Today's Meme: Seasonal questions
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thatcrazycajunFestively filched from katrinb:
katrinb:1. Hot chocolate or apple cider?
Both. With mint in the chocolate, caramel in the cider and whipped cream on each. (I like Kat's answer, so I'm just adding to it.)
2. Turkey or ham?
Turkey, deep-fried whole if possible.
3. Do you get a fake or real Christmas tree?
Real, of course. They get more sodding expensive by the year, but a fake plastic one just doesn't do it for me.
4. Decorations on the outside of your house?
I live in an apartment building, so not applicable. (I am considering putting some lights in my front window, though.)
5. Snowball fights or sledding?
Either, weather permitting. Got to buy a sled first...
6. Do you like hanging around the fireplace because it’s warm?
Well, that and the light and the woodsy smell and the crackling, popping noises.
7. Do you enjoy going downtown shopping?
Sometimes, especially if the store has an elaborate window display.
8. Favorite Christmas song?
"O Holy Night." I was raised Roman Catholic in one of the most heavily Roman Catholic parts of the US. (You can take the boy out of the Church, but...!) If I ever come close to believing again, it is when I hear this song...or sing it.
10. How do you feel about Christmas movies?
Don't really care for most of them except Scrooged. (Though I did just finally see The Polar Express, and it was impressive.)
11. When is it too early to start listening to Christmas music?
Anytime between 3 January (Epiphany, or Twelfth Night) and 1 December, not inclusive.
12. Stockings before or after presents?
With.
13. Carolers: do you or do you not listen to them?
When I run across them, I do.
14. Go to someone else’s house or they come to you?
Go to several other people's houses, usually, winding up at Daddy's for dinner.
15. Do you read the Christmas Story the night before Christmas?
Don't need to; my Songbird and I are usually in church having it read to us that night, around midnight. (She is still very Catholic, so on this I indulge her.)
16. What do you do after presents?
Go visit relatives.
17. What is your favorite holiday smell?
Hot cocoa and pine needles.
18. Ice skating or walking around the mall?
Given that I live in the South, usually the latter unless there's a rink nearby.
19. Favorite Christmas memory:
Painting Santa in tempera inside the bay window of my daddy's old house in Lafayette, LA when I was a teenager. (This being Cajun country, I gave him a word balloon reading, "Heaux, Heaux, Heaux!") Then having my daddy look it over and go, "C'est si bon, mon garçon." Considering it was my very first untaught attempt at layered painting from the bottom up on glass, I thought I did pretty damned well...and I wish I still had a picture of it.
20. Favorite part about winter?
Snow, when I live someplace that gets it more than once every 12 years or so.
21. Food you eat this time of year that you may not during the others seasons.
Egg nog. We simply must have the nog!
22. Do you have winter sheets for your bed?
Not specially patterned or colored, if that's what is meant.
23. Do you eat ice cream in the winter?
Occasionally.
24. Mittens or gloves?
Gloves. I like having finger mobility. (Thought I'd finish with Kat's answer, too. Symmetry is cool like that.)
Both. With mint in the chocolate, caramel in the cider and whipped cream on each. (I like Kat's answer, so I'm just adding to it.)
2. Turkey or ham?
Turkey, deep-fried whole if possible.
3. Do you get a fake or real Christmas tree?
Real, of course. They get more sodding expensive by the year, but a fake plastic one just doesn't do it for me.
4. Decorations on the outside of your house?
I live in an apartment building, so not applicable. (I am considering putting some lights in my front window, though.)
5. Snowball fights or sledding?
Either, weather permitting. Got to buy a sled first...
6. Do you like hanging around the fireplace because it’s warm?
Well, that and the light and the woodsy smell and the crackling, popping noises.
7. Do you enjoy going downtown shopping?
Sometimes, especially if the store has an elaborate window display.
8. Favorite Christmas song?
"O Holy Night." I was raised Roman Catholic in one of the most heavily Roman Catholic parts of the US. (You can take the boy out of the Church, but...!) If I ever come close to believing again, it is when I hear this song...or sing it.
10. How do you feel about Christmas movies?
Don't really care for most of them except Scrooged. (Though I did just finally see The Polar Express, and it was impressive.)
11. When is it too early to start listening to Christmas music?
Anytime between 3 January (Epiphany, or Twelfth Night) and 1 December, not inclusive.
12. Stockings before or after presents?
With.
13. Carolers: do you or do you not listen to them?
When I run across them, I do.
14. Go to someone else’s house or they come to you?
Go to several other people's houses, usually, winding up at Daddy's for dinner.
15. Do you read the Christmas Story the night before Christmas?
Don't need to; my Songbird and I are usually in church having it read to us that night, around midnight. (She is still very Catholic, so on this I indulge her.)
16. What do you do after presents?
Go visit relatives.
17. What is your favorite holiday smell?
Hot cocoa and pine needles.
18. Ice skating or walking around the mall?
Given that I live in the South, usually the latter unless there's a rink nearby.
19. Favorite Christmas memory:
Painting Santa in tempera inside the bay window of my daddy's old house in Lafayette, LA when I was a teenager. (This being Cajun country, I gave him a word balloon reading, "Heaux, Heaux, Heaux!") Then having my daddy look it over and go, "C'est si bon, mon garçon." Considering it was my very first untaught attempt at layered painting from the bottom up on glass, I thought I did pretty damned well...and I wish I still had a picture of it.
20. Favorite part about winter?
Snow, when I live someplace that gets it more than once every 12 years or so.
21. Food you eat this time of year that you may not during the others seasons.
Egg nog. We simply must have the nog!
22. Do you have winter sheets for your bed?
Not specially patterned or colored, if that's what is meant.
23. Do you eat ice cream in the winter?
Occasionally.
24. Mittens or gloves?
Gloves. I like having finger mobility. (Thought I'd finish with Kat's answer, too. Symmetry is cool like that.)
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Date: 2007-12-17 03:36 am (UTC)"O Holy Night" is a definite favorite. I'm a die-hard Nat King Cole fan from 'way back, but Three Quarter Ale have such exquisite harmonies, they're even better. Now if they'd just hurry up & get that holiday album out! 2/3 of Three Quarter Ale are in "A Christmas Carol" down at the Shakespeare Tavern, a production I highly recommend [especially if you can see it during the week when it's a) not as crowded & b) cheaper].