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…
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!