Hey everyone,
Dad suggested this, so I thought we should try it out. This year, obviously nobody wants to blow their wads on Christmas presents. Fortunately, we're Beatty-Springs. Which means, thinking up and creating exciting, practical and useable Christmas presents for eachother should be a piece of applesauce-pumpkin cake. Still, it's pretty difficult to think up good present ideas from scratch, so here's the deal:
Post a comment on this blog with your "Christmas List". Anything, big and small, fat or thin, goes. That way we all have some ideas for making/getting wonderful Beatty presents for eachother.
That said, let's splurge!
we all better put a list up on here, OK? GO!
16 comments:
i have already mentioned one or two of these things to one or two people. but just for mikie i will do this, with the supplemental note that i really don't need anything and i believe that love and being together are all that matter for christmas! and gifts for the children, just like baby jesus got gifts of frankencense and myrrh (however you spell those). and i also admit that i always go crazy and i do love buying things way too much, as much as i love to say "consume less, share more" and "live simply, that others may simply live." etc.
my list:
1. digital voice tape recorder thingie like addie's
2. the game "Imagine If" which i certifiably LOST last christmas day and have never seen again since. i promise i won't lose it this time and let's all play it okay!??
3. flannel nightgown
4. anything homemade
other than that there is nothing i really actually need. i am easy. you know i love books and i love having my family around and that's all i need because i'm a sappy dork.
cozy knee high socks, gum- i like gum. A baby sitter for one night would be cool. To make lots of fun memories. And nice snug driving gloves ( cute girly ones) it is freezing here.
Hey ladies, lets do something fun when the boys go snowboarding.
once again heather, thanks for patronizing your handicapped younger brother. wow i feel like crap.
1 - External Hard Drive (150-200gigs)
2 - Battery Recharger w/ Rechargeable Batters (powerful one! Heather's is awesome)
3 - book of Edible Plants in California/America
4 - travel book about LA and New York (used otherwise they run $$)
5 - any freaking travel books, I love those things.
6 - 100+ count CD book (used too, or anything like it)
7 - tin of good coffee
8 - an instrument. of any kinds. I don't have a single instrument
9 - A satchel like Matt's. One that is fit for all places, LA, Placerville
10 - Burned DVD's of: the Office, Planet Earth, EXTRAS, crazy movies
11 - Burned CD's of: anything. You guys have all better music tastes than me!
HI ALL! It's me! Christmas Presents.... hmmmm.
1- Terre' de' hermes Men's cologne, my favorite smell lately
2- Quel que fleur, the perfume I once gave mom, and I bet she'd like a bottle too
3- I'll take that book about edible plant that Mikie wants
4-rings (size 4.5, 5. or 6), necklaces (long pendant jewels style)
5- An Ipod that works right ( i know this one is huge, but just in case you want to forfit the last four)
6- an AWESOME digital camera that lets me take close ups
7- a birdwatchers of America book
8- goldpanning supplies (for reals)
10- antioxidant face cream
Mikie, thanks for the great idea, everyone needs to add to this list so I know what they want! I already got my Christmas present and I LOVE it. Thanks everyone!! The camera is wonderful and adorable too. So nothing else for me, I mean it. Thank you Danny too for the camera. You're so sweet to instigate getting that gift for me. Love to all, Mom
Books! we all should just get eachother fantastical books about our nation's most fascinating/haunting piece of history, the pioneering to California! Seriously, I just spent about an hour and a half downtown loving some really cool gold rush/california books.
mikie i wasn't trying to be patronizing AT ALL...and i know lists are our tradition...it's just a personal thing. for myself, for my own life, i want to try to promote the idea of consuming less. but i also know it is very very nice to have an idea what people want or need. even if it wasn't for christmas, it's kind of nice just to know because it shows what people are into lately! so, i like it, and it goes along with our family's obsession with list making anyway.
1. a lambourgini.
2. a pony with braids.
3. ray bans.
4. powerwheels.
5. a rolex.
6. gold plated gold.
7. the most expensive bottle of champagne at grocery outlet please.
8. an iphone.
9. a werewolf-fur coat
10. paris hilton's new album
11. all seasons of american idol. on gold-plated dvd sets.
12. a thousand dollars or so in gift certificates to avon.
13. pearl necklace for eddy.
14. mansion.
15. jake gyllenhaal.
my real list:
1. i just wanna go snowboarding
2. razorblades for a mach3 razor.
3. new sandals, birkenstock style(imitation rocks, like from kmart). i wear 11.
4. the movie superbad.
5. spiced rum
6. money for a new tattoo.
7. guitar strings, light d'addario acoustic.
8. just cool original stuff that i would never expect.
thats all i want.
hey it's really adie writing this. mikey's visiting...
Joey.
Number 15 on your first list is KILLING me.
I'm glad you figured out liking boys.
Secondly,
Heather... what digital tape recorder? I only have a generic regular tape recorder, handheld.
I love # 13 and 15! they make me so Happy
maybe the digital voice recorder heather's talking about is mine? I have one of those babies.
Okay looks like I'm the last. Here's my list:
--a Polaroid camera
--little black knit mittens (Fio ate my old gloves)
--Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island
--The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely
--a Bukowski book, I don't know Ham On Rye or Post Office or Women or something
--other books, here are some suggestions (so many penguin books!): Subculture by Dick Hebdige, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (penguins classics deluxe edition), Walden by Thoreau, Paradise Lost by Milton (penguin classics edition), a pinhole photography guide, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (penguin 20th-century classics)
--a decent harmonica (keyed in G I guess, Heather/Darin, any suggestions?)
--western edible and medicinal plants book (okay, when Amy first asked me what I wanted, I said I wanted this, so it's not just to follow the mikie and adie trend; I saw a really cool Rockies one at Grand Teton that I wanted)
--a Nick Drake cd
and for anyone considering/asking for/buying rechargeable batteries, Costco has the best kit for a good price. I have one, and if I buy one more I'll never have to buy disposable batteries again (at for a few years).
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