Nobody’s tagged me, but that’s not stopping me from borrowing them. 🙂

I’ve seen this one around, but I picked it up at suey’s:

5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. Working –I was a secretary but, I was really being paid to sit and read — at QSA in Arlington, VA
2. Being a mother to a very gregarious 1 year old daughter
3. Supporting a husband in a PhD program
4. Playing piano in church
5. Enjoying the first Christmas as a married couple where we didn’t go anywhere

5 Things on my To-Do List today:
1. survive M&C being home from school (what ice storm!?)
2. go to a Christmas concert tonight
3. print off calendars for parent’s Christmas present (done!)
4. write a review for Estella of a book I read two weeks ago
5. make fudge to go in the neighbor’s Christmas presents

5 Things I would do if I were a millionaire:
1. pay off the credit card
2. pay off Hubby’s school loans
3. paint the house (inside and out)
4. re-do the downstairs bathroom
5. go to Ireland

5 Things I’ll never wear again (or have never worn):
1. bell bottoms (“boot cut” doesn’t count)
2. maternity clothes
3. leggings
4. a wedding dress
5. pegged jeans

5 Favorite Toys:
1. Camera (digital or otherwise)
2. Blocks (Okay… I still play with them)
3. Shovel (I like digging)
4. Dollhouse (I like arranging the furniture)
5. Sidewalk chalk

5 People You’d Like to see do this:
1. Corinne
2. Kellie
3. Cami
4. Heather
5. Lucia

And I picked the Christmas one up from Becky:
1. What is your favorite Christmas book to re-read each year?
I don’t have a real favorite to re-read. I re-read them all. (Granted, I’m talking mostly about picture books here.)

2. What is your favorite Christmas movie or show?
It’s a Wonderful Life. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Christmas Carol, though I’m particular to the Muppet version, I’ll watch them all with Hubby

3. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
I love Lizner cookies, sugar cookies, mint bars, lemon bars… shoot, I love them all. It’s why I’m giving out candy this year. (Though I love that, too.)

4. When do you start Christmas shopping?
I try to be done by early December, but while I starting thinking about it in October, I don’t actually do any shopping, on principle, until after Thanksgiving.

5. Do you re-gift?
Only for white elephant parties.

6. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and the Hallelujah chorus from the Messiah. Though I’m very partial to the Osmond’s Christmas Alburm

7. When does the tree go up?
December 6. It’s St. Nicholas’s Day, and after A’s birthday.

8. Wrapping presents. Love it or hate it?
I like having presents wrapped, but I don’t put nearly the effort my parents or sister do into it.

9) Who is the hardest person to buy for?
Hubby’s family.

10) When do you start listening to music?
On the radio: the day after Thanksgiving. At home: November 30, when we get out our decorations.

11) Favorite Christmas memory…
In 1984, my dad was out of work, and we weren’t expecting a large Christmas at all. Then, one night, the doorbell rang. It was a bag of pears, I think. Someone was doing the 12 days of Christmas for us. I don’t remember all the gifts, but I do remember being excited every night with the anticipation of there being something at the door. The best gift was 5 pounds of chocolate. I remember being really excited about that one. (And remember my mom aksing what we were going to do with all that chocolate!) Whoever it was (I don’t think we ever did find out), left us Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning was wonderful, too — we didn’t get a lot of presents, but whatever we did get (I got a new red wagon to help with my paper route and some makeup) was very well chosen. I still remember that year with fondness.

12) You open presents on….
Christmas Day. Hopefully not too terribly early.