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Dineegla's Christmas Meme
17 years ago
A Christmas Meme by 
dineegla
1. Real tree or Artificial Tree?
No tree.
2. Italian lights, LED lights, or Old fashioned bulbs on your tree?
No lights.
3. Do you prefer Tinsel or Garland?
Neither.
4. What kind of ornaments are on your tree?
Old ones from when I was young if there was a tree.
5. Do you have a favorite?
The little building ornaments made in Czechoslovakia.
6. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Star if there was a tree.
7. When do you take the tree down?
Right after New Year's if I had one.
8. Do you have a Nativity Scene (Creche)?
Nope. No idol worship.
9. Where do you set the Nativity Scene up?
N/A
10. Do you celebrate Advent before Christmas?
Nope.
11. Do you celebrate the Feast of the Three Kings?
No.
12. Do you celebrate other faith holidays during this season?
Winter Solstice more than Christmas.
13. Is there a special thing you you do (or have done) with your family at Christmastime?
Call them.
14. Do you go to church on Christmas, watch it on TV, or nothing at all?
I don't subscribe to any organized religions.
15. Have you ever put out cookies and drink for Santa? His reindeer?
Cookies and milk for Santa when I was young. Never considered anything for the reindeer because I thought they stayed up on the roof.
16. Did you ever try to stay up and see Santa?
I don't think so. I think I figured out the whole Santa scam pretty early on, but I didn't let on because I liked getting the gifts.
17. Do you still believe in Santa? If not, when did you stop?
Nope. When I did handwriting analysis that revealed Santa's gift tags were the same handwriting as the ones from my mom...probably when I was around 4 or 5 years old.
18. What is your funniest memory of Santa?
None. He's scary like a clown.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Dasher and Dancer and Prancer andNixon Vixen. Comet and Cupid and Donner (thunder) and Blitzen (lightning). And Rudolph.
20. Who are "Hardrock, Cocoa, and Joe?"
The gnomes that clean Santa's toilet?
21. Do you like it to snow at Christmas?
Yes because it almost never ever ever snows here.
22. What is you favorite Animated Christmas movie on TV?
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
23. What is you favorite Non-animated Christmas movie on TV?
There are non-animated Christmas movies on TV?!?
24. Who is your favorite "A Christmas Carol" ghost? And why?
The Ghost of Christmas Future. Because he's got the raddley chains and doesn't speak and just points to things like gravestones.
25. What is your favorite Christmas song (religious)?
Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)
26. What is your favorite Christmas song (secular)?
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
27. What is your favorite Santa Christmas song?
Santa Claus Is Dead
28. What is your favorite holiday drink (alcoholic or non)?
Martinelli's Sparkling Cider
29. What is your favorite holiday snack food?
Black Olives
30. Do you prefer hot cocoa or Eggnog?
Yes!
31. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
Almond Crescents
32. What do you love to eat at your Christmas dinner?
Ham
33. What's your favorite Christmas dinner dessert?
More ham!
34. Do you string up your Christmas Cards, Put them in a card bin, or set them up on a table?
Set them up on a horizontal surface.
35. Do you (have you) ever go (gone) Christmas caroling?
Yes! I'm usually the one who provides the musical accompaniment.
36. Have you ever been kissed under the Mistletoe?
Don't think so.
37. Have you ever dressed your pet up for Christmas?
It was kinda hard to do with fish... But no. Pets hate that!
38. What is your most favorite Christmas story?
The Real One!
39. What is your most favorite Christmas memory?
When I was about 7 or 8, waking up and realizing it was Christmas Morning, then wiggling my toes and then hearing the bells of my Christmas stocking clank and tingle, then opening up the gifts all by myself in bed...some were Matchbox cars...some candy...
40. If you were a "Christmas Character," who would you be?
Scrooge for sure!
41. Do you open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Our tradition was you get to open one on Christmas Eve. Then the stocking would appear on your bed during the night, and you would open those by yourself in bed. Then all the rest got opened together on Christmas morning - before Mass when I was young, and after Mass when I was older.
42. Do you all take turns, or just "dive in" and scramble?
Usually one person would seat themself by the tree (often it was me) and they would hand out one present to everyone. Everyone would open their present, and take turns marvelling at what each other got, then another present for everyone would be handed out...repeat until all presents are opened.
43. Do you like to give or get presents?
Neither at Christmas any more. Christmas has become way too much about gift-giving obligations and gift-giving guilt and way too little about the good example of Jesus' life. I give presents whenever the mood strikes me during the whole year instead.
44. Best Christmas gift you ever received?
Ya know, I'm so jaded on the whole gift-giving thing that no material good I ever received stands out. The best Christmas gift I have received is all the many times my mother and father and grandmother and grandfather and brother and sister and brother and their spouses and I got together.
45. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Things like socks when I was young. Now, I wish I got socks for a present...
46. Were you gracious about receiving it?
After the initial crestfalling of my smile into a frown...yes.
47. Most Favorite gift received as a child?
I'm so jaded on the whole gift-giving thing that no material good I ever received stands out.
48. Hardest person to buy for?
Christmas has become way too much about gift-giving obligations and gift-giving guilt and way too little about the good example of Jesus' life. I give presents whenever the mood strikes me during the whole year instead.
49. Easiest person to buy for?
Christmas has become way too much about gift-giving obligations and gift-giving guilt and way too little about the good example of Jesus' life. I give presents whenever the mood strikes me during the whole year instead.
50. Have you ever made a Christmas gift for someone?
Yes...in fact, that's about the only kind of Christmas gifts I make or want to receive any more - if they are made by the person not just purchased in an orgy of consumerism.
51. Have you ever "re-gifted" a Christmas present?
Yup. There's a bottle of wine in my fridge that's getting re-gifted next week!
52. What you hate most about shopping for Christmas gifts?
EVERYTHING!!!
53. What is your favorite "scent" during the holidays?
The absence of pine. I don't like artificially induced smells, or those given off by dying pine trees.
54. Do you go to your company's Holiday Party?
Yes, grudgingly. I plaster a fake smile on my face and enjoy the food I otherwise would not get a chance to eat.
55. Most wonderful thing about this time of the year?
Four paid days off work two weeks in a row!
56. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
How artificially nice people attempt to act just because "it's Christmas".
57. Do you do something for a complete stranger at this time of year?
I do things like that throughout the year. I try not to act differently because "it's The Holidays".
58. Do you do something special for yourself at this time of year?
I try to avoid people who are acting differently because "it's The Holidays" as much as possible.
59. What do you want for Christmas this year?
I already got it: a card with sappy things from my son written inside of it.
60. If you had one wish to give to anyone this Christmas, what would it be?
The strength to never buy anyone Christmas gifts ever again, and the ability to focus on what Christmas is really all about.
dineegla1. Real tree or Artificial Tree?
No tree.
2. Italian lights, LED lights, or Old fashioned bulbs on your tree?
No lights.
3. Do you prefer Tinsel or Garland?
Neither.
4. What kind of ornaments are on your tree?
Old ones from when I was young if there was a tree.
5. Do you have a favorite?
The little building ornaments made in Czechoslovakia.
6. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Star if there was a tree.
7. When do you take the tree down?
Right after New Year's if I had one.
8. Do you have a Nativity Scene (Creche)?
Nope. No idol worship.
9. Where do you set the Nativity Scene up?
N/A
10. Do you celebrate Advent before Christmas?
Nope.
11. Do you celebrate the Feast of the Three Kings?
No.
12. Do you celebrate other faith holidays during this season?
Winter Solstice more than Christmas.
13. Is there a special thing you you do (or have done) with your family at Christmastime?
Call them.
14. Do you go to church on Christmas, watch it on TV, or nothing at all?
I don't subscribe to any organized religions.
15. Have you ever put out cookies and drink for Santa? His reindeer?
Cookies and milk for Santa when I was young. Never considered anything for the reindeer because I thought they stayed up on the roof.
16. Did you ever try to stay up and see Santa?
I don't think so. I think I figured out the whole Santa scam pretty early on, but I didn't let on because I liked getting the gifts.
17. Do you still believe in Santa? If not, when did you stop?
Nope. When I did handwriting analysis that revealed Santa's gift tags were the same handwriting as the ones from my mom...probably when I was around 4 or 5 years old.
18. What is your funniest memory of Santa?
None. He's scary like a clown.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and
20. Who are "Hardrock, Cocoa, and Joe?"
The gnomes that clean Santa's toilet?
21. Do you like it to snow at Christmas?
Yes because it almost never ever ever snows here.
22. What is you favorite Animated Christmas movie on TV?
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
23. What is you favorite Non-animated Christmas movie on TV?
There are non-animated Christmas movies on TV?!?
24. Who is your favorite "A Christmas Carol" ghost? And why?
The Ghost of Christmas Future. Because he's got the raddley chains and doesn't speak and just points to things like gravestones.
25. What is your favorite Christmas song (religious)?
Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)
26. What is your favorite Christmas song (secular)?
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
27. What is your favorite Santa Christmas song?
Santa Claus Is Dead
28. What is your favorite holiday drink (alcoholic or non)?
Martinelli's Sparkling Cider
29. What is your favorite holiday snack food?
Black Olives
30. Do you prefer hot cocoa or Eggnog?
Yes!
31. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
Almond Crescents
32. What do you love to eat at your Christmas dinner?
Ham
33. What's your favorite Christmas dinner dessert?
More ham!
34. Do you string up your Christmas Cards, Put them in a card bin, or set them up on a table?
Set them up on a horizontal surface.
35. Do you (have you) ever go (gone) Christmas caroling?
Yes! I'm usually the one who provides the musical accompaniment.
36. Have you ever been kissed under the Mistletoe?
Don't think so.
37. Have you ever dressed your pet up for Christmas?
It was kinda hard to do with fish... But no. Pets hate that!
38. What is your most favorite Christmas story?
The Real One!
39. What is your most favorite Christmas memory?
When I was about 7 or 8, waking up and realizing it was Christmas Morning, then wiggling my toes and then hearing the bells of my Christmas stocking clank and tingle, then opening up the gifts all by myself in bed...some were Matchbox cars...some candy...
40. If you were a "Christmas Character," who would you be?
Scrooge for sure!
41. Do you open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Our tradition was you get to open one on Christmas Eve. Then the stocking would appear on your bed during the night, and you would open those by yourself in bed. Then all the rest got opened together on Christmas morning - before Mass when I was young, and after Mass when I was older.
42. Do you all take turns, or just "dive in" and scramble?
Usually one person would seat themself by the tree (often it was me) and they would hand out one present to everyone. Everyone would open their present, and take turns marvelling at what each other got, then another present for everyone would be handed out...repeat until all presents are opened.
43. Do you like to give or get presents?
Neither at Christmas any more. Christmas has become way too much about gift-giving obligations and gift-giving guilt and way too little about the good example of Jesus' life. I give presents whenever the mood strikes me during the whole year instead.
44. Best Christmas gift you ever received?
Ya know, I'm so jaded on the whole gift-giving thing that no material good I ever received stands out. The best Christmas gift I have received is all the many times my mother and father and grandmother and grandfather and brother and sister and brother and their spouses and I got together.
45. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Things like socks when I was young. Now, I wish I got socks for a present...
46. Were you gracious about receiving it?
After the initial crestfalling of my smile into a frown...yes.
47. Most Favorite gift received as a child?
I'm so jaded on the whole gift-giving thing that no material good I ever received stands out.
48. Hardest person to buy for?
Christmas has become way too much about gift-giving obligations and gift-giving guilt and way too little about the good example of Jesus' life. I give presents whenever the mood strikes me during the whole year instead.
49. Easiest person to buy for?
Christmas has become way too much about gift-giving obligations and gift-giving guilt and way too little about the good example of Jesus' life. I give presents whenever the mood strikes me during the whole year instead.
50. Have you ever made a Christmas gift for someone?
Yes...in fact, that's about the only kind of Christmas gifts I make or want to receive any more - if they are made by the person not just purchased in an orgy of consumerism.
51. Have you ever "re-gifted" a Christmas present?
Yup. There's a bottle of wine in my fridge that's getting re-gifted next week!
52. What you hate most about shopping for Christmas gifts?
EVERYTHING!!!
53. What is your favorite "scent" during the holidays?
The absence of pine. I don't like artificially induced smells, or those given off by dying pine trees.
54. Do you go to your company's Holiday Party?
Yes, grudgingly. I plaster a fake smile on my face and enjoy the food I otherwise would not get a chance to eat.
55. Most wonderful thing about this time of the year?
Four paid days off work two weeks in a row!
56. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
How artificially nice people attempt to act just because "it's Christmas".
57. Do you do something for a complete stranger at this time of year?
I do things like that throughout the year. I try not to act differently because "it's The Holidays".
58. Do you do something special for yourself at this time of year?
I try to avoid people who are acting differently because "it's The Holidays" as much as possible.
59. What do you want for Christmas this year?
I already got it: a card with sappy things from my son written inside of it.
60. If you had one wish to give to anyone this Christmas, what would it be?
The strength to never buy anyone Christmas gifts ever again, and the ability to focus on what Christmas is really all about.
I no longer have the small fake tree that I had for years and years...and I refuse to kill a living tree for a silly celebration - that's just too primitive.
Also the tree represents the "presents" part of Christmas...the part that I am totally sick to death of.