Meme -- Getting To Know You, the Christmas Edition

[draconis]

Holiday Edition of Getting to Know Your Friends!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Both

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
LOTS of colored lights!

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Sometimes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
mid-December

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
My stepmother's dressing

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
My older brother reading "Twas The Night Before Christmas"

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
What truth? ;-)

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Yes

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Whole hog -- lights, ornaments, garlands, icicles, and tinsel

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I'm honestly not sure that I have a single "favorite" gift, but the one that has had the greatest impact on my life was my first computer, at age 14.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Sharing them with those nearest and dearest to me

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Pumpkin pie, or English pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
There are two of them. One is decorating the tree, when I've got the time to do it *just* right. The other is the last-minute wrapping/assembling of gifts while listening to carols, drinking wine, and laughing at how badly the instructions mangle the English language.

17. What tops your tree?
Father Christmas

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
Both

19.What is your favorite Christmas Song?
"Do You Hear What I Hear?"

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or OK?
OK, but not crazy about them