getting to know you Christmas

My friend Mandy sent me one of those "getting to know you" Christmas emails where you fill in your answers after you read your friend's, and I thought I'd put my answers up, just in case anyone feels like they need to know more about me.  I give and I give, people, 'cause that's the kind of person I am. 

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Only the best Hallmark wrapping
paper, real ribbon – I am a wrapping paper snob and I know it. 

 

2. Real tree or Artificial?  Artificial with lights, I
have allergies and I don’t need another living thing in my house to take care of. 

 

3. When do you put up the tree?  In our
dining room, front corner by the windows.

 

4. When do you take the tree down?  Usually
the week after Christmas.  I like to
extend my holidays and I'd leave it up and decorate it for each holiday if Scott wouldn't think I was crazy.

 

5. Do you like eggnog?   Fo sho. 
With freshly grated nutmeg.  I am Martha Stewart.

 

6. Favorite gift received as a child?  Oh, that’s a hard one.  Three way tie
between my Barbie Dream Townhouse, stuffed cocker spaniel with a fm radio from
Radio Shack (I knew elves didn't make it), or the Lite Brite.

 

7. Hardest person to buy for? Scott, he never wants anything and says "a hug" then asks what I want and I pull out the giant scroll…

 

8. Easiest person to buy for?  Lucy dog, she never asks
to return anything and everything is always the right color 'cause you know, dogs is color blind.

 

9. Do you have a nativity scene?   I did until a couple of weeks ago when Andrew
decapitated a wise man and amputated two of the camel’s legs.  And I almost bought one of the Willow Tree or whatever they're called at the Cracker Barrel — I was thisclose to being sucked in by the Cracker Barrel.

 

10  WORST GIFT YOU EVER RECEIVED?   No idea.  Oh ho ho, yes I do. 
Let’s see if this individual is reading and/or remembers.  I somehow doubt it, because I have a photographic memory for stupid crap.  Someone once gave me a book entitled “How to
go to Hell.”  Not that it was a bad book, it was quite funny,
but the title just screams Merry Christmas and leave me the hell alone!  

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?   It's A Wonderful Life

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?  End of
Sept, beginning of Oct. But not this year, I've hardly made a dent in my list.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas Present?  Well, yes.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?  Dessert,
candy – divinity, pralines.

16. Lights on the tree?  Yes, just as Jesus intended.

 

17. Favorite Christmas song?  “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”  love that song.  I also love U2's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"

 18. Do you travel or stay home at Christmas? 
Stay home.  I’m not spreading my
Christmas cheer elsewhere, except maybe my Starbucks barista.

 

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's?  of course, and it’s reindeer, dude.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star?  a  star-shaped cookie, I know, it’s
ridiculous.  And it's pink, which is even more ridiculous, but our angel was too big and kept flopping over and that's not a good look, she looked drunk and the kids were asking questions.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?  Oh, please.  We open pressies for almost a week.  The Faler Christmas is not for sissies or persons who cannot lift more than so many pounds for that matter.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? 
Take your pick, the fact that the kids are out of school for 2 weeks, the
traffic, the crowds, the bad Christmas music, having to buy for 6 teachers, the
bus driver, the mail carrier, and everybody in between.  Last year I did Starbucks cards, this year I’m
giving a pack of Wrigley’s gum.  I’m
starting to sound like Scrooge. 

 

23. What theme or color are you using?  Theme?  Um, Christmas.  Red, green, white, pink, disco balls, pink
flamingos, Elvis impersonators, what kind of question is this? 

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?  I like
our Christmas Eve dinner, prime rib, veggies, dessert. 

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?  Peace in the
Middle East, Amy Winehouse to go to rehab, Andrew to be potty trained, the kids
to put things away without being told, Scott to have a permanent job in town,
me to wake up a size 10, get a Pulitzer Prize for blogging, and for all the
children of the world to hold hands and sing “Happy Christmas (War is Over)” by
John Lennon conducted by John Williams, while dressed as angels with glowing halos. 

 

26. Who is most likely to respond to this?  Melissa, maybe.

 

27. Who is least likely to respond to this? The person who gave me the book I mentioned.

 

28.  Who is most likely to delete this and say
"Huh?" when I mention it?  Ha ha, you can’t delete
my blog, you wish.