Christmas Hoopla
- December 22nd, 2007 11:33 pm
Moanna of Desperately Seeking Serenity tagged me to do this Christmas Hoopla. Since I love Christmas, the word hoopla, and randomly divulging details about myself via the world wide web, I am on this. Thank you, Moanna. 
The rules established by this meme’s creator, Andrea, are:
1. List 12 random things about yourself that have to do with Christmas.
2. Please refer to it as a ‘hoopla’ and not the dreaded ‘m’-word…
3. You have to tag specific people when you’re done. No “if you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged” stuff is allowed. The number of people you tag is really up to you — but the more, the merrier to get this ‘hoopla’ circulating through the blogosphere.
4. Please try and do it as quickly as possible. The Christmas season will be over before we know it! Let’s involve as many people as possible!
5. Please give Andrea some link-love as the “Hoopla-Creator!
So here are my 12 random things:
1.) I give people specific lists of what I want for Christmas. While it’s nice to receive surprise gifts, not everyone is the best gift-picker-outter. If they ask for a list, I will gladly fork it over with details including price, color, cost, and location.
2.) My mother did not raise us (my brother and I) as Santa Clause believers. It wasn’t due to religion; rather it was the fact that she was a single mother working on her degrees and was not telling her kids that the gifts came from some stranger when she was going without sleep to purchase them. I love my mom.
3.) I always thought kids who actually believed that Santa Clause shoved his fatass down their chimney (most of them lacking chimneys to begin with) to give them free stuff were idiots not paying much attention to day-to-day life. (I’m sorry, I’m sure almost all of you believed in Santa, but I can’t go back and talk sense into young Amanda. She was stubborn as hell! That’s just what she thought..)
4.) I’m glad my mother never told me there was a Santa. I felt like I was in on a major secret.
5.) While I did not believe in Santa, my husband wants to convince my daughter there is a Santa. I let him, because he doesn’t ask for much, and I think Allie can figure this out for herself.
6.) I love to decorate Christmas trees. I do some beautiful work. I will post some pictures soon as bragging rights.
7.) I put up two trees at my house (a regular tree and Allie’s hot pink tree). I also put up four trees for my mother-in-law ranging from 12 ft tall to 7 ft. All trees have their own independent decor. We love us some Christmas trees.
8.) While Christmas is wonderful, I have to go to a bajillion different places to celebrate. It becomes quite taxing. But I love giving and receiving gifts. So I’m pretty much game.
9.) Today I celebrated Christmas with my dad and got some wonderful Le Creuset Stoneware and the neatest lap desk. I am drooling over all of my gifts. I am a very lucky and grateful gal.
10.) I love find the perfect gift.
11.) I love surprising my husband with his gifts. He is a casual gift opener. You know, the kind of guy who opens his gift and even if it was a million dollars wouldn’t get all excited. He would just be like, “thanks, i really like this.”
12.) Not I. I think I am the best gift receiver ever. I just get naturally excited and always boast about how much I love the gift. My daughter is also this way. It’s wonderful
Now, I know rule #3 says not to tag people. However, people get all cranky when I tag them. Apparently not everyone on the world wide web is as thrilled as I am about answering questions about themselves. And that’s okay. I’m not getting people cranky during the holidays.
But you should do it if you wanna! You know you wanna!
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December 23rd, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
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December 24th, 2007 @ 11:56 am
That’s cool your mom told you the truth of santa, my mom did too but that’s because we celebrated Chanukah.
December 24th, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
ROFL!!!! Hubby is a total “casual gift opener” too. Now I’m going to have to get him a silk screened tee with that title
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!
December 24th, 2007 @ 8:20 pm
i believed in santa until i was about six years old. i caught my dad putting christmas presents under our tree. but, my mom used to put “from santa” on our christmas presents until we were 11, she tried to force us to believe in him.
i hope you have a wonderful christmas and that’s a lot of trees to be putting up. lol. i think it’s cute that allie has a hot pink christmas tree, i’d like to see a picture of it! i’ve never seen a pink tree and now i want to go buy one.
December 24th, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
Merry Christmas to you and your family - I loved hearing about your Chirstmas traditions and memories. Take care. Kellan
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December 29th, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
I loved reading your list. I do believe you are the queen of Christmas trees. We put one up but left it natural (no ornaments) because we got a new puppy last week and she loves ornaments for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, apparently.
Thanks for doing the list! With it being such a busy week, I’m glad you weren’t upset. My thought is tag to share the publicity and the person can do it or not.
Oh wait! Almost forgot to say, I like the new site. Good luck w/ it!