December 06, 2008
Christmas Time-Waster
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 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! HO HO HO!!!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper if it's a box, gift bag if it's weirdly shaped. Duh.
2. Real tree or artificial? Fake. I don't want to be vaccuuming up needles in August.
3. When do you put up the tree? Sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take the tree down? By Valentine's Day. Don't judge me.
5. Do you like eggnog? If by "like" you mean "drink straight from the carton on the drive home from Jewel," then yes. Yes, I do.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My dollhouse. Or was that a birthday present...? I'm old, I don't remember.
7. Hardest person to buy for? My Dad. He can afford to buy anything he wants, and if he can't find it, he'll make it.
8. Easiest person to buy for? Billi! I just buy her whatever I would want.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? I have three. So far.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? MAIL!!! Email?????? What kind of cheap bastard sends EMAIL Christmas cards?????? Freakin' COMMIES, that's who!
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? No idea. I think people know better than to get me crap.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? "A Christmas Story" or "A Muppet Christmas Carol."
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? August. And I'm 95% done by Thanksgiving. I'll finish up the last of the stocking stuffers on Tuesday.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No, I sell them in my garage sale.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? MARZIPAN!!!!!
16. Lights on the tree? Small and multi-colored, and Husband puts them up.
17. Favorite Christmas song? "Merry Fucking Christmas" from the South Park Christmas album. Warms the cockles of my heart.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Both. Travel 1 mile for Christmas Eve, 37 miles for Christmas Day at Billi's, and to Indiana for the weekend after to see the in-laws.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yes. And I don't have to prove shit to you.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? BARBIE ANGEL!
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Both, plus several weeks preceding and following, when I see friends.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The radio commercials. The premise of every single one is "Christmas SUCKS and RUINS YOUR LIFE, so try our product, and you'll be okay." I hate that they brainwash us into thinking that we are stressed out and unhappy! I'm so not! Cynical and jaded,yes, but not stressed and unhappy.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Handmade by Husband. He's been doing a different ornament every year for 30 years.
24. Favorite Christmas dinner? Mom's. Of course. Doesn't everyone like their mothers' best?
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Barbies, books and bling. Same as every year.