Secret Santa 2010 Options

[Phyllis]

It's that time again! Time for you all to sign up to get a victim lucky Matazonian (chosen by Cath or me ) something special for around £5 (as of right now, that amounts to about $8 US).

The deadline to sign up is the 1st of December. To sign up, simply fill out the thingummy (hey! Firefox recognises thingummy as a valid word. Who knew?) at the bottom of this post with your own information, post it in this thread, and then PM me your address. You need to send a PM even if you think I already have your address (unless you're moop, of course). It makes it a lot easier for me to keep track of everything, and the odds of me actually finding an address sent to me a year ago are slim to none.

Victims will likely be assigned on the 1st, and I'm going to say the deadline for sending gifts should be the 10th, given that some will have to be sent internationally. There's some wiggle room on the deadline, but be sure to let your victim know if his/her gift will be late (you'll receive the sign-in info for the Secret Santa account when either Cath or myself PM you with your victim's name and address, and you can post in this thread under that username to ask questions, etc.).

Please don't participate if you think you might not be able to follow through. Sometimes things beyond your control can come up, which is perfectly understandable, but if you're going to flake, for the love of Pete, let us know as far in advance as you can, okay? Okay.

If you've participated in the past, Cath and I will need to know the names of your previous victims, so you don't get paired up with them again. If you don't remember who they were (this is the fourth year we're doing this, after all), you can find last year's thread here. It should have your victims from the first two years in your initial post, and buried somewhere in the thread will be the name of the person you had last year.

I think that's everything! PM Cath or myself if you have any questions/concerns/chocolate/praise that can't go in the thread.

So...

Name: Candice
Previous Victim(s): Ashbless, Cheesemoose, and Elphaba
Likes/Dislikes: The past few years I've just asked for something to amuse me, and it has yet to fail me. I hate anything banana or cherry flavoured, should Santa feel like sending me food. Oh, and I'm a vegetarian, though I don't know why you'd send me meat. Never hurts to be sure, though. I'd feel bad if I failed to mention it, and then opened the door to find the postman standing there with a side of beef or something. And then I'd wonder where you found a side of beef for £5, and it'd just be an awkward experience all round. My favourite animals are deer, my favourite colour is green, and I harbour fantasies about moving to some remote location to become a beekeeper/hermit. I'm not a big fan of knick-knacks, as a general rule. Looking back at this post, I think I can also add parentheses to my list of likes. Yeesh.

[LoLo]

Name: LoLo
Previous Victim(s): Evilspoon and Snoo
Likes/Dislikes:I pretty much go for anything funny. I'm obsessed with eyes, strange socks and Harley Quinn from batman. I don't like country music, tomatoes or people who want me to dance.

[Mata]

Name: Mata
Previous Victim(s): CheeseMoose, Ryn, and the poster forumly known as EvilSpoon
Likes/Dislikes: Well designed objects or 'urban toys', books of pictures, illustration thing generally, savoury foods, spicy foods, arty stuff, steampunk, punk, gothy things, quirky things... That should do. I don't really have many dislikes in the world. I'm a happy chap.

[voices_in_my_hea...]

Name: Chelsey/ Voices
Previous Victim(s): Kitty, Izzy, and Gothictheysay
Likes/Dislikes: I like pretty things. I'm currently an art major so anything related to art or the creating of it is not only an awesome gift, but is extremely useful. I don't like spicy things. I like jewelry with lots of sparkly things on it, and books of any kind. I have an odd love for Hello Kitty and other equally cute things. I love sleep and caffiene. And you. I love you, whoever you are.

[Cath Sparrow]

Name: Cath
Previous victims: 1st year - Gothic Angel, 2nd year - moop, last year - Froggy
Likes/Dislikes: I like pirates, goth stuff, generally alternative stuff steam punk etc. Odd = good. I've a seriously bad sweet tooth, jewellery and shiney stuff is good to and generally anything silly, amusing or quirky.
I hate banana anything they are the spawn of satan!! I think that reasonably covers it.

(No I didn't just copy and paste from last year. Honest!)

[Moosh]

Name: James or Moosh
Previous Victims: Chelsey, Amy, Hobbes
Likes: second-hand books, little weird toys, geeky things, sweets, caffeine, science!
Dislikes: chocolate

[snooodlysnoosnoo...]

Name: snoo
Previous Victim(s): Ange, Voices, Cath
Likes/Dislikes: I like the colour green, penguins, Alice in Wonderland, corduroy, warm fuzzy things, bunnies, sweets (especially sour ones), knee-socks, big mugs, curious objects that may or may not serve a purpose and basically anything random.

I dislike Gelatine (and other animal derived products used to make confectionery such as cochineal), monkeys and spicy foods.

[elphaba2]

I love this thingummy

Name: amy
Previous Victims: Speaker, Daria, Vic
Likes/Dislikes: stories, poems, hot beverages, small tins, small things to put in small tins, fabric/yarn, middle eastern/arabic things, french things, spanish things, brains, music, oh anything anything anything. I've gotten amazing things every year (thanks moop, james and candice!) and am generally really lucky to know y'all

[Hobbes]

Okay! I'm in for my second year!

Name: Hobbes
Previous Victim: Moop
Likes: cute animals, the English language, dreams, psychology, ephemera, music, photography, books books books, anything crafted with love and consideration, original art, keyrings, magnets, bubbles, stones, funny stuff, boxes, stationery, and attractive female redheads
Dislikes: Just in terms of food really... Nuts, bananas, extremely spicy stuff.

[mooooooooooopo]

Definitely in! I require more victims and my previous santas gave awesome gifts.

Name: Moop
Previous Victims: Elphaba, Froggy, LoLo
Likes: Cute animals, unconventionally cute animals like spiny lizards, sour things, root beer, weird noises and unconventional musical instruments, mysterious objects.
Dislikes: Bananas, mushrooms.

[edit] Added root beer. It is glorious and I miss it.

[CrazyFooIAintGet...]

I'm in. Hopefully royal mail won't steal my gift this year.

Name: Mat
Prev victims: Um, CheeseMoose I think (I could be making that up?)
Likes: Functional things. Odd things. The python programming language.
Dislikes: No sugary things please, I'm afraid of dentists.

[TigerLily013]

Name: Rebecca (TigerLily013 as nick will do)

Prev victims: None! First year this year I'm actually wanting AND able to participate!

Likes: Costume jewelry like mood rings that don't need to be adjusted to fit me (I'm a size 10/11ish in ring), I like boy's chains I can wear around my neck, I'm a sucker for crafts and sentimental creations someone took the time to think about lil' ol' me. Creations someone makes me can include computer made media files (music, wallpapers, video), stuff made of material like cloth, plastic, paper etc, you get the idea.

I collect virtual pets, and I also play World of Warcraft. I like Warlocks <3 Tis the first thing I leveled on there haha. I'm also enjoy things like cats, hello kitty, power rangers (old school please) and shiny things.

I don't know if food would be involved, however if it is something that'll travel well if it comes across the sea. Pocky or something box with low sodium is always a plus. Chocolate delights and other japanese treats are this lady's fancy. I also like a lot of gummy candies, and if they could be sugarfree that would be awesome, but if not no worries!

So Pretty much I like a lot of things lol.

Dislikes: Olives, Pepto Bismol or any food with sodium percentage of higher than 8%. I'm still working on the weight loss and main concern is keeping salt down. A lot in most cases as possible.

Also if sweets be sent to me, send an amount within reason since chocolate has a tendency to lower my will power to behave >_> lol.

[Ashbless]

Name: Ashbless
Previous victims: Mata, Smiler, and er, was it Daria?
Fresh food is tricky to send me as I'm in Canada. I'm not a big fan of the colour pink. I'm a biblioholic. Anything really. People have picked wonderful things in the past so I'm feeling pretty positive that whatever will be great.

[voices_in_my_hea...]

Name: Rebecca (TigerLily013 as nick will do)
Dislikes: Olives, Pepto Bismol or any food with sodium percentage of higher than 8%. I'm still working on the weight loss and main concern is keeping salt down. A lot in most cases as possible.

This made me laugh, that you hate Pepto SO MUCH that you're ensuring that just in case anyone wanted to send you a gift that helps de-gas you they don't choose to send the pink stuff. Anything but that.

Of course the fact that made me laugh so much might partially be the sleep deprevation.













ps - expect pepto if i'm your secret santa.

[TigerLily013]

Name: Rebecca (TigerLily013 as nick will do)
Dislikes: Olives, Pepto Bismol or any food with sodium percentage of higher than 8%. I'm still working on the weight loss and main concern is keeping salt down. A lot in most cases as possible.

This made me laugh, that you hate Pepto SO MUCH that you're ensuring that just in case anyone wanted to send you a gift that helps de-gas you they don't choose to send the pink stuff. Anything but that.

Of course the fact that made me laugh so much might partially be the sleep deprevation.













ps - expect pepto if i'm your secret santa.

Funny thing is, it would be worse to send me olives than the Pepto because even on smell those things made me very ill. Pepto needs to be ingested to make me sick lol. But I digest (joking)!

I expect something semi whacky lol.

[SPEAKERfortheLOS...]

Name: Patrick
Previous Victims: Candice and Izzy
Likes/Dislikes: Randomness has seemed to work well for me so far... So find random items. Put them in box. Send. Repeat.

[Oni Usagi]

This event was brought to my attention, and I'm actually able to participate. So here goes.
Name: Oni
Previous victims: I am innocent!
Likes: Puzzles/games, anime/manga related stuff, lurking, bunnies, foxes, space (outer), sour foods, spicy foods.
Dislikes: Pastels, uno, sweets, fruit, spiders, horror, Nickelback

I don't like country music, tomatoes or people who want me to dance.

Seconded!

[Hobbes]

This event was brought to my attention, and I'm actually able to participate.

Yay, Oni's in!

Dislikes: uno

You don't REALLY mean that... stop trying to offend us!

[Cath Sparrow]

Previous victims: I am innocent!

Aaawwww We get to corrupt Oni some more. \o/

[Moosh]

I don't like country music

I do, if you have any that you're not using you can always give it to me

[EvilSpork]

Name: Lloyd (not really, that's the bird's name)
Previous victims: Ashbless, Candice
Likes: Old stuff, spicy things, bicycles, motorcycles, knitting (particularly socks on double points), older video games, irn bru, cute things, tee shirts with freaking awesome designs, seriously good coffee, tea, bananas, orange (the color), orange (the fruit), cookies, muffins, pies, chocolate, wool, high performance synthetics, hiking, socks
Dislikes: Nickelback, being impaled, being cold, starbucks, crummy beer, large amounts of sugar (it makes my teeth hurt), nursing homes, answering phones, walmart

[Daria]

Name: Becky
Previous victims: Moop, Pat and Mata
Likes: Cephalopods, fabric, buttons, mix CDs, green things, birds, dark chocolate, ginger, the (^^^) shark, the book Howl's Moving Castle

Dislikes: Dolphins, meaty things, sweets, everyone else's taste in music, misunderstandings of my sense of humour, food with foreign ingredients lists that are untranslatable and leave me with an uncomfortable feeling of paranoia as to whether the foodstuff in question contains animal-derived incredients, large corporations, too much plastic, climate change activists, the film Howl's Moving Castle


I'm a vegetarian, and I like Mr Snaffleburger the bestest.

[Mata]

Blimey! Hey Oni, nice to see you again I just checked your stats and the last time you started a topic was four years ago!

[gothictheysay]

Name: Sarah (gothic if you must, sometimes there are just too many sarahs)
Previous Victims: Pat, of the SPS variety
Likes: books, good music, fluffy/cute things, clever things, a wide variety of animals, sci-fi-y stuff, snazzy earrings... I have confidence that whatever I get I'll probably like.
Dislikes: I can be picky about food, BUT if you do have something tasty, I'm perfectly willing to accept it I don't like fruity filled chocolate... well, my friend says it best when she says that if it's healthy I probably won't like it. but if you have, say, something that combines chocolate and peanut butter in a tasty fashion, I'm in. I suggest you ask. Also, Nickelback, and anything too horror-y or scary.

[Oni Usagi]

Aaawwww We get to corrupt Oni some more. \o/

More? How was I corrupted before?

Blimey! Hey Oni, nice to see you again I just checked your stats and the last time you started a topic was four years ago!

Nice to see you, too. Yeah, I drifted away. I peek in once in a great while, more often when somebody mentions things that are happening here, but generally been keeping quiet.