Sunday, December 10, 2006

Blog-stalking questionnaire

NAME: Batty
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Both!
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? We just put them under the tree, unless they get wrapped at the store. But we try to keep the environment happy, so we minimize our packaging material consumption as much as possible.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? I like them both. White is more festive, colored is more joyful.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Nope.
5. When do you put your decorations up? It takes me a while to take down the Halloween bats. Halloween stuff is all over the house, and this year, it's lingering. As soon as we manage to put it away, the Christmas stuff goes up.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? No fair excluding dessert! It's the best part of every meal!
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Baking cookies with my mother. I love cookies, I love my mother, and I love watching the snow. It was perfect.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don't remember when I learned the truth, but I do remember one department store having a particularly good Santa. He told me I'd been good in general, but that there was a problem with the mess in my room. You know, with one shoe under the bed, the other in my closet. I was in awe. He had to be real. How else could he know about the shoes?
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? We open them Christmas day.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We don't have too many ornaments yet, but we try to get a new one every year. My favorite is a cup with two mice hugging that says 'first Christmas' on it. The ladies from our church's evening group threw me a surprise bridal shower after choir practice one day, and they gave me this ornament. It was such a sweet gesture.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love to cuddle and watch the snow. Hate driving to work when it's coming down!
12. Can you ice skate? No. I've tried, but... no.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? We weren't big into gifts. But probably something Barbie.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Turning inward in expectation of something joyful. Our family doesn't go nuts over gifts, so there's no pushing, rushing, or desperately trying to meet deadlines (except for the blanket I'm knitting for my in-laws...). The religious background is extremely important to me, as is an opportunity to spend time with my family.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cheesecake! This year, I'm probably making pumpkin cheesecake instead of pumpkin pie.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? We leave our decorations up until Orthodox Christmas in January. One of the benefits of being a 2 denomination household!
17. What tops your tree? An angel that is notoriously difficult to get onto the tree.
18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Giving. What a wonderful excuse to knit for people!
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? The first noel, though the lyrics crack me up every time. Which is bad, because I'm in the church choir.
20. Candy Canes...
Yuck! I don't like mint too much, and chocolate and mint is even worse.

6 comments:

Ceallach said...

Batty, I will forgive you for forgetting about cider! After all, that's kind of what the holiday is about right?!

Yep, I love that joyful tone that the old music has....even though the rampant commercialism has completely overshadowed it, entirely!

Ceallach said...

Batty, gota go take a look at photobucket....they have added a new slideshow style under seasonal with a scrolling graveyard underneath....it's really cool, and made me think of you!

cpurl17 said...

I think you could mix the bats with the Christmas dec. in a 'Nightmare Before Christmas' kinda way! Have you ever seen how they do the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland at Christmas? I makes me so happy that I want to ride it over and over.

Jessica said...

That must have really been Santa! Crazy old man. :)

Pinkwool said...

That had to be a realy Santa, Batty. How else could he have known about the shoes?

We like Halloween around our house too, much to my father's dismay. We were raised that Halloween is Satan's holiday, blah, blah, blah. Luckily his current wife (not my mom) has pretty much beaten this line of thought out of him. I don't care, I love Halloween!! I just took the spiders out of my windows this week. Hehehe.

Bezzie said...

Just slap some Santa hats on the bats and call it festive!!

I had forgotten about Orthodox Christmas--it's a big deal up in AK...I hate xmas let down... and it was always so nice to hear about the Orthodox celebrations after 12/25 has come and gone.