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Thursday, December 09, 2004
Holiday dinner survey
Here's another survey. I promise a real entry soon. I seem to have lost the muse for the past few days ;-). Can't think of anything to write about to save my life.
1. What is your favorite pie?
Pecan, if it's not too sweet. Otherwise it gets hard to choose. Cherry probably. With vanilla ice cream.
2. How many people were at Thanksgiving dinner?
13 (superstitious people need not apply, eh? Fitting, though, because it WAS at my in-laws'...)
3. What will you be drinking?
Diet Coke.
4. Do you help with the dishes?
Yes. Fortunately there are generally a lot of people who help. I don't mind doing the dishes as long as there're people to help with the clearing, wiping down surfaces, all that. It's the WHOLE clean-up -- which has been dumped all on me a few times, just by mistake, everyone else was distracted -- that intimidates me.
5. What have you burnt before?
Generally I am more of a not-starting-things-in-time-so-they're-underdone-and-we-have-to-wait person. In high school, though, a friend and I were making spaghetti dinner for our two families to eat when our parents got back from a trip they were on together, and we had the bread under the broiler ready to toast, but they were so late getting home that we got hungry and decided to heat up some corn dogs for ourselves to eat while we waited. We put them in the oven and forgot about the bread under the broiler, which caught on fire. It was exciting. We took pictures.
6. Do you bring the host or hostess a gift?
Shoot. No. I should but we have just never been that kind of family. I know nothing about wine, and I am death to all plants, and what else do you bring? Input please.
7. Is anyone going out of state for dinner?
No.
8. Is anyone coming in from another state?
No.
9. If celebrated at your house, what will the centerpiece on the table
be?
We don't have centerpieces. It's hard enough fitting the food on the table. Someday in my permanent house I'd like to have a nice sideboard in my nice dining room, to hold the food as well as napkins and silverware and all that, and then we'll do centerpieces on the table.
10. Who carves the turkey?
Either my dad or me. I'm pretty good at it, but he's better.
11. Do you look forward to going shopping the day after
Thanksgiving?
Occasionally, if there's a specific sale that has something I wanted to buy anyway (like this year at the fabric store)
12. When do you put up your Christmas tree?
The day after Thanksgiving, every year.
13. What is on your Christmas list this year?
A soft fuzzy red sweater. Black boots to go with aforementioned red sweater and my plaid skirt. Books. The movie "Emma" with Kate Beckinsale.
14. Do you write out a list for Christmas?
Yes
15. Do you have a budget for Christmas or just buy stuff when you
see it?
We budget. Then in the week before Christmas we generally ruin our grocery budget for the month of January by hopelessly overspending on Christmas presents for the kids.
16. What are your favorite traditions?
We usually drive around looking at Christmas lights several times during the year. We put up the Christmas tree as soon as it gets dark the day after Thanksgiving without fail. We made a set of 25 ornaments, which we start putting on the tree on December 1st, and we put one on each evening and one on Christmas morning, each with a Bible verse relating to Jesus.
17. Did you have any traditions when you were younger that you
didn't like?
No.
18. Do you usually make a New Year's resolution?
About half the time I make one. And about half those times I keep it.
