Conference turris::womannotes-v1

    Well speaking right now as a moderator - I would like to give
    the spirit of good fellowship and understanding to all those
    who read and write in this file :-)...
    
    Bonnie J
    (and maybe an end to this snow storm)

What I'd really like to have happen is that I win megabucks. And then
I'd like to give my family some of the $$$ so we can all live a bit
more comfortably.

But on the realistic side, I'd really love that 100 W, remote control
stereo reciever I've been drooling over. (Well maybe not really realistic
til I buy it for me for my birthday).

And for my best friend, I'd love to give him that brand new shiny Ram Charger
he's been drooling over.
    
Jenna

    I hope that my friend Rachel finds a baby to adopt.
    I hope that I get my shit together enough to start giving back to
    the world instead of just absorbing.

    Nice to have a lighter topic Alan.....
    
    I'd like two front row tickets to the next Clapton concert.
    
    For my wife, I wish she was having an easier time at home raising
    our 4 month old tazmanian devil, er I mean our son. 

    re: .3  (second wish)
    
    Looks to me like you have (and I stronly suspect have never
    "just absorb[ed]").
    
    Other than perhaps a long-term, big-advance-money contract with
    any major recording label (for myself), I guess I'd wish for
    each one of us a day of uninterrupted, undiluted happiness.
    
    Steve
    
    (Ooo! ooo!  Just one more. . .hey Santa, how about a cable network
    dedicated to the films of Howard, Fine, and Howard???)
     

    I wish my relationship with my SO would straighten itself out and
    then we could settle down and really enjoy life.
    
    I wish I could give my all to be a better/more independent person
    and find some time and thought consuming hobbies.
    
    Boy, this is going to be an interesting christmas.
    
    -Jody
    

    I, too, wish I could win Megabucks and/or Mass Millions.  Then I
    could:  Offer to get my mom and sister out of debt & give them some
    money to invest, give my brother the money to finish school so he
    can leave the job that's killing him (but is paying his tuition),
    visit my family members regularly (they're scattered in LA,
    Minneapolis, New Orleans & Honolulu, respectively) contribute
    _substantial_, truly helpful amounts to charities, quit Corporate
    America and begin my own special business (something I love which
    will never make me the survival money that Corporate America
    provides...sigh). 
    
    And with the money, I'd give my husband a MicroVAX with all the
    trimmings and the gift of world travel...something he'd dearly
    love to do.
    
    Marcia-you-may-say-that-I'm-a-dreamer-but-I'm-not-the-only-one

    Just a random notion:  maybe getting the second wish will help
    accomplish wish number one.  And, if it's any consolation,
    I have another notion which is that many (most? all?) "good"
    relationships (whatever that means) are *never* straightened
    out/settled down; seems to me that the work towards these
    goals goes on (and on. . .and on. . .  :-D  ).
    
    Steve (who's-trying-to-make-"getting there"-all-the-fun)
    

    re: .8  - that was s'posed to be re: .6 (Jody).
    
    Steve  (of the itchy trigger ("return key") finger
    

    What I wish is that all the beings (human and otherwise) in the
    world could live in harmony, and that we'd stop trashing the
    environment.
    
    Karen
    

    I wish my friend (SO) would become more understanding, forgiving,
    compassionate, and loving then he has been in the past few months.
    I also wish that my bestfriend's marriage works out and that they
    have the best Christmas ever.  I wish love for my family who will
    be apart from each other this Christmas for the first time.  Winning
    some money would be nice about 10,000 please...
    
    Pam 

    I wish for a washer/dryer.  (laundromats suck)
    I wish for a fridge with 8 cu ft (rather then 4!)
    I wish for a freezer that would freeze. (I like ICE CREAM)
    
    And I really wish the world population were smaller.
    
    Lee

    I can think of only one thing that would add a significant amount
    of happiness to my life this Christmas:  that would be changing
    the length of a day from 24 to 48 hours!
    
    							Pat

    
    	For Xmas, I'd like to lose the illusion of "self" and stop
    defending such concepts as "my" office, "my" space in time, "my"
    idea, "my" reputation, "my" beliefs, etc.
    
    	I'd like to see someone else be able to love everyone 
    unconditionally - including themselves...
    
    	Whoa!
    
    	Joe Jas
    
    (Gee, why all the 17:XX's - what's everybody waiting for?)

    
    	I wish house prices would come down and stay down for a long
    time. I've been saving for a while as my wife and I have a certain
    style home in mind (we really agree on that, wicked huh?!!), but
    each time we arrive at a goal, the GD homes are 10-20k higher! Really
    tick me off!
    
    I also wish happiness for all noters and non-noters (does that cover
    everyone in the world?) for a lifetime. Happy Holidays!
    
    Pisano

    digression
    
    in re .14
    
    gee Joe, I don't know, I left at 14.30...hope all the late stayers
    thought the party was worth waiting for :-)

    I don't need one.  It is clearly a luxury in time and money.  But
    Santa I would like a SO.  A real good friend of the opposite sex
    with whom I can 'grow old with for the best is yet to be'.
    
    I am also asking for a sundial with the same saying. 
       

    I wish I would land a new, great job (after 7 months of looking).
    
    (That's all!!!!!   ;')    )
    

	I have three wishes....

	1. MY biggest wish:
		
		A picture, of someone so dear to me, yet I have
		never seen him in person.

	2. My second wish:

		To meet an SO. that I could keep happy for the
		rest of her life....

	3. My third wish:

		That my first one will come true first, and foremost.


			Micheal

    Well, now that my nearest and dearest has gotten his relocation
    to Massachusetts (rah!) ..... I wish I had a job.       
                                                      
    Unfortunately, wishing is a pretty useless occupation, so I'm going
    over to OASS::JOBS.                               
           
    (Now, if St Nick could do something about the hiring "freeze", I would
    be most grateful.)

    
    A McDonald Land Gift Certificate
    
    

My #1 wish is that my youngest son (14) has a good Christmas.  He presently
lives with his dad and has expressed to my parents and myself that he is unsure
as to whether he wants to stay there in Ohio or come back to Massachusetts.

My #2 wish is expressed to those of you who aren't able to spend the holidays
with family members or friends that you would like to be with this year.  May 
we all have peace and happiness with those that we are able to be with.

My third wish is to get out of debt in 1988 and be able to save some money for
that cruise I've always wanted to go on.

Happy Holidays to all,
Susan

Wish List ...

that I can live another 400 years.  What a great planet!

that my life keeps improving, just as it has for the past many years 
(hard work and luck).

that I can be of more use to others (have not slaved at this one. blush)

that the Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl. That would keep my husband happy 
till April. Also, it would not displease me.

that all the Womannoters have a Merry Christmas!

                                Meigs

    Re: .27
    Gee, Meigs, I misread your note as 4000 years, and I said "That
    sounds about right to me!"
    

    i wish i could find an apartment that i can afford and that feels
    like home and is in a nice neighborhood. by february 1st, please. 
                                           
    and i hope christmas with the family is unstressful for all of us.

    I wish that my baby turns out to be as healthy and happy as I dream
    he/she will be (my little one is really active today!)
    
    and I wish for my husband that he didn't have to drive used pickup
    trucks, but that we had the money to buy him the kind of car he'd
    like.
    
    Gloria

    I wish that people in this area and everywhere else would stop killing
    other people.  (For those of you outside of Mass, we've had 2 triple
    murders of women and children this week in the quiet, central,
    semi-rural part of the state).   
    
    I wish there was one thing in life that felt like fun.  Each day
    consists of long work hours and trying to reduce my personal "To-Do"
    list. I can't think of anything that even sounds like fun.
    
    Maybe next year will be better. 
                                              
    

    I want my mother to come out for Christmas.
    
    For Shellie, I want her to find support as a non-pregnant parent.
    She is feeling "left out", and was raised to be the one who goes
    through all of the fetal kicks and heartburn.
    
                    Carol

    I wish everybody will turn inward and work on oneself and stop
    trying to fix everybody else...
    
    
    Peace/Bruce

    re: .31  (killings)  Amen.  One of our group was murdered last
    month.
    
    Steve
    

    My wish for Christmas and the New Year is that I have a healthy
    baby in June.  I am on my third pregnancy with no children yet and
    am finding the anxiety to be overwelming at this point.  To make it past
    Christmas will mark the farthest any of my pregnancies have gone
    as well as an end to my first trimester.
    
                                             - Sue
    

I wish that every child on this planet had a comfortable home, a tummy full
of food and parents that would teach him/her about love and acceptance
instead of prejudice and hate.

Betty    

    I wish for the happiness of my father, that God watches over him
    and shows him the light at the end of the tunnel, that his four
    "natural" children are still "living"in this world and that he let's
    go of his anger, faces up to his mistakes and genuinely tells me
    that he's sorry.
    
    That's what I wish.  God, are you listening?
    
    Happy Holidays everyone.  Make this a special time and carry ALL
    these good feelings all year 'round.  Peace.  
    
    Cathy

    I wish that all people in combat situations can leave their 
    battlefields and go home to a loving family or to a place where
    they can find some peace and respite from the tragedy of war.
    
    Peace to all.
    
    Joan G.
     

    
    I wish I could reach out and touch my friends and take away all
    their pain.
    
    I wish I had the money to pay my bills....a real job would be nice.
    
    I wish I could afford the beautiful keyboard that is sitting right
    next to me now in my bosses office.  Only $450.  Only 2 weeks of
    my salary.....*sigh*  If wishes could come true.....
       

    I wish that Sue's (re.35) wish comes true, and will wait anxiously
      to see that it has.
    
    I wish for my best friends second baby to be as happy, healthy,
     and as beautiful as her first. (And that it be born on my birthday
     as her due date is the day after.  It's my 30th coming up and I'm
     pretty down already.  It could be the best thing she could have
     given me in our twelve year friendship).
    
    For myself, I wish my life had gone differently and I could have
     had children to raise along with my best friends.  I always imagined
     our going through pregnancies together.  But my life went another
     path.
    
    Can you tell I love children?  :-)
    
    
                               Merry Christmas to all, and hope 
                                 at least some of your wishes 
                                 come true!
    
                                                 cj
    

    Santa, I said an SO not flannel sheets and flannel nightgown.
    
    I guess that means I am not getting the SO, huh?
    
    Oh well I will be warm this winter. ;-)

    Joyce, I am still looking...sorry, 'he' just wasn't ready
    for you
    
    love
    
    Santa