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…
I’d like to shift the earth a little farther away from the sun so we could have 36 hour days…24 hours to work and play and 12 hours to sleep…and play
I really just want all of my college tuition paid for. Life is expensive.
What do I want this holiday season? For my kids to reach Manilla safely (they leave on Christmas Day for a 3-week trip to the Philippines).
I’d like a job, preferably one that makes me feel useful and that I was excited to go to every day. And a job that I would be proud to own to (like a spy or a photographer or a riding instructor) instead of always feeling inferior around all these dang nuclear engineers and underwater explosive experts.
And I wish and hope that everyone finds a least a moment of peace during the holidays. All to often it seems like people are so stressed they don’t take the time to appreciate anything.
I’ll be selfish and say a new iPod. Though a job for my father and possibly new jobs for my entire family would be awesome, too. But I’ll try not to be picky!
I would like a windfall of money for Christmas to ease all my financial problems away, and so that I would never have to work ever again but just read and write.
I would really like a bag of Chex Mix made by my neighbor.
She made the BEST chex mix year round. I would get a bag on my birthday. For Christmas. For graduation. Any special event and she’d walk down the chex mix and hang it on our door knob, knock and scoot on out. There was always a little note attached.
When my husband and I were stationed overseas and he was in Iraq for Christmas and I was solo she made SURE we each got our own giant bag of chex mix. I swear I cried and stuffed my face.
I’ve tried making it the same way but I can’t. Anne Wester has the best chex mix… IN THE WORLD. And I want some!
I’d love it if my mother could find someone to happily get old with…!
I would love one of the Kindles. I think I would have WAAAY too much fun with it,though. What I really need is a job after I graduate in May. So, if Santa could get on that, it’d be nice.
I want to learn to speak Chinese.
And this book bag.
I want a guarantee that my job is safe.
My final chapter writer’s block to dissolve so I can write ‘The End’, and one single, perfect day of my children getting along without reminders not to needle each other
I’d like some hot chocolate (figured I’d go with something that’s actually attainable!). I’m mostly a tea drinker but the freezing cold is making me want cocoa.
On a serious note… The end to global hunger.
The lighter side… Since I am a huge Garth Brooks fan I have to want him to return to touring or at least put out something new I can listen to to tide me over. A girl can dream…right?
I have a kindle already but had my mom not got that for me that is what I would have wanted:)
Holy Honkin’ Giveaway!
Well, my family is whole and hearty, I already have a pony (seriously, don’t be jealous, he’s ancient and a bloody handful—but I do love him to death), so I guess I’d like my own HEA.
I’ve been doing a lot of self-directed prep work, so I think I’m close to ready. Bring it on, Santa!
And my “wishful thinking” wish is for everyone who posted here, especially about the terrors of dealing with the real world right now, a safe, happy holiday and a new year of hope.
Happy Holidays, everyone.
I want to wake up 15 lbs. lighter. Oh, and that cleaning fairy someone mentioned above? One of those would be nice too.
I would also love to have a KitchenAid stand mixer for cake and frosting making, but it doesn’t look likely this year, as we need some other things first.
Also, I would love for my morning (all day) sickness to go away so I can eat some yummy Mexican food again.
I’d really like to see my family in person again.
The one thing I want is for my nephew, his girlfriend and their son to come to see us on the day. I worry about him.
I want my cousin and my brother-in-law to come home safely from Iraq and Afghanistan.
a definitive grasp of my purpose in life, so i can get started making it happen instead of spending every non-otherwise-distracted moment navel-gazing. oh, and an agreement between me and my endocrinologist on how much levothyroxine is REALLY enough. and for steve and sharon miller to miraculously finish writing “saltation” tonight so i can finish reading their delightful work in progress. what can i say, i’m greedy. 😀
I would really, really love it if my drawing teacher would change my (completely unfairly given) C+.
Also an eBook reader would be SWEET.
My word: school36
I’d love a laptop for me, and for my parents to go on vacation next year.
I would really like more book shelves to hold my TBR pile which is about halfway to the moon by now…and maybe also some will power so that I can stop buying books until I make a significant dent in aforementioned TBR pile 😉
I would like to have a quiet and stress-free Christmas, and to not be overwhelmed with work when I come back. I would also like dance lessons to be cheaper. I would like my Cousin to make it home from Afgahnistan safely (I barely know him, but I still worry).
Mostly, though, I have what I wished for – a happy house, a job I love (even if it drives me nuts sometimes), a husband that’s fantastic, cats that are adorable, and the possibility of having kids soon if I want them. I’m very lucky.
This holiday season, I hope dh and I get pregnant!
I wish for a peaceful and happy day on Christmas Day, the first I have spent in a different country from the rest of my family.
I would love to get that acceptance letter from Stanford for Christmas…especially because California sounds SO nice when you’re buried under three feet of snow.
One thing I would really like this holiday season is to stop being afraid of what will happen to me after I graduate from college this next semester. Actually, no longer being afraid of the future in general would be very nice.
I want for me and my kids not to be sick for Christmas. I’ve got a fever, sore throat, cough, aching muscles and I’m tired as all hell. Unfortunately all three of my kids have the same thing going, including the baby.
That, on top of the fact that my family has chosen not to get together at my grandmother’s house for Christmas Eve, has got me feeling pretty down this holiday season.
I want to be truely, and utterly suprised by my Christmas gifts. I always figure them out, and then the fun is gone.
Oh, and world peace.
All I want for Christmas is for my son to be safe.
Hm. I’d like the holiday to stretch out in time so I can fully appreciate all the things I have and don’t always take time to be grateful for … pretty much a normal day, only slower, if that makes sense?!
(I think I’m asking for a time machine. Again.)
I’d really like my student loans to magically disappear. Is there a contest for that?
I’d like to go home for Christmas and see all my family and friends—I’m so lonely out here! But I do give thanks that I have people I love and who love me, even if I can’t spend time with them! I hope everyone here gets their wishes granted!!
More time to read 🙂
I’d like to know which of my relatives who’ve been saying that maybe they’ll do the turkey this year is actually making the turkey. Christmas is the day after tomorrow. Does anybody even have a turkey? Where am I supposed to be, and at what time? Do I need to bring anything? Why, oh why, can’t anybody I’m related to make a freaking decision and then COMMUNICATE it?
I’d really like a car made in this century… that would be nice…
I would like a better credit score so I could finally buy a house. :-/
i’d like to be completely irresponsible without any bad aftereffects