Christmas: plans

Dear QotD?ers,
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Merry Christmas Eve! Hopefully you don't have to work today and maybe you are already spending time with family and friends. Alternatively, I hope you finish your Christmas shopping and do a good job of packing for all the holiday travels. Don't forget the extra underpants and also your toothbrush.
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I should be able to do QotD? tomorrow, so I will, but if you aren't reading this until January, you can still answer. I read alll of the answers! and I really love it. So Merry Christmas from The Asker!
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What are your Christmas plans this year?

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I took today as vacation, but Justin has to work. Once he is home, we'll pack our small bags and driver over to his parent's for Christmas Eve and Day activities. Not yet sure when we are going to mass. But Christmas day we will open gifts and play games and eat great food. Sometime Friday we are driving up to my parent's house. Saturday we'll be opening presents, playing games and eating great food. Dad has requested that we bring Guitar Hero and Mom has requested Wii. We'll stay there a few days and then come back home where we'll have a few days to relax before we go back to work. Save your New Year's plans for later. I'll ask about them too!
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MERRRRRRY CHRISTMAS!,
The Asker

Christmas: memories

Dear QotD?ers,
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This morning it is 68ºF outside. It also happens to be my last day of work this year. I'm very happy to be using my vacation.
Last night, I did three kinds of finishing seams on the project I'm working on. I was pretty impressed with myself.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What is a particularly memeorable Christmas moment for you?

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One Christmas Eve, I was under 6 years old, my older brother came and woke me up because Santa was in the living room! We snuck through the hallway and peeked around the corner, but Santa had already delivered his presents and was gone. Then we snuck back to bed to wait for the morning. It was pretty magical and strengthened my belief in Santa.
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Love,
The Asker

Christmas: traditions

Dear QotD?ers,
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the cold front is here. 37ºF with a windchill of 30.5ºF. BRRR.
I need to make some additions to previous answers. Christmas treat: rosettes by Aunt Margaret. song: Santa Polka by Brave Combo
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This weekend I was in the audience at a talent show and I was forced onto the stage to perform "whatever [I'm] good at." Put on the spot like that, I posed like a supermodel. Tyra would not have been so proud!
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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Do you have any Christmas or holiday traditions that seem unique to your family?

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St. Nick comes on Decebmer 6th to fill our stockings with a huge orange, a huge apple and some candy. Our Christmas tree stays up until the Epiphany. In the nativity set, baby Jesus isn't set out until Christmas day, at which point the 3 wise men start their treck from the eastern side of the house towards the nativity scene (they reach their destination also on the Epiphany). When I was younger, we would celebrate Christmas Eve at my paternal grandparents' house on the farm. The living room would be closed off and after dinner we'd open the doors to discover that Santa had already come! After opening presents we would pray and sing Christmas carols.
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Love,
The Asker

Christmas: sugar

Dear QotD?ers,
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No, I didn't go to work today and Yes, I slept in until 9:30. It was awesome. I'm up to 8 Christmas movies/specials. yesterday I watched Muppet Christmas Carol, Carebear Nutcracker, Holiday Inn, and Christmas Vacation. I was suprised and pleased that Blockbuster had the Carebears movie. As I watched it and recognized so many of the details (background music, mid-west accents, subtle animated movements), I realized that I must have watched it about a million times as a kid.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What's your favorite Christmas treat or dessert?

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I love pecan pie. My granny makes chocolat clusters that are chocolate covered marshmallow-and-pecans clumps. St. Nick always brings chocolate for my stockings. apple strudel.
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Love,
The Asker

Christmas: more songs

Dear QotD?ers,
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I'm sorry to dissapoint you because I don't like How the Grinch Stole Christmas, oh well. As we get closer and closer to actual Christmas, I will just keep getting more and more excited about my favorite Christmas things: including wearing Christmas socks every day.
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There has been a lot of unofficial discussion about this already, so lets make it official.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What are some of your favorite Christmas songs now that you are an "adult?" Please include all the really rare or strange Christmas songs you like.

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For example: I love I want a Hippopotamous for Christmas and Chrissy the Christmas Mouse. I also like Grandma got Runover by a Reindeer. You must remember that this song is fictional and no actual Grandma's got hurt.
Also (and you'll know this if you've ever ridden in the car with me while the song comes on), I really really love Sleigh Ride, the full orchestral version, no lyrics. Why? The sleighhbells. I will air-sleighbells the ENTIRE song, including at least one hand switch.
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Love,
The Asker

Christmas: terrible noise

Dear QotD?ers,
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I've got some candycanes on my desk, feel free to come by and get one. Yesterday I watched Elf, Mickey Christmas Carol, Winnie the Pooh Christmas Special, and Polar Express. Yesterday was a really good day for me. I didn't bother me when I got stuck in traffic even though I stayed within a 1-mile radius of oru home: I had Christmas music to sing to!
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What are some Christmas songs or movies that you really don't like?

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I really don't like Elvis, so any of his Christmas songs. The 'Happy Holidays' song, because the lyric "So whoopdie-doo" is sung with such a sarcastic tone. I am also a zero fan of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and any stop-action animation holiday movies. I think just because they creep me out.
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Love,
The Asker

Christmas: music

Dear QotD?ers,
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Due to the late posting time, you might assume that I did not go to work today. You would be correct, but that is not why QotD? is late. Our internet went out AGAIN last night, and the cable guy just got done a few minutes ago fixing it. (A port in the connection box outside had gone bad. why couldn't they have figured this out some months ago?)
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Anyway, I'm taking a day of vacation a) because I have too much to roll over into next year and I don't want to lose it, b) I've got some projects to do. And now that I'm not waiting around for the internet guy, I can go to Blockbusters and start watching everyone's favorite Christmas movies.

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Today's Question of the Day? is:
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What was your favorite Christmas song as a child?

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Love,
The Asker

Christmas: movies

Dear QotD?ers,
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I've gotten a bit more Christmasy at work. Friday I brought in a lot of decorations (including my dancing Santa) and today I have two kinds of candy canes: chocolate mint and Spree (R). We also have our Christmas potluck today. I brought green bean cassarolle and a pie-plate of frozen yeast rolls. They bake deliciously in the toaster oven.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What are your favorite Christmas movies?

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In order for my Christmas season to be complete, I have to watch Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story.
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Love,
Kristen

That 5 cents a day adds up!

Dear QotD?ers,
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Thank you for all the snowman compliments! That was seriously the most amazing snow I've ever seen. There was NO ICE associated with it, immediately making it better than every snow that I experienced in North Texas.
And today I'm going to listen to my John Denver and the Muppets Christmas CD. I am now fully into the holiday spirit. The next two weeks will probably be nothing but Christmas questions, so I'll refrain one more day.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What's the longest time you've ever had something overdue? (library books, rented movies..babies?)

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Love,
The Asker

this is not a hoax

Dear QotD?ers,

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Justin had a pretty magical birthday, on account that it snowed for about 4 hours yesterday afternoon/evening. SWEET! I made a snowman.

And that's just from the snow that was on the roof of Justin's truck!

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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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Northern Hemisphere: How much snow did you get yesterday?

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Southern Hemisphere: How was your lovely summers day?

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Loooove,

Kristen

Shh, here he comes!

Dear QotD?ers,
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Did you get snow?! My good friend Paris saw snow in College Station, what a great way to start the last day of finals. The last time wintery weather happened there on the last day of finals was my freshman year. TamiJean, do you remember how your 8am final got rescheduled and you had to find a new way home? I don't recall how you managed.. Oh well, stay safe everybody! Except for Sabrina and Daryl: enjoy your hammock lounging and flip flops!
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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SURPRISE! It's Justin's [QotD?] birthday party! What snacks did you bring?

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I made a delicious fruit salad. Also, I've stacked fresh peanutbutter chocolate chip cookies into a mountain and added a big candle.
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Love,
The Asker

This question is not about the movie Psycho

Dear QotD?ers,
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While many of us are in a life stage that no longer includes finals, there are still a ffew persons near and dear to my heart who have to take them. Please send prayers or well wishing thoughts to those who need a semester's worth of information to come out in complete thoughts and not dribbling out thier ears. and special thoughts for those fighting illness as well as facts.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What does your shower curtain look like?

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I'll cover the guest bathroom. It used to be a plastic curtain with a frog/jungle collage pattern. It was very adorable and matched the rest of the bathroom frog accessories. At some point I decided our guests needed a more mature shower curtain, so now it's white cloth with a waffle texture. Many of the frog accessories remain.
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Love,
The Asker

Look! a 5 dollar bill! and my gloves!

Dear QotD?ers,
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St. Nicholas came to our home this weekend! He brought Justin a grapefruit, me an apple, and we both got chapstick and chocolate. I love having a full stocking in early December.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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How many coats and jackets do you have?

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Love,
The Asker

Leftovers 5/5

Dear QotD?ers,
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Only 20 more days until Christmas! I'm sure I'll be asking lots of Christmas related questions over the next month. We are going to start our Christmas shopping in earnest today.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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Since I'm done picking through the plate of your mind about leftovers, are there any thoughts left over that you want to share?

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If not, you can make fun of how hard I tried to stretch today's question into the theme.

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Love,
The Asker
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Leftovers 4/5

Dear QotD?ers,
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A slowed economy makes for interesting stories being passed around the office. A Dow plant is firing everyone for the month of December, then will re-hire them in January? When the fertilizer business tanks, refineries that process sour crude dump molten sulfur in the ground until business picks up again? Crazy things. We aren't getting fired. I hope you won't get fired, too.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What foods make BAD leftovers?

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asparagus. pretty good freshly cooked, but the texture becomes disgusting when reheated
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Love,
The Asker

Leftovers 3/5

Dear QotD?ers,

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For those of you who weren't able to look at the sky: The waning moon, along with Venus and Jupiter, are making a sad face (for the northern hemisphere) or a happy face (for southern hemisphere).

It looked pretty good on Monday, but last night it looked like it was moving apart already.

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back to questions

Today's Question of the Day? is:

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What dish do you think is better as leftovers? (fully cooked, then refrigerated for at least 12 hours, then reheated)

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Spaghetti, aging causes the noodles to get sauce flavor as opposed to just noodles and sauce. Also, barley soup, but maybe that's just because I love barley soup.

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Love,

Kristen

Leftovers 2/5

Dear QotD?ers,
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Northern Hemispherians: This evening, when it gets dark (around 6:15 or so) go look at the moon. How is it feelings?
Brazilians: I'm not sure if this will work for you, but check it out and let us know if your night sky has a mood.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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How frequently does your household eat leftovers?

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Justin and I will have the same answer, so I'll let him share the answer.
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Love,
Kristen

Leftovers 1/5

Dear QotD?ers,
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So much has happened since we last pondered together: the Jonas Brother's performed at half-time for the Cowboys' game (blerg), the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade got Rick-Rolled by Rick himself, our new car made a 600 mile triangular trip around Texas, everyone ate a lot of food, some people did Christmas shopping (not me). I hope you have a good week of Thanksgiving recovery.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:

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How many times have you had Thanksgiving leftovers so far?

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Once for each Thanksgiving dinner we attended, so two.

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Love,
Kristen