The Twelve Questions of Christmas

I am tagging myself to participate in Allison’s meme (is it wrong to love doing these so much?) – anyway, the 12 Questions of Christmas…

1. What’s the best Christmas gift you have received? And the worst?

The best gift I’ve ever received would have to be my Cabbage Patch Kid. I got Jessica Olivia (the red haired doll in the photo) in the early 80′s. I loved that doll and I still have her too!

The worst gift was an awful, long red coat with a huge iron-on patch thingy of a moose on the back. I did terrible things to that coat in the hopes of only having to wear it for one winter.

2. What is your favourite Christmas movie moment?

The moment in One Magic Christmas where Mary Steenburgen’s character, Ginny, gives her husband a cheque to open his own bicycle shop and the cheque is made out for the entire amount of their savings.

Makes me teary-eyed every single time I see it.

3. What is your favourite version of a Christmas song?

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas performed by Judy Garland. She just sounds so heartbroken and sad – that makes me teary-eyed too.

4. Describe an ornament that has special significance for you.

I like the little plastic ornaments that mum and I painted with glitter-paints when I was a kid. They were white plastic and rather ugly, but it was a great afternoon.

5. Have you had any traumatic Christmas-related experiences?

I’m pretty sure I had the chicken pox one Christmas – I was about 5 or 6 and I remember sitting on a pillow butt-naked, itching like mad and opening presents. It might have been a birthday, but I’m pretty sure it was Christmas.

6. What is your happiest Christmas memory?

Lying sprawled out on my stomach on the floor by the fireplace at my Grandma and Grandad’s house colouring in an enormous colouring book. Tied with that is Christmas at my Gramma and Grandpa’s with my cousin Jeffrey screaming “Gramma! Gramma! Can we open presents now Gramma!?” and the sheer amount of rice krispy treats we were allowed to consume while there.

7. What is your favourite Christmas picture?

I’m not sure where my copy of this is, but there is a photo of Allison and I in matching nightgowns with our Cabbage Patch Kids who are dressed in gowns to match ours. It’s really adorable.

8. What’s on your grown up Christmas list (besides world peace of course)?

I want a small and light laptop that I can carry around easily, unlike the brick I have now that requires a “purse on wheels”.

9. What Christmas TV special do you look forward to all year?

Disney’s One Special Christmas – but I have it on DVD now.

10. What famous person would you like to encounter under the mistletoe?

Ryan Gosling. I mean, have you seen that kiss in The Notebook? Wow.

11. What is your favourite Christmas cookie?

I really like ginger crackle cookies, the peanut-butter balls my ex’s mum makes and rice krispy squares (the ones with the red and green krispies).

12. What is your favourite Christmas quote?

“It is required of every man,” the ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world – oh, woe is is me! – and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!” A Christmas Carol – C. Dickens