1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Whatever my husband wants to use! He is an engineer, and his wrapping is precise and beautiful. I am a creative liberal arts major, and anything I wrap always ends up looking like ass.
2. Real tree or artificial? Real tree. Unless you live with my cat Tigger, who is a one-feline destruction team. Then your only viable option becomes a Pine Scented Candle.
3. When do you put up the tree? You mean “candle”, right? We put up the candle whenever one of our friends comes over, roots around in our drawers for something to light on fire, and discovers the candle which we’ve completely forgotten about.
4. When do you take the tree down? Whenever Jenny gets bored with the arrangement of things in the living room and wants to put up something new.
5. Do you like eggnog? Mmm, tasty!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Any gift, EVER.
7. Do you have a nativity scene? No. See answer to question #2.
8. Hardest person to buy for? My brother, who apparently has eschewed all attachment to material possessions. Which is fine, because I’ve just gone ahead and picked up all of his slack.
9. Easiest person to buy for? Me, of course. Which is why my husband was forced to institute the “Jenny is not allowed to buy herself anything that could possibly be a Christmas gift idea for someone else starting on November 1st” rule.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Year-in-review update on your blog.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Apparently I’ve blocked this out. But we did get a few doozies for wedding gifts.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Diehard 1 and 2.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Whenever the panic of, “Holy Cow, I’m not ready!!!!!” panic sets in.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I’m sure I have at some point. I know I did this with a few wedding gifts we received, so clearly the practice doesn’t bother me.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Sugar cookies!
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored. Preferably the huge, ceramic, highly flammable bulbs prevalent in the 1970’s. Yet another piece of my childhood which the powers-that-be have decided to use to make me feel old, as there is now a Christmas commercial for a fake tree decorated with these bulbs and labeled as “Retro”. (Not that I’m bitter.)
17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night, Joy To The World, Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
17b. Christmas Song That, When You Hear It, Makes Your Eyes Bleed And Your Brains Start To Leak Out Your Ears, Because That Is Less Painful Than Having To Listen To That *&%^&$# Song One More Time! “Let’s Give A Christmas Present To Santa Claus”, and “[random words sung in Hawaiian] Is The Thing To Say On This Bright Hawaiian Christmas Day”.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We don’t have any children, which I think is the universally accepted way you get to have Christmas in your own home, so we always go to one or the other set of parents for Christmas.
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Donner, Cupid, Comet, Blitzen, Rudolph. Do I win a prize? Or get a gift?
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Dude, enough with the tree questions already! I keep telling you, it’s a CANDLE!
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning. And let me tell you something, when you marry an engineer whose father is also an engineer, apparently you also agree to the Entire Ass-Load of “Unwritten But Must Be Perfectly Observed Or Else The Earth Will Crash Into The Sun” Rules About Opening Christmas Gifts. I guess that’s the price you pay for having beautifully wrapped gifts.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? “Should-ing” all over myself, as in, “I really SHOULD send out Christmas cards”, or, “I really SHOULD hand make all my gifts.”
24. Favorite Christmas Tradition? Making fudge on Christmas Eve and eating Texas Pizzas on Christmas morning.
25. Outdoor decorations? Icicle lights.
#1…is so me. All my wrapped stuff looks like a kindergartener did it, and his looks like he’s Santa.
#24… you enjoy eating runned over armadillos for breakfast? Ew. ;P
#24… you enjoy eating runned over armadillos for breakfast?
WHAT?! OK, SOMEONE’S got some explaining to do!!
Texas Pizza!? Sounds like that it’d be flat little road pizzas, armadillos in Texas particularly. Maybe it’s because I’m a Texan… but I sure know how to clear a room, eh?
I tried to find a website or a picture (the make cartoons you can get on shirts down there, I’ve seen). But perhaps fortunately, I can’t find one. I’ll go back to my scratching post now. :/
Hee! I meant my in-laws, if all these years they’ve been telling me that I’ve been eating sausage and cheese when really it’s been armadillo! 😀