The Christmas Meme

With thanks to The Other Andrew.

Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper. Cheap and cheerful and I actually really like the ripping sound it makes. Also, you can't peek in and see what's in there easily.

Real tree or Artificial?
Artificial. It's just easier.

When do you put up the tree?
When I can be bothered getting it out of the garage, blowing all the dust off and putting it together. So far this year it's still in the garage.

When do you take the tree down?
December 26.

Do you like eggnog?
I've never tried it, but the fact that you can get it in a carton worries me.

Favorite gift received as a child?
A red pushbike.

Do you have a nativity scene?
No, that would be really hypocritical, and the cat would probably eat the baby Jesus.

Hardest person to buy for?
My MIL.

Easiest person to buy for?
The kids. The only problem is how to stop.

Mail or email Christmas cards?
I'm not even organised enough to email Xmas cards. Consider yourselves wished a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Moisturiser.

Favorite Christmas Movie?
Bad Santa.

When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Usually about 4 weeks out. Then I get fed up with the crowds and buy everyone a book.

Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
No, I don't think so.

Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Baked meat, anything ham, Christmas pudding, the list is endless.

Clear lights or colored on the tree?
We have some coloured ones but they are too much of a cat and toddler magnet so usually we hide them.

Favorite Christmas song?
Little Drummer Boy by some rock band I can never remember. I think they also did "Old Time Rock and Roll".

Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Usually travel. Queensland this year, NZ the next. After that I'm planning to bugger off somewhere with just hubby and the kids.

Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer?
How many of them are there again. Um, Donner and Blitzen, Dasher and Dancer, someone and Prancer, Rudolph. Is that all of them?

Angel on the tree top or a star?
Badly made aluminium foil star.

Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Christmas morning. Unless it's bed linen (for toddlers, I ask you!)

Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Musak christmas carols. Closely followed by "Can I open a present yet? Can I open this one?"

Favorite ornament theme or color?
Whatever I can find in the garage.

Favorite for Christmas dinner?
Roast, vegies, plum pudding, ice cream, custard, pavlova. The whole eating far too much on a stinking hot day and sleeping it off all afternoon.

What do you want for Christmas this year?
A peaceful and safe drive to Qld and back.

I had a dream

If only it concerned equality or world peace or something.

I was the passenger in a car being driven at pace through suburban streets. By Harry. Who coincidentally was playing euphonium to a speaker phone in order to pass a music exam. His right hand was in the bell of his euphonium, french horn style (oo err), right elbow out the open window, leaving only his left to deal with steering, gear selection (manual car, or course) and instrumental fingering (oo errier).

Think I'll walk next time thanks Haz.

Houseraising

Now see, if I were a clever energetic person, I'd have gone down to the build site at the same time every day, set up a tripod in the same place, and snapped a photo of our house, and spliced all the photos together into a movie to music, so you could see it rise up out of the earth like skeletons from Medusa's teeth. (What I did instead was nick Mike's insurance photos, splice together all the ones pointing mostly the same direction, and slow it down to avoid inducing epilepsy and nausea because of the varying camera angles. So its more of a slideshow than a movie, but you still get to see the progression.)

read it because we need more atheists..

Oooh look, a bandwagon.

Jump.

1. Are you dating the last person you kissed?
No, the last person I kissed was my son.

2. Pretend you've had ten beers. What would you be doing right now?
Having my stomach pumped.

3. What do you want?
Children who eat vegetables.

4. Who was the last person you shared a bed with?
My husband, baby daughter, and at least one cat.

5. Do you talk to yourself?
Occassionally, when I need some adult conversation.

6. Do you drink milk straight from the carton?
No, I'm the Mummy.

7. Who knows the latest secret about you?
No idea, I've forgotten it myself.

8. How long is your hair?
Just a little bit too long.

9. Do you like Batman?
Yes, even though he threw out the lovely socks I gave him.

10. Who was the last person who told you they loved you?
The cat. I suspect he wanted to be fed.

11 and 12 seem to be missing.

13. Do you like anyone now?
Lots of people.

14. When was the last time you lied?
Yesterday, probably. Or maybe not...

15 is off somewhere with 11 and 12.

16. Is your birthday on a holiday.
No, dammit.

17. What instant messaging service do you use?
Luddites are us.

18. Last thing you cooked today?
A cup of tea at morning tea time.

19. Did you have a nap today?
No but I had a lovely nap yesterday, thanks for asking.

20. Whose house did you go to last?
The neighbours to collect our cat who had miaowed outside their window all night.

21. What do you wear more jeans or sweats?
Jeans.

22. Why is the sky blue?
Don't you have Google?

23. Do you like green beans?
Yes.

24. Do you swear a lot?
In particular circumstances.

25. Where did you get the shirt you are wearing?
Target.

26 is also awol.

27. Do you use an alarm clock?
No I have children.

28. Where was your default MySpace picture taken?
Que?

29. Do you snort when you laugh?
Occassionally. It's not pretty.

30. What's the first thing you notice on the opposite sex?
Eye colour.

31. Is cheating ever okay?
Depends what you are cheating on.

32. Do you want someone you can't have?
See no. 3.

33 has buggered off too.

34. Do you wear underwear.
Yes, I am not Brittney.

35. Do you wear a bra?
Yes.

36. What size?
My size.

37. Are you a social or antisocial person?
Depends what time of day, well a lot of factors really.

38 who knows?

39. Do you have a tan?
Not if I can help it.

40-44 can the person who made this meme count?

45. Are you afraid of the dark?
No, although occassionally of things in it.

46 nope, I'm guessing they failed counting

47. Did you miss someone today.
Yep, bastard was too quick for me. Maybe tomorrow.

48 how did they make it past kindergarten?

49. Do you still have pictures of you and your ex's.
No.

50. Who's always there for you now matter what?
Kanga.


Who else wants to play?

Turns out he was just paraphrasing literature

"It's astonishing how Lesbian women are, consciously or unconsciously. Seems to me they're nearly all Lesbian"

from 'Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, first published 1928.

Strange things in a strange land.

So what did we get up to in Japan?

Taking over the world. One milk carton at a time.


The "Snergmilk" cartons weren't selling as well.