Christmas: Getting to Know You

Welcome to the 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to Know Your Friends! You know the drill. Read it if you want, do it yourself if you like. Happy Ho Ho.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate (is there anything else?)

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps them.

(Don’t know what happened to Number 3)

4. Do you hang mistletoe? Not in a very long time. I used to shoot it from a tree. For real. With a real gun and everything. I was a good shot.

5. When do you put your decorations up? After Thanksgiving. I don't decorate a lot.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Fudge. Without nuts. Yes, that's candy but it is my favorite. I can make a meal of fudge.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? I don't have one. That's kind of sad, isn't it.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I figured it out when I was no older than six. I had broken a tooth and the tooth fairy left me a 50 cent piece. I found a bowl of 50 cent pieces on a shelf and somehow made the connection. And from there I knew Santa wasn't real either, if the tooth fairy was just a myth.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? I used to. My brother and I would open our present from one another.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Lights, garland, ornaments, tinsel. Only this year we forgot the garland. Which is nothing, since last year we lost the tree completely.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Mixed emotions.

12. Can you ice skate? I did as a kid but wouldn't dare now

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I remember some gifts in particular, like a rocking chair, but I wouldn't call it a favorite.

14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Spending time with my family and friends (and having a little down time).

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Fudge! Fudge! Fudge!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Having my aunt and grandmother down to my house on Christmas Eve.

17. What tops your tree? An angel.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Both. I like the giving part but I don't mind the getting, either. (I'm honest about it, what can I say?)

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Little Drummer Boy

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yum, but not often.