I was tagged by my friend Marlea last week, so here it is, starting my countdown to christmas… Yeah, so much for staying away from blogging…
Rules: “…answer the questions and tag at least one person…”
“When people say ‘Christmas’ you immediately think…”
Memories of having to work them for many years while my kids were growing up. The company, Thrifty Drug Stores, was owned by three Jewish brothers. Now I have absolutely now issues with anyone Jewish, but it would have been nice if they had thought about all their non Jewish employees…I also have a funny story about being cussed out by Santa on one Christmas day, and a crazy pharmacist on another one, I’ll write about them this week…
And as a retail worker all my life, the Christmas holidaze were not something I looked forward too, some years I never really had any holiday spirit at all. The last eight years I worked for Verizon I was in a mall, and the shit Christmas music that was played there was truly awful…the worst being I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause by the Jackson 5…awful…But one of my best memories happened there too, Chucky, the psycho snowman…I’ll write about him too this week…
“Favourite Christmas memory…”
On Christmas Eve, which was when my family and my Dad’s brother’s family would all get together, I remember looking out the front window of my house watching my dad and grandfather talking before he drove home in his 1958 gold Edsel. My favorite Santa Ana winds were blowing (back in the day before they caused so many fires), and as I was standing next to our pure white flocked tree, listening to the wind, and watching my family members heading home, and I had a feeling of perfect peace and happiness that I still remember with such clarity it brings tears to my eyes as I write this. I couldn’t tell you a single thing I got for Christmas that year, but in my most unhappy childhood, it is a moment that I have never forgotten. I think I was 11 or 12.
“Favourite Christmas song/carol…”
I like hearing some, but not all of the “classics”. Silent Night, when sung right, is my favorite. I also love the version of Little Drummer Boy that Bing Crosby and David Bowie did, and more recently the version that Wendy and Carnie Wilson did. My all time favorite song is The Greatest Gift Of All, by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, which I found on you tube a few days ago and will share with everyone later this week. My guilty pleasure favorite this year is by Bill Nighy (yes, the actor) singing Christmas Is All Around Us,
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“Favourite Christmas movie…”
Love Actually, although I will watch this movie anytime of the year, it doesn’t matter…
“Favourite Christmas character…”
Snowmen, not Frosty, just snowmen. It’s a Christmas character if you give it lights and holly and shit like that, right?
“Favourite Christmas ornament/object…”
Don’t laugh, there were these stuffed ornaments that Carl’s Jr. (a fast food chain from southern California) were giving away one season. We bought them all, and they get put up every year, in fact I saw them in the picture of Matt and Jay’s tree.
“Plans for this Christmas…”
Christmas will be at Kimba’s mums place, with about 20 people in attendance, and I will be trying plum pudding for the first time this Christmas.
“Is Christmas your favourite holiday?”
No, Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Christmas. Shrug.
As for tagging people… I tag Chrissy.
I’m working on it. I have to do this one. You’re the only person I know who likes Love Actually as much as I do!