Ho Ho Hobag
1. What, if any, December holidays do you celebrate?
-Christmas, Krizmas (Krissy's birthday), Kretmack Christmas
2. What is the best gift you've ever received for said holiday?
-I don't know. i usually make out pretty well. my favorite thing to get is cash.
3. What is the best gift you've ever given for said holiday?
-I usually give many small presents because I am not very good at picking out one really good one.
4. What is the worst gift you've ever received?
-Probably ugly clothes as a child.
5. Have you ever given a gift that you discovered later was regifted, inappropriate, or generally despised?
-Probably.
6. What is the worst Yankee Swap gift you've ever seen?
-Hello Kitty alarm clock. It was a yankee swap in my class at Walpole and I almost ended up with it.
7. Do you spend the holidays with your family?
-Yes. Christmas Eve we go to church and I usually sit next to my sister so we can talk about people while we're there. Then we exchange gifts of the non-Santa variety. Christmas Day we go to my grandparents' house and my whole extended family comes over.
8. Are there any holiday traditions (friends or family) that you take part in?
-Kretmack Christmas, Christmas light looking
9. How far do you have to travel for the holidays?
-South Braintree to Braintree proper. 4 miles maybe? How far is BHS? We go to Royal Lake.
10. Do you consider yourself to be a "holiday person?"
-Less every year.
11. Do you do any cooking around the holidays?
-Narp.
12. What smell reminds you of the holidays?
-Baking smells.
13. What's your favorite holiday song?
-Sleigh Ride, Oh Holy Night, All I want for Christmas is You
14. What's your favorite holiday food?
-Egg Nog.
15. How are your gift wrapping skills?
-Halfway Decent.
16. Do you prefer giving practical gifts or sentimental gifts?
-Sentimental.
17. Do you prefer received practical gifts or sentimental gifts?
-Sentimental. I can buy practical gifts myself.
18. Is there something you've always wanted to do during a holiday that you still haven't (throw a big party, avoid your family, go to Aruba)?
-No.
19. Do you own any holiday-themed clothes?
-I have a santa hat, but that used to go on my Buffy cutout around the holidays.
20. How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real? Of note, saying "He is real, you non-believer" or "Thanks for ruining it!" does not count as an answer.
-7ish.
21. If you have kids, do they still believe in Santa?
-If I did, they would.
22. Do you shop mostly online or in person?
-In person. I have yet to do that this year however.
23. What is the most amount of egg nog you ever drank?
-Lots. I always mix it with milk though because that's the way we were raised...poor.
24. Do you make New Year's resolutions?
-Not really.
25. Do you usually follow through with them?
-I follow through with some resolutions generally, but not as much as I should.
26. Did you make any last year?
-I don't think so.
27. Did you stick to it?
-
28. Are you going to make any this year?
-Before and after. Not specifcally for New Year's.
29. What do you generally do for New Year's Eve?
-Something different every year. Nothing too fancy. Hang with the Kretmacks.
30. Write down a holiday memory.
-My little brother found out about Santa on Christmas Eve, when he snuck down waaay too early to see the presents and saw my Mom
stuffing stockings. So anything that was for the whole family, and probably some stuff that was for someone else, became Kevin's because my parents felt really bad.