Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

One thing I’d really like?  A full eight hours sleep and time enough to read all the books in the prize! The holidays are always a super busy time between work and family obligations.

“God bless us every one!” said Teddy Pig, the last of all.

What would I really like?  A new job to go back to after the holiday season is over.

I would love amazon to release the kindle in the UK

Given44- well, given 1 would do!!

One thing? For our finances to be sorted out so I don’t have to constantly worry about them.

(spirit17 - xmas spirit a little low in the house this year, but the xmas cake smells great in the oven!)

A knock-their-socks-off ending for my WIP.

I’d really like my dh not to worry about the state of our economy.  It is really a present for both of us.  For him so he’d get peace of mind and for me so I wouldn’t have to keep pointing out things are half full.  :)

I’d like a cover as beautiful as Sherril’s, someday when I grow up.

For no more bad news for the next 8 days.  Asking for good news may be pushing it.

I want my dh’s work conditions to improve, or his back to improve magically without surgery. Actually, I want both so that he can’t fuck up his new back at work. :)

I would like to find a new house for myself & my family.  We’ve been living with m parents since we moved to Florida and, well…that needs to stop soon!

I’d really like a kindle, but Santa can’t afford it at these prices.  So I settle for my laptop.  for now.  :)

Happy Holidays!

I would like a well-behaved dog.  I asked for one last year, but the mutt remains as slaveringly insane as ever.  I keep telling her the shelters are full of beautifully behaved dogs who’ve been cast aside because of the recession, and would just love to come and live here, and we could swap her at any moment, and she listens very nicely and then goes back to chewing my arm.

And if I can’t have that, I’d love a huge big bag of money.  Preferably in one of the good currencies.

I would like my health and my husband’s to improve and the economy to get better.

I’d really like for people to start taking more vacations. You all bring your families to Orlando, and my roommate can get hours at work again, allowing her to start to afford to pay her rent and buy food again. If she could just get a good 30 hours a week, that would be greeeeeeeat. It would be win/win for us all! I don’t have to worry about her part of the bills anymore, and can start buying books again. It’s been so long that the first shopping trip I can make to the bookstore will probably singlehandedly revive the publishing and bookselling industries. XD (erm, okay, not really, but I like to pretend I have that much purchasing power.)

I’d really like to find a dentist that’s not on vacation over Christmas here is the Back Woods of Virginia. The husband has been horizontal with a toothache, and I feel as helpless as can be! I’ve been packing his tooth alternately with ground cloves and good Scotch, and orajel.
Please, Santa! Won’t you bring me the Power of Dental Knowledge to ease his pain? Or just a bottle of oxycodone!

All I want for Christmas is books, books, books! 

Happy Holidays Bitches!

I would love the rest of this vacation to go better than the first half did. Is it too much to ask that the van and scooters you paid big bucks to rent, work right and you don’t miss hours, if not days at parks because of it? Or that hubby’s family wasn’t such a pain in the arse that you want to drop kick them all off the Tower of Terror????

Hope everyone else is having a great holiday, no matter what it is you are celebrating!!

I’d really love my son to become again the happy child he had once been.  His laughter is so very, very rare these days and it breaks my heart.

I want to be able to see all my friends that I haven’t seen since August.  We are now spread all over from hometown OSU and Otterbein to Gaucher to Brown to Kent State.  I hope we will be able to spend new year’s eve together.

I would love to get my work ethic back so I can finish my dissertation this year and start planning my wedding.

(Also, Cat Marsters, we have a badly-behaved dog who also listens very nicely to reprimands and goes back to doing whatever it was she was doing before. But she manages to be sweet and adorable while also behaving badly. Yours isn’t a basset hound, by chance, is it? Everyone keeps telling us they’re stubborn.)

I’d like to find time to to read a couple of books from my TBR pile.

Happy Holidays to all.

I want a week without work where I can just sit and relax and read to my heart’s content.

I would like for the cream and white Maine Coon boy who was born 2 weeks ago to survive the pneumonia and the flat chest he developed 1 week ago.

He’s a fighter and we need more examples of beings just not giving up in the world!

A massage every single day for a month.  My back is killing me lately!

And for no one to have to be sent to the middle east for military purposes anymore.

I’d like five hours more in every day, so I have time for a long, hot bath every evening with a good book and a glass of wine, before collapsing into bed and actually getting enough sleep.

The one thing I’d really love for Christmas this year is for people to stop spazzing on me at work and screaming because we don’t have anything snowboot/fashionboot/hiker-related left after last week’s snowstorm.  *sigh*  This would make a PERFECT holiday!  (And I’ll even add that to my birthday wish list.  Can’t believe that’s tomorrow already.  Eep.)

I would love it if everyone in my and my husband’s families could get his/her act together, along with the assurance that our own kids will turn out fine.  Oh, and to not be afraid of big honking bridges anymore.

Hope everyone gets what they want!

My wish isn’t really for this holiday, but for the upcoming year:  I hope the new administration coming into play in January helps everyone not only in this country, but beyond our borders to find the hope that’s been stripped away from them.  Hopefully, it inspires everyone to make a change not only in themselves, but for those around them because we are all affected by this current state of affairs.  Hopefully, we can mend our relations with the world and show everyone that together, “Yes, we can.”

I would like the ability and discipline to finish the first draft of my romance novel by the end of January! ARGH!

I want some snow. This is not some sort of crazy white Christmas thing: I grew up in Colorado where snowfall is a regular occurrence. Since then, I’ve lived in a succession of places with minimal snowfall and it’s gone from a novelty to something making me a bit crazy.

I want to be able to eat chocolate every day. Without any caloric impact. Ever.

I would love to feel better.  I have a really bad cold and it settled into my lungs. Not a good thing if you’re asthmatic. I would also love to be able to see my new nephew.  He was born this October and since my sister lives so far away, I haven’t been able to hold him yet.

Oh! I would also like for my cat not to be so ugly anymore.  I love her to pieces, but I think as the days pass she grows more hideous. Poor thing is never going to get a date.

I really wish for a christmas dinner completely without fighting. Not so lucky last year, but I’ve heard rumors that my grandfather is on his best behaviour this year, so we might just manage this time around.

I want world peace and to finish the rough draft of my mystery novel by the New Year.

Dogs that don’t steal the pot holders off the kitchen counter.
Massages would be nice too- and a bag of money, for sure.  A few extra hours would be nice as well- or just the ability to function on less then eight hours sleep.

But really- all I want is a client that will jump start my freelance design business so i no longer have to commute an hour and some change to where the jobs are.

Barring any of that, my ongoing wish is for a previously unknown relative to die and leave me large amounts of money, or large amounts of stuff that I could sell for large amounts of money.

Oh yeah- and books.  Lots and lots of books.

Peace on Earth.

All I want for Christmas is to not have a sore throat any longer! Ugh - and of course it’s getting worse just in time for caroling… grr.

I want to go home.

While I know I should be asking for world peace and happiness (and hey I do want these things) on a purely selfish level, I would love for someone to present me with an air ticket (or even better a magic instant transporter because the trip is l-o-n-g) so I can travel back to Australia and spend Christmas with my family. While I love living in Scotland, missing family holidays is par for the course for expats.

[Cat, I totally understand your wish - I have been there and dealt with that - but I bet your adore her anyway :)]

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday season and thanks to Sarah and Candy for an amazing year of smart bitches!

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.
-anin

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. -.-

I already got what I wanted for Christmas, and I wasn’t even looking for it - someone special to spend the holidays (and the not-holidays) with. Haven’t had that in a looong time.

But books work too. :)

My wish is for my father.  That he remain in good spirits and know his family loves and supports him.  He was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer and has decided not to seek medical intervention.

I’d really like to find a chiropractor who does prenatal adjustments. My lower back begs for it—alas that I’ll probably have to suffer through the new year before hunting one up!

What I’d really like for Christmas is to win this load of books, then the time off to read every one of them.

On a big wish having two members currently suffering and countless past expiring from I’d like a cure for cancer. 
On the small end of things I’d like a few pairs of chopsticks for my kitchen. For all that I drop food like a madwoman with a fork it seems that I end clean as a whistle when I use chopsticks to eat anything.
Happy Holidays All!

I’d love to be able to pay off my credit cards.  That would be fantastic.  In the meantime, I’ll console myself with books!

I would love to have the SB Santas drop these books down my chimney! 

Signed,
Another Agnostic Badass

“Watchin teh starz when yur in church”

I wish you all to be safe, peace and happiness for the holidays and the new year to follow.

I want my teaching contract to be renewed for the 2009-2010 school year.  That would be one major sigh of relief in all this economic worry right now.

I’d love for my current housing situation to be resolved easily. I’m about to move but haven’t found a suitable place in my new city yet. I have two largish dogs so I’d love to find the ideal place for us all.

My Christmas wish is to have an awesome dinner. It’s my first X-mas preparing the meal, and I hope everything goes well!

This holiday season I’d like to fall ass-backwards into a good job, with benefits, that pays enough for me to pay off my debt, keeps me interested enough to want to go in every day, doesn’t have an asshat for a boss or among my co-workers, gives me room to grow and leaves me time to write.
Or, win the lottery.

I want my 14 year old cat to get along with our new 1 year old whippersnapper kitty.

(well, the password is soon37, so maybe it’s fortune telling).

What I really want is for Mr. Stomach Virus to GO AWAY. Die, damn you, die.

Just once I’d love a job (I have none at the moment) that didn’t suck the life out of me AND that I really, really felt like I was doing something meaningful.

Everyone have a safe, warm and happy Winter Solstice holiday!!

I really want Christmas to be the way it was when I was a child.  It was full of wonder, glory, and family.  The song “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” always makes me cry…

In Florida there is a lottery drawing on Dec 24 for 38million.  So I would like to win the lottery for Christmas and then do the following things:
1. Buy a Kindle (I want one soooo bad)
2. Not feel guilty when I buy five books at one time
3. Buy a house in Scotland
4. Have time to read all of my books

Happy Holidays!

One thing I would really like is for my business to grow so much that I can quit my day job!

I would like for my mother not to work on Christmas.  And new shelving units, and space for the new shelving units, and more books to put on the new shelving units.

I would really like to not worry about work and just have time to sleep, clean my house, and read read read!