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What's your No. 1 Christmas gift wish?
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I want a few things but they're just things and not all that important to me. As corny as it sounds, what I wish most of all is for the people I love and care about have a little well-deserved happiness. And maybe some delicious cake.
There's lots of things I want, but barring a lottery win (extra difficult when you don't play) I'm not going to get any of them.
I'll be happy just to be at home with my lovely wife, and have some time off (10 days, w00t!) from work.
I'll be happy just to be at home with my lovely wife, and have some time off (10 days, w00t!) from work.
Republicans threw out all the Democrats in VA and NJ; I already got my Christmas wish! I pray for others and their yuletide wishes, world peace, and huge GOP gains in 2010...
ditto,
this chrimbo though i am getting what i want
, to be left alone in peace and quiet 
I have no Christmas gift wish.
I'm more focused on getting stuff for my girls and wife. I'm pretty content with my things right now.
Given the fact that my wife has been out of work since January, we've curtailed so much that Christmas will be really low key. If my wife does get a job shortly, then I may go and build a quad (or octo) core machine to run linux. That's probably the closet thing to a Christmas wish I can get too.
I'm more focused on getting stuff for my girls and wife. I'm pretty content with my things right now.
Given the fact that my wife has been out of work since January, we've curtailed so much that Christmas will be really low key. If my wife does get a job shortly, then I may go and build a quad (or octo) core machine to run linux. That's probably the closet thing to a Christmas wish I can get too.
The 2 and a half years of my life and enormous amount of money I've wasted on a degree I hate back.
Failing that the ability to make the right decision for once.
You did ask
I don't really need/want anything material. I'm just not very content at the moment.
Failing that the ability to make the right decision for once.
You did ask
I don't really need/want anything material. I'm just not very content at the moment.
This:
It's an Alpine White Gibson Les Paul with Gold Hardware. Can't ask for much more except maybe an amp worthy of being attached to it?
It's an Alpine White Gibson Les Paul with Gold Hardware. Can't ask for much more except maybe an amp worthy of being attached to it?
I don't think this thread is silly.
For myself, nothing really. I have far more than my talents or ambition could have given me. I guess I chose well when I was born. Good weather, low crime, good cancer treatment center. I am no saint, it's just I have the luxury to think of others.
For the world, let's climb out of this recession. Many Christmas wishes, no matter how grandiose or petty, can come true. Though we are climbing out of this pit, we are not far from the bottom that it was wallowing in a few months ago. Many of the wishes here involve money, and the economy. If this is the case, nothing would make me happier than a financial recovery. I don't want piles of cash, but if others do, then so be it. I just hope they invest in their communities so they can help others while getting rich.
For myself, nothing really. I have far more than my talents or ambition could have given me. I guess I chose well when I was born. Good weather, low crime, good cancer treatment center. I am no saint, it's just I have the luxury to think of others.
For the world, let's climb out of this recession. Many Christmas wishes, no matter how grandiose or petty, can come true. Though we are climbing out of this pit, we are not far from the bottom that it was wallowing in a few months ago. Many of the wishes here involve money, and the economy. If this is the case, nothing would make me happier than a financial recovery. I don't want piles of cash, but if others do, then so be it. I just hope they invest in their communities so they can help others while getting rich.
The 2 and a half years of my life and enormous amount of money I've wasted on a degree I hate back.
Failing that the ability to make the right decision for once.
You did ask
I am going to sound like the old man I am saying this, but I suspect you are in your 20s, correct?
No education is wasted, degree/certificate or just taking random classes. Lifelong learning can be one of the joys in life, and sometimes it costs money, sometimes it's free. I loved the free education, or learning, which was regarding computers in PC and Mac clubs even though I am a certified technician. You can never know too much.
Sometimes education is only somewhat expensive and I went to public junior colleges and 4 year universities, and only finished one out of four I attended, but I learned a lot and made a lot of friends for life.
And sometimes education is expensive and I did private universities and grad school, a PhD program with years of prereqs, an MA program, an MS program, law school, accounting school, and only finished a couple of those. I spent a pile of cash on this last set of schools but I would never trade it for anything. Many years later, I paid this all off and no school loans or related credit debt left. I just have one more degree I want and one more certification (accounting related) that I am aiming for.
When paying off a program of study, or degree, or trade school, or whatever, you won't see instant payoff right away. But when you are done paying off those loans, you will get this feeling that it was worth it anyway. You only live once. Sometimes the value in an education, or picking that field, is to find out what you don't like. It's a lot better than entering a field blindly, and getting stuck in it, hating every second of it, and spending thirty years there.
Another day at a Zoo playing with Lemurs. I got to do it a few weeks ago as a keeper-experience, and I'm just counting the days until I can do it again. It was utterly magical.
Haha, jkThere's nothing I really want or need that I can't afford to buy for myself, so the list posted below is actually what I want to get for other people.
• iPod Touch for my sister
• 12.1MP Canon Powershot 780 and/or a runner's wrist HR monitor for my mom
• Netbook for my brother
I get more excited about giving gifts than I do receiving them. I'm especially excited for this Christmas because I have a little extra money to spend so I can afford to get nicer gifts
...just continued goodness from what I have now. I'm doing pretty well for someone just out of college in this economy and my circumstances could be worse but I'm really grateful so I'd like to continue to have my apartment and my great paying job during the Holiday season and after.
I'd like a DSLR I can share with my girlfriend, and a faster CPU for my desktop.
And you wonder why people have trouble shopping for me
And you wonder why people have trouble shopping for me
The Barnes & Noble eBook reader, Nook. Never really wanted the Kindle, but something about the Nook just calls to me.
This:
It's an Alpine White Gibson Les Paul with Gold Hardware. Can't ask for much more except maybe an amp worthy of being attached to it?
EVEN BETTER <333
only then left-handed for me
Marshall Stack with it?
I have pretty much everything I need. I have been looking at e-readers though so if I happened to get one that would be cool.