Xmas list and random stuffage
Well, they always say better late than never so here goes. Heisted from many, no names because I'd probably leave someone out and I'm not about to snub anyone so just a generic heist this time.
STEP ONE
+ Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 unlimited 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.
+ 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.
+ Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.
STEP TWO
+ Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
+ 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.
So the list goes like this.
Centaurman figure. I lost this one by .50 on Ebay >.< Don't ask me why but he's now a favorite of mine.
A6M3 Type32 Zero Fighter Kit Code named by the US "Hamp." I have the A6M5 "Zeke"(the last and best known Zero used in WW2) but not the previous versions.
Eventually I want to try and find the other Japanese fighters from WW2. Some, though, are going to be too expensive. Here are a few from Tamiya.
Mitsubishi Ki-46 III Type 100 - Command Recon Plane (Dinah)
Gekko Type 11 Early Production - Nakajima Night Fighter Irving
Hyakushiki Shitei III Kai.
Aichi M6A1 Seiran
I think you get the drift . . .
Something I should have gotten by now but will not get the money until next month, at the earliest.
Golion 3
And another item I won't be getting until at least January, at the earliest.
Voltron 6, aka the first of three for the Vehicle Voltron. I notice they have an earlier release date, too.
So that's it. I guess if those are out of your reach, just a good fic (*coughyaoicough*) will do. You know my fandoms. Or anything else will do ^^
If you want a card, let me know. Hopefully I'll make it to the post office (depending) by the Monday before Christmas. Yeah, late but that's me. Better late than never >.<
Other than that, not much. Work is hell, though not too bad. Tolerable. It was funny today, it was 12* with a windchill of 6 when I left for work. When I got home it was 13* (never did check the windchill but the wind was still blowing quite hard from the WNW.) We lost the cafe screen, had to reboot DT several times, and other fun stuffage. Finally found the problem. A loose cable down on DT. Oh well. Cash was cold, as those of us who had to work it can attest. I started and ended my shift down there. Only good thing was, they finally got the heater fixed so we have heat on cash. I was surprised they'd actually spend money to do that. I feel somewhat crappy so I think I might be coming down with a cold >.<
Went to GameStop Saturday to order through them the collectors edition of WotLK. They told me (one of the two managers) that it's no longer available online and the only place I can get it now was to pay $200 and get it from Ebay. Well. I didn't fight with them, went home and logged onto GameStop.com and ordered it. Got word today it's shipped. So, by the start of the Feast of Winter's Veil, I should have WotLK in hand. It'll be good because that Monday I took off from work considering I have a Sat/Sun craft show and I'll be too wasted to work Monday. It'll give me time Monday (if it arrives, that is) to install it in the morning and then have fun the rest of the day.
Going back a bit further. On Thursday we had our work party. I was told to be there or else by the opening manager. I did go (they actually let me go a half hour early so I could get there. I was one of the first few, except for the other morning people who had already gotten out of work, to be there. I even stayed and was one of the last to leave, helping clean up, take leftovers to other people's cars and making sure the lights were off, no one was locked inside and the outer doors were locked. For my Xmas gift I ended up selecting a sugar cookie kit with a cute cardboard gingerbread house it's in with (it said) three cookie cutters, the works as well as a rubber spatula on the outside. Not bad. Everyone who knows I craft said it was perfect for me. I didn't win any other prizes, but that's ok. I didn't even get the attitude award I figured I'd get. I did get my 12 year pin. It's a nice emerald green. I was surprised (and this was why the opening manager, after the party, said she'd kill me if I didn't show up) was because I was selected as crew person of the year. I figured with my being late getting to work and coming back from break, my minor skirmishes with the managers and everything else I'd never get it. But I did. I was surprised, to say the least.
So, that's the biggest thing. Still making candy, still playing WoW to break up the monotony of making so much candy (can we say burn out?) and just trying to survive everything else. I decided to do NaNoFiMo, an unofficial offshoot of NaNoWriMo where you write 30k in a month and finish your fic. I figured I'd start around the time WotLK comes in and divide my time between WoW and finishing my BMFM fic before the year is out. I've already decided to cut out the current Ch 10 and completely rewrite it. Other pieces fell into place today and Mari-muse is gnashing her teeth wanting blood. Better humor her before she really gets rowdy on me . . .
STEP ONE
+ Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 unlimited 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.
+ 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.
+ Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.
STEP TWO
+ Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
+ 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.
So the list goes like this.
Centaurman figure. I lost this one by .50 on Ebay >.< Don't ask me why but he's now a favorite of mine.
A6M3 Type32 Zero Fighter Kit Code named by the US "Hamp." I have the A6M5 "Zeke"(the last and best known Zero used in WW2) but not the previous versions.
Eventually I want to try and find the other Japanese fighters from WW2. Some, though, are going to be too expensive. Here are a few from Tamiya.
Mitsubishi Ki-46 III Type 100 - Command Recon Plane (Dinah)
Gekko Type 11 Early Production - Nakajima Night Fighter Irving
Hyakushiki Shitei III Kai.
Aichi M6A1 Seiran
I think you get the drift . . .
Something I should have gotten by now but will not get the money until next month, at the earliest.
Golion 3
And another item I won't be getting until at least January, at the earliest.
Voltron 6, aka the first of three for the Vehicle Voltron. I notice they have an earlier release date, too.
So that's it. I guess if those are out of your reach, just a good fic (*coughyaoicough*) will do. You know my fandoms. Or anything else will do ^^
If you want a card, let me know. Hopefully I'll make it to the post office (depending) by the Monday before Christmas. Yeah, late but that's me. Better late than never >.<
Other than that, not much. Work is hell, though not too bad. Tolerable. It was funny today, it was 12* with a windchill of 6 when I left for work. When I got home it was 13* (never did check the windchill but the wind was still blowing quite hard from the WNW.) We lost the cafe screen, had to reboot DT several times, and other fun stuffage. Finally found the problem. A loose cable down on DT. Oh well. Cash was cold, as those of us who had to work it can attest. I started and ended my shift down there. Only good thing was, they finally got the heater fixed so we have heat on cash. I was surprised they'd actually spend money to do that. I feel somewhat crappy so I think I might be coming down with a cold >.<
Went to GameStop Saturday to order through them the collectors edition of WotLK. They told me (one of the two managers) that it's no longer available online and the only place I can get it now was to pay $200 and get it from Ebay. Well. I didn't fight with them, went home and logged onto GameStop.com and ordered it. Got word today it's shipped. So, by the start of the Feast of Winter's Veil, I should have WotLK in hand. It'll be good because that Monday I took off from work considering I have a Sat/Sun craft show and I'll be too wasted to work Monday. It'll give me time Monday (if it arrives, that is) to install it in the morning and then have fun the rest of the day.
Going back a bit further. On Thursday we had our work party. I was told to be there or else by the opening manager. I did go (they actually let me go a half hour early so I could get there. I was one of the first few, except for the other morning people who had already gotten out of work, to be there. I even stayed and was one of the last to leave, helping clean up, take leftovers to other people's cars and making sure the lights were off, no one was locked inside and the outer doors were locked. For my Xmas gift I ended up selecting a sugar cookie kit with a cute cardboard gingerbread house it's in with (it said) three cookie cutters, the works as well as a rubber spatula on the outside. Not bad. Everyone who knows I craft said it was perfect for me. I didn't win any other prizes, but that's ok. I didn't even get the attitude award I figured I'd get. I did get my 12 year pin. It's a nice emerald green. I was surprised (and this was why the opening manager, after the party, said she'd kill me if I didn't show up) was because I was selected as crew person of the year. I figured with my being late getting to work and coming back from break, my minor skirmishes with the managers and everything else I'd never get it. But I did. I was surprised, to say the least.
So, that's the biggest thing. Still making candy, still playing WoW to break up the monotony of making so much candy (can we say burn out?) and just trying to survive everything else. I decided to do NaNoFiMo, an unofficial offshoot of NaNoWriMo where you write 30k in a month and finish your fic. I figured I'd start around the time WotLK comes in and divide my time between WoW and finishing my BMFM fic before the year is out. I've already decided to cut out the current Ch 10 and completely rewrite it. Other pieces fell into place today and Mari-muse is gnashing her teeth wanting blood. Better humor her before she really gets rowdy on me . . .