Pink Rocket got me back for the tag last week. So… I tag Jeanne, Ana, “me” from Bermuda, mama_tulip, and Carrie K (this just seems a bit long for comments, Kellie!).
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Silk Nog! Yum. I only get to buy one carton, tho.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? When I was a kid, Santa just left them under the tree. It’s been a long time since there were kids in our family – it will be interesting to see what my brother and sister-in-law do eventually.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? So, um, I don’t decorate… but I like both. There’s a classiness to all-white that appeals, and there’s a cheeriness to colored that also appeals.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? I used to when I was a wild twenty-something looking to steal kisses!
5. When do you put your decorations up? I don’t have any decorations. Well, that’s not quite true. I have a purple sequined ball that has a sun on it that’s just so darn nifty I leave it up all year. And Chaos got a Christmas stocking from my sister-in-law last year that I also leave up all year.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Cornbread stuffing.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? I’m always the one who can’t wait anymore, so I pass out the packages and then we go around and each open one gift per round. I love watching everyone open their gifts. We’ve been doing this since I was a kid.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I can’t remember, so apparently I wasn’t crushed!
9. Do you open presents of Christmas morning or Christmas eve? Christmas Eve
10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? He would get a sampling of everything we had on hand – candy cane cookies, spritz cookies, sugar kuchen, candy, and so forth. My dad loves sweets! 🙂
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? It’s lovely to look at out the window and fun for the occasional snow angel or snowshoeing, but misery to drive in with my rear-wheel drive car.
12. Can you ice skate? Hello? I’m from Minnesota. Like, duh. That said, I really need to have a hockey stick in my hand for good balance.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Last year my brother and sister-in-law made Casa de Chaos for us, which has provided much entertainment for both Chaos and I.
14. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Pumpkin pie with freshly whipped cream, followed closely by candy cane cookies and these amzing chocolate-covered coconut balls that my grandma used to make
15. What is your favorite holiday tradition? See #7 above
16. What tops your tree? No tree = no top
17. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? Both are pretty fun, but I’d have to say giving outweighs receiving.
18. What is your favorite Christmas Song? I Believe in Father Christmas by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, followed closely by the speed-metal version of The Little Drummer Boy by the Hoodoo Gurus, and that great David Bowie and Bing Crosby duet
Edited 12/14/05: D’oh! I can’t believe I forgot The Christians and the Pagans by Dar Williams! One of the best holiday songs ever..
19. Do you have a wreath on your front door? No, but my neighbor down the hall does, so I carried Chaos out to look at it.
20. What do you want most for Christmas this year? A decent digital camera! But that wasn’t on my Christmas list. It’d be great if my brother built a shelf add-on for my computer desk.
“What the hell are you doing, Mom?”
Thanks for the tag! I love Chaos’ stocking. No wonder you leave it up all year round. 😉
PS) I love that last pic of Chaos.
Such a beautiful innocent wide – eyed little puss!
P.S I promise I will get my blog up and running soon!
Thanks, mama_tulip!
Kellie – He’d like you to believe that. However, if you look closely near the bottom of that picture, I think you can see scratches from him skidding across the table and launching himself to the futon chair while I shriek “No cats on the table! Get off the table!”
I love your blog! I had a black cat once, Cokin was his name, half manx but with a tail. Now I am just allergic to them, but still love to watch them.
Thanks for dropping by my place and saying hi!
chaos is so cute i want to snatch him up and hug him for a bit before he starts manically clawing me so he can escape…
only one feeling that? only one? okay…
here’s the thing. you send him down for a week and maybe he and nap can get a handle on the evil ok that keeps turning u around 5 am and really *heavily* throwing himself up against the door.
every day. first thing in the morning. waking me up before the alarm does.
grrr…
I see you have a black kitty too. He’s very cute and gets himself into plenty of trouble. In an earlier post you mentioned his lack of tail and my black kitty, George, also has a shorter than normal and weird crooked tail, it’s a 90 degree angle at the end.
Welcome to the Midwest Knitters blog ring. 🙂
Thanks, Chris and Erica!
Eerie that Erica’s George sounds like Chaos’s long-lost sibling. Gotta wonder if George has ancestry from the Life of Riley resort in northern Minnesota…
Wow, that Napster sounds devoted to waking you up! I solve that problem by sleeping with earplugs. 😀
Gotta warn ya – it’s not that easy to snatch Chaos up, since he weighs 15 pounds. Correct lifting procedure strongly recommended. And Jeanne or Ana can tell you that he’s not that excited to have anyone but me touch him. I need to have more visitors to get that cat better socialized… Anyone wanna drop by?
D’oh – don’t mind me, I got confused. That’ll teach me to reply to comments before I have an adequate caffeine level.
I now grasp that it wasn’t the Napster throwing himself against me’s door – it was the evil ok. Whoops! Pass me another soy mocha, please.
My George hails from the “tough” streets of Overland Park, Kansas, a quite nice suburb of Kansas City. I’m sure someone called the shelter to pick him up because he was bugging them with his loud yowling. 🙂 I’ve let George know that he may have a long lost cousin, Chaos, out there. He opened one eye and yawned.
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Ok – I love that you took Chaos out to look at other people’s decorations!
He sniffed it very thoroughly, too. And sneezed. I think I’ll skip telling my neighbor about the cat boogers on her wreath! 😉
It is a thunderstruck feeling seein my name for a meme! Thanks, Chris! And now you can tell me it was a different Carrie K. Like I care.
Shrieking at Chaos? He’s not allowed on tables? Poor kitty. Sheba used to hop on the counter and lick the butter. Hey, I didn’t eat at home much in those days.
David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet? How did I miss that one?
Hey Carrie – No, no, it is you, the Carrie K of whom I spoke. Feel better? 😉
The Bing and Bowie thing is actually sort of a round. I have it on Starbucks Winterludes: Cool Holiday Notes, which you’re almost guaranteed not to be able to find, since it was sold instore in 1995… Anyway, one sings “Peace on Earth” and the other sings “The Little Drummer Boy” and it’s great fun.
I know, I know, poor kitty… I just find it a bit disconcerting to have him hopping back and forth over my food while I eat. He’s part Tigger, that’s for sure.