Tuesday, December 19, 2006
More Memes!
From Vitamin Sea!
Important Christmas Meme
Here ya go, courtesy of Goldbloom:
1. What is the worst Christmas gift you ever received? My first husband, the kids father. gave me a snow shovel for Christmas when I was pregnant with Wes but I have to admit it worked!
2. Two weeks before Christmas you win $1 million. You have to spend it all by the end of this year and you cannot buy anything for yourself. How do you celebrate the holidays? I would buy a business in my kids names and put them all to work at a decent wage and not have them worry about getting laid off.
3. Do you have any family traditions? What are they and do you continue the tradition in your own household? - Yes Children and grandchildren come to my house on Christmas Eve for dinner and gifts. My father did this when I was a little girl. He said it wasn’t fair to drag the youngsters away from their gifts from Santa and their folks to travel to another house on Christmas day. I have carried that on because it made sense.
4. What is your favorite smell from this season? When Christmas Eve Dinner is being put on the table. Honey baked ham, sweet potato balls, escalloped potatoes, asparagus, a green salad, corn, warm spinach dip with bread sticks, deviled eggs, relish plates, and a Christmas cake is the menu this year.
5. Do you regift? (That’s when you get something you hate and give it to someone else on another Christmas later) - no I may put it away and a couple of years later see if one of the family wants it but not as a gift.
6. If you have kids, how hard do you try to preserve the myth of Santa Claus? What do you do to keep the Fat Man “alive?” I do remember printing tags and saying that I didn’t have enough money to buy what the children wanted. My oldest son went to great lengths to keep his kids believing, like tracks in the snow, phone calls from Santa, and other things.
7. When do you decorate your house and tree? When do you take everything down? Are you one of those batshit crazy people that does a countdown to Christmas (who anticipate that one day as if it is the birth of your firstborn)? - Decoration go up starting the first week of December but the outside lights don’t go on except for a couple of hours on the weekend. They will be lit every night until 10 pm starting the 20th. I try to start ‘undecorating’ at least the outside the week after New Years Day but at one point in time the tree was still up on my birthday(2-22). How sad is that?
8. Do you sing along with the Christmas muzak in the stores? What’s your favorite Christmas song and which is the one that you hate so badly that you go postal and run amok in the aisles of Walmart when you hear it? - Off Key singing is the way to go! I have been known to sing my heart out in the truck but only hum in stores. My favorite Carol is O Holy Night and my favorite song is Bob Seger’s Little Drummer Boy. I really don’t have an unfavorite.
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