Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends!
Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not forward) this entire email and paste into a new 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!
Ok, here goes...
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper. It's CHEAP. And so am I.
2. Real tree or artificial?
Real. Artificial trees are an abomination in the eyes of the little baby Jesus.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Anytime after Primo's Dec 11 birthday.
4. When do you take the tree down?
Immediately following Orthodox/Ukrainian Christmas, on January 7.
5. Do you like eggnog?
With real cream and raw eggs and lots of rum, sure. But I haven't had the real stuff in forever, and carton eggnog is an abomination in the eyes of the little baby Jesus.
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
I always got books, and was thrilled to get 'em. Boy, there's a shock, huh?
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
Yep, my mom gave it to me and H on our first Christmas
8. Hardest person to buy for?
H, hands down.
9. Easiest person to buy for?
My kids.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Nothing leaps out but it must have been something from my MIL who even after fifteen years has not the foggiest idea what sort of person I am.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Used to be devoted to mailed cards, but this year will only mail to people who are not online. I am pretending it's because I am being environmentally conscious but it's really that I am lazy.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. THE REAL ONE. The Jim Carrey one is an abomination in the eyes of the little baby Jesus.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
I pick stuff up all year round but really kick in the first week of December (generally when I realize I have not one thing to give Primo for his birthday) for whatever's left to get.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
No. Stupid me.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Cruschchiki. My mom used to buy them in five-gallon buckets from some little old Slavic lady who made them very year for us, and then H's uncle the priest used to bring me a box from his little old Slavic lady in his parish, But I don't get them anymore now. Bummer.
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Colored. What can I say, I might as well have grown up in a trailer park.
17.Favorite Christmas song?
The Pogues' Fairytale of New York.
Silver Bells, O Come All Ye Faithful
18. Travel for Christmas or stay home?
Stay home. Dead parents have their advantages.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?
No. Isn't Grumpy one?
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Star I made, with the boys' photos on it.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Christmas morning!
What sort of troglodyte do you take me for?!
Plus, people who open presents anytime other than Christmas morning are an abomination in the eyes of the little baby Jesus...
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
All the freaking invitations we get, from people we haven't heard from all year long. I know I sound ungrateful but come on, people. NOW is not the time to add more stress to anyone's schedule.
Also, the way people pile all their Christmas cookies in one tin, so they all taste exactly the same.
23. What I love most about Christmas?
I actually hate Christmas and could happily go to sleep in the beginning of December and not wake up till February. Bah humbug. But with kids, it's definitely gotten more bearable.
6 comments:
It was all my mom could do to get through Christmas when I was growing up. It overwhelmed, exhausted, and saddened her. And yet I don't have any memories of that until I was a teen and miraculously looked past the end of my own nose and realized vaguely that this might not be so fun for her. She did it for us and we had happy Christmases. With age, and grandkids, it has become better for her, too.
I know one thing: your kids have great Christmases complete with lovely trees in that corner of your fabulous staircase (which I think must have been built expressly for that purpose). And you give great virtual gifts to your blogfriends, too. :) Merry Christmas season, BB.
I know how you feel about Christmas -- I'm so trying to be up for it but can't bring myself to be. Although I do like the look on my daughter's face when she's what I get her -- it's worth all the other crap just for that.
The little baby Jesus sounds like kind of a pain in the ass.
Hahahaha....Badger's comment really cracked me up.
Thanks for some much needed laughs. Hey, I think a fruitcake is an abomination in the eyes of baby Jesus.
Desperately googling Cruschiki... Oh my goodness! Fried Pigs Ear cookies! Hmmm... why does that sound so wrong, but so delicious? I'm in!
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