In my dream world, I’d like the next 2.5 years of law school tuition and fees (which is like $150k, eep). But if we’re talking physically tangible, I’d like a bicycle, and with it the ability to get over my complete terror of riding it in traffic. Or the Nikon 18-200 VR lens for my D80.
That our offer on the apartment of my dreams gets accepted!
First off, I’ve never heard of a rain chain before. I looked it up. They are wicked cool, which I assumed because you are always super hip and with it long before I even know there’s something to be hip about. So yay for you and your stylish gutter alternatives.
If I could have one thing this Christmas, it would be to not have to go serve time over the holidays, and maybe get a weekend alone, or even a few hours alone with my woman. but, I’m pretty sure I’ll be locked up by then, so if I were to get one thing that I could use when I get out, hmmm, I don’t know. I haven’t even thought about Christmas yet. A grizzly bear would be pretty cool, or a nile crocodile. I’ve always wanted throwing knives, and I don’t have a chainsaw. I could use a computer for sure, so I don’t have to do mortal combat with my brother to pry him off of Myspace which I foolishly introduced him to. I think a tattoo would be a pretty sweet x-mas gift. Maybe a tattoo of Dita Von Teese riding a mechanical bull that’s really a keg of beer, topless! Hell yeah. Nun chucks are cool, but I’d probably just break my own bones a lot. I don’t know what I want, I never really do, just something dangerous and manly. Like a trebuchet. Or a human skull. Or a trebuchet decorated with human skulls! Are you feeling me? That’s pretty awesome huh!
I would like a trip to Mexico and a nanny to bring with us. Because if I don’t bring the little one I’d worry and want to have some quiet time with my husband. Yeah, I’ll continue to dream. :)
Sorry about the rain. We could use some of that down here in Southern Calif.
What I really want for Christmas is a new flat panel plasma t.v. Ours is about a million years old and I’d like to upgrade to at least the same decade as everyone else. Are you listening Santa?
Honestly, all I want is for someone to buy our house. That’s all I want in the entire world, and I will forgo the holidays for the next five years ENTIRELY, if that one thing could happen within the next six months, at a reasonable price. That’s all I want. All. I. Want.
It’s so all I want that I can’t even fathom anything else I might want for even a second, seriously. All I want. HOUSEHOUSEHOUSEBUYMYHOUSE.
I grew up in the desert (technically a desert, it is San Diego anyway) so I’ve no idea what a rain chain is. What do I want for Christmas? A new laptop with ALL the bells a whistles. Either that or thin thighs.
More eggnog?
Let’s see, where do I begin?
A new phone, money to pay off my undergrad loans and upcoming grad school, a necklace from Tiffany.
OH! And an engagement ring! From my boyfriend!
OH! OH! And a dog!
Black Kitchenaid Artisan mixer with flame decals.
Fuck yea.
Hmm, if I could have anything I wanted it would have to be a brand new shiny Canon EOS 40D Digital Camera. (see I’m already drooling)
Oh and a magical pair of boots that are waterproof, yet warm and fuzzy inside so I can wear them sans socks when I have to run husband to work on mornings when he can’t ride his Vespa.
De-lurking to participate! Ah, wanton materialism! I want:
1) PLANET EARTH ON DVD. HOLY. SHIT.
2) To be featured on whoorl’s Hair Thursday.
Sorry about your cold! We’ve had them here in Central Illinois for over a month now. Everyone I know has had it and it lingers and lingers. Yay, Mucinex!
If we had the extra money to blow, I would dearly love a Clavinova – it’s an electronic full scale piano and they’re wonderful. I would sound so much better! heh heh
I want one of those microfiber hair towels. I have a dream that it might actually give me good hair … you know, having a SPECIAL towel just for my hair that is supposed to absorb four times more water than a regular towel alone.
Sheesh. I feel like a HUGE dork for writing that.
And, since I’m due to have a baby between right now and Christmas Day, I’m having dreams of seeing my toes again. But I guess you can’t wrap that, eh?
I heartily second whomever on the list said that they wanted their kid to sleep better at night. Seriously–I would be crazy happy if Owen would suddenly start sleeping by himself in his own bed for 5 hours at a stretch.
Also, I would really like a live-in housekeeper. This following a small person around only to pick up the same mess 8x in one day gets really really old.
I am lusting after a week in Jamaica man. I keep leaving brochures around hoping my husband will get the idea and think it came from his own head. This freezing rain, snow(pretty) has got to go atleast for a week.
I would even wait to go after Christmas so we don’t miss all the happy family stuff.
“Anything” is too big! It freezes my brain with possibility overload!
I mean, can I have a house, a new house? Or are we talking “under the tree”? In which case I want to trick the genie by asking for a massive box of jewels that I can cash in to buy other things.
Well, okay, within reason: what I want most is L’Artisan’s Les Epices de la Passion coffret (contains a 15 ml bottle each of three perfumes I love: Safran Troublant, Poivre Piquant, and Piment Brulant).
dorrie-
I got the Roomba for Thanksgiving and now I want the corresponding Scooba for Chriatmas. Yes, I plan to have all of my cleaning done by robots :)
A bookshelf, a pretty one that matches my living room. AND a computer. A new, lovely computer free of evil Microsoft software so that I can amp it up with Linux. Ahh, bliss.
I’m thinking about asking for a rain chain if I can figure out what the hell it is.
Gaaah. I’ve never gotten a flu shot and this is why! It hurts like a sonofabitch and my luck is such that I’d get sick soon after. Or hit by a bus, take your pick.
I’d say that I want an engagement ring boxed up with a ribbon (preferably Tiffany blue *cough*), but I’m supposed to just be happy where we are and that we’re together and plus I’d rather get my new camera for Christmas and THEN the box with ribbon (preferably Tiffany blue *cough*) another time when I’m not expecting anything. SCORE! Every day should be “Give Me a Gift Day.”
I’m just saying.
The only thing I really want is for my damn house to sell in Tucson so that I can buy the house of my dreams here in the NW, despite this crap falling out of the sky right now. What the hell is this shit?
The other thing I wanted was a North Face fleece jacket…and DH already got it for me since it has been so cold here and he didn’t want me to wait until Christmas. I haven’t taken it off in a week now. :-)
A gene that would enable me to consume as many peppermint mocha frappucinos with whip as I want without gaining a pound!
Mac Mini with 2G memory. (I have the Screen/Keyboard/Mouse, the mini-body alone will be fine, thanks!!)
Well, it’s not world peace, so maybe I can get away with it… I really want to meet my Dad who I’ve just been reunited with after 25 years (I’m 27), and my sister, who I just learned exists.
But if anyone wanted to buy me a 1997 4Runner with a big red bow on top, I wouldn’t object. ;o)
1) a pair of J. Crew ballet flats that are on sale for $99 but are still TOO MUCH for us. And 2) a baby, which obviously you can’t wrap up (well, obviously you shouldn’t wrap up) and isn’t really a material thing, but it’s what I want most. And I really do think it would be just the best Christmas gift. So if we’re wishing, I’d like both the knocked-uped-ness and the ballet flats, please.
This weather? This weather is horrible. However, this weather has a silver lining in its cloud (har har har): local news is just that much more awesome!
I’ll take a new imac with a 24 inch screen, please. And then a really, really nice new lens for my Nikon. And maybe a new flash. What? I’d just be wasting my gorgeous 24 inch screen if I didn’t have awesome new pictures to look at on it, wouldn’t I? If that’s too much to ask, I’ll settle for the complete series of the West Wing.
Dream gifts: hybrid car, TiVo or DVR, Roomba, new treadmill, family vacation on a tropical island
Reality: iPod (Stephanie Brown: No, you’re not the last person on earth without an MP3)
I’m ashamed to admit I still use VCRs. Did you see that’s plural? To accommodate my TV habit, I have 3 of them.
i want someone to pay my 2300 in tuition for me next semester. throwing in the extra 400 for books would be fantastic too. ;)
Oooh, rain chains look cool!
I’m not really following the rules here either, but…for once I’d like to be able to pick out The Perfect Gift for everyone. Oh, and I’d like to be able to afford to do that, too.
an iphone with a free year’s subscription to ATT would be cool, but if it’s really ANYthing, I’d want it to be enough cash that I don’t have to go back to work next year :(
I want, more than any other thing, a new digital camera, preferbley an SLR of 8+mp. Alas, my hubby and I set a limit A LOT lower than that ($500+) for each other this year. Still, perhaps Santa reads your blog and will know that I have been a very, very good girl this year. :)
Dreams: An engagement ring, a house, a new car, and a dog. Ah domesticity.
Reality: Books, iTunes gift card, an IOU for, say 3 months, of not doing dishes.
Oooh, I forgot. Maybe two weiners would be sweet! I mean, even if I wasn’t very manly I would be twice as manly as the other half manly dudes I chill with. Except all the guys I chill with are super manly, just like me, so I would be twice-super manly. Hah! JB couldn’t jump my fence then! Cause it would be thirty feet tall and made of Christmas cactus! Not feeling up to it hombre? No I didn’t think so! Hah! No prickly death for you? too bad you one-weinered half-man! Hah! Santa loves me more, because my wish list is waaaaaay cooler!
In the Christmas spirit, “Eat it!”
Challenge put out: Can any man out there (ie: JB) out wish-list me on Sundry’s blog? Can you wish for something more manly than I can? I say the wishing is an open forum until Christmas Eve. I dare you. (*ahem* JB)
And what the heck is JB short for? Johnny boy? Me thinks so. Hahahahaha! Man challenges rock!
My 2 1/2 year old has consistently asked for the following 3 things from Santa for about 2 months now:
-Chick Hicks (from the movie cars)
-a kitchen with his OWN oven
-a REAL baby….a girl one.
We’ve taken care of the first two items and Im really hoping that Santa is hearing the plea of this desperate 2 year old and that a baby is in our near future. Especially since we leave Japan in a year- I can’t be 38 weeks pregnant and trying to move back to the other side of the world!
I’d like a gift certificate for unlimited personal training sessions. And then next year, a new wardrobe for my new kick-ass body. Oh, and jewelry, of course.
A puffy sleeved nightie. They do not exist anymore, apparently. I have had a team of discerning shoppers on the look-out for the past few years, but without success… so I had to don the threadbare hunk-o-craaaap I wear to bed during our annual girls shopping spree. The situation is becoming critical.
As for the ‘exercise defeating’ weather, I couldn’t agree more about it’s general suckassedness. I haven’t done a thing since Thursday… first the snow and now the rains and unbelievably, after being -2 yesterday, it’s 14+ in Vancouver at this very moment! Craziness.
Hope you’re feeling fine soon Sundry!
Ugh. Feel Better. Colds have got to be the worst. Glad to know you are all okay and have not been swept away by mudslides or other random acts of nature!
I can’t say that I *want* a whole lot. My mother is another year cancer-free (SUCK IT, CANCER!) and my dad (who drives me batshit insane but I love him anyway) survived a bizarre, nearly fatal blood infection this summer. As long as my family is safe and sound and healthy, it’s all good in the hood.
BUT SINCE YOU ASKED…
Dreams:
- Tom Ford Black Orchid Perfume
- the ability to shoot a decent picture with my badass new camera (Canon EOS 40D)
- the two new Martha cookbooks
- Christmas Day without my mother-in-law or sack of shit brother-in-law
- a piece of that Sephora shopping spree action
- the infamous Box of Money to haul me out of the soul-crushing brokeness I currently find myself in
Reality:
- mama bought me THE Kitchen Aid mixer and it.is.heaven. Worth every penny.
- a card from the Walrus (mah husband) signed with his full name. Sigh.
1) Brett Favre
2) No, wait, Dane Cook
3) Ok, both if I’m being selfish
4) Alright seriously? That new panini maker thing that’s been featured on Oprah’s Favorite Things. Love.
5) Kitchenaid mixer
6) An iPod
7) Wait, an iPhone.
8) I could go on & on.
How big can the box be? I would like my (quite large) box to contain: a brand new iMac, Adobe CS3, and a scholarship to our community college so I can actually learn how to use those items.
Just to be one of those annoying people you must remember you got a ‘flu’ shot not a cold shot – now if they invented a cold shot I would pay good money for that. As for my gift wrapped pressie – I would greatly appreciate a small yet sturdy man who could pack my house for me and move it – prior to Christmas of course!!
I would like to own the house next to you so that I could play with Riley and the new baby on the weekends. I LOVE rain. See, built in baby sitter.
And lots and lots of money.
And a job I like, not love, that is asking to much, but just one I don’t hate with every fiber of my being.
I want to go home and see my family and friends for the holidays.
There are two parts to this, though. One, I ended up paying for the ticket myself, so it’s a gift to me AND to them that I’m even showing up instead of staying in Tokyo. Two, I’m going home because Tokyo sucks (I was crammed into a boxcar and fondled by people’s briefcases for an hour trying to get home – I even got farted on) more so than my love of my family drives me to return.
Plus, I might get an Xbox 360 :3
I would like a new easy-peasy point-n-shoot digital camera and a ticket to Rarotonga, please.
Pregnant
Um. I have a list:
1. A shiny, fun, high-paying new job for my recently laid-off husband, preferably before his severance package runs out.
2. A shiny, pretty new laptop for me, so I can do some freelance writing/editing without the guilt of doing so on my work laptop. This would be particularly helpful if #1, above, falls through.
3. As Anne said–EFFORTLESS STYLE. Somebody please come decorate my house! HGTV, Pottery Barn, Dooce–somebody!
4. A weekly cleaning service. Or biweekly (semi-monthly?). SOMETHING.
5. Somebody to haul all the crap out of our attic & take it to the dump.
I think that does it. My son has some Christmas wishes, but he’s easy–eBay came to the rescue there. (who knew the Little Einsteins were so HOT?? I didn’t)
Sorry you feel like crap–here’s wishing you a mucus-free Christmas (but hopefully you’ll get well LONG before then!).
You have leftover Halloween Candy?????????
I want a remote start for my car–a badass one I can turn on from the comforts of my own bed. (I live in Minnesota, where it’s MF freezing, and mornings often start with ice-scraping.)
I’d also like a personal organizer to come over and make all my stuff and my boyfriends stuff fit all neat and conveniently in our small-ish apartment.
I’d also like a cabin on the shores of Lake Superior–a large A-frame with a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the lake and woods, a wood-burning stove, a loft bedroom, a writing room, a cozy couch, and for a week of snow, fire, hot chocolate, good food, my sweetheart and lots of books.
Cold hard cash to pay off (1) obscene credit credit card debt and (2) even more obscene student loans. OH plus enough for a nice little trip, thank you very much.
We get to be completely materialistic? I can do that!
1) macbook
2) digital SLR camera
3) diamond earrings
4) painting I was looking at the other day that I will never be able to afford, ever
And good luck Lawyerish. I hope you get your referral soon.
Shiney, pretty, happy new dishes. And a new buddha. My others are all getting lonely.
I want shiny jewelry. ;-)
I hope you get feeling better!
I get the flu shot every year (pretty darn virtuous comment isn’t it?) and have a tip for not having any arm ache afterword. It only hurst when you tense your arm. That tenses the muscle and the shot will give it a bruise that will cause an ache
(sometimes painful). If you relax your arm (I don’t look at the shot and think calming thoughts) you won’t hurt at all. Unfortunately the flu shot doesn’t protect against colds and when you’re pregnant your mucus membranes are already swollen — that’s probably why you are having a hard time getting over your cold. : ( Feel better soon!!
I am with zoot. I want a dyson. :D
Sorry you’re sick. :(
Donna: UM YES PLZ. Double win!
Ann: Me too, but on Lake Michigan! With a private jet to get me there and back.
And yes, Dysons for everyone, dammit.
2 general things: 1) we had a LOT of Halloween candy to start with, it’s not like any of us have been practicing restraint and 2) I do actually know the flu shot works on influenza (specific strains thereof, right?) and not colds, but I don’t think that should stop me from bitching. Heh.
Someone to potty-train Lola. Gawd. And while they’re at it they can transition her from the crib to a real bed…yup, that would work. And magically convince her dad that yes, men can trim toddler nails, too. Too much?
OMG I want everything everyone else is wanting! A awesome digital camera, a kitchen aid mixer, a iphone, HUGE giftcards to any store, etc..etc..etc..!!
Well I’m late, but still want to play.
What I really want is someone other than me to finish taking the wallpaper paste off of our dining room walls, sand them, and paint them the color of my choice. Also, someone else to regrout the master bath shower.
Also in the realm of fantasy gifts: a Tesla, an iBook, radiant flooring, and a remodeled kitchen.
More realistic: a Wii system, the first season of Dexter, and guitar lessons
Man, I think I need to re-evaluate my neediness…
I’ve thought flu shots were crap since I read this article: http://www.gladwell.com/1997/1997_09_29_a_flu.htm
What I took away from it is that every year you’re getting a shot that protects against last year’s flu strain.
As for what I want…hmm. A new hammock would be nice, since I destroyed our other one with bleach, trying to get the mold off. Ew.
Oooh, fun to dream! I’d like Christian Bale, a housekeeper & a new coffeemaker. Perhaps Christian is willing to clean & make me coffee as well.
BTW, I have rain chains on my house. (We 1st saw them in Japan & loved the look) For those who don’t know, it’s a copper chain that would replace the downspout. Water flows down the chain & collects in a bowl. If someone’s (can’t remember who brought it up & too lazy to look back through) really considering them, make sure you anchor them on the bottom. Mine kept blowing off in high winds. They don’t work very well in torrential downpours, either.
I already voted once, but after reading the comments I also want what Donna wants:
… a job that I don’t hate with every fiber of my being.
Ahhh, that would be the BEST present. *sigh*
This entry was yet another reminder of how much I love your writing. Such awesome imagery. :) I especially loved “lustful piglike rooting in leftover Halloween candy stash”!
I want a damn electric blanket for Xmas. I’m freezing all the time! How great it would be to have a nice inviting soft thing that plugs in and gets toasty!
Being a knitter, I would want a credit card that someone else paid for that I could buy whatever yarn and notions I want and whenever I want.
A Nikon D40x. They no longer make the D70 and the D80 looks like too much bang for the buck for me. Thanks for all your advice on this, btw.
It’s so impressive that you still HAVE a leftover Halloween candy stash! Yeah. Mine is looooong gone.
I would like: my very own personal interior designer to make over my entire house, a maid, a digital SLR camera, a new wardrobe, and everything you could imagine from Sephora. And West Elm. And Sundance.
Hope you are feeling better soon!
My boyfriend back. Seriously.
“…lustful piglike rooting in leftover Halloween candy stash.” That sentence made me laugh very, VERY loudly. My boss asked me what was so funny. I had to lie and say I remembered an old joke.
If I could have anything for Christmas, I’d say it would have to be a new camera. Preferably the new Canon 40D.