If you could do anything, change anything or create anything, what would it be? I know what I would do.

I would make it where we the ABC "Lost" Message Boards used correct spelling and grammar, and I would make it where they wouldn't have any cliques.

I would change the animal called "Chat Speak" (ugh!).

I would want world wide peace on Earth, good will toward men everyday of the year (not just during the holidays).

I would make it where there were no homeless people or animals in the world.

I would make it where there was no such thing as street drugs.

And, I would make it where, if things were done right, we would have Al Gore as our President instead of Little Bushy.

The above are some of the things that are on my Christmas wish list. What's on your list?

I got my wish, little Bushy is president and Al Gore is history . This year I am wishing for a very conservative supreme court justice.

My wishes:

-I hope to continue anonymously tolerating Mr. Bush and further forgetting Mr. Gore. I don't want to sully up my Christmas list with your basic 'lame duck' politicos.
-Peace on Earth would be great but, realistically, kinda like wishing for snow in mid-July here in Ohio. It'll never happen because we're too human to ever get there. I would ask for major health care reforms, though. THAT seems possible, even for the human race.
-Naturally I would wish away bigotry (and bad jokes about it). Again, however, we evolved primates don't tend to work that way. For now, I'll just wait for someone to shoot my dog before I get all fired up about shooting his in my own little place on the planet. Gotta start somewhere, yes?
-For little wishes? How about:
a.) Fewer buttons on this planet! Every machine has buttons and every button does something different and it confuses the tar out of me!
b.) Could MTV maybe go back to playing video clips? I'm getting that channel, ESPN, BET and a couple of others mixed up at present.
c.) I offer a wish that any movie mogul, whether she is married to him or not, never let Madonna "act" again. Let her sing but hide the scripts, puh-leez!
d.) I'm going to wish for a summer breeze (and hope to holler about it when it's too stinkin' hot) and a harsh involvement with two years down the road (and hope it finds me all in one piece). Yeah, who doesn't want as much time as is possible and sensible?
e.) Oh, and Santa, maybe you could drop off a new toilet since mine seems busted. No need to wrap it.

Well, I've had some funny requests, Gatsby, but that one takes the cake. Leave it with me and I'll see what I can do.

Hey Santa,

I've been a relatively good girl *cough, cough* this year. If you could pull some strings with the fine folks at immigration, I'd be a very happy person. There's cookies, milk, Mr. Indie's red wine concoction and some assorted reindeer treats in it for you. Yes, I'm willing to bribe Santa at this point.

That's pretty much my Christmas wish list. I want more than anything to have someone who lives very far away here with me and my family this Christmas and forever after. I'm willing to make puppy dog eyes if I have to.

I would turn back the clock and have precious things restored to me after all these years...but paradoxically manage to keep the precious things I have because that same amount of despised time has past.

I want to be wiser, funnier, sweeter, more all seeing -for my own protection and those I love.


I want to be more gracious concerning the circumstances I've been given in life. To glean whatever I need to from them and then be allowed to move on, not having to repeat the same idiotic mistakes over and over.

I wouldn't turn down an adequate heater for the studio and some new hiking boots, either, come to think of it.

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If you could do anything, change anything or create anything, what would it be? I know what I would do.

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My first wish would be that I be given the power to heal anyone of any sickness by simply touching them. My second wish would be to be able to answer any question that anyone asked me. My third wish would be to live for five hundred years and that anyone that asked me if they could live that long could also live that long if they wished to. Dream on Roos almighty eh.

I generally hand out a Christmas wish list to those buying me gifts but this year when asked I`m just saying I would like gift certificates redeemable at the local large hi-fi shop, they have the largest collection of cds and dvds that I have ever seen.

There are so many wonderful things to ask Santa for, I wouldn't know where to begin. I have a few friends who are struggling with some pretty major issues in their lives, and I would start with a wish for successful resolutions for them, and for the continued good health of my family.
On a global issue, I would love to see the elimination of hatred, suffering and starvation, but realize how unrealistic that would be.

My sister-in-law has recently become a minister, and her church does a lot of relief work in Bosnia. She approached me about how I would feel about having a goat donated to a Bosnian family as my Christmas gift - I thought that was pretty cool!

Those of you who have posted that you do not practice Christmas because you are not a Christian (nor affiliated with any other organized religion), have given me some food for thought.
I am not overtly religious either, and although I might be inclined to identify myself as still Christian, I cannot remember the last time I attended church, except for weddings, funerals, baptisms and the odd ordination. We are probably talking decades here.
Yet we have embraced the family side of Christmas, and still enjoy the getting together with said family and exchanging gifts. I am curious as to why you don't wish to also do that.

Skunkee, that's very much what my family does. My sister and I were raised in a decidedly non-religious environment, with the exceptions of celebrating Easter and Christmas. The main reason we celebrated these holidays is not because my parents had difficulty leaving behind their Christian upbringings but because we often spent those holidays with our extended family, who are still Christian. From a young age I did not see these holidays as a celebration of any important events or Christian ideals, but a celebration of time with family and love and, well... perogies and polish sausage. I love Christmas.

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I would make it where we the ABC "Lost" Message Boards used correct spelling and grammar, and I would make it where they wouldn't have any cliques.

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I'd like to have any idea what the above means!

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Go here and read the posts, then you will see what I mean about cliques and about the spelling and grammar horrors of the ABC "Lost" Message Boards.

Oh grief!! I see what you mean! I am now dizzy...

Very cool Lothruin! Perhaps it was my misunderstanding, but I thought it was you who had previously posted something about the only reason that you didn't work on Christmas was because most places were closed.
I made an erroneous assumption from that! Or maybe my memory fails (and it does that a lot lately), and it wasn't you who posted that!

Thanks for the explanation DN, I do see what you mean. And Ren, it made me dizzy too!

Skunkee as to the family part of it that's always been the excuse even I've used, but really since my early teens it's been a chore, and for the last few years it's been pure hell. I guess I can sum it all up by saying that alcoholics and Christmas don't mix...if I give further details it'll just bring everybody down and that isn't my intention at all. Like I say I wish everyone else a happy time, it's just unfortunate that for me it's always been more a time to survive than enjoy.

My Christmas wishes:

• My cousins to get into the colleges and medical schools of their choice
• My boyfriend's cousin's birth (she's scheduled to induce today!) to go smoothly
• A certain President to find God, for real this time
• A passing grade on qualifier exams
• A healthy Christmas
• A ring

Thanks for the clarifications. I'd like to add an easier time for all of you this year to my wish list, and a resolution for anything that can be resolved - I'm not naive enough to believe that it can all be made better. I hope your friend can arrange his immigration Indie, and that your family situation stabilizes ing.
Oh and I wish for a ring for you too CD.
My ring came at Christmas time too (22 years ago), in a box of Toffeefay (sp?)Chocolates!

First allow me to be selfish and wish for good health for my family, and for my son-in-law to pass his exams next time he sits them (they are so expensive to take and people are only permitted three attempts).

OK now onto the more generalised ones.

Wishing all our members at Funtrivia a better year than they have just had, let all their problems, health and family health for instance, be resolved.

Let there be no more terrorism and wars, let there be peace.

Let Ren33 win the lottery, she can then send me oodles of nice silky gifts!

I can think of a lot of unrealistic wishes that I'm not sure are really good wishes anyway, like taking away all suffering and all of that sort of thing. (You can't have day without night, you can't have love without hate and suffering teaches lessons, though they be hard sometimes. Sanitizing the world of all things bad would also sterilize all things good. Not a good wish.) So, I'm not going to make wishes like that. I think I came up with a good one, though.

I wish that my daughter grows into a woman whom SHE can be proud of. I know that I will not always agree with or be especially proud of her choices, but it doesn't really matter if she is a person that SHE can be proud of. I will not wish that no bad things happen to her because that is foolish. Instead I will wish that she comes to see such things the way I do, as an important step toward the person she becomes. That she is happy with who she is and has no regrets about her less-than-perfect choices or unfortunate circumstances. That she never has cause to honestly say, "If I had it to do over again" because she recognizes that the negatives of her past are still positives for her future. And most of all, I wish that she will live a long and for the most part happy and healthy life.

Skunkee, it was me who said that the only reason I don't work on Christmas is because my office is closed, and that it wouldn't really bother me to work on Christmas because it is not a sacred holiday to me. If I had to work on Christmas itself, then my immediate family would make the celebration fit my schedule. It wouldn't be a big deal. But, just because I would work on Christmas, not being Christian and therefore not offended by the idea, doesn't mean I completely disregard the importance of the holiday to me.

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Sue, you know I would send you the contents of the whole of Shanghai Tang's itself.

Christmas time is without a doubt my favourite time of year. And for many reasons. I grew up in a decidedly religious home where Christ and His birth was an pivitol part of the season and the reason for celebrating. It is still this way in my home and the homes of my parents and 5 brothers and sisters. We are fortunate to all live within easy traveling distance and get to spend the holidays 'making merry' together.

Christmas time involves getting together with my sisters and baking cookies. Going to Christmas pageants to watch the children dressed up in their shepherd/wise-men costumes and singing 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' to the tops of their little voices. It involves going door to door Christmas caroling and taking home-made apple pies to the neighbours. Afterwards, there is hot chocolate passed around and games to be played. Lots of love and laughter.

Every year, as well, the family gets together and lends hands to a local food-bank where we wrap and fill Christmas boxes to give to families who aren't as blessed as we are with material things.

So, yes, Christmas is my favourite time of year. I am so blessed and feel it very keenly, especially at this season.

I wish a very, very happy, healthy holiday season to all at FT in whatever way you chose to celebrate this festive season.

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I dread the holiday season because it means avoiding my grandmother's house lest I run the risk of seeing my father. For me, it's another reminder of how horrible my family truly is.

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Indie, that is so sad. I can see how the holiday season would be torturous for you when you live in such a situation as yours. I hope that things will turn out better than you anticipate this year.

Like Bally, the Christmas season has always been very important in my family. On December 12th of 1994, my family suffered a tragedy which changed our lives forever. It has taken me years to not hate Christmas...to get back the sweet feelings I have always had for this time of year and all it means to me. And every year, it's a little easier. I'm grateful again, for all my blessings.

"God is not dead -
nor doth He sleep..."

Christmas, for me, is the most favourite time of the year, and I just love the tradition of it. Although it is hard work sometimes for Mum to arrange everything somehow she does it! Also, we always have a "family" christmas, was is just as important to me. Only got two wishes on my Christmas list. One - to make Christmas as perfect as it can be all around the world, even for those who do not celebrate Christmas. And two - let Dad enjoy Christmas as much as he can too!

A cure for autism...or a government that even acknowledges that it is a massive health problem that needs to be covered by medicare...