Thank you Regina, at Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat? for tagging me with this Christmas meme - I'm glad to be writing a post.
Before I get into the meme, though, a quick update - I am doing awesomely as far as my eating and exercising goes. I expect a ridiculous amount of weight lost this week.
Now, on to the meme!
1. Have you started your Christmas shopping? Nope! This year my huge family and I are doing a secret santa - one present for everyone, instead of the materialism-fest that Christmas usually is at our house. I have one gift to buy, and nope, I haven't gotten it yet :)
2. Tell me about one of your special traditions. Looking at Christmas lights a few days before Christmas - there's one neighborhood in my well-to-do town that goes all-out on Christmas lights, it's amazing! I look forward to it every year :)
3. When do you put up your Tree? I like to have it up the first week of December, but this year we're not putting up a tree at all. Our old plastic tree fell apart last year and we're spending every single extra little penny on the wedding. I must say, though, after May 20, 2010 we'll be rollin' in the G's again.
4. Are you a Black Friday shopper? Oh yes. We didn't do it this year (see answer to #1) but I usually get in line around 5 PM on Thanksgiving evening. We bring sleeping bags, hot food, and stay up all night playing video games and reading. And when you're first in line (which I always am) it's not all rush rush rush - most big box stores will hand out vouchers for the big ticket items to the first people in line, so you're guaranteed to get what you came for, rendering getting up at 4 AM useless ^_^
5. Do you Travel at Christmas or Stay home? We alternate each year - this year we're going to my parent's house for Christmas. My parents live five houses down, so I'd say a 45-second walk doesn't count as traveling. When we go to Vern's family's place, it's a 45-minute drive, which is not bad at all.
6. What is your funniest Christmas memory? Ramming my new pink Barbie Power Wheels Corvette into our wooden double front doors on Christmas morning. That was the best damn present Santa ever brought to me.
7. What is your favorite Christmas movie of all time? Love Actually!
8. Do you do your own Christmas baking? What's your favorite treat? I usually bake a ton around Christmas, but not this year (again, lack of scratch). My favorite treat, however, is this toffee cake thing. It's. Freakin'. Delicious.
9. Fake or Real Tree? Oh, fake trees all the way. They're cheap, no mess, and no ridiculous traveling to get a real one.
10. What day does the actual panic set in to get it all done? I have never, ever had panic set in about Christmas. What is there to panic about? Presents? Ha!
11. Are you still wrapping presents on Christmas Eve? Nope, wrapping is done pretty much as soon as the gift gets home.
12. What is your favorite fun time at Christmas? Having everyone in the living room on Christmas morning, laughing and poking fun at their gifts and the sentiments behind them.
13. What Christmas craft do you like the best? OMG gingerbread house FTW.
14. Christmas music? Yes or no? And if yes, what is your favorite song? Yep yep! I like a lot of the old school Christmas music by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra.
15. When do you plan to finish all your shopping? This weekend, after my dentist appointment :)
Want to play along? Here's what you do...Just simply copy and paste the questions into your blog, and then answer them.
Then tag 5 or more of your favorite blogs, and leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged.
When you post on your blog, please spread some Christmas Cheer, and leave a link back to the blogger who started the meme: Heather @ (Top 10 Christmas) Heather would like any blogger to participate in this meme, so let her know if you do it
Before I get into the meme, though, a quick update - I am doing awesomely as far as my eating and exercising goes. I expect a ridiculous amount of weight lost this week.
Now, on to the meme!
1. Have you started your Christmas shopping? Nope! This year my huge family and I are doing a secret santa - one present for everyone, instead of the materialism-fest that Christmas usually is at our house. I have one gift to buy, and nope, I haven't gotten it yet :)
2. Tell me about one of your special traditions. Looking at Christmas lights a few days before Christmas - there's one neighborhood in my well-to-do town that goes all-out on Christmas lights, it's amazing! I look forward to it every year :)
3. When do you put up your Tree? I like to have it up the first week of December, but this year we're not putting up a tree at all. Our old plastic tree fell apart last year and we're spending every single extra little penny on the wedding. I must say, though, after May 20, 2010 we'll be rollin' in the G's again.
4. Are you a Black Friday shopper? Oh yes. We didn't do it this year (see answer to #1) but I usually get in line around 5 PM on Thanksgiving evening. We bring sleeping bags, hot food, and stay up all night playing video games and reading. And when you're first in line (which I always am) it's not all rush rush rush - most big box stores will hand out vouchers for the big ticket items to the first people in line, so you're guaranteed to get what you came for, rendering getting up at 4 AM useless ^_^
5. Do you Travel at Christmas or Stay home? We alternate each year - this year we're going to my parent's house for Christmas. My parents live five houses down, so I'd say a 45-second walk doesn't count as traveling. When we go to Vern's family's place, it's a 45-minute drive, which is not bad at all.
6. What is your funniest Christmas memory? Ramming my new pink Barbie Power Wheels Corvette into our wooden double front doors on Christmas morning. That was the best damn present Santa ever brought to me.
7. What is your favorite Christmas movie of all time? Love Actually!
8. Do you do your own Christmas baking? What's your favorite treat? I usually bake a ton around Christmas, but not this year (again, lack of scratch). My favorite treat, however, is this toffee cake thing. It's. Freakin'. Delicious.
9. Fake or Real Tree? Oh, fake trees all the way. They're cheap, no mess, and no ridiculous traveling to get a real one.
10. What day does the actual panic set in to get it all done? I have never, ever had panic set in about Christmas. What is there to panic about? Presents? Ha!
11. Are you still wrapping presents on Christmas Eve? Nope, wrapping is done pretty much as soon as the gift gets home.
12. What is your favorite fun time at Christmas? Having everyone in the living room on Christmas morning, laughing and poking fun at their gifts and the sentiments behind them.
13. What Christmas craft do you like the best? OMG gingerbread house FTW.
14. Christmas music? Yes or no? And if yes, what is your favorite song? Yep yep! I like a lot of the old school Christmas music by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra.
15. When do you plan to finish all your shopping? This weekend, after my dentist appointment :)
Want to play along? Here's what you do...Just simply copy and paste the questions into your blog, and then answer them.
Then tag 5 or more of your favorite blogs, and leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged.
When you post on your blog, please spread some Christmas Cheer, and leave a link back to the blogger who started the meme: Heather @ (Top 10 Christmas) Heather would like any blogger to participate in this meme, so let her know if you do it
In line the night of Thanksgiving? That is dedication!
ReplyDeleteLove Actually is one of my favorites too.
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