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| Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| Thieved from Sky |
All the Christmas facts about Ata that you never wanted to know, with thanks to Sky for pinching it from someone else.
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot chocolate. Although not at Christmas time, so much.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Which what? I guess he just sits them under the tree, which would explain why they're in the same wrapping paper that was bought in bulk last year, with tags in Grandma's handwriting - Santa has obviously collected them from assorted relatives to deliver.
3. Coloured lights on tree/house or white?
Welll... I think I like white ones, but this year I bought my first ever set of my very own lights. And they are coloured. I didn't get the ones that flash in patterns, though, and now I wish I had. I've hung them around the dining room. Half hung, anyway. Really should get on to finishing that.
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
I once hung mistletoe in our bird cages. The red-wing parrot thought it was a fantastically tasty treat, and the lorikeet swung off it until it broke and he landed on his back. But I suspect our mistletoe to be somewhat different to what's traditionally hung over doorways.
5. When do you put your decorations up?
When I get around to it. Mine haven't really gone up yet. Which is why I feel justified in leaving them up for months after Christmas - it seems a shame to only enjoy them for a couple of days.
6. What is your favourite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Chicken wings. Every celebratory meal is, in my mind, centred around marinated chicken wings.
7. Favourite Holiday memory as a child?
Staying at my grandmother's house. She kept little china figurines of animals in the guest bedside drawers, and we played with them when we visited.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
We were never really encouraged to believe in Santa, or to disbelieve in Santa either. It was kind of a non-issue. So I guess we got the best of both worlds, being allowed to enjoy Santa at parties or shopping centres or whatnot, without a big let-down over discovering he wasn't real. Mostly, I had fun convincing my smallest brother to believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Birthday Fairy (being the one to deliver birthday presents), and the Balloon Fairy (guess what she delivered!).
I do recall one year when, about a week after Christmas, I walked into the lounge to discover presents all over the table next to the Christmas tree... and having the sudden, startling thought that Santa had actually come - just a week late. (This was in the middle of nowhere, and if the post often took weeks to arrive, why not Santa?)
Then I realised it was my birthday.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No. No no no. But if a friend gives me a gift prior to Christmas, I might open it then-and-there.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
I have a very little tree, so it's decorated with whatever very little ornaments I can find. Although I think I might buy a little tree this year, which will be a little bigger than my current one, and it might need slightly bigger ornaments.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
I have no experience on which to base an assessment.
12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, provided that I don't have to do anything trickier than start and turn in gentle arcs, and provided that there is a wall to run into for the purpose of stopping.
13. Do you remember your favourite gift?
Probably the camera my grandfather gave me when I was eight. Or the 3D-puzzle my brother gave me when I was 18.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
The feel of sharing a celebration with the whole city - the general sense of having something to look forward to that everyone seems to have.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Umm... can't say I really have one. I had an ice-cream Christmas pudding, once, made with icecream and lollies. Mum used to make trifle or pavlova for special occasions. I still love pavlova. Well, I like trifle too, but not if it's made with alcohol. I don't like that.
16. What is your favourite Holiday tradition?
Tinsel. I Love Tinsel. And the getting-together thing - we used to have friends over for Christmas in the years that we didn't go to visit family. I think the smallest Christmas day I ever had was me, Mr Ata, and his brother. It was the first time it occurred to me that most people spend the day with family, which was why none of our friends were up for Christmas lunch. We ate rolls with fancy fillings in a park, and climbed trees.
Oh, and crackers. I love crackers. This year I put little chocolates inside shop-bought crackers, figuring that chocolate is a much nicer cracker-content than those weird little plastic keyring things.
17. What tops your tree?
A star, made of cardboard and inevitably looking depressed around the edges.
18. Which do you prefer - giving or receiving?
Giving, I think. We don't have a strong tradition of gift-giving in our family, so I only do it when I feel like it, and when people are in the same state... the last few years they've all just gotten TEAR cards and chocolate. Which seems to make everyone pretty happy, anyway.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Hark the Herald Angels Sing. You can really get stuck into singing it, and it's right smack bang in the range I'm strongest in.
20. Candy Canes... Yuck or Yum?
mmmMMMMMMMMmmmmm. I love candy canes. But only peppermint ones - the fruity flavoured ones give me a headache. |
posted by Ata @ 10:31 pm  |
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| 2 Comments: |
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"the lorikeet swung off it until it broke and he landed on his back."
Bwahaha!
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J is mean. Poor lorikeet.
Thieving is good. When it comes to blogging, anyway.
But rolls, and chicken wings, and ice cream at Christmas? You Southern Hemisphere people are weird. *scoffs another mince pie*
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"the lorikeet swung off it until it broke and he landed on his back."
Bwahaha!