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Questions from http://thefridayfive.livejournal.com/125279.html:
1.What is one of your diehard traditions for Christmas Eve?
My Christmas Eves have changed over the years. When I was young I spent them at home with my parents and we left milk and cookies out for my Dad (oops, I meant "Santa"). After he died, my mother and I baked cookies and exchanged gifts. Now I go for dinner and a gift swap at one of my cousins' houses.
2.How do you start your Christmas Day?
When I was young, I could ooh and aah over the presents under the tree, but my father believed that we should celebrate Jesus' birthday first. So I could empty out my stocking at breakfast, but the rest of the presents had to wait until we came back from morning Mass. Nowadays, I'll be staying at my cousin Steve's home, so I will have breakfast with the family and try not to feel like a total outsider.
3.Is there one gift in particular that you’d like to find under your tree?
A job offer. Or a pile of cash.
4.If you don’t celebrate Christmas, is there a holiday you do celebrate at this time?
Not applicable. (But I do respect other religious traditions.)
5.Do you have plans for New Year’s Eve yet?
Staying home with the boy toy. I don't like to be out on the road for New Year's Eve -- I once worked with a guy whose fiancee had been killed by a drunk driver on NYE in the mid-1970s.
1.What is one of your diehard traditions for Christmas Eve?
My Christmas Eves have changed over the years. When I was young I spent them at home with my parents and we left milk and cookies out for my Dad (oops, I meant "Santa"). After he died, my mother and I baked cookies and exchanged gifts. Now I go for dinner and a gift swap at one of my cousins' houses.
2.How do you start your Christmas Day?
When I was young, I could ooh and aah over the presents under the tree, but my father believed that we should celebrate Jesus' birthday first. So I could empty out my stocking at breakfast, but the rest of the presents had to wait until we came back from morning Mass. Nowadays, I'll be staying at my cousin Steve's home, so I will have breakfast with the family and try not to feel like a total outsider.
3.Is there one gift in particular that you’d like to find under your tree?
A job offer. Or a pile of cash.
4.If you don’t celebrate Christmas, is there a holiday you do celebrate at this time?
Not applicable. (But I do respect other religious traditions.)
5.Do you have plans for New Year’s Eve yet?
Staying home with the boy toy. I don't like to be out on the road for New Year's Eve -- I once worked with a guy whose fiancee had been killed by a drunk driver on NYE in the mid-1970s.
