Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 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, 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) could get in touch with you.

Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (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 someone'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 rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

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The Place We Call Home

When you walk into the Dress Circle showbiz shop in Covent Garden, you immediately walk away from the world where nobody understands you and into a world of happiness where there are no judgements. Everyone is there for the same reasons you are – seeking after some rare musical record or DVD that they would not find any other place. It’s like it is our secret, this well-hidden shop in the middle of London. You would not find it unless you knew its name and where it was.

 The minute I walk in there, I see Scott Alan. I am a huge fan, but I keep my cool. I’m there to get Annalene Beechey’s CD and have it signed by the artist herself. The man in charge of the store tells me she’s still downstairs, even though I am arriving after the CD signing has ended. I go downstairs, and surely enough – there she is. Scott recognises me from the Birdland gig (Birdland is a jazz club in New York City), and Annalene signs my CD. It doesn’t even matter that she spells my name wrong, because she’s really nice to talk to, and she appreciates that you are there. There is something really special about theatre actors. They know they are not big shot stars, but they know that their fans adore them, and they adore their fans right back. We are like minded people, Annalene and I – we both love theatre and music, and we both know it to be the very thing that defines us at times. We are not trying to hide it, because we are proud of it. This is why we love the Dress Circle. It is where we meet – where we come together to share our passion for what we love. It’s our special place.

 As I make my way over to the counter to purchase a set of Judy Garland DVDs from her concert years, and a Kristin Chenoweth album, the 9 to 5 cast recording starts to play. I feel like this is the only place in the whole world where this would actually happen. I tell the guy who works there how happy it makes me that he is playing it, and the man standing next to me tells me that “he plays it all the time”. As I exit the shop, I can’t help but stop just outside to listen to the song until it’s finished. And just like that, I know I’ll be back.

Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

1. Sex and the City

2. Desperate Housewives

3. Gilmore Girls

4. Private Practice

5. Friends

And now you have been warned.

You guys... I just MET SUSAN SARANDON. GAAAAAH, THE WONDER THAT IS SUSAN SARANDON SPOKE TO ME! I HAVE PICTURES TO PROVE IT!

For real. I can't even think about anything else right now. I saw Susan Sarandon act live, and she was every bit as amazing as I thought she would be. And Geoffrey Rush was in it, and Lauren Ambrose, and they were both amazing. Everyone in that play were absolutely incredible. And then outside the stage door I met these AWESOME people, who even walked me back to the hotel when my friends didn't show! They were so amazingly nice, and they were theatre lovers like myself, so they kept talking about everything they've seen and everything they want to see, and the woman was from South Africa and she was exactly like me. We were both seeing stars after Susan had left. Seriously, these were the nicest people ever. I miss them already. And she collects movies like me, and we love the same actresses and everything! But we exchanged emails and stuff, so at least I can contact them after this. I LOVE NEW YORK! I don't ever want to leave. I am so hyper right now.

BEST NIGHT EVER! MET AWESOME PEOPLE, SAW AN AMAZING PLAY AND MET SUSAN SARANDON! THIS NIGHT FOR THE WIN!

And tomorrow is Guys and Dolls. Sad that it's closing and that it hasn't gotten good reviews, but I'm seeing it tomorrow, and it's the very last performance. I'm excited about it.

And I now have a ticket for Next to Normal on Friday night, and apparently the seat is pretty awesome, and I'm gonna see ALICE RIPLEY AND OMIGOD I CAN'T WAIT. And 9 TO 5 ON THURSDAY! GAAAAH, it's too much, isn't it? All that, plus Scott Alan's concert on Monday... I might explode. I might do two shows on Wednesday, I haven't decided yet. And the incredibly nice guy I met outside the stage door told me I need to see the Norman Conquests, so I might see that. And he was raving about Reasons to be Pretty, which I wanted to see, but it's closing tomorrow, sadly. Sad how some great shows just don't find their audience.

But ANYWAY! MET SUSAN SARANDON! MET HER! FOR REAL! AHHH, BEST MOMENT EVER! Oh, and haha! This one guy made her sign like, twenty different things, and apparently he forgot to make her sign one of his items and so he was running after her like "miss Sarandon, will you sign this too?" and she was like "no! I already signed like, twenty of those." and we were all like WIN! Haha.

Anyway, going to bed now! Guys and Dolls at 3 PM tomorrow!

Okay, so this shall yet again be my weekly (or so it seems) post to ramble about Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. Didn't get to watch B&S until yesterday, but I watched DH on Monday, and it was great!

I loved the whole Carlos/Lynette/Gabby/Tom thing, it was hilarious. I think the friendship that is beginning to develop between Gabby and Tom is really adorable, and Carlos/Lynette is an awesome duo, obviously. The dinner scene was the best thing in a long time! And what Carlos said to Lynette in the end (all of it, obviously!) was so true, and exactly how I feel. I love how Tom and Lynette both still get jealous. And Lynette has nothing to be embarrassed about! Hehe.

I already sort of knew that Susan was the one who was driving the car, but the scene was still pretty intense and freaky. The scene with Dave and MJ in the end was the creepiest of all, though. And Susan was hilarious running all over his house collecting all the things he could do himself in with! I love Teri's acting in scenes like that, it's really awesome. I am actually really liking Teri nowadays, I've realised that she's really quite adorable. She was really funny when she got pulled out of the car as well.

I HATE ORSON. HATE. Yay Bree!

The promo looks really awesome! Ahh, SSS!! I just hope it's as epic as it looks. (I ish not a dork, I swear.)


Brothers & Sisters was great, but MAN I HATE HOLLY. And Ryan! I think this was the first episode I really and truly LOVED Rebecca. That has never happened before. Ryan is seriously a shithead, thought he was being all smart and that Rebecca would just love it, and then she went straight to the enemy instead. Haha, I love it.

I never thought I'd actually cry if Julia ever left, but I did. It was sad, especially for Kevin. And Nora. I feel SO sorry for Nora. And even though I want The Bastard (as he shall now be named) to come back for her sake, I do not miss that idiot. I've always kind of despised him, though, but not like this. He's not one of those characters you love to hate either, not for me at least. I just hate him.

And what is it with that damn forbidden thing? I HATE IT, and yet I love it. But now it's kind of killing me, anyway, because I love Robert, and I feel sorry for him now. I think he was an idiot with the whole "I'm not too sick to run for governor, even though I had a heart attack" attitude, and with the baby and everything it's just lame. There are more important things, even though you're a man with ambitions. But ah well, looks like it's gonna end badly now, anyway. Which makes me sad. Because now he's finally trying to talk to her, but she refuses to.

The "forbidden" thing, though... Addison and Noah. I am so incredibly in love with those two, which I don't really understand, but I am. It's the whole f-thing. You want it, but oh, you can't have it.

My Private Practice obsession is out of control, seriously. Especially my obsession with The Stalkers <3 I am never going to get over it, Shonda! NEVER. And it's NOT Gizzie, you can't compare it. Because there's chemistry! And there's the fact that she was "it" for him. He SAID it. And now he has movied in with her? No man would do that if he didn't LOVE the woman. Which Cooper SO does. And see, the most important difference is that George was always in love with Meredith, and he was Izzie's best friend, and then he got over everything and married Callie. And he's GEORGE. I liked him with Callie, but the whole Meredith thing was SO wrong, and I never wanted that to happen. I also never wanted him to be with Izzie. Never. And I never saw it coming, and they don't have that kind of chemistry, and I just always thought it was a bad idea. Which it WAS, so yeah. But I am IN LOVE with the idea of Violet and Cooper. They're just so perfect, and so right for each other. I've loved them since the very first episode, which makes it so wrong to compare them to Gizzie, because it's not the same. They are both so screwed up, and so hopelessly childish and just so adorable. Like the "Have you checked for extreme ugliness?" scene, which seriously had me cracking up for like, ten minutes. No, I want them together. I don't really like Charlotte all that much, she tends to annoy me. She has her moments, but there aren't that many of them. And Violet is so awesome, she might actually be my favourite character. Just for her level of screwed up and awkward and weird. Love her.

I've probably rambled on about Violet and Cooper enough for one day now. I got my Private Practice season 1 DVDs yesterday, which made me squee, since they are so awesome and the cover is so shiny and prettiful. <3 I was watching PP more or less the entire afternoon and evening, haha.

I thought Edie's final episode was a beautiful way to say goodbye. I loved Edie, she was a lot of fun to watch, and she was fresh and different, and no one is ever going to be able to replace her. She will be missed.

Loved all the flashbacks! Especially the Gabby one, that was hilarious, and at the same time heartbreaking on so many levels. And in the Lynette flashback, Edie was just spot on about what she told her. Haha at her thinking Susan was a homeless person!


Brothers & Sisters was good, but Kitty and Robert are both annoying me, and Tommy is just a big jerk. He seriously pisses me off.

I LOVED how Roger came back, it was so adorable. Ahh, I want to see Nora happy so badly.

Ryan: Piss off.

And Sarah... Sarah is HOT. Haha, I love how she interrupted Kevin and Scotty again, by showing up with her wild hair all "I HAD SEX IN THE OFFICE!". LOVE SARAH.