Christmas Meme from kazzy_cee
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willow_25This one is fun - 24 questions about what you do at Christmas (if you celebrate). I'd love to hear what other people do!!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
A little of both. I'm most likely to use gift bags if I wait until the last minute.
2. Real tree or artificial?
I've always had artificial trees because Mom was allergic to pine. I had my very own real tree one year; I killed it because I wasn't used to watering, it was very expensive, and I lost a few ornaments in the depths of it. Never again.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Thanksgiving weekend and/or the weekend after.
4. When do you take the tree down?
Three Kings Day, January 6th.
5. Do you like Eggnog?
Meh.
6. Favourite gift received as a child?
My Dollhouse when I was 8, or my very first stereo when I was 10.
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
I have a little plastic dime store creche ornament, circa 1940's, that belonged to my grandmother that I always put on the tree. I also have a teddy bear nativity music box my dad bought me for my first Christmas away from home in college.
8. Hardest person to buy for?
My Mom. She's one of those people who gets joy from practical gifts. *blinks at her in confusion*
9. Easiest person to buy for?
My best friends.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Oh, God. I was living in Illinois one year, and flew home to Connecticut for just three days at Christmas. It was right after 9/11, so I couldn't carry very much at all on the plane, and my place in IL was an attic apartment with no kitchen that I was only scheduled to be in for another few weeks. Among other things my parents gave me two sets of more makeup than I could have used in a lifetime and a marble cheese server.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Snail-mail cards!
12. Favourite Christmas Movie?
Miracle on 34th Street. The original, thanks.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
All year long. Basically, if I find you a birthday present after your birthday, I'm likely to buy it anyway and save it for Christmas.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Oh, yes.
15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas?
Cookies. Between us my Mom, aunts, and I make 12 varieties of traditional Italian, German, and more generic USA cookies. We don't make them the whole rest of the year.
16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree?
I like the colored fairy lights, or the big white ones that flicker like candles.
17. Favourite Christmas song?
I have to pick one?
18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home?
Travel. I go to my parents, and from there we go to other family members who live near them.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, Olive.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Usually an Angel, but as a kid we had a huge gaudy old white star that lit up, and I loved it.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
First thing in the morning. I still get up incredibly early.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Not having any down time - Every minute is cooking, cleaning, planning, shopping, etc.
23. What I love most about Christmas?
Gifts, giving and recieving.
24. What I love least about Christmas?
The stress.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
A little of both. I'm most likely to use gift bags if I wait until the last minute.
2. Real tree or artificial?
I've always had artificial trees because Mom was allergic to pine. I had my very own real tree one year; I killed it because I wasn't used to watering, it was very expensive, and I lost a few ornaments in the depths of it. Never again.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Thanksgiving weekend and/or the weekend after.
4. When do you take the tree down?
Three Kings Day, January 6th.
5. Do you like Eggnog?
Meh.
6. Favourite gift received as a child?
My Dollhouse when I was 8, or my very first stereo when I was 10.
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
I have a little plastic dime store creche ornament, circa 1940's, that belonged to my grandmother that I always put on the tree. I also have a teddy bear nativity music box my dad bought me for my first Christmas away from home in college.
8. Hardest person to buy for?
My Mom. She's one of those people who gets joy from practical gifts. *blinks at her in confusion*
9. Easiest person to buy for?
My best friends.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Oh, God. I was living in Illinois one year, and flew home to Connecticut for just three days at Christmas. It was right after 9/11, so I couldn't carry very much at all on the plane, and my place in IL was an attic apartment with no kitchen that I was only scheduled to be in for another few weeks. Among other things my parents gave me two sets of more makeup than I could have used in a lifetime and a marble cheese server.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Snail-mail cards!
12. Favourite Christmas Movie?
Miracle on 34th Street. The original, thanks.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
All year long. Basically, if I find you a birthday present after your birthday, I'm likely to buy it anyway and save it for Christmas.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Oh, yes.
15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas?
Cookies. Between us my Mom, aunts, and I make 12 varieties of traditional Italian, German, and more generic USA cookies. We don't make them the whole rest of the year.
16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree?
I like the colored fairy lights, or the big white ones that flicker like candles.
17. Favourite Christmas song?
I have to pick one?
18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home?
Travel. I go to my parents, and from there we go to other family members who live near them.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, Olive.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Usually an Angel, but as a kid we had a huge gaudy old white star that lit up, and I loved it.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
First thing in the morning. I still get up incredibly early.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Not having any down time - Every minute is cooking, cleaning, planning, shopping, etc.
23. What I love most about Christmas?
Gifts, giving and recieving.
24. What I love least about Christmas?
The stress.
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Date: 2007-12-13 01:10 am (UTC)But the gifts make up for it, right? And the yummy waistline-thickening food? ;)
Olive?
Date: 2007-12-13 08:33 am (UTC)Re: Olive?
Date: 2007-12-13 02:30 pm (UTC)Re: Olive?
Date: 2007-12-14 09:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-13 03:15 pm (UTC)1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
A little of both.
2. Real tree or artificial?
Neither. My parents last put up a Christmas tree when I was 11 years old -- and I haven't put one up myself as an adult.
3. When do you put up the tree?
See above
4. When do you take the tree down?
See above
5. Do you like Eggnog?
No.
6. Favourite gift received as a child?
Room-sized Formula One Racing Circuit with two cars. I was nine years old.
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
No.
8. Hardest person to buy for?
No one in particular.
9. Easiest person to buy for?
My parents and I ask each other what we want for Christmas and we all go to the shops after New Year's to take advantage of sales and get the presents.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Can't think of one.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
If at all, then e-mail.
12. Favourite Christmas Movie?
The animated Pink Panther movie in which the panther shares a donut with a hungry little dog towards the end and gets handsomely rewarded afterwards.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Sometime between Christmas and January 5th.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Affirmative
15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas?
Christmas Log
16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree?
Colored.
17. Favourite Christmas song?
"Little Drummer Boy" and Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad."
18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home?
Stay home. My folks live close by, so....
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?
I didn't know they had names.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Couldn't care less
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
If it applies, then Christmas Eve.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Non-stop Christmas Music
23. What I love most about Christmas?
Gift-giving
24. What I love least about Christmas?
Non-stop Christmas Music