December 1, 2006

• Holiday Quizzie

   

  

  I ‘borrowed’ this from tomsaaristo:

   

  It’s Going Around
  
  1. Egg Nog or hot chocolate?
  Egg Nog if I am really in the mood and it is good, has dark rum, and whipped cream.  Otherwise hot chocolate — stirred with a candy cane!

   

  2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
  Santa doesn’t wrap them, but his elves do.

   

  3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
  I usually like white, but sometimes color if done tastefully — and I do like an all-one color scheme, especially blue!

   

  4. Do you hang mistletoe?
  Yes. I’m an optimist.

   

  5. When do you put your decorations up?
  when I find time.  sometimes early, sometimes christmas eve, sometimes I don’t get around to much decorating at all.

   

  6. What is your favorite holiday dish [excluding dessert]?
  hmmmm… I like them all!

   

  7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
  There are quite a few, but none that really stick out over another. But the one that sticks out is from my teens:

   

  One year I went to the Christmas eve service at our church with my older brother and my neighbor, Gary, who was like another brother.  There we met up with Paul, the minister’s son, also my brother’s close friend, and also like a brother to me.  At the end of the service at our church, they had a tradition of everyone carrying small lit candles and singing along while following the choir out to stand on the tall steps in front of the church.  The choir had bigger candles and arranged themselves on the steps in the form of a cross.  Once everyone was outside and arranged on the steps, and whatever carol we were singing ended, they gave a signal and all but the choir blew out their candles and we all sang Silent Night, clustered around the choir withtheir glowing cross.  On this particular year, it was pleasantly chilly and clear, and I stood there huddled up in a group with my big ‘brothers’…just as we started singing Silent Night, and blew out the candles, it began to snow. Big white fluffy flakes gently drifting down on all of us standing there in the cold on the church steps singing… a real moment of Christmas magic.

   

  8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
  Huh – you mean somebody lied?

   

  9. Do you open a gift on Christmas eve?
  Just one small one from mom and dad, after we hung our stockings.

   

  10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
  It is different each year – even the size and type of tree vary. When I was a kid it was always exactly the smae every year, each ornament had its own place.

   

  11. Snow! Love it or dread it?
  I love snow, especially if I don’t have to drive in it.  But mostly we have slush in NJ — I hate that!

   

  12. Can you ice skate?

  not a bit — but it is my favorite spectator sport.
  

   

  13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
  No … they are all my favorites, I am just thrilled when somebody cares enough to give me something.

   

  14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?

  getting together with family and friends, and having something cheerful to break up the bleakest and most dismal part of the year.
   

   

  15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
  whichever one you are serving. I even love fruitcake!

   

  16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
  the pretty lights

   

  17. What tops your tree?
  it varies, depending on how I decorate it. 

   

  18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving?
  Giving – I love getting just the right thing for everybody, and wrapping it up all pretty.

   

  19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
  The David Bowie and Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth” 

   

  ***and also one I can’t find a recording of — it was done in the 70′s by a Philadelphia group called the Alan Mann Band,  and it is called “Christmas on the Block”. It is a song about a house in an Upper Darby, PA neighborhood where a bunch of blind people lived, and they always decorated it beautifully with lights for Christmas.  It has a children’s choir singing along on the choruses, which end with the line ” …they see all the colors that the world can not, and theirs is the most beautiful Christmas on the block.”  If anyone can find a recording of this song anywhere — please let me know!!

   

  20. Candy canes?
  LOVE EM!! wouldn’t be Christmas without em!

   

  21. Favorite Christmas movie
  does “the Nightmare Before Christmas” count?

   

  If you read all of this, please copy & paste it to your blog, sharing your answers with us!

   

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