Since it's Christmas, I thought it might be time for a Holiday Tiz List. Let's see what we end up with...
1) Although Christopher and I aren't travelling this year, I'm perfectly okay with the fact that it's a brown Christmas and it's been warm the past couple of days.
2) I do miss the snow, though, because going for a quiet walk on Christmas Eve to look at the lights and see them sparkle off the snow doesn't really work without snow.
3) I enjoy buying just the right presents for people.
4) I really enjoy wrapping presents and thinking about what the recipients will think when they open them.
5) I sometimes worry about unwrapping gifts in front of people, for fear that I will have inadvertent "Present Face."
6) Sometimes I accidentally get Present Face even when I like the gift.
7) I have been told that I am a fun person to watch open gifts.
8) If you're not sure what "Present Face" is, it's a song by Garfunkel and Oates, found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWTs0YT928
9) When Christopher and I plan vacations, we have to debate between visiting places and visiting people.
10) Usually I prefer to visit people.
11) Sometimes I'd prefer to visit places.
12) I hate that I don't have enough vacation time to choose both.
13) I mean I *really* hate that I don't have enough time to choose both, even around the Holidays.
14) I sometimes think it would be fun to live in a period piece with all the cool costumes.
15) Yes, I realize that most period piece people have to wear the peasant garb.
16) I'd really rather get to dress like the nobility.
17) I think I'd look rather silly if I dressed like period nobility in day-to-day life.
18) This is the same kind of reason that I could never be the person who *starts* a flash mob. (Like the sax guy, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH8FvERQHtM )
19) I think experiencing a flash mob would be cool.
20) I tend to be a good audience.
21) Sometimes I laugh too loudly when I'm in an audience in the hopes that other people will also laugh.
22) I can only laugh - even in an audience - if I think what I'm laughing at is funny.
23) When I courtesy laugh, pretty much everyone can tell.
24) I'm totally okay if I can tell when someone courtesy laughs at things I say. (Like you may be doing right now.)
25) Sometimes common courtesy is the best gift you can give and/or receive - especially around the Holidays.
1 comment:
Love it - I have a lot of Tiz in common with you. One very big difference - I have never had the pleasure of walking on Christmas Eve and seeing the lights reflect off the snow. I've seen snow in Florida and Alabama fewer than five times in my nearly 42 years. My kids and I do love looking at decorated houses though. We drive to a particular property every year, which is called "the North Pole" and takes donations to cover the power bill, which must be substantial, considering the probably one million lights all over the yard. There is a lighted arch of blue and white lights at the entrance, as if you are entering a cave, and on either side of the drive are various scenes made of lights, such as a sleigh and reindeer, snowman gatherings, and a train or two. There is music playing too so if it is not too cold (here in the panhandle we say 57 is cold, don't laugh too hard) we keep the windows down and listen to the music as we drive through the extravaganza. At the turnaround near the house, a sort of mail box which is really a donation box says, "donations welcome to help cover the light bill!" We always leave something and drive home happier for having seen the incredible light show.
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