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{Thanks a lot finals for sucking the life out of me}
So I saw this survey over on Natasha’s awesome blog the other day! Not only am I answerin the Q’s, but I thought it’d be fun to add in a few holiday SomeEcards for laughs. Nothin like a Christmas survey and kooky humor to get you in the holiday spirit! 
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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? I’ve never been a fan of either, but I do love me some peppermint tea!
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Set them under the tree! Wrapping is for family only heehee 
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Our house has red and green lights and our tree just has a buttload of different random colors (I would put up pics, but I don’t want any creepers finding where I live haha)
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Yeahhhh…you can thank my mom for that one, she’ll take any opportunity to give somebody a kiss. COOTIES!!!
5. When do you hang your decorations up? Usually the day after Thanksgiving
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Hmm that’s a toughie. Our meal kinda changes every year, but this year we’re having seafood so I guess my favorite is gonna be the shrimp cocktail 
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Just one??! Hmm I think the funniest was when I was like 5. My dad and I went outside to test out my roller skates Santa brought me…my dad found his skates in his closet and we were falling all over the driveway haha It was SO fun!
8. What is on your Christmas Wishlist? Truthfully, I have NO idea! Maybe some good books? I’m always dying for a new fiction novel to read.
9. Do you open a gifts on Christmas Eve? Nope! Never have, we save all the presents for the morning. We ALWAYS have to start with our stockings though
10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? We deck it out in a string of colorful lights and our favorite ornaments–handmade ones from when I was little, old ones from my parents’ childhoods, animals, movie characters, gifts from relatives, you name it. We have so many oddball ones haha
11. Snow? Love it or dread it? Ehh, if I’m bundled up well enough, I like it for snowball fights and stuff. But considering we get ice and like an inch of snow here in Texas, it blows. I’ve never had a white Christmas and I’m AOK with that!
12. Real tree or fake tree? Sadly we’ve never had a real tree since my dad and I are hardcore allergic, but I love our fake ones! We have a big main one and then a little white one for the front entry room.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? my digital Nikon D5000 camera. My dad gave it to me 2 years ago and I almost shat my pants with excitement! It’s my third limb haha
14. What’s the most important thing about Christmas for you? Celebrating Christ’s birth and being with my family!
15. What is your favorite Holiday dessert? My grandma’s cheesecake, she usually makes it every year, but since she’s kinda getting ancient, my mom decided to make us a new mystery dessert this year! I can’t wait to see what she’ll whip up!
16. What is your favorite tradition? Listening/dancing to my little kids Christmas songs tape with my mom while we decorate, watching “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with the parents, and watching Arthur’s Perfect Christmas haha
17. What tops your tree? On our little decorative tree we have an angel and the main tree has a star
18. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving? I absolutely LOVE giving–just seeing loved ones’ reactions at the gifts is so worth it to me
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? O Holy Night is my ALL TIME FAVE but I also dig “A Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney and the Wings
20. Candy canes, yuck or yum? They’re okay, not a huge fan though
21. Favorite Christmas Movie? Rudolph and Arthur’s Perfect Christmas!
22. What do you leave for Santa? When I was little, we’d leave out peanut butter cookies and milk for Santa and carrot sticks for the reindeer
23. Do you have a Christmas morning tradition? Wake up at the butt crack of dawn, sneak to take a peek under the tree, squeal, run into my parents room to wake them up. My mom always gets right up, but it takes awhile for my dad to come out of snore-land haha
24. Do you prefer to shop on-line or at the mall? Neither, really. I like shopping at weird, unique stores for way-out gifts or I make my own
25. Christmas letter or Christmas card? Christmas card I guess…?
Your turn!!
Answer one or two of the questions from above! Or heck, do the whole survey if you want haha
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love your answers girlie
hmm for chirstmas we leave santa cookies and milk.
haha yes, my family still does santa!
I just came across your blog and I am so glad I did! This was an awesome first post to stumble upon. It gave nice insight on who you are a bit
Woe thank you! So glad you could stop by girly!!
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YES I am doing this tonight. I am feeling uninspired and you have inspired me. Thank you for that!! You better document your mom’s mystery dessert. I’m excited to find out what it is! I love watching Christmas Vacation with my parents too. That’s definitely one of my favorite movies!!
Yay yay yay! Oh and don’t you worry, I’m totally gonna be keeping yall up to date on the mystery dessert
i remember one christmas when i was little, my dad said “emmy, santa reeeeally doesn’t like carrots and brandy……but he loves a pint…and a mince pie….make it 2 – one for rudolph!” hahaa!
Hahaha!!! Too cute!
oh my gosh i love this!!!! thanks so much for posting! i think i might just have to do this around the Christmas break!
I can answer all of your questions!!!
1.) I love both in soy versions. I was known as the cocoa queen when I was very little (I would keep my mouth glued to the cup, and not breathe through my mouth because if I did, I would have to stop drinking, so I breathed through my nose).
2.) Ah, St. Nicholas does not wrap presents. My parents do that. St. Nocholas BAGS his gifts and wraps in TISSUE PAPER…. but on St. Nicholas’ feast day (the 6th. of this month) he leaves us tiny trinkets, candies, and coins in our shoes (Catholic tradition).
3.) Colored lights!!! I like the old-fashioned colored lights, with the occasional new lights (I consider the “new” ones “new” because recently a purple-bluey light bulb has been added to light strings… kinda pretty on certain houses, but a little dark at the same time). I like white on certain houses and trees, but colored lights leave a sense of warmth and a ginger-bread house feel.
4.) Nope. No mistletoe.
5.) We decorate anytime the mood strikes after Thanksgiving.
6.) Haha, the yams I always rave about are the fave dish!
7.) Just one??? Probably my first Christmas here in our recent house (I was seven), and then the Christmas of 2005 when I scored with all three Lord of the Rings C.Ds!
8.) My Christmas wish list has a Target Gift card on the top! (I can get whatever I want there!)
9.) We open gifts on Christmas Day.
10.) We decorate our tree the same as you…. exactly how you described it!
11.) I used to love snow. I have a love-hate relationship now, thanks to my past ED (er, remember the power outtage part of my ED and the snow? Not happy memories). I do like to play in it, though…. I get bummed that I can’t bike or run, though.
12.) Real tree! Love the smell!
13.) Too many gifts to call a favorite!
14.) I love to celibrate with my family.
15.) Christmas cookies!!! (and Christmaasstollen, soy ice cream, and soy cocoa, and soy nog!)
16.) Er, Too many traditions to list…. but one is driving around neighborhoods and judging how houses decorated with Christmas lights while listening to Christmas music in our big green van. So fun!
17.) An angel tops our tree.
18.) I love to give gifts, but getting gifts are great!
19.) Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is my fave! But I love all traditional Christmas music, being the sentimental music writer/composer/player/phsycic I am.
20.) YUM YUM oh YUM YUM YUM!!!! Bob’s is the best (both the old fashioned sticks and the hard traditional cane shaped ones! Check ‘em out online)
21.) Prep & Landing (all three of them!), Rudolph, Arthur’s Perfect Christmas, It’s Christmas Again Charlie Brown!, Pacific Northwest Ballete’s Nutcracker (my mom worked with the ballerinas), the Grinch original animated film, and Garfield’s Christmas. Oh, and A Year Without a Santa Clause!
22.) We leave St. Nicholas some homemade cookies, a bit of dark chocolate to keep him awake, a small cup of soymilk or nog, and a couple of carrots (for his horse in good weather, or reindeer in bad weather)
23.) Wake up early, open our stockings first, and then We go to morning mass, come home, get back in our PJ’s after taking pictures, eat some Christmaasstollen and soy nog or soy cocoa with cutie oranges, and open our presents!!!
24.) We send Cards with pictures of us children, but I like getting letters from other people more than cards, because we know lots of people from our old neighborhood/past who only keep in touch with us once a year through Christmas pictures
So there you be! And Arthur Christmas rocks! I love the part when Roary the dog eats the camera!
yay stocking first then bigger gifts!
Christmas wish-list: new running gear
Fave holiday dessert: Christmas pudding with custard or fruit mince pies
This is a fun!! Love it, and I love the holidays! and girl you are so lucky to not live in MIchigan! It gets so cold here that it hurts to breathe sometimes. But, right now it’s actually 42 out :O I know…somethin weird is goin on. One day the snow is just going to hit us and it’s going to be epic and terrible at the same time
Good luck on your finals!
Good lord! I honestly think I would die in “hurt to breathe” weather!! Maybe I’d just become a squirrel and hibernate haha
those someecards are AWESOME!!! i like these surveys, have a scheduled one of my own for friday! ;0
You’re so lucky that your mom gets up when you wake her on Christmas! My parents will sleep until the end of eternity unless I continually bug them haha. This year my strategy is to send Popcorn in to do the dirty work 8)
Hahaha!!! I can see him barking like a maniac now!
An angel tops our tree, way up high where my cat can’t attack it! That would be terrible haha
Love this survey alex!
My family always open presents on christmas day too. It’s our little tradition, but first we eat then we open presents.
I love real trees too but we always get the fake one because it’s cheaper and it last longer. Haha.
Good luck studying for your finals!!!
Chris’ family does the same with Santa’s presents, leaving them unwrapped under the tree.
cute survey ^^
I’ll think I’ll take it too. I need to have more holiday spirit
I hope finals are going well for u so far…
My family does the exact same thing with opening presents–we never open them til the actual day and always the stockings first!
Our main tree has the multicolored lights but the tree in my room matches my bedding so it has lime green, silver and aqua ornaments with flashing blue lights! But I think the white lights look really nice outside.
Good luck with finals, I know you’ll rock ‘em!
Thehee love this post
We don’t do lights outside our house… but it’s only because my mom and I are too lazy too haha
our tree is always a butt load of different colors too! Love that.. I am not a fan of white lights on the tree!
When I was younger, Oreos and milk were always left out… and a cut up apple for the reindeer
Good luck with yoooo finals!
eggnog ALLLL the way. I can finish a container by myself in a day I kid you not. I will suck that stuff down like water. Its pretty filling though (must be all those eggs and cream) so I tend to ruin my appetite when eggnog is around! lol
cute survey! love the one about hannukah!
Oh my gosh I LOVE this survey. I’m totally going to do it on my blog later this week if that’s ok! And SomeEcards are the best thing ever…if I ever need a laugh I’ll head over to that site
. Happy Monday love!
No hot cocoa? I’m definitely a hot chocolate girl, though I rarely drink it anymore. Also, I like shopping online for other people, but I hit up the mall on Black Friday for myself.
Love the questions. My family always opens our presents on Christmas Eve. We made it like our own tradition because we used to have big family parties where it would take hours to open presents and then we’d have Santa’s presents in the morning. Since the big gift opening was always really at night we decided to keep doing that.
Christmas time is so much fun!
We always start w/ the stockings first too. Christmas presents from Santa and family are wrapped though.
Have a wonderful Monday =)
I love Christmas! I think I’m going to take this survey, too. But how can you exclude desserts???? SO not fair.
Ah, I can’t wait to do this on my blog! I love surveys!
I absolutely loved reading this;
I’d be so curious about seeing your Christmas tree – the decoration sounds so awesome and unique! It’s like you’re decorating your tree with Christmas memories,that’s so wonderful!
I think I really have to do the whole survey on my blog…. It’s so great!
Hahaha such a fun survey!
My family pretty much only has white lights for the tree and outside, but we do have one random string of red chili pepper shaped lights! Pretty weeeeird but awesome. Christmas Vacation is awesome!
We never open presents the night before, either. Gotta keep that anticipation up!
Super fun post- talk about getting into the Xmas spirit
! Considering you’re grandma is ‘ancient’, I take it she is not an internet user..hence will not be seeing this post 
! My favorite Christmas movies are Santa Clause and Home Alone 2 (watching it tonight)! As for giving v receiving gifts, I have to also go with giving! Receiving is fun and you know I have a wishlist but there really is nothing better than seeing others appreciate what you got them!
Hahaha I like how you refer to your grandma as ancient lolz
Love your answers to all these questions and I’m glad you did this survey as well.
I hope your mom’s mystery dessert it totally awesome blossom
…OMG I totally forgot about the Rudolph Christmas movie – what. a. classic.