December 25, 2007
A Christmas Meme
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I’m all for gift bags, trouble is, they don’t make them big enough for certain gifts!
2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial. I love a real tree every few years, but the needles stuck in the carpet drives me crazy and I find it difficult to enjoy that real tree scent.
3. When do you put up the tree? Typically, the day after Thanksgiving, but this year we were a week and a half late.
4. When do you take the tree down? New Year’s Day if I’m not hung over. The weekend after New Year’s if I am.
5. Do you like eggnog? Not at all. Yuck.
6. Favorite gift receivedas a child? The year I got a keyboard piano. I loved that thing!
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes. Two of them actually.
8. Hardest person to buy for? The in-laws.
9. Easiest person to buy for? My mom.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A sweater with jingle bells on it. The kind that actually jingle!
11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? It’s a toss up between It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I’m definitely a procrastinator. If I find something halfway through the year for a reasonable price, I’ll buy it and hide it for the intended recipient. Otherwise I wait until December 1st or later.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I’ve never re-gifted a Christmas present, but if it’s something nonreturnable, I save it and donate it to our church picnic as a prize for the Cherry Tree game.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolate covered peanut butter balls. My aunt makes them every year.
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear lights on the tree. Colored lights outside.
17. Favorite Christmas song? I have several favorites, but I find myself singing Jingle Bell Rock every year.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We usually go to our parents’ houses each year. No big travel plans.
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeers? Yes, but I have to sing it so that I don’t forget any.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? We have both, so we rotate every year.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? We open some on each day because we celebrate with different family members on each day.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? When the neighbors forget to take their Christmas decorations down and they’re still up in February.
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December 27th, 2007 at 10:11 am, Leslie Says:
I hate it when people leave their Christmas decorations up FOREVER. So annoying! Our stuff is down the first week of the New Year. I love Christmas, but not in March.