Dear Santa

[limewave]

I would like:

A single speed mountain bike, with 26" inch wheels and a suspension fork. . . . And a rigid fork.

And a pair of running snowshoes.

~Limewave

[Veronica]

Dear Santa,

I would like to keep my weight at 141 pounds and 14% body fat while eating all the yummy Christmas goodies that only come around once a year.

I know if I did more cardio it would not be an issue. Could you please close the school so I can take an extended Christmas vacation? That would give me time to ride my bike every day and run more.

Thanks,

Veronica

[indysteel]

Dear Santa: I'd like to keep my mojo this coming year please. No emotional funks, no health issues, no injuries, no long stretches of bad weather, no cat illnesses, no pity parties. You get the drift, right? I'm in a better groove at the moment, but I'd really like it to stay that way. And I want to enjoy myself along the way. I care less what exactly I'm doing, so long as I have fun and feel strong doing it. It would be great, too, if my butt and thighs got smaller in the process.

Thanks so much. I'll leave some cookies out for you if that it'll help.

[Veronica]

The cookies won't help Santa's butt and thighs!

Veronica

[indysteel]

The cookies won't help Santa's butt and thighs!

Veronica

LOL. They are strictly for Santa!!!

[zoom-zoom]

Dear Santa, can you take my extra 20#s and give them to my 50th percentile height, <25th percentile weight kid? That would be great. :p

[redrhodie]

Dear Santa,

I'd like some new cashmere gloves. Mine are holey.

[Catrin]

Dear Santa,

I would like a year full of mountain biking, camping and riding without injuries, and to be able to afford changing my SRAM triggers on my mountain bike to the new SRAM 10-speed X0 grips when they become available next year. A new pair of running shoes would be great! I really would like to lose this "apple" shape that I have, it might be a much smaller apple but it is still there.

hmmm, does chocolate-mint fudge sound good to you?

[GLC1968]

Dear Santa -

I'd like to find a buyer for my tri bike please. You know I need the money, right? I promise to help you out with presents to all of my family if you could just help me out with this one detail.

PS - Will paleo cookies and goat's milk on Dec 24th help my case or hurt it?

[VeganBikeChick]

Dear Santa,

For one of the few times in my life, I'm in an amazingly happy place. 2012 is supposed to be "my year", and I'd really like that wish to come true.

[Brandi]

For anyone who wants to give me something to donate the money instead. (they give me crap I can't use anyway).
Oh and anything from the bamboo store in town :)

[smittykitty]

Dear Santa: You know what a weather wimp I am. I really would like to cancel winter and have 65 degree, oh heck, make it 70 degree days, with no rain here in the NW. I just want to ride my bike without all those layers.

Please Santa, Oh Please. I want to ride my bike in the sunshine. Please Santa Please!!!!. I promise I'll be a good girl all year long. Really I will. I promise.

[SheFly]

Dear Santa --

I really don't need anything for Christmas this year. Instead, you could please focus on the wishes of my friends here at TE? And most importantly, could you give Mimi and Don some good news?

That's all. And I won't leave cookies - it appears everyone here has that covered :D.

SheFly

[limewave]

I meant to add to the thread title: Purely Materialistic Wish Lists
TEers are so thoughtful, always thinking of other. It's such a great community!

This year, instead of getting presents of the kids teachers, we donated money to a charity in their name. And I'm signing up to volunteer as a Girls on the Run coach (I'm really looking forward to this!!!).

. . . .

P.S. Santa--I think DH is covering the snowshoes . . . so all I need is that single speed bike. Oh, and for Owasippe to open back up to mountain biking in 2012 so I have somewhere to ride! Please, please, please!!!!

[jessmarimba]

I need to google Girls on the Run - that sounds like fun!

Dear Santa,
I'd like pretty much anything by Icebreaker. And some black boots.

And now I'm going to go to work so I can earn the money to buy it all for myself (when it goes on sale after Christmas).

[zoom-zoom]

Oh, and for Owasippe to open back up to mountain biking in 2012 so I have somewhere to ride! Please, please, please!!!!

Ooh, ditto that! I hate driving all the way to Luton for real trails!

[jusdooit]

Dear Santa,

I would like a mixte with a flip/flop hub. Oh and some new shorts and shoes. And a saddle that's comfortable..........please.

[jessmarimba]

I'd like to change my requests, Santa. I'd like a clothes dryer. It isn't really effective to dry the clothes on the line when it's 15 degrees outside.

[solobiker]

Dear Santa, I would like to keep my job. It is a good one but with the way the census is going in my building it is not looking too good.

[ny biker]

Dear Santa, as you know I already used my Clarks 20%-off coupon to buy the new boots that I needed to replace the pair that's worn out and the pair that never fit right in the first place. So that's covered. And I got the Smartwool neck gaitor and liner gloves during that great sale at REI, and I found the red wool sweater I've been looking for since last winter, on sale AND with free shipping from J Jill. So I'm pretty much covered in terms of clothes, which as you know is usually high on my list.

So really I would like new doorknobs for all the doors in my condo, in a brushed nickel finish. And a matching 2-way keyed deadbolt for the balcony door. And new hinges for all the doors, to replace the ones that were painted over with so many layers of paint. Oh, and new light fixtures for the dining area and bathroom.

While you're here, it would be so awesome if you could bring a few elves to organize my cluttered living room.

BTW go easy on all those cookies, I'm baking you a rum cake...

[skhill]

Dear Santa,

What I'd love more than anything else is modern insulation and new windows for the house. Can you take care of all that without waking me up?

[bmccasland]

Dear Santa,
Could you please convince someone to buy my house in Louisiana, so that in turn, I can buy someone's house here in Washington?

Thank you.

[ladyicon]

Dear Santa, all I really want is Health, Wealth, and happiness for my entire family, friends, and everyone on TE. Oh, and in the material dept., I would like to lose 30 lbs. and get a new bike.

[jelee1311]

Dear Santa, please make my back better so I can ride again. I miss my bike and she misses me!

[Owlie]

Dear Santa:
Could I have a shiny new bicycle? Please? I've been good all year.
Barring that, some wool glove liners and a high-viz jacket?

[malkin]

Dear Santa,

The nice people at Bike Friday are busy, but maybe if you spoke to them they'd hurry up and get those bikes done so that we could get in on the free Christmas Eve delivery.

The chimney here is dubious, so better go with the porch. I'll watch for you and keep the lights on.

[katluvr]

Dear Santa,
I really don't know what I want, that is what I tell my family. I am fortunate enough to have a good job, can pay all my bills AND afford fun trips (ok so maybe I am not saving enough), usually buy what I want/need and I seem to have good health. I am not in need of anything materialist except the winning lotto ticket so I can quit work and play all the time!

I wish I had more will power (do you deliver that?) to eat better more often, lose these last darn pounds and lastly maybe a 2 hour or sub 2 hour 1/2 marathon??

Like everyone else I'll bribe you with a few cookies...I'll make sure they are healthy ones!

Thanks, Santa!

K

[malkin]

Dear Santa,

I need new shoes. One pair of new shoes. So regarding that huge order from Zappos, please make one pair perfectly comfortable (and beautiful) and the rest be obviously, miserably, blatantly wrong (and ugly).

Thank you.

[Aggie_Ama]

Dear Santa,

Could you bring me funds to start pre-requisites for nursing school? I will do the hard part like study my butt off. And to keep me sane I could use some new bibs to ride in, a My Fit Foods challenge to drop a few pesky pounds and start me dropping processed foods and one of those nifty portable pressure washers to keep my mountain bike clean.

I will leave you one of my Christmas Cookie plates. :D

[limewave]

Dear Santa,

I need new shoes. One pair of new shoes. So regarding that huge order from Zappos, please make one pair perfectly comfortable (and beautiful) and the rest be obviously, miserably, blatantly wrong (and ugly).

Thank you.

lol. Good luck with that :)

[Selkie]

Dear Santa,
Could you please convince someone to buy my house in Louisiana, so that in turn, I can buy someone's house here in Washington?

Thank you.

Sounds like you need to ask St. Joseph for help.

[redrhodie]

Sounds like you need to ask St. Joseph for help.

I'm not religious, but I did that, and the house sold within a week, after being on the market for several months. Everyone says it, but it really worked to me.

If you don't know, you get a little St. Joseph statue, and bury it near the for sale sign.

[VeganBikeChick]

And oddly enough, I don't know why, you're supposed to bury the St. Joseph statue upside down.

[Selkie]

First, you have to have faith that St. Joseph will assist. I'm not a church goer, but I am spiritual and believe in the Saints.

St. Joseph helped several family members and even some initially-doubting friends.

You don't have to bury the statue. I kept the statue---when I asked St. Joseph for assistance, I promised him that he would always have a home with us, no matter where we lived. He has a place of honor on my dresser.

[redrhodie]

I did it as a skeptic, and it still worked.

[Reesha]

Dear Santa,

I'd like a new saddle... one that will be kind to my tush on my looooong ride next year.
I'd also like some new bike shoes-- Sidi Dominator 5's please!
I need a few more pairs of bibs, a tent and a camping aerobed to sleep on inside the tent.

I also need the willpower to lose 15-20 lbs before April. Please help!

love,

Reesha

[bmccasland]

And oddly enough, I don't know why, you're supposed to bury the St. Joseph statue upside down.


First, you have to have faith that St. Joseph will assist. I'm not a church goer, but I am spiritual and believe in the Saints.

St. Joseph helped several family members and even some initially-doubting friends.

You don't have to bury the statue. I kept the statue---when I asked St. Joseph for assistance, I promised him that he would always have a home with us, no matter where we lived. He has a place of honor on my dresser.

My real estate agent has informed me that St. Joeseph is buried in the yard of my house. She's even gone out "to freshen him." I think friends snuck on and buried another one. :rolleyes: I haven't gone to a Catholic supply store to get my own St. Joesph. I'll go for all the help I can get.

[jessmarimba]

I think Santa may bring me the dryer - we've been earning gift cards at work for reports turned in ahead of schedule, and one of our options is Home Depot. So hopefully (*fingers crossed*) will get a dryer and a pedestal sink for the bathroom.

Good luck with the house!

[skhill]

Dear Santa,

My four-footed housemates have asked me to pass along a few requests. The cats would like you to bring them a self-serve catnip dispenser and some dog-free play time. The dog would like a big, meaty, messy bone, and for one of the cats to be willing to play with her. They've promised to leave out a pig's ear and some canned tuna for you!

[Sky King]

My real estate agent has informed me that St. Joeseph is buried in the yard of my house. She's even gone out "to freshen him." I think friends snuck on and buried another one. :rolleyes: I haven't gone to a Catholic supply store to get my own St. Joesph. I'll go for all the help I can get.

Hmmm, I don't know if it works if you didn't bury him. We followed all the instructions when we buried ours and that included digging him back up after the house closed and moving him to a place of honor in our new house - where he sits today. I know corny and mine is plastic and no I am not a catholic either :)

[malkin]

What do you have to do to "freshen" a buried St. Joseph?

[malkin]

Wow!

My name really is Virginia, and Santa (and Peter and everybody at Bike Friday) got our Bikes Friday here!!! Yesterday!!!

Today we are scavenging saddles and pedals and adjusting and admiring and dreaming of travels...

[bmccasland]

What do you have to do to "freshen" a buried St. Joseph?

Un-bury him, clean him off, say a new prayer, and re-bury him. ;)

[malkin]

Un-bury him, clean him off, say a new prayer, and re-bury him. ;)

I thought maybe you'd spray him with cologne or powder his nose or something.

[jessmarimba]

My dryer came this morning!!

Time to go see if I can shrink my skinny jeans so they're skinny again :)

[Brandi]

For anyone who wants to give me something to donate the money instead. (they give me crap I can't use anyway).
Oh and anything from the bamboo store in town :)
Oh and the ability to learn to relax not just when doing yoga.

[Blueberry]

Wow!

My name really is Virginia, and Santa (and Peter and everybody at Bike Friday) got our Bikes Friday here!!! Yesterday!!!

Today we are scavenging saddles and pedals and adjusting and admiring and dreaming of travels...

Congratulations! Can't wait to see photos & read ride reports:)

I actually just committed to a very used Friday (Pocket Rocket) that came into my local shop. It will be my commuter (and it's used enough that I'll worry less about it). A NWT would have been my choice (wheels/tires), but the price was ride and 28's should be wide enough. She should have all of her new parts by mid to late January!

[Red Rock]

Dear Santa,

We have moved and condo is almost sold. We either need opportunities to come up for grass/landscaping needs and for a local company to see that I am a hard worker and would appreciate working for them. This way I can get some health insurance.

I'll keep praying too.

Red Rock

[smilingcat]

Dear Santa,

I'm not so young anymore and could use a little help with my ride. I found a really neat ride. It's a hybrid velomobile. electric motor assisted velomobile and I would like it with Lithium phosphate battery.

My body just don't tolerate the weather that much and I really could use a tricycle so that I don't fall over. that would be a big plus. This model has a reverse gear, rear view mirror on both sides, turn signals, stop signal and headlight. and electric windshield wiper. How grand is that?? only thing missing is radio, GPS, heat and A/C :) :D

I'm going to be really nice and include the link. http://www.aerorider.nl/en/aerorider.html
and http://www.solarwebsite.nl/en/2007/08/proefrit-aerorider/ for an unbiased review.

PS I had put a down payment for an Aptera, a three wheel car but Aptera Company went bust at the beginning of the month. I still would like a really "rad" looking ride. Oh I asked my money back wayyy back in 2008 so I didn't lose my down payment.