(meme) A Meme for the Season

Snarfed from ellipticcurve.

1. Eggnog or hot chocolate? Neither goes good with Latkes.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? What is this tree of which you speak?

3. Colored lights or white? Candles. Eight of them. [Updated: OK, Nine when you count the shamash]

4. Do you hang mistletoe? What is this mistletoe of which you speak?

5. When do you put your decorations up? Well, I clean the chanukiah a few days before.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Laktes (with sour cream) and sufganiot.

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? Don’t really have any.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Who is this Santa of which you speak?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Only if it is one of the eight nights.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Tree? Tree? You keep going on about trees. Bush is bad enough.

11. Snow! Love it or dread it? Well, it is a pain to drive in.

12. Can you ice skate? Yes. Much better than I rollar skate.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid? No.

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you? That the silly music you hear on the radio goes away when its over. You also get to eat lots of fried foods without guilt.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Sufganiot.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Lighting many many many chanukiot.

17. What tops your tree? I think that’s a pretty personal question.

18. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving? I enjoy the giving, but not the bills afterwards 🙂

19. What is your favorite Christmas song? Christmas Dinner by Peter, Paul and Mary. See this journal entry for more musings on holiday music (with lyrics, even).

20. Candy canes? Feh! Latkes.

Well, since that didn’t work that well, I’ll ask this question (which I answered a few years ago in this entry): What are your three favorite holiday songs or recordings that do not get commercial airplay or publicity? Provide the lyrics if you can (behind a cut)

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