1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
I perosnally like opening things in wrapping paper more so I'm more inclined to give pressies that way.

2. Real tree or artificial?
Artificial cause it's tradition. Someday a real one would be cool though.

3. When do you put up the tree?
THANKSGIVING, THERE IS NO EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE. (Except this year because I'm moving and we'd have been gone that weekend.)

4. When do you take the tree down?
Mom says New Years but I think it's usually a few days after that.

5. Do you like eggnog?
Blech, no.

6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Probably my Nintendo Gamecube. Dad brought out the present pretending it wasn't mine and then gave it to me. I played it literally all day long.

7. Hardest person to buy for?
DADDY. My GOD. He's so unique and has all these different and off quirks that it's impossible to know if he'll love it, laugh at it, or throw it at your head.

8. Easiest person to buy for?
Mom. You're pretty much safe with Socks, Aigne, or Hello Kitty.

9. Do you have a nativity scene?
Indeedy doody. With a headless wisemen whom I love dearly.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Neither, I deliver um in person. Anyone who lives too far gets a normal present.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
I got about three fruitcakes this year from work, despite my worrying that the ornaments, chocolate, and Bath and Body Works stuff I gave them wouldn't be enough for them.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
Tough one. I really wanna say Christmas Vacation but the Muppet Christmas Carol is a heavy competitor.

13. Better to give or receive?
I tend to be more giddy about giving. I won't lie and say getting isn't fun either, but I get really anxious and excited about people opening my presents and seeing their reactions.

14. Favorite Christmas Food?
Brownies shaped like trees with frosting! And the ham of course.

15. Favorite Christmas tradition?
All of them, my family knows more than anyone else that I'm a hard-ham for tradition. If I had to pick one though, I'd say staying up late tracking Santa on NORAD.

16. Colored lights on the tree or all clear?
Clear. Colored's a little tacky on the big one I think. My little one changes color every year depending on the theme. (Red this year for HSM)

17. Favorite Christmas song?
Emmanuel, God With Us. (Which IS different from O Come Emmanuel, which is my mom's fav ;))

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
We've stayed home pretty much my whole life but now we are traveling cause of my sweet Pigeon.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Star. We used to have an angel, but the star's sparklier.

21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning?
Sari's insane, her family stays up until midnight and opens all the presents then. We have one stocking stuffer and jammies on Christmas Eve, and then the rest on christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
It's a hard tie between two.... First of CROWDS. AUGH. I just want to go to the mall to pick up one thing or get an eye exam and I'm worried I'm gonna be in the news for being trampled to death. Second would be trying to fit all my personal traditions in. Watch all my movies, listen to all my carols, get into the spirit before it's time.

23. Favorite Ornament theme or color?
On my personal tree I've had too favorites; I did a purple haunted mansion tree about to years ago with purple and black bat garland, and last yeas and this year it's red, white, and gold with music notes for HSM. They were both really pretty.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?
I am not very fond of the ham either! Perhaps you should get a new york strip from AJ's this year! haha. Mom makes killer mashed potatoes, load those suckers up with cheese and I'm good to go.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?
For God to abundantly bless all those who give their sincerest effort to be good people.

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A sharpay doll that comes with her pink convertible wouldn't hurt either.

-Chi <3

Matt Prokop. I -- WANT.

Under my tree. With a pretty bow.

Plz.

-Chi <3

Put your mp3 player on shuffle and write down the first lines of the first twenty songs, then post the poem that results.

Little Deuce Coupe you dunno what I got,
Hey Batta batta, hey batta batta swing,
For all those times you stood for me,
How did we get from the top of the world to the bottom of the heap?
They've been laughing since I can remember.

The second star to the right shines in the night for you,
He has a shoe and I have a pot,
Let's do it, you got it,
You used to call me your angel, said I was sent straight down from heaven,
Together, together, together everyone.

The world keeps spinnin but it's moving too slow,
You know that my eyes could only see as far as you,
When I was a boy I went to church back home in Arizona,
Heart don't fail me now, courage don't desert me,
She's his yellow brick road, leading him on.

Who's gonna tell you when it's too late?
Billy Joe McGuffrey was a really clumsy kid,
So this is love, so this is what makes life devine,
You never know what you're gonna feel,
I won't grow up.

HSM and Veggietales are poetic genius, I know.

-Chi <3