This page is really just a list of things that either I or Michelle want, but are not going to purchase right away (hence making the items good gift ideas). This list is in the process of being updated for my birthday — it hasn’t been updated for Michelle’s yet..
I’ve tried to provide links to the items on Amazon, but feel free to get them from somewhere else :) Also note that used is always fine (as long as the item is in good condition). I’ll add more links later.
Anyway, here’s the list for me — It’s got a vague, general ordering of things that would probably make the best gifts first:
- Bonsai Trees!!! Yes, I’m still trying! But this time, I want to get some from a store I like a fair bit, so hopefully they’ll arrive in good condition and I won’t kill them (or at least not all of them). The trees are all listed at the Dallas Bonsai web site. Don’t get any of the special (and expensive) “reserve” trees … though I would love to have one, I’d probably kill it and that would be sad. Instead, I want the following (in no real order):
- Premium Bonsai Kit – Unpruned Juniper – Windswept Design
- Economy Pruned Juniper – Windswept Design(Just the Bonsai)
- Economy Unpruned Juniper – Informal Upright. (Just the Bonsai) — as many of these as possible (well, okay, no more than 3, but whatever)
Obviously, there’s some potential overlap — the general idea being that I only need one kit, but multiple kits (as they do include the soil & pot) would be fine (just a bit more expensive). I also only need one pruned tree so that I can practice pruning on any others … but I do want at least one so that I have a real live example to use :).
- iTunes Music Store gift certificate or an Amazon gift certificate, which i’ll probably use for mp3 downloads (iTunes carrd) or eBooks (Amazon gift card)
- Baen publishing gift cards for their eBooks … they have a lot of sci-fi (with the occasional fantasy) books and a lot of my favorite authors. So a gift card will help expand my digital library (without spending as much as amazon normally charges)
- ***NO*** video games please. I haven’t had much time for them anyway lately … and adding to the backlog would just be depressing.
and here’s the list for Michelle (same type of vague ordering):
- The Office DVDs (American version) — season 5+
- iTunes Music store gift cards
- stuff from Bath & Body works