Happy holidays, if you’re celebrating today, or just finished, or have been celebrating since the Christmas trees appeared in the stores sometime back in September. We wanted to share our holiday wishes to you, and invite you to share yours.
If we could give one gift (or more than one thing because who are we to stop at one?) to the Bitchery community here at SBTB, we’d offer:
Sarah:
I’d give the unerring ability to find the books that would make a reader most happy, even if that completely ended one of the reasons SBTB exists in the first place.
As a bonus gift, since I know it’s holiday gathering and familiar awkwardness time, I’d give everyone a magical spell: the get out of expected awkward conversation spell.
*wave hand*
Family member with good intentions, we have now had a satisfying conversation. Your goal to speak with me as is proper has been fulfilled. We have had a meaningful exchange of the correct social duration, and you are now free to go back to the buffet and enjoy more food. Happy holidays.
Elyse:
I’d give the bitchery Fabio in a kilt riding a unicorn while holding a basket of kittens.
Also an e-reader that never loses it’s charge and paperbacks that never get musty or yellow.
RedHeadedGirl:
Book shelves with pocket dimensions so they never get full.
Also season 3 of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. RIGHT NOW.
Sarah:
I second that. Both parts.
Amanda:
Seconding Reidan’s hammerspace bookshelf idea.
I’d give everyone and namely my family, an Everything-is-going-to-be-okay Holiday. I’d like to bypass the yearly Christmas meltdown for a change.
And a free pass to not having to justify your life choices to your parents/grandparents. YES, GRANDPA. I UNDERSTAND THAT ROBOTS WILL BE DOING MY JOB FOR ME IN TEN YEARS.
RedHeadedGirl:
Also perfect timing for cooking Christmas dinner. And no one bitching about the brussels sprouts (LOOK WHEN YOU SAUTE THEM AND USE BACON THEY ARE YUMMY. IT’S WHEN YOU BOIL THEM AND ADD NO FLAVOR THAT THEY ARE BORING AND GROSS).
(ALSO VEGGIES ARE GOOD FOR YOU THAT’S WHY I MAKE SURE TO COOK YUMMY ONES.)
(SO EAT YOUR GODDAMN VEGGIES, COUSIN.)
Carrie:
Am trying to think of stuff but am hung up on the bookshelves because they are perfect and I want them.
Above all, we wish you a quiet, stress-free and warm holiday season, with all the things you like to read. Happy holidays!
“Book shelves with pocket dimensions so they never get full.” This is what ebooks are for!
Happy holidays to you, ladies, and thanks for another year of both fun and serious reflection on books, tv/movies, and life in general.
Maybe those pocket dimension book shelves could share space with a comfy chair or two and time could move a little more slowly there. So the five minutes I have to spare could equal an hour of quality reading time in the book shelf dimension.
And for kicks lets add a bar and sexy men in kilts, or undone but tucked in shirts, or no shirt at all with some tight-ish jeans and boots and a cowboy hat (or enter your preference here), acting as barmen on the weekend in this dimension too.
Or I could just wish you all a very Merry Christmas, a safe and happy New Year and the hope that the coming year brings you joy.
Thank you ladies for all the fun and book bargains and knitting patterns that I’ve enjoyed.
I love Brussels sprouts. And I’d love the magic wand as well! Merry Christmas (etc) to you!!
Happy Holidays to all! I hope everyone has good health, happiness and good fortune in 2015.
Thanks gals, you make my day better just by being here.
Cheers!
OUTLANDER would be available to all Bitchery watchers, whether or not they have cable. In fact, that would be true for all SB-recommended TV shows and movies.
Where’s the damn wand, this needs to happen now.
Happy holidays to everyone at SB headquarters. Thank you for everything.
I totally burned the brussels sprouts this year. This is what happens when you ply me with mulled wine all afternoon. Note: when someone asks for wooled mind, and giggles uncontrollably about how unexpectedly apt that is – A) shut them off B) do not entrust them with making Xmas dinner.
So I suppose I should go for the dinner timing, I would prefer that magic spell, please. Do you think it would work if I actually said that to my relatives? They can’t want to be having those horrible awkward conversations either…
I second Darlynne! Outlander for everyone–and NO WAITING! It would be available now, with a side of Sam Heughan 😉
Happy Holidays Ladies!!!
I’d make sure all living spaces were selfe-learning so we could all read and knit ’til our heart’s content. Which may be a really long time so maybe I need to gift the Bitchery families one of those Star Trek food replicator thingies.
My gift for the bitchery?
Superpowers.
‘Nuff said.
Happy Holidays !! ! I wish for us all kids who fall asleep before ten… Also Fabio in a kilt. Thanks Bitchery for a great year !
Merry day after Christmas morning!! After six nonstop days of shopping, cleaning, wrapping, baking, shopping, cooking, cleaning and working the nine to five I didn’t sleep in, but I did curl up with A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong, a chocolate croissant and a cuppa. I wish you all such simple pleasures for the rest of the holidays and the coming new year.
I played at boxing day, presenting my favorite coffee shop with cookies and a substantial tip and my super with the usual monetary token. My wishes for this year is whole boatload (read gigantic yacht of a billionaire) of joy and some solutions for the people in my life who have dementia. I really don’t want to have to file another missing persons report ever again in my life.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all. There are only 364 shopping days until Christmas now ….
If I could wave a magic wand I would wish for everyone good books to read (SBTB helps us with that already)and the time to read them. And Fabio in a kilt riding a unicorn with a basket of kittens.
Happy Holidays to everyone. I really needed that magic spell this year. In that same vein, I gift everybody a universal translator, family version – it translates passive-aggressive / or plain old aggressive comments into more neutral ones, allowing for more pleasant conversations. Frex, your aunt says “will you ever finish that degree of yours?” and you hear “do you have a graduation date yet?”
This seems like a good place to share this conversation I had with my brother on Christmas day. I’d asked him for a gift card from ARe and he said he was so glad that I’d told him about the site because he *loved* the categories listed on the left sidebar (vampires, historical>viking, and the like). At first, I thought he was joking, but my brother works for a tech company doing something with database architecture and is a tad obsessive about taxonomies and things like that and he was genuinely enthusiastic. And then we got into a long discussion about what a similar list would look like for sf/f, because we are both genre geeks.
Happy Holidays!