Welcome to the annual Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Just copy (not forward) this entire blog entry and paste into an e-mail that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to you.. 'Tis the Season to be NICE!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? BOTH
2. Real tree or artificial? Fake
3. When do you put up the tree? The Sunday after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down? JANUARY 1st
5. Do you like eggnog? YES!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A magnetic doll house.
7. Do you have a Nativity scene? YES
8. Hardest person to buy for? David.
9. Easiest person to buy for? Viviane, my girly girl
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? "no gift is bad if it comes from the heart". That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards? eMAIL
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? My Christmas Story
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Whenever
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yup
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Ostkaka
16.Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored
17. Favorite Christmas song? Silent Night
18.Travel at Christmas or stay home? STAY HOME
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Probably
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One on the Solstice, One on Christmas Eve, rest on Christmas morning.
22. Do you watch football on Christmas day? As if!
23. Favorite Christmas memory as a child? My Mom let me skip a Sunday nap and help her decorate the tree. My sister had to take the nap. HA!
24. Did you participate in Christmas programs as a child?Yes, at church
25. Do you sing Christmas carols? Yes
26. Favorite place to be at Christmas? With family
27. Do you have to work on Christmas day? Well, I work 12 hr night shifts the 22nd, 23rd and 24th. Technically I don't work Christmas DAY.
28. Most annoying thing about this time of year? People who start to think its about THINGS and getting stuff.
29. Do you believe in St. Nick? Yes. I believe in the magic of Christmas and I call that St. Nick...there are miracles, love, and kindness that exist only at Christmastime and that is the magic...I also love making that magic happen for someone else.
30. Most memorable gift (childhood or adulthood): A pig eraser. That is, an eraser shaped like a pig.