wishlist 2010

THE RULES
Step One
1. Make a post (public, friends locked, 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.
2. 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.
3. Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two
1. Surf around your friendslist (or friends friends, or just random journals, or [info]holiday_wishes/[info]wish_list) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
2. 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.

( wishlist )

...I'm guessing nobody can gift me a spare month in which I could do nothing but catch up with NCIS, Merlin, Glee, Sanctuary, Leverage, Undercovers, Rizzoli and Isles, Eureka, Fringe, and all the other TV shows I want to watch?

Also, point me to your wishlists if you've got them, so I can see if there's anything I can provide!

...And while we're at it: fandom_stocking!

health and diet and sleep and stuff

So, I've finished phase 2 of the diet - Cruise - and am onto phase 3 - Consolidate. My last weighing was 56.4kg in spite of feeling bloated and swollen, so the diet seems to have worked quite well.

I'm now allowed limited carbs, fruit, and everything that I wasn't allowed during the Cruise phase, as well as two 'splurge' meals a week. I think there's still a 'protein only' day, but I'll have to find the book and re-read it over to see how long this phase lasts for.

So I had a sandwich for lunch today. Brown bread, tunafish, cheese, and onion. And now I feel kinda sick.

I haven't been sleeping well at all lately - ever since the other weekend and the Night of Manuscripting Madness, wherein I didn't sleep a wink. The dark bags beneath my eyes are becoming permanent fixtures, and I don't really see it letting up in the coming weeks. And even my weekends lately seem to involve late nights and early starts.

This weekend? It's the Grower's Market in Sydney, starting at 7am. Earlier is better when going to the grower's market. And I'm out the night before at the STC play Uncle Vanya.