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Today is also Presidents Day. Or as an old friend used to quip, Birthington’s Washday. Make of that what you will.

But this is the “Wish Big” hop, which means that you might be wishing you had this holiday off. Or that it was a longer weekend. Or both! While you’re wishing, why not “WISH BIG” like the hop theme says?

It’s a small wish around here – or not so small considering the size of both George and Tuna – but we got a new gaming chair this weekend and we’re wishing that one or more of the cats would pose on either the new chair or the old chair now that we’ve set it up in a prime corner of the living room. But cats are a bit perverse, they NEVER do what their humans want them to, so I expect we’ll be waiting awhile and when it happens neither of us will have a camera-equivalent device within reach!

So, what’s at the top of your wish list right now? Share in the widget for your chance at Reading Reality’s usual giveaway hop prize, the winner’s choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in Books.

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Welcome to the Wish Big Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox!

At this moment, I’m wishing for wellness – an excellent thing to wish for no matter what the season. I pulled my right hamstring about a month ago, and I’m finally at the point where it mostly doesn’t bother me – although I’m still annoyed at the things I can’t quite get back to doing. I’m also just getting over the truly nasty cold that’s been going around. If there’s anything more annoying than being snotty all the time, I haven’t found it. Not that it’s life-threatening or anything terrible, but it’s one’s nose, and one just can’t away from one’s own nose no matter how much one might want to.

Also, whenever either of us sneezes, it scares ALL the cats half to death themselves. It’s like all them suddenly have 16 legs each, all madly scrambling in opposing directions, all at the same time!

So, what’s at the top of your wish list right now? Share in the rafflecopter for your chance at Reading Reality’s usual giveaway hop prize, the winner’s choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in Books.

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Welcome to the Wish Big Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox!

Right this minute, I have a VERY big wish at the top of my personal wish list. My sweet demon cat, Lucifer, is suddenly acting like his years have caught up with him all at once. When we adopted him five years ago we were told that he was six years old, but that was a bit of a guesstimate – albeit an educated one from the vet.

This week he’s been acting off, not moving through his usual routine of places to sleep and sunbeams to soak up. He may just be getting a slower start in the mornings than he used to, or he may just be having an ‘off’ couple of days. Or we might not have as much time with him as we’d hoped. He’s headed to the vet so we’ll know if there is something to be known. But it’s hard to go through this with them.

While it’s not always a bad thing that cats can’t tell us what’s on their mind – because they can seem really judgey based on their facial expressions, but when they’re not quite right we end up wishing that they could tell us how they’re really feeling. (When this picture was taken a couple of years ago, Lucifer was clearly wishing I’d stop chasing  him around with the camera!)

So what’s at the top of your wish list right now? And if you have a wish to spare, Lucifer could use a few good ones.

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Welcome to the Wish Big Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox!

There are so many variations of the old saying about being careful what you wish for. Pretty much all of them have a sting in the tail, in the same way that “May you live in interesting times” is a curse and not a blessing.

Most of the versions of the quote go something along the lines of “Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” But I found a couple of interesting ones that I hadn’t seent before, and now that I’ve read them I can’t un-see them.

Terry Pratchett had one. Of course he did. Sir Terry had so many great lines spread out over all the Discworld books. Pratchett’s variation goes, “Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening,” which was certainly true in the Discworld.

And also leads to my other favorite variation, the one that goes, “All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.” Combined with another more famous quote about science fiction, that “The Golden Age of Science Fiction is twelve,” it makes for a really frightening thought!

There are no frightening wishes here, so if you wish to fill out the rafflecopter below, you might get a wish – or at least a wish for a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in Books – granted.

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