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thanateTop ten things I don't want for christmas: (and why)
1. an address book. I have never understood the address book phenomenon... why would anybody need more than one? and yet, there are more pretty address books than pretty blank books out there, and you always pick up the wrong ones. or I seem to, anyway.
2. a new high-def. tv, or an expensive new game system to play on it. (I am told these are the holiday items of choice for this year. Someday, I might want a P2, and a copy of FFX. Or to see what this Queen of Hearts think people keep talking about is. But I haven't even got time to play with everything I already have, or watch the movies I borrowed from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
troyfish at the end of august)
3. fleas. self-explanatory, I think...
4. expensive jewelry. another pet peeve... I don't think buying people rubies equates to true love. I don't think most girls think this, although they could just be more brainwashed than I'd like to hope. I don't even really like most of the modern expensive jewelry. And all in all, if someone's going to spend large sums of money on me I'd prefer a) to have a say in what's being gotten, and b) that it be something I'll use like, say, new swords or, um, elegant resin dolls...
5. the latest season of Friends on DVD or any of the other distressingly many TV shows I haven't watched and don't feel any need to.
6. a trip to Cancun. well, ok, if some mad person gave me an expenses paid trip, I'd probably go. But I can't say the beach/cruise/palm tree thing was ever really my style; there's too much sun, and I'd be happier going to the british isles and looking at interesting places and getting cold and rained on.
7. a new car. I have a car. I like it. I believe the conversation on Sunday went something like:fishy1: "People shouldn't trade cars as often as they do cell phones." me: "People shouldn't trade cell phones as often as they do cell phones!"
8. another scary christian zodiac book from my grandmother. I got two of these, in successive years, once. "The Real Meaning of the Zodiac" as expounded by someone who knew someone she'd donated money to, perhaps, so she got them as freebies and for some reason though I'd like them. One came with audiotapes, which sat in the attic for years, so I don't know if they actually still worked by the time we got around to sending them off to goodwill or wherever.
9. candy canes I don't really like peppermint candy that much (well, the chocolate peppermints are really good, but that's different) and in candy-cane sized quantities, it's too much to take. I rarely even get around to eating the 10 cent candy sticks in flavors I like (although I always get them from places that still sell them for 10 cents, by way of encouragement...)
10. chocolate covered cherries eew. (don't care for cherries.. never understood why people would. most fruit seems somewhat overrated, really.)
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Obviously I have not been listening to enough Christmas sales marketing. I must be a bad capitalist, or something. Although I have been feeling a vague urge to wander through a mall recently; does that make up for it?
1. an address book. I have never understood the address book phenomenon... why would anybody need more than one? and yet, there are more pretty address books than pretty blank books out there, and you always pick up the wrong ones. or I seem to, anyway.
2. a new high-def. tv, or an expensive new game system to play on it. (I am told these are the holiday items of choice for this year. Someday, I might want a P2, and a copy of FFX. Or to see what this Queen of Hearts think people keep talking about is. But I haven't even got time to play with everything I already have, or watch the movies I borrowed from
troyfish at the end of august)3. fleas. self-explanatory, I think...
4. expensive jewelry. another pet peeve... I don't think buying people rubies equates to true love. I don't think most girls think this, although they could just be more brainwashed than I'd like to hope. I don't even really like most of the modern expensive jewelry. And all in all, if someone's going to spend large sums of money on me I'd prefer a) to have a say in what's being gotten, and b) that it be something I'll use like, say, new swords or, um, elegant resin dolls...
5. the latest season of Friends on DVD or any of the other distressingly many TV shows I haven't watched and don't feel any need to.
6. a trip to Cancun. well, ok, if some mad person gave me an expenses paid trip, I'd probably go. But I can't say the beach/cruise/palm tree thing was ever really my style; there's too much sun, and I'd be happier going to the british isles and looking at interesting places and getting cold and rained on.
7. a new car. I have a car. I like it. I believe the conversation on Sunday went something like:
fishy1: "People shouldn't trade cars as often as they do cell phones." me: "People shouldn't trade cell phones as often as they do cell phones!"8. another scary christian zodiac book from my grandmother. I got two of these, in successive years, once. "The Real Meaning of the Zodiac" as expounded by someone who knew someone she'd donated money to, perhaps, so she got them as freebies and for some reason though I'd like them. One came with audiotapes, which sat in the attic for years, so I don't know if they actually still worked by the time we got around to sending them off to goodwill or wherever.
9. candy canes I don't really like peppermint candy that much (well, the chocolate peppermints are really good, but that's different) and in candy-cane sized quantities, it's too much to take. I rarely even get around to eating the 10 cent candy sticks in flavors I like (although I always get them from places that still sell them for 10 cents, by way of encouragement...)
10. chocolate covered cherries eew. (don't care for cherries.. never understood why people would. most fruit seems somewhat overrated, really.)
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Obviously I have not been listening to enough Christmas sales marketing. I must be a bad capitalist, or something. Although I have been feeling a vague urge to wander through a mall recently; does that make up for it?