Christmas Wish List

November 22, 2006 by accordingtojulie 2 Comments

What I want:

1. music (here are suggestions and more suggestions)
2. a DVD player
3. DVDs
4. in general: stuff for my apartment
5. clothes. Clothes are always good. Except I don’t really have room in my closet. But who cares, I have the attic and the basement.
6. Amazon.com gift certificates. Like clothes, they always work.
7. believe me, I wouldn’t mind "experience" type gifts either, like tickets for things or promises to make me dinner or take me somewhere or whatever. Be creative.
8. a couple of big cushions that I can put in the attic and use as extra seats when I have more party guests than chairs
9. more room on my hard disc (or an alternative way of storing music/pictures)
10. things that you put under hot things to protect the table (there is no word for this in Norwegian, and I can’t remember if there is one in English)
11. coasters
12. large wine glasses (I just bought six "Sentimento Salina" glasses from Hadeland, so now I don’t really need this anymore, unless you want to add more from the same series)
13. theater tickets

What I don’t want:

1. jewellery. This may sound harsh, and I will probably love any jewellery I actually recieve. So if you have a particular piece of jewellery in mind, and this is a well-thought-out special gift, go for it. But don’t go out and buy me jewellery because you can’t think of anything else. I have so much of it now I don’t have time to wear it all, and I end up wearing the same things over and over.
2. notebooks. I am particular about what I write in, and no matter how cute the cover is, I won’t use if it isn’t right. I already have a drawer full of beautiful little notebooks that I will probably never use.
3. anything for my apartment that isn’t returnable. I might already have something similar, and if you read Norwegian, you know how I hate the very idea of interior decorating stuff that can’t be returned.

I now realize that I haven’t mentioned books and coffee. I guess that just goes without saying.