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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?


6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?


8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

12. Can you ice skate?

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?

17. There is no 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?

19. What is your favorite holiday song?

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? either. with lots and lots of rum.

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? wrap

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not? this is the first time in maybe 10 yeats i've done anything remotely decoratey for Christmas...i put out these fairly cool luminarias (candles in bags only these are lights in little plastic frames with plastics bags). they're white, but i'd do color, too. red or green only, though. and no blinking.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? bah

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up? after the first week of December


6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? pretty much any one i didn't have to cook. ok, ok...my mom's oyster dressing

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? the time my cousin Cliff broke out the light bulb in my grandmother's garage with a dinner roll. teach them to put the "kid's table" out of sight and earshot...


8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? when my Dad left a note from "Santa" in his handwriting. i was 8 or 9 i think.

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...) we do Christmas in the morning before lunch (main meal) on Christmas at my Mom's. we have no particular tradition in our own household


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her? rum & a j

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? love it. probably because we never get any

12. Can you ice skate? *laughing & laughing*

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? yes

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? my business goes into the black every December

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? my Mom's rum balls

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? not working

17. There is no 17. ok...

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? both equally

19. What is your favorite holiday song? "i'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas (cuz i ain't been nuttin' but bad)"

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?candy canes are one of the vilest creations on earth...i loathe them


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot chocolate...specially if it's Mexican chocolate
2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wrapped or bagged. Much more fun that way. The cats love paper and bags

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?
multi-colored, all the way. White is soooo boring. Blinking is okay sometimes. I also like chasing lights

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
nope, but it hangs out in the tree-tops here all winter, so does that count?

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?
Depends. Usually sometime after Thanksgiving. Closest to the wire has come about three days before xmas

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
hmm....I like so many! I guess ham or roast beef is good for xmas

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
I'll have to think about that

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Dunno. I was conciously denying it for a few years

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)

We used to open one gift a Christmas Eve then the rest Xmas morning. These days we tend not to open til late afternoon on Xmas

10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?
Whatever we'd made that year.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
meh

12. Can you ice skate?
sorta. Believe it or not I took figure skating lessons when I was seven. Alas, the sportsworld has lost a true Joxer of the ice in me

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I got a sewing machine. Which will be really cool when I finally use it

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Spending time with family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Pumpkin pie--nectar of the gods

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
uh...<small voice> decorating the Christmas tree </small voice>

17. There is no 17.
Good, because I remember that xmas sucked the year I was 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
I like 'em both.

19. What is your favorite holiday song?
Carol of the Bells; God Rest You Merry Gentleman, O Little Town of Bethlehem

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Meh





 
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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

-Hot chocolate. eggnog is for fallc the elf.

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

-no need to wrap lumps of coal!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?

-the tree's at mama xc's. She likes blinking and not.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

- nope, not even mistlefeet could land me a kiss!

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?

-i don't decorate (i'm so un-holiday like)

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

- Jennifer Connelly in a Santa's helper outfit *drooool*

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?

-neighborhood snowball fights

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

-the t-t-truth, cousin? what truth? *hides neath covers, pillows over ears*

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)

-Christmas morning at mama xc's.


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?

-um, there's some crackers with peanut butter, would that work?

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

-HATE IT! 10 min til i go outside & shovel...

12. Can you ice skate?

-not intentionally

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

-not sure what it would have been

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?

-not letting the holidays depress me to death


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?

-mama xc's oatmeal cake

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?

-not working from Christmas til after NY Day

17. There is no 17.

-but i had suh a great answer!


18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?

-Giving

19. What is your favorite holiday song?

-Chicago's "Saturday In the Park" 'I think it was the 4th of July'... i love summer holidays.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?

-yuckster!

...and now to shovel snow...anyone wanna help? *sigh*



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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Beer, or an icy cold can of coke.... the occasional wine.

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
He wraps everything, since we have a child in the house

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?
blinking and coloured

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
no, and i don't think i know anyone else who does either..

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?
12 days before xmas, something my parents do, and now so do i


6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
I love an excuse to have anything seafood, and we usually do on xmas day. but i also love the leg ham too... so i'll say everything Big Grin

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
driving down to my mum's parents and all her siblings (she was one of 5) and all their kids would be there, they had like 10+ beds set up in a huge garagey room out the back..so on xmas morning it was busy, and noisy, but heaps of fun


8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I think i was about 7, my brother told me the truth

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)
Wait till xmas day, open a few at home, then go to micks parents and open more there (take some of the ones from home for jess, so she can open more in front of cousins, since they *stay the night* with their parents the night b4, so they open ALL their presents there, and if jess is just opening relo's presents, she'd feeli like she had heaps less,then to my parents for the same thing (except this is the first year she wasn't the only child there.. so this year will be diff i suppose there)


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?
Reindeer food (which is basically sawdust)

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
don't get it

12. Can you ice skate?
fairly good still considering my age..lol but only in indoor ice rinks, cause of the heat and all

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
still waiting

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
time off work :P

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
i don't like any particular dessert that is JUST xmassy

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
people giving me things Big Grin

17. There is no 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
receiving...lol... but it depends who from.... and giving.. to jess

19. What is your favorite holiday song?
The little drummer boy

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum, as long as it's not in excess Big Grin


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
both but I'm more likely to go for the nog

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
definately wraps

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?
colored and not blinking

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yeah....thanks for the reminder....haven't got any this year

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?
day after thanksgiving


6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
besides the turkey, green bean casserole Razz

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
spending christmas at my grandmother's house


8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
you know it's odd...I don't remember....I must have been 7 or 8 or 9....I asked my mom....she hated tell me the truth

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)when I was young we were always allowed to open one on Christmas eve and the rest + Santa's gifts on the day


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?
oreos or suger cookies

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
love watching it.....HATE driving in it

12. Can you ice skate?
Nope...but I'd love to learn

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I have two....when I was little it was a strawberry shortcake gazebo and tricycle......god I loved those things....then my first christmas that I got to spend with Rachel she gave me The Art of Mulan.......it's a gorgous book...it was the perfect gift........I cried

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
spending it with Rachel and my kitties


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
apple pie ala mode

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
just decorating I guess...having my house all lit up and warm

17. There is no 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
both....but the giving is pretty cool....watching the look on peoples faces is the best

19. What is your favorite holiday song?
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting...) and Oh Holy Night (sung by Martina McBride)

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum....but they can get old fast


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Neither just a beer :0)

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wraps

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?
White & blinking

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No i don`t need tricks to get kisses

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?
About the 20th Dec


6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Roast beef & yorkshire pudding..yummy

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
Getting my first Racer...


8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Don`t know guess you just find out when you grow older?

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)
Chriatmas morning


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?
Hobnobs the chocolate covered ones.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Brilliant!

12. Can you ice skate?
Not very well

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
No

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Spending time with my family & the person i`m sweet on.


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Sherry Trifle

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Just having the whole family together at breakfast an opening our presents together

17. There is no 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
I`m a giver ;0)

19. What is your favorite holiday song?
White Christmas

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Candy Canes?????
 
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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
hot chocolate. i don't believe i've ever had egg nog.

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrap.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?
coloured. not blinking, at the moment, but there was a time...

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
nope. relatives kiss "hello" enough as it is. you don't need to give them an excuse.

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?
well, dad's set about doing them today. so...the 9th of december. (i don't think we have a set date.)

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
i couldn't really say...i do like those darrel lea nugar(sp?) puddings though.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
i really wanted the boardgame "the white unicorn." i'd opened all my presents and it wasn't there. so i ran out to my treehouse to look in there, and there it was, all by itself Smile. that was pretty cool Big Grin

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
my "best friend" (who i since realised was a bitch, and is the cause for many of my mental issues) told me, but i didn't believe her. so i stayed up late on christmas eve and watched from the top loungeroom (because the tree was in the bottom loungeroom, and there was a kind of split-level thing going on), and i saw my parents come out with the presents and that was that. god i hate that bitch.

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)
we used to open one gift from each other on christmas eve when all the family was together. now there's only three of us so it's not as fun. we just wait to see what "santa" has brought us in the morning.


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?
chocolate chip.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
it'd be nice to have a white christmas just once.

12. Can you ice skate?
never tried. but i have shocking balance and a fear of ice skates (why must they be so sharp and weapon-like!?), so i'm going to say no.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
uhm...no.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
nothing. i'm going through a "what's the point? blah blah commercialism...blah blah falsity/perversion of religion... blah blah money-gouging...blah blah..." phase. i expect it to lift once i get my "best of blink 182" cd.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
uhm. icecream? oh no wait, chocolate mousse. that's the stuff Smile

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
it used to be opening gifts from each other, but as i said...

17. There is no 17.
my world went a bit woozy for a minute there...

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
i'd be lying if i didn't say recieving, (as long as i like what i'm getting, and i'm not having to do the whole "ohh wow...this is really great! thanks!" thing), but giving is nice too. or it would be if i wasn't so paranoid about whether people will like what i'm giving them. *heart palpataions just thinking about it.* it's a complicated and often stressful process, either way.

19. What is your favorite holiday song?
away in a manger. i think i just like the bit about a baby not crying Razz. also there's cattle Smile

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
yum! Big Grin


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

Hot Chocolate with 5 spoons of sugar in it and marshmallows

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

I don't wrap, I have an elf bitch named KC who wraps all my presents for me cause it irks her so much. Heh.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?

None, bah humbug

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

Nope, bah humbug

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?

No decorating here foo, bah humbug

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

Jennifer's Corn Casserole. ZOMG so good.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?

Natalie's first X-Mas she participated in and the first 10 X-Mases of my life

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

When my parents made me start wrapping presents for the rest of the kids for them.

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)

Our family has a tradition of opening all X-Mas presents at midnight on X-Mas Eve. We all play board games and card games to stay up til then and then a pre-selected person is named "Santa" and hands out the presents

10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?

None, that foo can get his/her/it's own damn cookies

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

Meh, hate driving in it. No wait, I hate driving in sleet, nevermind

12. Can you ice skate?

You betta believe it. I do have the ability to be graceful. Who knew?!? Razz

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

Yes, yes I do

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?

Not letting people's invitations to spend it with them make me feel miserable about my own family's refusal to include me in any holidays

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?

Don't really have one

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?

Not working

17. There is no 17.

Thank Christ, that 17 was really starting to piss me off

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?

Giving, I have issues taking anything from anyone

19. What is your favorite holiday song?

O Holy Night, Do You Hear What I Hear?, and Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?

Yum


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

--We get soy versions of both (which are freaking fantastic), but I guess it depends on whether I'm feeling cold or hot at the time.

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

--He wraps them for hours after the kids go to bed.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?

--Colored. Sometimes one or two strings blink, sometimes not. I try to find the blinky bulb and put it where I can get it so I can yoink it out if it's annoying.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

--I probably would if I had some, just because, but not in a kissy place, just as a decoration.

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?

--About two weeks before we open presents. Long enough to get into the holiday mood, but not so long that all the needles fall off.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

--oh, I don't know. Stuffing, I suppose.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?

--I can't think of a particular one...maybe decorating my grandmother's tree for her. She has cool ornaments...blown eggs, etc.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

--I had an idea already, but one year Santa didn't eat the cookies and my mother whispered frantically to my father, so he ate them quickly while she distracted us. *sniff*

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)

--We've tried just about anything, but this year we're going to my mother's on Winter Solstice and opening presents here on Christmas morning.


10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?

--He doesn't get any here. Poor fella...

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

--I love it for the first 2 or 3 weeks. Then I'm ready for my daffodils. Even then, though, I dig the pretty pretty sparkles at night Smile

12. Can you ice skate?

--I doubt it.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

--Not one in particular...my son was born about two weeks before Christmas, so that year everything was pretty nifty Big Grin
--oh, I like the checks my grandmother gives. Sometimes it's appliances...always useful.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?

--My kids get all happy and excited Big Grin

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?

--My grandmother makes this dish called Heavenly Rice...it's white rice with Cool Whip and walnuts and cherries...sometimes pineapple. It's awesome Smile

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?

--The tree and presents.

17. There is no 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?

--It was the receiving when I was younger, but since I had kids it's totally the giving.

19. What is your favorite holiday song?
--Christmas in Kilarney...all hail Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?

--I mostly just like the way they look.
 
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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

Icy cold beer.

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

Puts wrapped presents in a "Santa bag", under the tree.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?

Coloured lights on the house. Blinking, of course!

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

Nope.

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?

1 December.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

Fruit mince pies.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?

Being so happy when I got to my Auntie Patty and Uncle Colin's place and saw my cousins!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

I can't remember exactly - I think it kinda snuck up on me sometime during Primary school.

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)

We open all our gifts on Christmas morning, except for the ones we get from our families, which we open as soon as we see them at lunch or dinner.

10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?

Tim Tams.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

Ambivalent.

12. Can you ice skate?

Yep. Badly.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

A little silver flute charm my parents gave me. I still have it.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?

Celebrating the birth of Jesus with my family (even though I realise he wasn't born on 25 December).

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?

Plum pudding with lots of custard.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?

Carols by candlelight.

17. There is no 17.

Prove it.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?

Giving. I love the look on people's faces if I give them a present they love.

19. What is your favorite holiday song?

O Holy Night.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?

They're OK. I prefer chocolate money.

Thanks for the survey! It's made me feel very festive.


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
hot chocolate

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrap (given the time and money for wrapping)

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?
growing up years:
tree.. colored lights, ususally blinking
house.. when i was young they were the big colored bulbs.. i don't think they blinked
when i was older they were the white icicle looking ones
now.. no lights.. no tree.. apartment and scroogy roomie

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
nope

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?
see #3 and #4

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
candied sweet potatoes.. turkey or ham

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
no favorite memory.. but xmas was more fun when i was young and we went to my mom's parents' house on xmas eve

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
around 5 or 6 years old
i believe i pointed out to my mom that we had no chimney
then she tried to tell me she left a key under the mat for santa.. not in our neighborhood Wink

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)
we used to do all extended family presents on xmas eve and nuclear family presents on xmas morning

10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?
all the cookies are for me silly

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
love to look at it
don't love having to go to work in it (like this morning)

12. Can you ice skate?
i could when i was 6.. haven't really been ice skating much since

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
hmm.. not really
i liked my weebles.. and the r2d2 i got

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
seeing my family, but this year i won't see them until the 26th

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
pumkin pie or pecan pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
see #17 Smile

17. There is no 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
both .. but i'm quite self-centered and poor

19. What is your favorite holiday song?
oh holy night.. peace on earth/little drummer boy..

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
ahh the disappearing xmas tree ornaments.. i used to eat them off the tree
i only eat 'em at xmas time

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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? hot choco, thanks

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
no wrapping

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not? color, blinking

4. Do you hang mistletoe? no

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up? 1st week of Dec


6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? mmmmmm... can't pick a fav, really.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? on Christmas Eve our church had a 11pm service and at the end everyone was given a small, lighted votive candle to take home. It was tricky carrying them outside in winter Michigan weather and keeping them lit. One year in high school I helped light the candles and put them on trays. We had about 300 candles burning in a small room. The temperature probably hit 140F. it was fun though.


8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? i don't ever remember believing in Santa.

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)
as a child we opened one gift Christmas Eve, and the rest in the morning. Now, we're very flexible. Every year is so different because of travel/work/guests/no guests/etc.

10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her? none

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? it's pretty to look at and fun to play in. but i'm glad i live in Florida. i don't mind snow, it's cold i hate. Do they have warm snow anywhere?

12. Can you ice skate?
very poorly.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? no

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? seeing friends and family


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
pecan pie
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? seeing family & friends

17. There is no 17. there is yes 17.

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? giving

19. What is your favorite holiday song? Rust and Smoke by The Upers. I like some of the Christmas hymns, but I really don't like Christmas music.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? yuck
 
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1. Hot Chocolate

2. Strange men coming to my house in the middle of the night tend to be introduced to my weapon collection, regardless of what they bring with them.

3. Lights? What are these lights you speak of?

4. Absolutely not

5. Never

6. Champagne

7. My aunt's pumpkin swirl cheesecake(and yes this belongs here)

8. Never was taught the delusion of him.

9. Being dragged out of bed far too early on Xmas morning, spending an hour trying to get the dog to come into the room with the tree, then giving up on the scaredy-dog and opening presents(most of them his).

10. Cookies? We do rum cake.

11. Loves da snow

12. I can pretend to ice skate. At least, I'm not flat on my arse most of the time.

13. The Babylon 5 DVD box sets

14. The time off to hang with friends

15. Death by chocolate cake

16. The receipt of huge amounts of chocolate

17. 17 is made from people!!

18. Receiving, mainly because I generally have no idea what to get people.

19. Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear

20. Candy canes 1-5 Yum, Candy Canes 6+ yuck


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

Hot chocolate. Smile

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

Just leaves them under the tree. When we were younger, me and my bro, my father dressed up as Santa and deliverd our gifts. Smile

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all white? Blinking or not?

On my moms house then, since I live in an apartment nowadays... They are white and non-blinking.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

No, not a swedish tradition that.

5. If you decorate for your holiday, when do you put your decorations up?

At the first of Advent. Advent is the four sundays before christmas. Don't know if that is a swedish thing only...

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

The christmas ham... A swedish thing... Razz

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?

Dad as Santa.... with his black beard behind the white beard of the Santa-mask and wering his ungly red long underwear and blue workman HellyHansen sweater.... Ah, the memories... Big Grin

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

See above... When I saw the black beard... But my dad continued to play Santa for years after that still.

9. What is your gifting tradition like? (for example, Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? , Do you get one each night of Hanukkah? etc...)

In Sweden the big evning is at Christmas Eve. We eat all food, all candy and open all the gifts the same evning. Smile

10. If Santa or Father Christmas or the Grinch(!?) visits you, what kind of cookies does he/she/it get set out for him/her?

In Sweden it is tradition to put out a bowl of rice pudding with a little butter in the middle. It has to do with us having a whole other Santa-tradition here...

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

Love it!

12. Can you ice skate?

Yes. Not well, but I know how to do it.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

No.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?

To visit and hang out with my family and extended family.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?

My own homemade candy.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?

Donald Duck on TV. In Sweden there is a small Disney show callde Donald Duck and friends that has been on TV on Christmas Eve since well, since TV started in Sweden. Same show every year and nearly EVERYONE in Sweden is watching.

17. There is no 17.

Oh? How so?

18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?

Giving. I love picking out gifts.

19. What is your favorite holiday song?

A traditionell swedish song:

Nu är det jul igen, nu är det jul igen
och julen varar än till Påska!
Nu är det jul igen, nu är det jul igen
och julen varar än till Påska!

Men det var inte sant, nej det var inte sant
för däremellan kommer Fasta!
Nej det var inte sant, nej det var inte sant
för däremellan kommer Fasta!


20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
YUM!


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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
egg nog with a jigger of Southern Comfort

2. If Santa came to your house (or comes to your house) does he wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or all