Welcome to the 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to Know Your Friends! You know the drill. And if you've posted this meme on your blog - leave a comment and I'll link to your post if you link to mine.
Here's my version:
- Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?? Mint hot chocolate.
- Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrapped.
- Colored lights on tree/house or white? I would have both, but I'll be out of town.
- Do you hang mistletoe on house? No.
- When do you put your decorations up? I would put them up on Christmas Eve, after Midnight Mass (though lights would be up for Advent along with greens and Advent Wreath) if I wasn't going to be out of town.
- What is your favorite holiday meal (excluding dessert)? French Toast with Peanut Butter along with Scrambled Eggs with lots of Cheese added to them for Breakfast on Christmas Morning.
- Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Using my Christmas $ from Great Aunt E. when I was 14 to buy a huge Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve day to ensure that there was a tree that Christmas.
- When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Sometime or other I came across a book about the real Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Symrna.
- Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? That depends on which relative(s) I'm spending Christmas with.
- How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Tastefully - and no FAKE trees for me!
- Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it!!! Especially when I can stay inside and be nice and toasty while it falls from the sky.
- Can you ice skate? No. I tried once and landed on my bum. Burr. That was the end of that. I can snowshoe though.
- Do you remember your favorite gift? The big box when a bunch of small wrapped gifts that I got one year from my mum.
- What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Advent Lessons and Carols are only topped by Midnight Mass (there is usually no celebration of the Eucharist at Advent L&C).
- What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Candied Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows (using anything else in the Candied Yams is just wrong).
- What is your favorite holiday tradition? Going to Midnight Mass.
- What tops your tree? I used to have a big handmade-by-someone-else angel but she got lost in moving around I think. I'll have to make a new one if I ever host Christmas at my own place.
- Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Both - which I realize is a very "Anglican" answer ;-)
- What is your favorite Christmas Song? I can't really pick just one. I guess Silent Night as in kneeling in a candle-lit Cathedral singing Silent Night sans music while trying not to drip wax on myself or catch anything/anyone on fire.
- Candy Canes! Yuck or yummy? Take candy cane and stick it in hot cocoa as a stir stick. Yummers!
- Favorite Christmas Movie? Three-way tie 1942's Holiday Inn / 1954's White Christmas / 1945's Christmas in Connecticut, but then I haven't seen 2006's The Nativity Story yet. (I wonder if the movie will be as good as the book.)
- What would you most like to find under your tree this year? See http://tinyurl.com/ygs5x6
- Favorite Holiday memory as an adult? Midnight Mass at Trinity Cathedral, Portland - a memory I'll be reliving this year. Thanks be to God!
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