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[fajrdrako]

Christmas meme that I got from jfc013, even though I should be working or

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? I'll take both. I suppose I slightly prefer hot chocolate, but it's Christmas, why skimp?

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree If you're lucky.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Red, all red. Or all amber. Something like that. A pretty monochrome.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No. I'm not making magic potion! Besides, it would be frustrating, with no one here to kiss.

5. When do you put your decorations up? Not before December, but early in December. I like to do it on the day of the Ottawa Little Theatre Annual General Meeting, which is today. I don't think I'll do it today. I take them down right after Boxing Day.

6. What is your favourite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Roast duck. I like goose, too.

7. Favourite holiday memory as a child? On Christmas morning when I was three, I got up to find a stocking hanging on my bedroom door, with a small stuffed bear in it. I was thrilled. His name was Brownie.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Truth? What truth?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? No.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? With old fragile decorations that belonged to my mother, and toys, and little plastic comic book action figures.

11. Snow! Love it or dread it? Both. It's pretty, but it's hard to walk in. Slippery.

12. Can you ice skate? I used to. I like to think that with practice I still could, but last time I tried, I could only skate on one foot, which meant I went around in little circles. I'd be embarrassed to have anyone see me do that.

13. Do you remember your favourite gift? I had a different favourite gift each Christmas all through my childhood. Brownie when I was three, Punkinhead when I was four, a doll house when I was five....

14. What's the most important thing about the holidays for you? Honouring the pleasurable side of life.

15. What is your favourite holiday dessert? Plum pudding with rum hard sauce.

16. What is your favourite holiday tradition? Christmas carols, and candles.

17. What tops your tree? A star.

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving? Both. Wrapping and unwrapping, maybe!

19. What is your favourite Christmas song? In the Bleak Midwinter - the UK version, not the American version.

20. Candy canes, yum or yuk? Pretty.

21. Favourite Christmas memory? Too many to name. Like: setting the kitchen on fire the year I dropped the goose is one. Singing Christmas carols while my mother played the piano is another.

22. Fondest wish on Christmas, 2006? A renewal of hope.

Comments

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

I don't dare to hope there will be a renewal of hope. How I want to be wrong... i have no good memories on Christmas...It was always sad. And I'm afraid it will stay so.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a problem. I find myself fighting off the sad memories - not necessarily Christmas-related, but it's easy to get depressed about the state of things, and I think (as Tolkien did) that hope is very important, especially when things are at their worst. So I look for it... and hope for it... and will maybe find it.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

I wish you find it. I didn't want to spread my sadness around...Christmas is for many people a holyday of joy and it should stay so.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sometimes one person's joy just makes the sadness of someone else feel worse, when the joy can't touch them.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

I don't fear my sadness; it's a usual state of my mind. What I really would wish is to get away from me all that hate and bitterness I feel because this is something that makes ones life hard. Negative feelings hurt only people who feel them. So if the new year would free me from that I would be happy. But I fear I'm the one who has to free myself.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Freeing oneself isn't always easy. Recognizing and knowing the problem is the first step. You're right, negative feels mostly hurt you - doesn't mean they are easy to control.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

You are my psychoanalist today, thanks very much and send me your bill...it was a joke. Have a nice afternoon, I love your posts in LJ even if I can't understand all of them.How I wish I was born in an English spoken country to understand more (I don't mean the language, but the culture- books and movies and so on). See you tomorrow- if I'll get the chance.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed! I always enjoy your posts and comments.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
This should not be an 'either/or' question! I only know Egg Nog through the Egg Nog Latte at Starbucks, which I drink as a substitute for Bicerin del Borgo. Do they mean Advocaat?

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree.
Always wrapped.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Never had lights.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
I have a plastic garland of it. Not that there's anyone to kiss, but because the Winter Solstice is the Winter Solstice, and I'm not having it nicked by bloody Christians!

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Varies - I'm not organised, and my parents tend to expect me to go down to Hull for the actual holiday period itself.

6. What is your favourite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Goose, but I only ever got that when I used to spend the season in St As and dine chez flybynightpress and family.

7. Favourite holiday memory as a child?
Haven't got one. It always meant my maternal grandmother and uncle having to come to dine with us, which tended to put a damper on things.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I caught my parents red-handed when I was still quite young.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Usually, parents and I do gift-opening before going to bed on Christmas Eve. Otherwise, all other presents are opened as soon as received, regardless of date.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
It's a tiny 12" artificial one, with toy robins and bows, and a bit of tinsel.

11. Snow! Love it or dread it?
Dread. It's cold and wet, and if it's too bad to go out into town, I get cabin-fever stuck in house with parents.

12. Can you ice skate?
No, never wanted to.

13. Do you remember your favourite gift?
My laptop, although it was late and I didn't get it till January, a few years ago.
Last year, Roberto and Paola sent me a huge coffee-table book of colour photos of castles in Monferrato. With family, we just get each other things when we need them.

14. What's the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Food and drink.

15. What is your favourite holiday dessert?
Chocolates.

16. What is your favourite holiday tradition?
Food and drink.

17. What tops your tree?
A toy robin.

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Both.

19. What is your favourite Christmas song?
Greg Lake, I believed in Father Christmas. More truthful than most.

20. Candy canes, yum or yuk?
Yuk. We don't really have them here.

21. Favourite Christmas memory?
Haven't gone one. It doesn't really mean a great deal to me as an event.

22. Fondest wish on Christmas, 2006?
Money and security.

[waltzie.livejournal.com]

We have a red and gold themed tree this year, and an Iron Man ornament from hallmark!! We briefly thought about putting a Warren Worthington II action figure on the top but realized we'd have to like...strap him to the branches and that wouldn't look very festive.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

an Iron Man ornament from hallmark

How wonderful! This makes me consider... if only I had enough action figures... I could put the Iron Man side of the Civil War on one side of the Tree, and the Captain America side on the other, and Spider-Man on top of the tree instead of the star!

The only good Warren Worthington III action figure I have is the blue-skinned version, and he doesn't look very festive, either. Dawnstar from the Legion of Super-heroes would fit the bill nicely, but I don't have a figure of her, either! Hmm, wish I had one of those Neil Gaiman/P. Craig Russell sexy angels...!

And on a purely aesthetic note, I like red and gold together.

[waltzie.livejournal.com]

My roommate has almost every Marvel Legends (I think that's the series) figure there is so we have multiple versions of everyone. Our Angel is wearing red and white with really huge white wings.

MAN A CIVIL WAR THEMED TREE WOULD BE AMAZING!!!! I bet we could do it, too. Except the figures are really heavy.

It's so fun having you on my flist, you're really the only one I can always comment about comics with. :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Our Angel is wearing red and white with really huge white wings.

Oh, wonderful - perfect for Christmas.

My comic-based action figures are fairly small, and plastic, and not very heavy. I don't think I have many of the Civil War characters, though. Maybe this could be a project for next year!

Yes, isn't it fun to have someone who understands about comics?