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featherynscale ([personal profile] featherynscale) wrote2005-10-24 09:22 am
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Holiday shopping

In violation of my own personal ethical code about preparing for a High Holiday before the preceding High Holiday has actually gone past, I started Yule/Christmas/Chaunukah/Kwanzaa/Winter Avarice shopping on Saturday. I didn't mean to. It was just one of those situations. I was there, it was there, it leapt up into my hand and said "[livejournal.com profile] kittenpants would like me! Buy me for her!". And so I did.

This is all well and good as far as it goes. But it opens up my consciousness to an uncomfortable fact: although [livejournal.com profile] kittenpants is certainly one of the most important people on my list of people to buy holiday gifts for, she's far from the only person on the list. There's a whole crowd of folks floating around out there that I have put no thought into holiday gifts for at this time, and holiday shopping, like an abnormally bright and tinsel-covered Cthulhu Mythos ritual, must be completed once it has begun.

So I have this clever thought. I have an Amazon wishlist. It's in my profile. I bet a lot of you other clever internet types also have wishlists at Amazon, and in other places across the web. So do me a favor, will you? Link me to your wishlists. This will not be the sole determinant of your place on my holiday shopping list, but it could seriously move you up the list. I'm all about spreading the joy in a relatively stress-free manner, you know?
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[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not linking you to mine until I do something with it. Right now I don't think I'ev touched it since the wedding... (mine, not B&J's).

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I re-did mine a few months ago when Amazon went to a model where you could have more than one. I wanted to play with the new model.

No big thing, though. I'm reasonably certain I can buy you decent gifts unaided by now. :) (I think.)

Re: In Theory.... (and I still have your Yule present from last year)

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, that goes to the logged-in user's list. Try logging out, then looking yourself up.

Re: K....how about....

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. That's it! Thanks!

[identity profile] greektoomey.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
My wishlist has only one item on it - a few nights' lodging at EHQ.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Should be easy enough to arrange. When are you thinking of coming?

[identity profile] greektoomey.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I refer you to your previous entry.

Most of that range is already taken care of, but I'd probably be seeking couch space for a couple days at the beginning, and a couple days at the end.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Good times. Wasn't sure if that was still on or not. Should be no big thing.

[identity profile] greektoomey.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! Now I just need to find [livejournal.com profile] triadruid's wish list, as I've already got an idea for [livejournal.com profile] kittenpants.

[identity profile] zylch.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I refuse to publicize the address of my Amazon wishlist (assuming that it still exists), as that might lead to more books entering my home. If you'd like to sponsor (in whole or in part) some bookshelves, though, that's another matter.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You're so clever. We should do that at our house too -- Anybody want to donate to the Trinity Book Containment and Preservation Project?

I had to re-stack Mout St. Fiction the other day, as it was eating the living room floor.

[identity profile] malvito.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)

[identity profile] capriciouslass.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't remember to mention earlier how in awe of you I am right now. I can't even find the Halloween decorations, and you're thinking ahead to winter avarice...
I bow to you.

[identity profile] malvito.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I am my Halloween decorations.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-25 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
And very decorative you are.

[identity profile] malvito.livejournal.com 2005-10-25 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaaawwwww *blush* *snarl*

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2005-10-25 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm doing okay, but who I'm in awe of is [livejournal.com profile] sxypaganmom. She's almost *done* with winter avarice shopping.

[identity profile] kcwitch.livejournal.com 2005-10-26 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
i have a wish list, but i am easy. being the fae that i am anything shiney makes me happy.