raynebowranger | Entries tagged with [rl]: christmas

STEP ONE
- Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten 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 to 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) can get in touch with you. Your home address is not required!

- Make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO
- Surf around your friends list (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 one person'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 guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give and you might receive. You'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( My Wishlist )

You can find my address at this post. If you've made your wish list, please comment on this entry with a link?

STEP ONE
- Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten 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 to 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) can get in touch with you. Your home address is not required!

- 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 friends list (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 one person'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 guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give and you might receive. You'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( My Wishlist )

You can find my address at this post. If you've made your wish list, please comment on this entry with a link?

♥ EMBER ♥

Thank you so much for my Christmas present! I was like *.* I wasn't even expecting anything and woah!! So many wonderful things!! Thank you thank you thank you!!

I'm hoping we find the camera charger soon so I can take a photo of it all!

I hope everyone had a very, merry Christmas! Sorry I've not been around much lately, I've been a pretty poor friend what with the hectic stuff around here and being incredibly ill on top of that. I still have a heap of fics to finish for people from Halloween - yes, I'm that bad!

Cooked Christmas Dinner with mum yesterday for everyone, it was nice, not as nce as last year, but I think that's maybe because I'm just so ill and really don't feel all that Christmas-y at all, in fact I've been pretty depressed all holiday and I don't know why. I love Christmas and this year just feels kinda... different.

My Nan had a funny turn at the dinner table and lost consciousness for a few minutes and was sick. She'd done too much lately and then the Christmas dinner was too much for her, so that kind of dampened the day, and we usually go over to her house for tea today, but Dad and I are ill, so we didn't get to go, so again, something else that's changed and I hate change!

I got some neat gifts. From Mum and Dad I got The World Ends With You for the DS, Kingdom Hearts: COM for the GBA, Devil May Cry for the PS2, A book of Trade Secrets, A Balthier Play Arts Figure, some dolls house stuff.

From my Nan I got a bath set.

From James, Dawn and Dylan I got a miniature desk Hetty Hoover.

From Sandra got dolls house stuff.

From Duncan, Tish and Joesphine I got a selection of kitchen herbs, spices and oils.

From Jean and Ray I got some slippers.

From Roger and Barbera I got a bath set.

From Jo I got some farm animal shaped soaps.

From Julie I got some body lotions and a make up bad.

From Gina I got a calendar of bookmark sized semi-naked men and a wallet card with a sweet verse on it.

From Ailsa I got some hand cream and shower gel.

From Santa I got a teddy and a diary.

And from Dad's table game I got a pink tool kit.

I think that's everything! But I love all my gifts!

I'll hopefully be online more once things get back to normal around here, so I hope to catch up with you all very soon! Love you all!! ♥

ALMOST CHRISTMAS!! YAY!! Although we still have loads to do here! Sorry I've not been online much lately guys, but things are hectic here and I've been so freaking tired. I'll try and be on a little more, and I've been reading all your entries and stuff, so yay?

I hope you guys are all prepared and looking to the festive period! We still have an awful lot of cleaning and sorting to do. Mum still has mincepies to bake and I still have one cake to ice. We're doing the big food shop on Monday. James, Dawn and Dylan are either coming Tuesday night or Wednesday.

The dog has been bathed and so have the cats. The litter trays need cleaning out and the cat's room vacuuming and dusting. The bedrooms need cleaning and I need to choose what clothes I'm wearing and box them out since James and Dawn will be in my room and I'll be in the living room. The living room still needs tidying. We put the dining table up today so at least we know what room we'll have to fit all the other stuff in!

Christmas is coming!!

Money is limited for me again this year, but I’d like to send cards to those who want them!! If you want a card from me, leave a comment on this post, and also make sure I have an up to date address for you over at my address post.

Christmas is coming!!

Money is limited for me this year, but I’d like to send cards to those who want them!! If you want a card from me, leave a comment on this post, and also make sure I have an up to date address for you over at my addresses post.

There are a few of you who will be receiving gifts! I’ll be buying them after I get paid. Although, I can’t afford to buy everyone on my flist gifts, so… feel free to request an icon/cg/drabble/etc and I’ll see what I can do. I’m sure most of you know my fandoms by now (for drabbles), but if not, here’s a quick, basic list:

- Under Grand Hotel
- Hoshi no Yakata
- Final Fantasy III
- Final Fantasy VII (original game/AC)
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy XII
- Kingdom Hearts
- Kingdom Hearts II
- Family Guy
- Quantum Leap
- Monkey Island

Well! I think I should post about my Christmas sometime now... where to start...

Well Friday morning we finished off the last of the Christmas shopping, then in the evening we went to the Village pantomime, which was quite funny. I didn't stay at the pub afterwards, didn't feel much like it!

Sunday, we went to my Nan's for Christmas Eve tea - beef cobs and nibbles! My uncle Roger and his partner Barbara came over and brought me a christmas present - despite being told not to buy me one back! My auntie Jean and uncle Ray were also there and they too bought me a present!!

James and Dawn arrived later Christmas Eve, they brought Willis with them and a huge bag of presents! They joined Mum and Dad at the pub but came back earlier than the 'rents. After everyone had gone to bed, I made sure Santa had put all the presents out, before going to bed on the sofa.

Christmas morning I got up at 7:30am, and laid the selection boxes and stockings on the sofas. I then went and made the smoked salmon nibbles and brought the bucks fizz and James'non-alcoholic blue champagne. Then came the long bit of waiting for everyone else to get up.

Once everyone was up and loaded with drinks and nibbles, we dived into the presents!
( presents )

After the presents, we got ready to go to the pub for Dinner with Nan, Jean and Ray. It was a nice 4 course meal, good company, good food.

In the evening we had family time, and then James, Dawn and I played Trivial Pursuit.

Boxing Day, we all went to Nan's again for a big family get together! Then played more games at night.

James and Dawn left Thursday to go back home. Today I went to the hospital >.< I hate the hospital. I've lost 8lb since my last check up, and I had to go have blood tests to check my tablets aren't affecting my kidneys or liver since they're still experimental.

About 6 hours in KH2 - I think it's helping me to mourn. I know Riyu is still there with all of us! My heart goes out to Yuki, Suki and Kham and all those who were close to him. God knows what they're going through. It's still pretty unreal to say the least. But as I've said before, and will probably say a million more times as I mourn - Riyu will never truly be gone because Sora = Riyu = Sora. I did a little sketch last night for him, but it's not very good, so I probably won't post it. Kham allowed me to use his banner of Riyu, which is incredibly kind! It's on my profile!

It feels so much like Christmas Eve - but it's not >.< I want Christmas to get here now, it's taking too long, and then it'll just fly by so fast.

Got a card off Ian in the post today, and yesterday I got a card off Laura (Yay) and Ember and the whole gang! (another yay!) Both cards were so cool to receive and made me all warm inside! And the button rocks and is now attatched to my handbag.

Made mulled wine, brandy butter, brandy truffles, chocolate marzipan balls and marzipan cherries last night after the pantomine. So now my Christmas cooking and food making is complete apart from my smoked salmon nibbles on Xmas morning!

James and Dawn drive up tomorrow afternoon, so once they get here it'll feel a whole lot more Christmasy!

I should be on over Christmas, but just in case! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I hope Santa brough y'all what you wanted!! I got a new PS2 since my other one sorta died, a dancemat and game, an out of print board game of Tetra Master from Final Fantasy IX, Under Grand Hotel volume 3, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere and a ton of little gifts!!

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I can't wait until it gets scanlated!!