If you follow the site, you know that I’m Jewish and Candy is Agnostic Badass but it’s Christmas season here, there, and everywhere, and Hachette’s Forever Romance wants to make sure you have a whopping pile of books to read this holiday season. It’s still Hanukkah, it’s nearly Christmas, and there’s ample time to read, right?
So let’s get going with a Holy Big Honking Ample Prize offering. Leave a comment between right this minute, describing one thing you’d really like, esoteric or literal, this holiday season, and I’ll draw one random winner from the group. Comments close at midnight EST on Christmas Eve, 24 December, just as Santa fires up the Hybrid Sleigh to deliver all Hofftastic Holiday posters you ordered for Christmas Day.
If your comment is selected, you win…
There are lots of things I enjoy about this holiday season, but the biggest one is having time off work to spend with my 2 year old!! I have lots of vacation time and have more than 2 weeks off!! It is wonderful…now if I could just stop checking into work!! 🙂 I also can’t wait to see my daughter’s face when she opens her gifts!! : )
Please enter me in the drawing…you can never have enough books!!
I want chocolate to be healthy. How about the calorie count and nutritional value of spinach, while retaining all of it’s original taste, texture, and medicinal qualities? I’ll take that. If I can’t have that then I want the ability to crochet and read at the same time.
I’d love to give Thursday (who posted above) our snow. I live in Seattle where we get one day of snow and limited problems. This has been 5 days, I haven’t had any child care, I don’t get paid for missing work (even though my child care has been closed) and I have cabin fever (you wanna be stuck in an apartment during a snowstorm with a 7 year old?)
Okay, maybe I want a less whiny holiday 🙂
I love the holiday because it means I didn’t have to go to work. Not a noble goal but that’s what I really like.
More hours in the day, and more energy to take advantage of them.
I would love for my family to have a healthy 2009…
I’d really love it if a mysterious someone would pay off all my school loans. But, barring that, I’d say I’d love for my brother to find a job that makes him happy since he’s been so miserable this year.
Fun contest!
For Christmas I would love to be able to make it home to my parents without spending a night in the airport and THEN (since I’m a greedy one), I’d like my parents to be understanding when I explain to them that really, since I live in Phoenix and they live in Chicago, THEY should be travelling to see ME next year.
*Le sigh* I don’t think Santa has magical “make parents rational” dust, but a girl can dream.
I’m going literal with my request – I asked for a tough girl kit this Christmas – flask, knife, lighter, and a big ol’ bottle of brandy (though I’d settle for some Gosling’s) – but most of it is actually for sailing and the lighter is for starting the wood stove every morning.
For my skin to clear up and be pain-free. Drat you, PCOS!
For the holidays? I’d like for everyone in the world to get at least one good meal and a chance to spend a few hours relaxing with the people they love.
Teleportation – so I can actually hug and bring real chocolate to all my far-flung family and friends rather than writing {{{hugs}}} and sending “virtual chocolate” when they need them. And then I could travel to all the places I want to see, too!
I would love for our economy to pull out of the downward spiral.
And on a completely greedy note, I’d love six lucky numbers for the lotto this weekend!
I want a pair of knee-high red leather boots. RED!
I’d like peace—in our world, my community, my house and inside my head. I know, that last one might be pushing it.
I would REALLY like to get a job in Japan! And learn the language instantaneously! And be able to use chopsticks with spectacular aplomb immediately!
But those are three things, so I’ll just stick to the first one.
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I’d like to be able to find my waist again (y’know, without all that pesky dieting and exercise stuff. It seriously cuts into my reading time.)
Barring that? I’d settle for making sure the toy I specially ordered for my son almost six months ago actually arrives before Christmas.
What I’d like…I’d like to be pregnant. (Fertility clinic fun over here.)
Weirdly enough, the day I find out whether I am or not is Christmas Day. It would make a lovely present.
I love that I am a teacher and I get two weeks off, so I can read and knitting! Also giving presents is super fun
I would really like for my husband to not leave for Iraq next month.
And while I’m wishing for things I wish for all the other soldiers to be home with their families asap.
I would like to wake up to the six-inch pile of marking being done for me. And for all the moms of the world not to stress too much to enjoy Christmas dinner.
That everyone around me can have what they need… and a bit of what they want.
I want to be selfish and wish for my power to come back before Christmas. I know that the line crews are working hard, but this is really hard to be out of my house.
And then I wish that everyone else in the area gets their power back next.
I would like Hugh Jackman to draw me a bath and give me a pedicure. While wearing only the leather duster and hat from Australia.
Is that so wrong??
I would like some time to sit down and read a book.
I would like everyone is my family to be happy and healthy in 2009. I would like to find the perfect part-time job – but still have time to read all these books!
I would like a Kindle for Christmas. Or at least a private bathroom in the dorms!
I’d like to get a firm offer to buy for my condo, then I can take care of some other wishes.
After looking at those covers, I think I’d like to be seduced by a spy.
I’d like my upcoming interfaith, intercultural, interracial wedding to be a blessing and not a cause of conflict within my extended family and for those I love to love me and my fiance for who we are and not for who they would like us to be. Also, I’d like the nameless faceless bureaucrats at immigration to be kind and expeditious with my fiance’s change of status paperwork so that he will be able to participate as a full member of U.S. society (ie. be allowed to work and have freedom of movement) sooner rather than later.
On a larger scale, I hope for everyone to be able to hang on through these tough economic times and to help each other out. We’re stronger together than alone.
More than anything else, I’d like to not have to spend the holidays with my in-laws.
I’d like to be able to fix my van. Some sort of vacuum leak caused by gaskets on the manifold, which basically means $600. Oh and an extra $270 for the wheel bearing that’s gone to hell on the right front. And I was laid off in August.
I only *thought* I was going to get to go home to see my family this Christmas. Was supposed to be going today.
More universally, my wish is for all of us to be a little less angry and a little more tolerant.
What I’d really like for Christmas is my husband to come home.
He’s military, on deployment, and the last I heard from him they’re about to head into a “no income tax zone.” This means he’s going to be in an active combat area.
So yeah, him home safe and sound would be great.
What I really want is to get all my grading done before it’s actually Christmas so I can take a few hours off to relax. And I would like my husband to get all his grading done too so he can relax with me.
Also I really want a Kitchenaid Pro stand mixer to make cheesecake with (and lots of other things), but that’s definitely not happening this year after Sunday’s emergency vet visit with one of the cats (he’s better now, but was one sick kitty).
I’d really love for a nice vacation for my parents, they deserve and since I’m a poor student, I can’t buy one for them [yet]. Plus, I’d like a pair of Converse and an iPod with a huge amount of storage. Oh and someone to kiss under the mistletoe (or kiss at midnight next week, I’m flexible), but that’s probably pushing it.
I would like a surprise for Christmas. Something I didn’t pick out or buy myself. A little thing that somebody thought that I might like and really enjoy.
I’d really like four days of relatively uninterrupted reading time over Christmas. (But knowing my family, it won’t quite be that. There will be meals. Walks. Sauna. Visiting. Guests. Board games. Conversations. Et cetera.) I’d also settle for that beautiful, ample, honking Leaning Tower of Books I’m lusting after. (I would MAKE uninterrupted reading time.) Or, seven numbers correct on Saturday’s lotto drawing. (Heck, I could BUY uninterrupted reading time!)
I’d like a nice, quiet Christmas – to channel The Muppet Family Christmas.
May everyone have a lovely holiday!
I like snow – too bad it seems like we’re never going to get any!
I’d like to get past the holiday season without more medical emergencies in the family. -.-