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.
• Adopt me a fairy penguin. How could I not want this? Penguin Foundation lets you “adopt” a fairy penguin for a year!
• I definitely need an Engineered By Firefly bumper sticker for my new wheelchair!
• I have a great idea for a mural that I could paint in the bathroom, but I need a hand with design and somebody who can stand on a chair to paint it!
• 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?).
• 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.
• I’d really really like a Kindle DX for reading ebooks in comfort. It needs a leather case too.
• 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.
• Believe it or not I actually want tea towels! Does this mean I’m a real grownup now? Ikea AGGI and Julie’s Cosmos Connection are bright and fun looking. Lots of the Rodriquez ones are good too, the ones with smaller repeating designs – since mostly tea towels are folded up on the oven door I like smaller patterns rather than one big picture!
• A nice set of surround-sound speakers which I can connect to my computer would be great. Bluetooth speakers would be best since snaking cables around is hard.
• Set of very small desert spoons. My favorite ever spoon is a smaller-than-usual desert spoons plundered from an airline meal, and I would very much like more of them.
• I’d love some Sugru to make things with!
• A classic poet shirt like this one, or two (or three, or …), would be really good. Probably in a smart grey or black colour instead of white though – I hate wearing white. I’m a short 5’2″ person with a 110cm bust and 100cm waist, and I like clothes which are somewhat oversized so they’re loose and draped.
• Other mandarin-collared shirts in the same sizes and colours too.
• Build one of these v3 Window Farms for my big windows and help me plant it!
• Kit to attach a wrist strap/lanyard to my iPhone 4, the iPoddities iPhone 4s kit looks like the best.
• A Digifit Total Health Bundle costs a bunch but would help me monitor my health status
• I do love this Take It Apart T-shirt, size XL.
• There are also a bunch of things on my ThinkGeek Wish List, none of which actually have to be bought at ThinkGeek but all of which it’s easy to get there.

- Ricky