1. Eggnog or hot chocolate?
   Hot Chocolate but when it’s only warm because I don’t like hot things. Custard should really be an option.
2. Colored lights on tree/house or white? 
   Always colored.
3. What’s your favorite holiday dish *including dessert?
   Ham.
4. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve? 
   We were allowed to open one because I was impatient.
5. Real tree or fake tree? 
   We have always had a fake one. Go watch how fast real ones can catch on fire and burn your house down.
6. What’s the most important thing about Christmas to you? 
   Having ham.
7. What is your favorite tradition?
   We watch Family Stone every year and then they tell me how I’m just like Amy.
8. What tops your tree?
   Tom Selleck and Prefontaine.
9. Do you prefer giving or receiving?
   I love getting things but giving a really awesome gift is better.
10. What is your favorite Christmas song?
    Merry Christmas (I don’t want to fight) – The Ramones.
11. Candy Canes, yuck or yum?
    Solid for like ten minutes.
12. Favorite Christmas movie?
    Family Stone.
13. What do you leave for Santa?
    Pepsi and cookies.
14. Do you have a Christmas morning tradition?
    It use to be wake everyone up at five a.m. and we would open gifts. Now we don’t do anything.
15. Do you prefer to shop online or at the mall?
    Online shopping is one of the worlds greatest things.
16. Christmas letter or card?
    I always send out cards. Depending on the amount of energy I sometimes even write letters.(These are suppose to be Christmas Icebreakers, so were counting them)
17. What is your favorite bumper sticker of all time?  Or, create a new one.
    Pucker up & blow. Not that anyone gets the reference this is from.
18. Pick something out of your pocket / purse and share why it is important to you.
    I have a lacrosse ball and hockey puck signed by my Swedish love in my backpack. It’s important to me because I get bored and toss it between my hands and also I sometimes throw it at people for being foolish.
19. What Christmas song from childhood do you still have memorized? Extra points if anyone can sing along!
    The jingle bell rock song that this dancing Santa we use to have would sing.
20. Plane, train or automobile… what is your most memorable trip in one of these?
    Plane: Probably flying home from Florida first class. Only cause the seats were big.
    Train: I’ve only been on a train for this Halloween thing and the witches scared me.
    Automobile: The day before Chad left we drove around and he let me blast Bowie.
21. What is one question you wish people would ask more often?
    ‘How did you get to thinking about that?’
22. Name one place you could never live because of the winter weather.
    Greenland hahahah get it?
23. What was the most memorable holiday celebration you had at school?
    Halloween because in fifth grade I realized that I thought dressing up was lame and at the party all the parents freaked out that I didn’t dress up.
24. What sport or hobby confuses you the most?
    Rock collecting. In Girl Scouts we had to bring in our hobby and I didn’t have one. So I went in my backyard and just grabbed a bunch of rocks.
25. Share a memorable gift-opening moment from your childhood.
    My dad had this box of random stuff from his pass and I found old love letters from a bunch of random girls so I gave them to him on Christmas and he didn’t remember any of them. I got yelled at later by my mom saying I shouldn’t snoop through peoples stuff.
26. What is a Christmas song that makes you cringe?
    That one about the Hippo
27. What is a phrase or quote that comes to mind that helps you when you are stressed?
    Solider up. My grandma told me how her friend would always say it and she hated it. So I started saying it.
28. If there were a moment in your life that you could do over, what would it be?
    Probably last March.
29. When you close your eyes and think of your “happy place,” where is it?
    All I see when I close my eyes are the face that goes like -___-
30. If you could have any job in the world for one day, what would it be?
    President obviously so I could change our national anthem to the Hendricks and Boston version. Actually maybe a coroner cause how neat would that be.
31. What is one thing in your bedroom that really sums up your personality?
    Vacuum Cleaner.
32. How early do you think you should be allowed to open Christmas presents?
    Whenever I am willing to get up.
33. If you could bring any Disney character to life, who would it be?
    Ariel. Someone needs to set that girl straight.
34. Which store would you never want a present from?
    Hobby Lobby.
35. If you could have one wish granted at Christmas, what would it be?
    Getting what I want
36. Finish this sentence: “Please don’t make me read a book about _____.”
    Margret getting her period or whatever that one was.
37. What is your red flag that someone isn’t going to make a great friend?
    They questions my questions.
38. Complete this sentence: “The best way to spend a Saturday in December is ___.”
    Drunk. No. I don’t know
39. What is the one thing you want to do regularly but always forget?
    Shutting a door. I always want to when I leave a room but I never remember if I do so then I go back and check. Then end up going back again to make sure it’s shut all the way.
40. Describe what family means to you in four words.
    Payne in my ass.

1. Oversized sweaters. My favorite thing in the whole world. My closet is full of them. I generally get them from second hand stores or they’re ones that I found in my basement. These are two of my favorite. The grey one is older than me.
2. Burts Bees. It’s the only chapstick I like to use. I have one in my car, backpack, key backpack, and all over my room. One time I even used up a complete one before without losing it. Really proud of that.
3. Gloves. These ones are from Target.
4. Sherpa Blanket. I have so many. My dogs ended up stealing some. I keep one in my car year round (I dont recommend putting on grass though). I’m weird and like bringing my own blanket to my friends house.
5. Socks. I’m a big fan of socks.  These are the Worlds Softest Socks (actually the name of the brand). They are hella cozy. I found them at my local garden store.
6. Slippers. I started getting these slippers when I was in fourth grade in California. Now I have like seven pair. I wear them around the house in the winter. Outside every other seasons. They make one with stuff on the bottoms so you can. Also a fan of the leg warmers.

I know these are suppose to be winter essentials but honestly I use / wear them all year round except for the gloves.

I live for days like today. It was technically ‘below freezing’ but the sun was out  which made everything better. I went to the nursery and I get my Christmas cactus! It was all decorated. I thought that the bushes were shaped as llamas. Turns out it was a reindeer, lame. These last few days have been odd. I’ve gotten that heart racing feeling that ends up in the pit of your stomach. I don’t want I think or feel about anything anymore.

Last year my family decided not to get each other gifts. We kind of skipped Christmas overall. My sister hasn’t come home during the holiday in a few years. All we did was a family dinner and thats because I like food. It would be foolish of me to skip that. This year we are kind of doing the same thing. I’m weird when it comes gifts. I love giving them but I don’t really like getting them. I don’t have a wishlist really so I’ll show you what I plan on buying myself / already got myself.

1. Aloe infused socks. I love socks. Always the perfect gift. That and blankets.
2. Blaq peel off face mask. This guy in Sweden told me to try it and it’s wonderful.
3. A 2019 calendar (spent hours trying to find one that starts on Monday)

 

Things I’ll get around to buying myself

1. New Docs. I love the ones I have but a taller pair is always better.
2. New tooth brush heads because I get geeked about this sort of thing.
3. New jean jacket to put all my patches on.
4. Probably more plants.