GeeCee's Not-Entirely-Original Miscellany

A "Dear Santa" letter from the National Zoo.

The National Zoo has posted a holiday wish list for enrichment items for the animals, from small things like Kong toys for the wolves and cheetahs and chew toys for the parrots to larger items like a slide and teeter totter for the otters or plastic kiddie pools for the small cats. You can either buy an item and bring it to the zoo by February 1, or you can make a donation so that zoo staff can purchase items. The wish list is here. (That slide is awesome, I'd love to watch the otters play on it. Heck, if I was half my height and a third my weight, I'd want to play on it. Unfortunately, that donation is a bit outside my budget right now.)

Adopt a booby or two. (Totally SFW, I promise.)

Or a ferret, or a lemur, or a tree frog, bison, pygmy elephant, or octopus.

Today is Sweetmorn, day 44 in the season of The Aftermath, 3271.

A bunch of you probably already know that I like giving people little random gifts, so it stands to reason that I really enjoy the seasonal wish-list thing that's gone around the last couple of years. If you haven't seen it yet, it goes a little something like this:

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I've bookmarked the ones I've seen (in my memories; some of them are locked, some aren't) and sent a couple of gifts already (although LJ's email screwiness lately may have sent the notification emails into a black hole), but if you've posted one and you think there's a chance I might not have seen it, send me a link.

I keep thinking that maybe I'll play along too, but I've got this weird mental block going on. I feel uncomfortable posting a wish list myself, although I absolutely have no problem with anyone else posting theirs and in fact rather appreciate it. Intellectually I realize that if I like seeing people's wish lists and sending them reasonable gifts if I can, then there's a great likelihood that other people might feel the same way about mine; my initial gut reaction though is "I can't ask for anything for myself, that's too pushy". It's not, really, since there's no demand that anyone get anything off said list, it's just a suggestion that if you are already inclined to do such a thing, here's something that might make it easier. "Buy me things!!!" is a totally different situation, one which I tend to disregard if I see it. (For the record, I have never seen anyone on my reading list do the "buy me stuff!" demand in anything resembling seriousness.) Eh. I'll think about it. In the meantime, I'll try to ease into it by pointing out that if you're stumped for gift ideas, donations to Best Friends Animal Society are always good things.