Guess I need to get me a Christmas-type icon
Stolen from danatheb :
I would love to see everyone's answers on these. Maybe it will help me feel less OMG! TERROR! NOOOOOOOOOOOO! over the fact that Christmas is coming upon us like a freight train.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both, depending on the wrapability of the item, and whether I have a box large enough to fit it.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Always had real trees until 2 years ago. Now, I weep when we pull out the fake one, but Charles smiles wide because he doesn't have to lug around an enormous tree and saw down the trunk and balance it in the stand and then drag it back outside when it starts to crumble.
3. When do you put up the tree? The weekend after Thanksgiving, usually Saturday.
4. When do you take the tree down? January 1st, because we are always home that day.
5. Do you like eggnog? Very much, to an almost dangerous degree.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Lite Brite!!!!!!!!!! Sadly, it only lasted one day, because my mom's cat barfed all over my stack of pokable paper templates and ruined them all. My parents said they would get me replacements, but they never did.
WAAAAAHHHHH POOOOOOOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
At least I will always have this picture as proof that I did at one time have a Lite Brite:
7. Hardest person to buy for? My mother in law.
8. Easiest person to buy for? Christy.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I appreciate any and all gifts, but I was genuinely confused in 1987 when Charles gave me a boy's striped rugby shirt for our first Christmas together. I thought he had mixed my gift up with Wesley's, but no, for some reason he really wanted me to have a boy's rugby shirt.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? I like the Charlie Brown special.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually in the autumn I will start, but inevitably there is always someone I haven't found the right thing for by December 23rd, so I have to go out with all the other wild-eyed, desperate lunatics hoping the right thing will leap out at me before the stores close.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No way.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolate covered cherries.
16. Lights on the tree? White, non-blinking.
17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We go around to see everyone we need to see over the course of Christmas week.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher and Dancer and Comet and Cupid. Donner and Blitzen and ... Someone and Someone? I had to sing that in my head and still couldn't come up with them all. I do of course remember Rudolf, the most famous reindeer of all.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel, the same one for probably 10 years now. Longer, maybe.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning, but when I was little my mom always let me open one gift before bed on Christmas Eve, and if I unwittingly chose the traditional underwear box to open, she would gently direct me towards another gift that she knew I would enjoy more.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The obligations to everyone, which requires me to do some things and go to some places that I would much rather not.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? No theme, but the last few years I have found myself very much in love with rustic decorations.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Tradition has always been steaks on Christmas Eve, but on Christmas night I just try to fix something special, with no rules on what it has to be. Since we eat so many tons of turkey for Thanksgiving, I usually will do something completely different for Christmas, like lasagna or pork roast with lots of garlic.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? For the moisture problem in our master bath to magically go away without us spending a fortune to fix the shoddy work our builder did years ago. Did you know that if the steam from your showers accumulates and runs down your walls every day for 9 years because the room wasn't properly ventillated, that your drywall will warp and swell? IT IS AWESOME!
I would love to see everyone's answers on these. Maybe it will help me feel less OMG! TERROR! NOOOOOOOOOOOO! over the fact that Christmas is coming upon us like a freight train.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both, depending on the wrapability of the item, and whether I have a box large enough to fit it.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Always had real trees until 2 years ago. Now, I weep when we pull out the fake one, but Charles smiles wide because he doesn't have to lug around an enormous tree and saw down the trunk and balance it in the stand and then drag it back outside when it starts to crumble.
3. When do you put up the tree? The weekend after Thanksgiving, usually Saturday.
4. When do you take the tree down? January 1st, because we are always home that day.
5. Do you like eggnog? Very much, to an almost dangerous degree.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Lite Brite!!!!!!!!!! Sadly, it only lasted one day, because my mom's cat barfed all over my stack of pokable paper templates and ruined them all. My parents said they would get me replacements, but they never did.
WAAAAAHHHHH POOOOOOOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
At least I will always have this picture as proof that I did at one time have a Lite Brite:
7. Hardest person to buy for? My mother in law.
8. Easiest person to buy for? Christy.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I appreciate any and all gifts, but I was genuinely confused in 1987 when Charles gave me a boy's striped rugby shirt for our first Christmas together. I thought he had mixed my gift up with Wesley's, but no, for some reason he really wanted me to have a boy's rugby shirt.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? I like the Charlie Brown special.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually in the autumn I will start, but inevitably there is always someone I haven't found the right thing for by December 23rd, so I have to go out with all the other wild-eyed, desperate lunatics hoping the right thing will leap out at me before the stores close.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No way.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolate covered cherries.
16. Lights on the tree? White, non-blinking.
17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We go around to see everyone we need to see over the course of Christmas week.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher and Dancer and Comet and Cupid. Donner and Blitzen and ... Someone and Someone? I had to sing that in my head and still couldn't come up with them all. I do of course remember Rudolf, the most famous reindeer of all.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel, the same one for probably 10 years now. Longer, maybe.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning, but when I was little my mom always let me open one gift before bed on Christmas Eve, and if I unwittingly chose the traditional underwear box to open, she would gently direct me towards another gift that she knew I would enjoy more.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The obligations to everyone, which requires me to do some things and go to some places that I would much rather not.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? No theme, but the last few years I have found myself very much in love with rustic decorations.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Tradition has always been steaks on Christmas Eve, but on Christmas night I just try to fix something special, with no rules on what it has to be. Since we eat so many tons of turkey for Thanksgiving, I usually will do something completely different for Christmas, like lasagna or pork roast with lots of garlic.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? For the moisture problem in our master bath to magically go away without us spending a fortune to fix the shoddy work our builder did years ago. Did you know that if the steam from your showers accumulates and runs down your walls every day for 9 years because the room wasn't properly ventillated, that your drywall will warp and swell? IT IS AWESOME!