A freaking awesome cuisinart for making pesto
iPod
iTunes gift card
Tripod for my rocking new camera
A farberware skillet
Canvas
Candles
Strength training gloves
A really good set of paint brushes
A really good set of make-up brushes
Your frequent flyer miles
A new cell phone
DVDs:
Any season of Grey’s Anatomy
Sleeping with the Enemy
Grosse Point Blank
Rocky Series, or just Rocky IV
CDs:
Kissing Jessica Stein soundtrack
ROCKY IV soundtrack
Any INDIGO GIRLS album or anthology
Bianca Ryan (she’s seriously amazing)
Anything from Jonie Mitchell
Design of a Decade JANET JACKSON
Books:
This Bridge Called My Back
More stuff from bell hooks
Anything from Natalie Goldberg
Modern poetry by women of color
A Dummies Guide to Adobe InDesign/Photoshop (if this exists)

WHAT I DO NOT NEED or even remotely DESIRE:
frames
plaques
purses
coffee table art books
small books that are about nothing
water bottles
fleece pullovers
stationary
chocolate, unless its Ferrero Rochere
a subscription to BITCH
gloves
scarves
clothes
rosaries
office supplies
calendars
Anything by Ann Gedes
Books by Betty Freidan or Gloria Steinam
Another copy of Women Who Run with Wolves
Any movie with either Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude van Damme
A giftcard to Applebees, unless it’s redeemable somewhere else