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Christmas!! (and other questions)
Disclaimer: Hanukkah totally counts too.
What's your favourite holiday? (There IS a right answer to this!)
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Red or White?
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Best holiday movie?
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Best gift you've ever received?
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Tell me a cute holiday story:
What's your favourite holiday? (There IS a right answer to this!)
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Red or White?
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Best holiday movie?
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Best gift you've ever received?
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Tell me a cute holiday story:
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Re: Christmas!! (and other questions)
Christmas, with a extremely close second of Thanksgiving. I must like to eat or something
What's the best holiday meal menu?
This is actually really hard, my family changes it up all the time and there are so many good dishes that I know. However, you can beat the traditional turkey, dressing, potatoes.... mmmmm
Red or White?
Red
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Peppermint
Best holiday movie?
Love Actually
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Already started, but that is more stocking stuffers.
Best gift you've ever received?
BF gave me a pearl necklace last year.
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
BF and I are spending our first Christmas living together, so starting to develop our own traditiona. In general though, jJust seeing family.
Tell me a cute holiday story:
Hmmm, not sure I have one. Need some time to think.
My Bio - updated 26/3/2011
Christmas! I Love spending time with all of my family. And I can't complain about getting presents either!
What's the best holiday meal menu?
I love the Thanksgiving menu. Turkey, rice pilaf, cranberry sauce, corn, and fresh bread.
Red or White?
Red
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
The cherry ones that are all different colors.
Best holiday movie?
ELF!!
When do you start shopping for gifts?
I'm going to start right after Thanksgiving.
Best gift you've ever received?
This is a tough one. Prob my Uggs last year from BF cause I thought my parents were getting me them, and I didn't see BF til nighttime, so I thought I wasn't going to get them at all, but I did. (He had said he's never buy them because he doesn't like them.)
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
I think BF and I are going to do the Holidays together this year! First time, we usually just get together at night.
Tell me a cute holiday story:
A few years ago my little cousins who were about 2 got stuffed sock monkeys from my grandma. One of them pulls the monkey out and looked at it. He said so seriously "I don't even like monkeys!" and slammed the monkey down on the ground. My aunt goes, "well that's too bad." Now whenever I see the sock monkeys I laugh!
ETA:
What's your favourite holiday? (There IS a right answer to this!)
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Has to include mashed potatoes! Other than that, it depends on the holiday. . . but I do miss my grandmother's stuffing.
Red or White?
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Best holiday movie?
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Best gift you've ever received?
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Tell me a cute holiday story:
Married Bio
What's the best holiday meal menu? Scalloped potatoes hands down!!!
Red or White? Red
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu) Peppermint
Best holiday movie? Elf. Every year on Christmas, the TCM channel plays Gone with the Wind, so if that is considered a holiday movie then GWTW is definitely my favorite!
When do you start shopping for gifts?Like a week before Christmas...yeah, I procrastinate. This year, I'm going earlier because I'm going with BF.
Best gift you've ever received? When I was eight or something...I received an American Girl Doll, best gift ever. Thanks, Grandma!
Any holiday plans you're excited for?No. I wish I could spend the holidays with BF then I could have something to look forward to. I really can't stand being cooped up in the house with my extended family.
Tell me a cute holiday story:Last year on Christmas, BF came to my house and I was stoked. He brightened my Christmas! (not really a story, but that made me super happy)
I'm going to give the wrong answer. My favorite holiday is Independence Day here in the U.S.
What's the best holiday meal menu?
As long as there's Turkey and some kind of rolls, the side dishes are optional.
Red or White?
White
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Hershey's makes chocolate mint candy canes. mmmmmm
Best holiday movie?
Love, Actually. Everytime I watch it, I smile like an idiot for the entire 2 hours.
When do you start shopping for gifts?
A couple days before Christmas. LOL. My family isn't really into gifts, so I usually just have a couple of people to buy for.
Best gift you've ever received?
BF got me the entire series of Friends on DVD for our first Christmas together.
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Nothing specific, just hanging out with family.
Tell me a cute holiday story:
My dad used to use a ladder to climb up onto the roof and jingle bells up there. My mom would then tell us that we were hearing the reindeer harnesses jingling, and we'd better go to sleep because Santa wouldn't come if he knew we were awake.
I'd have to say Halloween for me. Time of the year is perfect, I love decorating with the sppoking cobwebs and lights, and dressing up is the best.
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Hmm.. Pasta with chicken piccata, chocolate cake decorated with frosting, and mini candies.
Red or White?
White
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Blueberry
Best holiday movie?
Nightmare before Christmas
When do you start shopping for gifts?
gifts for christmas?.. around Aug.-Oct
Best gift you've ever received?
A earring and necklace set my BF gave me of fire opals
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
celebrating NewYears and being able to drink (newly 21 this year)
Tell me a cute holiday story:
When I was 5 I used to get to open 1 present and then pick one under the tree for someone else. Well my dad never wrote on his presents who they were for.. so he gave me a gift thinking it was for me and it ended up being a pair of leggings for my mom. But being 5 I thought it was the best gift even if I couldn't use it and I sat on them the whole day so no one could take them away. My parents had to wait until I was asleep to get them back.
What's your favourite holiday? (There IS a right answer to this!)
I think it should be obvious by now, but I adore Christmas!
What's the best holiday meal menu?
We have honey maple ham on Christmas day mmmmm! And my gramma makes the BEST cheesy mashed potatoes.
Oh, and ice cream birthday cake!
Red or White?
White
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
I actually don't like candy canes (to eat). But we got sour watermelon, swedish berries, and sour peaches ones last year that were decent.
Best holiday movie?
Those olddd stop motion ones. Santa Clause is Coming to Town has serious communist undertones.
When do you start shopping for gifts?
I already have
Best gift you've ever received?
I got my own computer when I was 12 which was sooo exciting.
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Family time of course.
Christmas dinner party with my friends!
And New Year's Dinner with BF's family! I love his family, and they go to the Mandarin for this so that's even better!
Tell me a cute holiday story:
I was born on Christmas day, sooo when the nurses were cleaning me up and making me all pretty, they put me in a blanket in a stocking to give me to my mom!
And no, my mom didn't keep the stocking. Pffft.
What's the best holiday meal menu? Slow roasted garlic beef roast with roasted potatoes, stuffing and green beans. Beef that's whats for dinner!
Red or White? I don't drink...often but I like a sip of red now and then. Stuff is potent!
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu) Hehehe... tutti frutti... the rainbow ones, cherry comes in second.
Best holiday movie? My ex roomie always watches the Grinch who stole christmas, for me I have to say Home alone the first one. Something about it makes me feel like its the holiday season.
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Right after thanksgiving, usually last minute bah the procrastinator in me.
Best gift you've ever received?
I think the one that meant the most to me was a snowboarding jacket. For some reason that one made me really excited. Though as a kid the light bright I got was most excellent.
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
I think getting to spend x-mas morning with my significant other as his fiance.
Tell me a cute holiday story:
This one was two years ago on x-mas when my niece was just a few months old her first christmas, they placed her under the christmas tree for pictures and that was around the same time that we just got a puppy so the puppy and my niece are under the tree laying next to each other and the image was so freaking adorable that its making me emotionally as I think about it. Hahaha...
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If it wasnt for the over commercializm of it.. Then Christmas hands down.
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Turkey, cinnamon apples, stuffing, brocli with cheese
Red or White?
White
Favourite flavour of candy canes?
Peppermint
Best holiday movie?
White Christmas
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Last year I started in August... This year September
Best gift you've ever received?
Barbie Dream house ..
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
My neice is due right before Christmas!
Tell me a cute holiday story:
My dad has 20ft+ cielings in his house and so every year it is tradition that we go and cut down a huge 18ft+ tree. The first year we did this our tree was too heavy for the stand and it fell over three different times! SInce then we have had a wrought iron stand made for our huge tree
Married Bio
[QUOTE]Elle you like Friends too?!? I guess I shouldn't be surprised. :) I was obsessed in college. . . hell, I still love them and have a tendency to relate stuff that happens IRL to situations that occurred on Friends. Also, Bren -- you were a Christmas baby?? So cute :) I love the stocking thing! But did you mom really not keep it? WTH?
Posted by cschiano[/QUOTE]
She really didn't keep it. She isn't around much so I have no idea what happened to it! She got rid of my baby blanket too :(
I am a Christmas baby :) hence the illogical love for all things Christmas.
[QUOTE]Elle you like Friends too?!? I guess I shouldn't be surprised. :) I was obsessed in college. . . hell, I still love them and have a tendency to relate stuff that happens IRL to situations that occurred on Friends. Also, Bren -- you were a Christmas baby?? So cute :) I love the stocking thing! But did you mom really not keep it? WTH?
Posted by cschiano[/QUOTE]
LOVE friends. I still catch myself watching re-runs on TV sometimes, even though I own the whole series.
I have a couple of friends who also love it. We manage to find a Friends quote that relates to just about everything.
I can't pick one, are you crazy?! I love Halloween and Valentine's Day, in addition to Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm also part Jewish, so I light candles for Chanukah, too, which I started a couple years ago. I've never formally celebrated the Jewish High Holidays, but I note them when they come along. I like the way the Jewish faith interprets the meaning of a New Year.
(There IS a right answer to this!) What's the best holiday meal menu?
My grandma's beef brisket. YESS.
Red or White?
Usually red, but I like a good dry white too. Big fan of Brut Champagne as well.
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Classic peppermint!
Best holiday movie?
Love Actually is so darned good. Can't have Xmas without the old Grinch and Charlie Brown cartoons, though!
When do you start shopping for gifts?
I'm such a terrible procrastinator. I do most of it a few days ahead.
Best gift you've ever received?
Probably my first iPod a few years ago from my parents. So nice. But I have a feeling BF is going to top it, if not this year, then next.
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
My first Christmas with my BF. It means so much to me. I can't wait to put his presents under our tree and wake up on Christmas morning all cuddled up with him.
Tell me a cute holiday story:
This is the how-my-parents-met story. My mom is a professional musician and was playing for an Xmas eve service at the church where my dad's family went. When the service was over, she was packing up and trying to turn off her stand light. The switch was broken, so she had to unscrew the lightbulb to turn it off. It was really hot, and my dad, sitting nearby, noticed she was having some issues making contact with the bulb, so he leaned over and unscrewed it for her. They started talking and he asked her to a New Year's Eve party some of his friends were having. It was their first date and first kiss at midnight. Awww.
Blog: A New Yorker in Duluth
Updated 8/8/11
What's the best holiday meal menu? Turkey, ham (we have a big fam so we have both), turnips, green bean casserole, stuffing, green beans, and mashed potatoes
Red or White? Red
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu) regular...
Best holiday movie? Does RENT count? If not, I also love Elf and the new Grinch and...a lot of holiday movies. Home Alone too.
When do you start shopping for gifts? Usually super early, so I'm a little concerned I haven't started yet!
Best gift you've ever received? My crock-pot
Any holiday plans you're excited for? Turkey day out in hicksville with BF's extended fam, but mostly....Early Christmas with my fam in Jerz! There are games...and Santa's coming.
Tell me a cute holiday story: BF and I's first Christmas...he got me a t-shirt from his school. We were going to the bowl game two days later
[QUOTE]Disclaimer: Hanukkah totally counts too. What's your favourite holiday? (There IS a right answer to this!) What's the best holiday meal menu? Red or White? Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu) Best holiday movie? When do you start shopping for gifts? Best gift you've ever received? Any holiday plans you're excited for? Tell me a cute holiday story:
Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]
1) Thanksgiving, hands down. I'm so excited, even if we aren't seeing any family this year.
2) I love Easter dinner. Ham, mashed taters, bread, peas and lemon pie. mmmmmm
3) Normal flavor candy canes
4) Home Alone
5) I don't shop til after Thanksgiving, but I start thinking about it in July.
6) H got me a wall sconce once, it was blown glass and I had been looking for one for months.
7) When we were little, my Poppy would sit up and say, I hear bells, then he would climb on the roof and exclaim that Santa left something and there was eve reindeer poops. I miss that man.
[QUOTE] Best gift you've ever received? BF gave me a pearl necklace last year. Posted by Hazel_B[/QUOTE]
Yeah, he did!
What?
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Christmas!! (and other questions) : Yeah, he did! What?
Posted by hetshup[/QUOTE]
Hahaha! I was going to write this. Inappropriate minds we have!
My grandmother regifted her AARP personal alarm keychain/flashlight to me and my sister. She spent a good 10 minutes explaining how we could use them if we were in danger, including a demonstration of how we could turn it on, then throw it off to the side while we run away. "The rapist won't know whether or not to chase you or the alarm!" She was SOOOO proud of those, and 5 years later, I wish we had kept them.
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Lobster buffet. That's right, you heard me! Lobster this that and the other thing + whatever other guests bring. My parents are geniuses.
Both. Canadian flag, biotches!!
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
Regular ones...?
Home Alone.
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Whenever I see good sales. lol
Best gift you've ever received?
Cuba. My grandmother left us enough money (after she passed summer 09) so that the whole family could go. Trip of a lifetime.
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Lobster Buffet.
Tell me a cute holiday story:
"Popular on the internetz..."
Canada is kind of like a whole other world with new things to discover that us americans only dream of. - Narwhal
Paige I would like to profess my love for you and your brilliant mind. - breezerb
Murried Bio
Christmas because that's normally the only time I get to see ALL of my family
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Thanksgiving: turkey, homemade mashed potatoes, green been caserole, fresh steamed broccoli, cranberry sauce, fresh rolls, pumpkin pie
Christmas: honey-glazed ham, potatoes au-gratin, green been caserole, fresh rolls, apple pie
Red or White?
for wine? White, I like my wine chilled
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
peppermint
Best holiday movie?
there's been so many good ones over the years, but I guess the one that reminds me most of my childhood Christmas would be the original Santa Clause
When do you start shopping for gifts?
generally around Thanksgiving
Best gift you've ever received?
I remember being floored that I got those ridiculous Soda platform tennies. I was in like the 5th grade and that's when the Spice Girls were HUGE and I was so excited
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Eating at my mom's for Thanksgiving. Last year we went to FI's aunts and she bought everything from AJ's and it was pretty gross. My mom actually makes everything from scratch for Thanksgiving
Tell me a cute holiday story:
When we were little, we'd wake my parents up at like 4 or 5 in the morning to open presents (after they had been up all night wrapping and putting the presents under the tree to make us think Santa came). So one year, my mom put the ocsillating fan in the middle of the hallway and taped to create a barrier with a sign that said "Do not cross this line until 7AM" We actually listened and slept in the hallway until 7. LOL.
You Maritmers sure love your lobster. That's all people ate when I was out there. I don't like it.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Christmas!! (and other questions) : Yeah, he did! What?
Posted by hetshup[/QUOTE]
Are you being dirty? :)
Seriously, though it was a double strand with mixed coloured pearls on it and chain links between them. I have no idea if they are real or not since I don't know where he got it, but it's really pretty.
My Bio - updated 26/3/2011
[QUOTE]Paige, I'll make an exception BUT ONLY FOR YOU. You Maritmers sure love your lobster. That's all people ate when I was out there. I don't like it.
Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]
<div>It's delicious. We have other things at the buffet too tho...salad, sweet and sour meatballs (my mom's BFF makes these and they're so good I could eat the whole batch!!), rolls, chicken, all sorts of other not red-beedy-eyed-creatures. </div>
"Popular on the internetz..."
Canada is kind of like a whole other world with new things to discover that us americans only dream of. - Narwhal
Paige I would like to profess my love for you and your brilliant mind. - breezerb
Murried Bio
Blog: A New Yorker in Duluth
Updated 8/8/11
Christmas and Halloween
What's the best holiday meal menu?
We have a Christmas dinner party every year for a bunch of our local friends. This year, we're switching it up and doing appetizers, cocktails and desserts...I've been finding some AMAZING-sounding recipes lately...
Red or White?
Like, wine? Definitely red.
Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu)
I love the black cherry ones.
Best holiday movie?
Charlie Brown Christmas, the old Claymation cartoons from the 60s, Love Actually
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Normally, summertime. I've been so bogged down this year, I've barely gotten started.
Best gift you've ever received?
FI proposing to me, right before Christmas. That was pretty damn special.
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
We're spending a weekend in Disneyworld with rickylee...I can't wait to see Disney all decked out for Christmas.
Tell me a cute holiday story:
We had told our parents and siblings the night we got engaged, but we waited to tell everyone else when we were home. My one cousin (about 13 yrs old) couldn't wait for us to get engaged, so I was pretty excited to tell her. I pulled her aside and told her, "FI got me an early Christmas gift, you want to see it?". I didn't even get a chance to show her the ring - she tackled me with a hug and knocked me over and started giggling. Yep, she was pretty excited.
"Oceana swings from logical to anus punching." - Buttons
Planning / Married / Blog
[QUOTE]Any holiday plans you're excited for? BF and I are traveling to Denver for Thanksgiving to meet his entire extended family!
Posted by Schrodinger[/QUOTE]
Hey, BF and I are doing this exact thing except at Christmas :) He's from Denver.
Married Bio
[QUOTE]Disclaimer: Hanukkah totally counts too.
What's your favourite holiday? (There IS a right answer to this!) <strong>Christmas for sure, my family gets really into Christmas.
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What's the best holiday meal menu? <strong>Thanksgiving has the best holiday menu.
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Red or White? <strong>White
</strong>Favourite flavour of candy canes? (Canadian spelling thank youuuu) <strong>Good old fashion peppermint.
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Best holiday movie? <strong>The Santa Clause and How the Grinch stole Christmas (cartoon).
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When do you start shopping for gifts? <strong>Between Halloween and Thanksgiving.
</strong>Best gift you've ever received? <strong>Recent years, my Coach purse and sunglasses from FI. As a kid, the 4 wheeler.
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Any holiday plans you're excited for? <strong>My baby sister is flying in from Ohio.
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Tell me a cute holiday story: <strong>It is a family tradition that we stay up until midnight on Christmas Eve playing board games and at midnight we all trek outside and sing some Italian song that only 2 of us know the words to as we put the baby Jesus in the manger that is in the front yard.
</strong>Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Christmas!! (and other questions) : Hey, BF and I are doing this exact thing except at Christmas :) He's from Denver.
Posted by cschiano[/QUOTE]
<div>Have you met most your BF's extended family? I've met most of his immediate family, but this is going to be a week with all the aunts, uncles and cousins!</div>
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Christmas!! (and other questions) : Have you met most your BF's extended family? I've met most of his immediate family, but this is going to be a week with all the aunts, uncles and cousins!
Posted by Schrodinger[/QUOTE]
I've met his parents and one aunt/uncle/cousins combo. . . but his family is HUGE (he tells me there are ~70 people that come to Christmas eve dinner) so I'm excited/nervous to meet them all!
Married Bio
What's the best holiday meal menu?
Red or White?
Favourite flavour of candy canes?
Best holiday movie?
When do you start shopping for gifts?
Best gift you've ever received?
Any holiday plans you're excited for?
Tell me a cute holiday story:
Life is good today.