What I'd like for Christmas

Dp keeps asking me what I want for Christmas and I can’t give him a list. The things I want you can’t buy in the shops.

I’d like an extra hour in the day. And while I love my children and enjoy spending time with them, I’d like it to be an hour that they are sleeping, so I can get things done, like blog posts and reading books.

Next can I have some courage, so that I can write the blog posts I want to write, without being too scared to actually publish them. See, I’d love to debate a variety of topics, but I don’t want to offend anyone, and the two don’t go together too well. So yes, a soupcon of courage please.

While I’m at it, with this list, could I have a magic wand. I have so many friends hurting so much, and I’d love to be able to wave a wand and take the pain away. But I know it doesn’t really work, as the only way to ease the pain is to forget for a little while, and then, when you remember, you have pain *and* guilt. Is there a magic wand that could change that a little?

Oh, I’m on a roll now. Could I have some funny? I’d love to be able to write blogposts that ppl share and write lol or rofl about. I *think* I do have a sense of humour, but it doesn’t seem to come out too well through the typed word. So could I have some help developing that area?

And I’d like some more education. I’d like to be able to understand the science of climate change, or not climate change, whichever it is. (I’m not sure it’s terribly important which it is, counting on my fingers tells me that one world, shared between so very many ppl means that some of the ppl have too much and are using up too much stuff, and some have too little and aren’t getting their fair share. And that will have to change, somehow.) Oh, and I’d like to understand economics. It seems to be terribly important somehow, and yet all these politicians with no training in it seem to wander around making pronouncements that make no sense to me. So I’d like to be able to understand that.

Anything else? I’d like someone to wave that magic wand over me and give me the chance to see myself as the world sees me. If the world sees me. Sometimes I wonder, if I disappeared from twitter and stopped writing this blog, if I stepped away from the screen and off into the real world, would anyone online notice? I know there are some of you who would, some of you who text if I don’t tweet, but of my several hundred followers, blog subscribers, fb fans, I wonder how many of you would. Not so very many I suspect.

How do you all see me? Flawed no doubt. A bit odd. Socially incompetent, awkward, shy. Without much of a sense of humour, never quite sure what to say face to face. Or is that how I see me, and the rest of you know someone else entirely?

I’ve got away from the list. I’m running out of wants. Perhaps I’ve wished for enough impossible things now, but just in case I haven’t, I’ll throw in an ask for world peace. I think it’s traditional isn’t it?

And if I can’t have all or any of those, I guess I’d quite like a family games console. But I don’t know whether the Wii, PS Move or XBox with Kinect is the best option. It’s hard this list making, isn’t it?