My friend Paula tagged me for some holiday questions. Since no one seems to want to discuss the heavy stuff (did I kill y'all with the Advent Conspiracy yesterday?), I'll do a day of light blogging.
Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay,here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Tag as many people as you want to....Tis the Season to be NICE!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? both... plus fabric, baskets, and any other creative option I can come up with
2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial... allergic to the real thing
3. When do you put up the tree? weekend after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down? on or as close to the 6th of January as possible (Epiphany)
5. Do you like eggnog? love it... in fact, I'm digging my new eggnog custard pie recipe
6. Favorite gift received as a child? my dollhouse from my grandparents... in fact, it sits on my mantel to this day (that's worthy of its own blog entry one day)
7. Hardest person to buy for? I don't really think anyone I buy gifts for is hard
8. Easiest person to buy for? my grandfather (for his 90th birthday, he got nothing but supplies for his daily martinis from everyone)
9. Do you have a nativity scene? yes... and I'd like to acquire another one or two
10. Mail or email Christmas cards. neither... I prefer to NOT do cards at Christmas and instead try to reach out during the year to the important people in my life
11.
Worst Christmas gift you ever received? an ex-boyfriend bought me something he wanted for himself that he knew I hated (we had looked at it in the store) - selfish!
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Miracle on 34th Street
13. When do you start shopping? I shop year-round
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? um, maybe? But only of the gift exchange variety
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? breakfast - spicy sausage/egg casserole and orange coffee cake
16 color lights on tree? white
17. Favorite Christmas song? bizarre, but I love Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols - was always my favorite to perform when I was in the Texas Girls' Choir
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? either... but staying home is so nice
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? yep!
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? commercialism, consumerism, consumption, confusion (anyone watch the Advent Conspiracy video yesterday?!)
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? my tree is ALL moons and stars (next year I'll do two trees so I can have a second one with family ornaments)
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? we usually don't do dinner My mom tried some spaghetti/chicken casserole thing for a few years but I dislike it so I always tried to get out of eating!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? to spend quality time with the people I care about... and to give more of myself
Okay... I'm tagging a bunch of people so get to blogging: Brandy, Emily, Pam, Kandice, Paulo, Jonni, Henry (Enrique), Molly, and anyone else who wants to play and post a link here....
http://brandyosu.typepad.com/blogblogblog/
I played along. :)
Posted by: Bran | December 11, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Emily tagged me. . .so I will tomorrow! :-) Very fun post!
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Posted by: Kate | December 12, 2008 at 07:24 AM
Emily tagged me. . .so I will tomorrow! :-) Very fun post!
www.kateolynch.com
Posted by: Kate | December 12, 2008 at 07:29 AM
I did it :) thanks for the festive inspiration!
Posted by: emily adams | December 12, 2008 at 09:05 AM
Forgot to mention- I did this yesterday!
www.soundslikebaloney.blogspot.com
Posted by: Baloney | December 14, 2008 at 08:53 AM
I'll get you back on this one tomorrow. Left one for you in response at my place.
Posted by: Ferrari | December 15, 2008 at 08:46 PM
Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Posted by: Bethany | December 24, 2008 at 05:58 PM