Yay Xmas meme
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper! I have a collection.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Real if we can. this year I am leaving for the Turks and cacos the day after Christmas...so the tree at my folks house will have to do.
To compensate I have bought a three foot silver tinsel tree from Target...to go clashy-vintage for a year.
3. When do you put up the tree? Second week of December. It smells soooo good.
4. When do you take the tree down? Right after New Years.
5. Do you like eggnog? Yes, but I like it with Brandy in more then rum.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A stuffed Snowman who sings Frosty the Snowman. Also Teddy Ruxpin. I was OBSESSED with Teddy Ruxpin.
7. Clear or colored lights? Clear
8. Easiest person to buy for? My Mom. I have to stop myself from just picking things up as I go, otherwise my mom would end up wiht three hundred gifts and everyone else would get one thing.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope...but technically the weird cubist woodsen one at my folks house is mine...
10. Best Christmas gift you ever received? My knives. I don't think my folks have given me a cooking-related item I don't use everyday or at least every week.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A pink fuzzy sweater ala Clueless from my aunt while I was in my grudge phase.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? A Muppet Christmas Carol
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? All year on-and-off, hard-core September on. I like giving gifts.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes, its what Yankee Swaps are for!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Foie Gras on Christmas Eve, Whiskey Sours, Popeye's chocolate pound cake and Judy's rum cake.
16. Lights on the tree? Definitely.
17. Favorite Christmas song? Shepard's Pipe Carol, especially the James Gallway version
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? I go to my folks house.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Eve with my folks friends, and nuclear fam on the morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Plastic...lots and lots of plastic...everywhere
23. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Chestnut Puree
24. What do you want for Christmas this year? Ukulele and a GMAT tutor
25. Who is most likely to respond to this? I think I'm late to this meme.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Real if we can. this year I am leaving for the Turks and cacos the day after Christmas...so the tree at my folks house will have to do.
To compensate I have bought a three foot silver tinsel tree from Target...to go clashy-vintage for a year.
3. When do you put up the tree? Second week of December. It smells soooo good.
4. When do you take the tree down? Right after New Years.
5. Do you like eggnog? Yes, but I like it with Brandy in more then rum.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A stuffed Snowman who sings Frosty the Snowman. Also Teddy Ruxpin. I was OBSESSED with Teddy Ruxpin.
7. Clear or colored lights? Clear
8. Easiest person to buy for? My Mom. I have to stop myself from just picking things up as I go, otherwise my mom would end up wiht three hundred gifts and everyone else would get one thing.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope...but technically the weird cubist woodsen one at my folks house is mine...
10. Best Christmas gift you ever received? My knives. I don't think my folks have given me a cooking-related item I don't use everyday or at least every week.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A pink fuzzy sweater ala Clueless from my aunt while I was in my grudge phase.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? A Muppet Christmas Carol
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? All year on-and-off, hard-core September on. I like giving gifts.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes, its what Yankee Swaps are for!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Foie Gras on Christmas Eve, Whiskey Sours, Popeye's chocolate pound cake and Judy's rum cake.
16. Lights on the tree? Definitely.
17. Favorite Christmas song? Shepard's Pipe Carol, especially the James Gallway version
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? I go to my folks house.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Eve with my folks friends, and nuclear fam on the morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Plastic...lots and lots of plastic...everywhere
23. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Chestnut Puree
24. What do you want for Christmas this year? Ukulele and a GMAT tutor
25. Who is most likely to respond to this? I think I'm late to this meme.