If you read this, you know what to do...you're tagged! Just for fun; I can handle these not-so-deep ones right now!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? gift bags!
2. Real tree or Artificial? This is my first year EVER on an artificial. I’m not sure how I feel about it.
3 . When do you put up the tree? Beginning of Advent for the artificial, 2 weeks for a real tree
4. When do you take the tree down? At Epiphany (Jan 5-6 arena)
5. Do you like egg nog? Sometimes, not really.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My sister got a Magical Musical Thing, I got a toy Electric Guitar, and we totally made some noise!
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Two: One atop my piano, a gorgeous Nativity in Waterford Crystal for the Christmas season; the other, an olive wood nativity that is always hung between my children’s bedrooms on the wall from the Holy Land.
8. Hardest person to buy for? my husband, so I don’t anymore as everything ends up in the trash or in the Freecycle pile.
9. Easiest person to buy for? my children, most of the time, or myself.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Snail Mail
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? The Shower Radio...a family gift, we kept reusing the box every year as a gag.
12. Favorite Christmas movie? A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...I really enjoyed the musical version with Kelsey Grammer...
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? October to November, usually
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Recycled, no; given to charity, yes.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chicken a la Maria on Christmas Eve.
16. Christmas colors? Deep red, deep purple, deep green, deep blue, deep green, gold and silver...royal colors
17, Favorite Christmas Carol? So many I love: O Holy Night, The Holly and the Ivy, O How a Rose E'er Blooming
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? STAY HOME!...or very close to home!
19. Can you name Santa's reindeerYes, but ONLY to the tune of “Rudolph”
20. Top of the Christmas tree? Angel
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Used to be both as a child; but now not as many gifts, so we do it all Christmas Morning!
22. The most annoying thing about this time of year? The fact that all Christmas music ends at 5:00 p.m. Christmas Day, when Christmas really just starts on the 25 and goes until January 5.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Angels...but the best story behind ornaments is the fact that all the white beads decorating my tree were obtained at one of the three Mardi Gras I survived in New Orleans.
24. Favorite Christmas dinner? One shared with my close friends, no matter what is prepared—we are each others’ families out here!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A new non-butt buster office chair from Staples
26. Who is most likely to respond to this? ? I’ll meme it on my blog...Z? Val? S.F.?
27. Who is least likely to respond? He Who Not Readeth the Blog.
28. Favorite holiday smell? Cinnamon or spiced goods; gingerbread (is there gluten-free gingerbread?)
29. Best holiday tradition? Decorating the home, turning on the lights, my children and i singing Christmas carols whenever we want.
30. Best things in my stocking? We never received gifts in stockings; they were just for show.
31. Favorite ornament on my tree? My Margaret Furlong ornaments.
32. Least favorite thing in my stocking when I was a kid? Ditto on #30
33. Always good holiday gifts? Personal and hand-made with the individual in mind and NOT obligatory.
34.Least favorite holiday food? Something other than turkey, after just having finished Thanksgiving leftovers!
35. Ever had a White Christmas? Yes, it was blindingly white fog in Southern Oregon back in the heavy inversion days...I think that's the closest I've ever been to a White Christmas.
Extra note: Japan does not celebrate Christmas, so I did actually go to work a full day on Christmas Day one year, my final year, as I was not travelling abroad that year for the holidays. The New Year (お正月osho-gatsu) is more recognized and 年賀状 nengajou New Year's Cards are sent in the mail instead.
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Oh this one is going to be fun! No gifts in the stockings? :( Stocking gifts Rock. And I agree. I am done with turky till next Thanksgiving. I'll post this evening. I hope!
ResponderEliminarIt is going to be a White Christmas this year. :-)
ResponderEliminarI'm starting to have that feeling here, Cyn. We shall see.
ResponderEliminarZ, I enjoyed your list. Made me think of more goodies. No, in my home a lot of things were "just for looks." Maybe I should work to change that...but I haven't ever put anything in the stockings, either, since that is not how I was raised!
I hate when things are "just for looks" I like to add functionality to the looks part. Which is why I think I sandblasted vases for my friends and some of my family this year.
ResponderEliminarPut a chocolate orange in those stockings!