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Our holiday party this weekend was fab!!! Lots of good friends came on over to share holiday cheer. Reesie and Frank even joined in the fun, but I'll be giving Raf grief for missing it.
Then Sunday night, I was still recovering from my hangover and a fall I took in my living room the day before where I had tripped over a misplaced pile of wood while carrying a glass picture frame. I figured that my aches and pains were from my wrenched back and arms from the fall (minor cuts were suffered, nothing big thank god). Went to sleep feeling like I had literally been hit by a truck. Never occurred to me that it wasn't the fall that was bothering me so severely. I didn't figure it out actually, until I woke up and realized that the sheets were absolutely soaked. I had had a fever and sweated it out!! I've never had that happen before. Had to get up and change the sheets in the middle of the night. (Is that TMI?) Was so absolutely bizarre and freakish and I felt fine the next day. Aches were gone and been ok since. Joe jokes that my body was getting rid of all the party toxins...booze and sugar.
And apparently a car at the gas station down the street blew up the on Sunday. Crazy crazy. The traffic was nutso in front of our normally quiet street as they were diverting people. I'll let Reese tell the story because well, she already
Oh, also picked up a shiny new smartphone. Yay Me!
And a Christmas meme, stolen from my friend and new Voxer Amber. Now it's your turn.
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Burdick's hot chocolate MMMMMMM.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
When we were kids he just set them out around the tree and in the living room. The three of us each had our own place with toys. Now since it's just Joe and I, he wraps them and puts them under the tree.
3. Colored lights or white on tree/house?
Multi-colored. Joe likes the colors to be a bit non-traditional so we have orange and funny chartreuse as well as pink and purple.
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes, every year before our holiday party. But I never see anyone kissing under it. :(
5. When do you put your decorations up?
As soon as Joe will let me. He makes me wait till after Thanksgiving.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
The year we got the Atari!! My dad always loved to play Pacman with us.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
In 3rd grade kids were murmuring about it. I refused to listen. But then, I had to get up to go to the bathroom a few hours after I had gone to sleep on Xmas Eve. I heard my father playing with the Merlin toy he got me. I knew then that my friends at school were right so I covered my eyes (bathroom was at the top of the stairs overlooking the living room) and told them I wouldn't look and I wouldn't tell my brother and sister.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Yes. Only one! Well, unless we are traveling to family...then Joe and I open all our gifts the night before we leave, so this year it will be a couple of days early.
10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
leftover holiday party treats...
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
I WANT THREE FEET OF IT WITH NOWHERE TO GO!
12. Can you ice skate?
Sort of. I can stand. Then I start to bitch about how my ankles hurt. Fun times.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
The plum ruby ring I got from Joe for our first Christmas. I wear it all the time.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Seeing my friends and family. I feel such a wonderful happiness about little Christmas things. Snow. Decorations. Music. The whole package.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
No way I can really pick just one. I make a lot of great cookies and candies every year usually. I suppose that I love good Divinity, which is often hard to find. I can make it fairly well but it's so involved.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Trimming the tree with Joe.
18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving presents?
a bit of both. :)
19. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
Do You Hear What I Hear
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
It depends on who makes them, but mostly yum yum. My friend and acupuncturist Sheryl admitted that she saves the ones she puts on the tree and just uses them again year after year. Cracked me up.
