Wishlist

I have decided it’s easier to post my wishlist here, instead of on a separate site. So here is my wishlist, not censored for price or impossibility or anything … and not really in any particular order. They’re all things I want .

• Visits! Bring dinner. Bring a book. Bring your laptop. Bring news of your life. Or bring your knitting and just sit and “be” here for a while. Talking is optional, but nice!
• Running around for me. Having somebody I could call and say “Could you pick up a blah from the frob shop this week?” is insanely useful. A booklet with “running around” coupons would be greatly treasured.
• Big wide necked vases – the sort you can plunk a bunch of flowers from the florist into. I have two vases but they’re both very narrow and tall and not at all good for florist bunches.
• Adopt a fairy penguin. How could I not? Penguin Foundation lets you “adopt” a fairy penguin for a year!
• Wall stickers. Small stickers that can be arranged and rearranged – things like stars, butterflies, clouds, and so on – would be fun.
• A 3-bedroom house in Nunawadding/similar with a garden at the back and all on one level for wheelchair access (I don’t ask for much, do I?).
• A Mac Mini with lots of memory and CPU power to act as a “backup” computer for when my Mac Pro is being fixed, and also as “bedroom computer” for when I get my own bedroom.
• A queen size water-bed (the second waviest available) when I get my own bedroom.
• Small animal/etc statues for my garden. Anything from an inch to a foot or two high is fun! The Whitehouse Gardens statues look lovely, for example.
• A Logitec QuickCam Sphere Webcam which I could mount on a netbook running XP. Then I’d have a remote controllable camera which could look around for me! That would be very cool and would require …
• A netbook running XP. I don’t know much about netbooks so please chat to me if you want to get me one and we can figure what specs are needed.
• A solar/wind-up radio and torch such as the Freeplay Companion Radio for use in case of power blackout. Actually, helping me plan and put together a full emergency kit with stuff like important phone numbers, water, food, etc. specialised to what I need would be most useful!
• Quiet cat toys. Not ones that will make more noise and drive me mad!
• Scraps of embroidery thread and wool. I can use any piece a metre long or more, for wool. Less for embroidery thread. The only types I can’t use are feathered ones as they don’t knot well. I’d most like bright clear colours of the standard 6-strand embroidery thread.
• Big planters to put in my garden and on the concrete near the garden. Have to be large enough not to dry out in less than a day in the summer sun, so at least 30cm diameter. What I really crave are a claw-footed bathtub (slightly broken would be fine for a planter!) and some of those half-barrel wooden planters with metal banding.
• A Wacom wireless Bamboo Fun tablet.
• A nice set of surround-sound speakers which I can connect to my computer but which also have a headphone port.
• A pair of Sennheiser PCX 450 headphones with noise cancelling technology. Or something similar – needs to have excellent noise cancelling abilities, volume controls, changeable cord, and be of a durable full-ear-covering design. Bose make good ones too!
• A Drobo array for backup purposes.
• A nice manual wheelchair that I own, instead of the crummy one from VA&EP that I use. Won’t be used much but the one I have is inappropriate and hurts in spots. I’d have to choose this and my OT would have to help make sure it’s appropriate and fits.
• Some brightly coloured temporary hair extensions! Not particularly to make my hair longer, just to have brightly coloured bits. Then somebody to braid them in for me…

Aaaaaand lots more stuff I can’t think of yet! Like a way to upload my brain!