Saturday 9: Happy Holidays

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

 Readers, I will see you after the holidays.  Taking a break...Sunday Stealing, then a break..Wolfie gets all my attention for the remaining time...

🎄 Happy Holidays🎄

1. As you can see, Sam loved giving her annual wish list to Santa. Yet some children are reluctant to climb into Jolly Old St. Nick's lap. Did you enjoy the tradition or were you shy? Or did you by pass it altogether -- either because you wrote him a letter or because your family didn't celebrate Christmas?  No, I never sat on Santa's Lap.  But my little brother and sister did.  Santas were only at the big department stores in the war years.   Also, Mother and I spent two of my early years of Christmas in Ohio, in farmland which in those days was very rural.  You see, she went to her parent's house to live there rather than with relatives here when dad left for war.  But, I did write letters to Santa.  

 An Aside: My second memory, ever, was of Christmas.  I remember waking up to a snowy scene mother had created inside the tiny room that my parents had rented when I was three.  It was a little store front so had big windows and a windowed glass door.  She made it look like a snowed-in thing out of a Dickens' Novel, with soap suds and tissue paper cut outs and other things brought from her mother's tree in Ohio.  Mother was a little Magical. I wasn't quite 3,  and we had just moved back to California.  She LOVED Christmas.

2. Are you currently on the Naughty or Nice list? How did you get there?  As far as I know, I'm still on the nice list.  *cues Angelic Choir Music while tripping over her little, red. trident-tipped tail when it wraps itself around her big, hooved feet* 

OOps! 😇  You do notice that halo has slipped a bit, yes? 
 
3. Did you ship any gifts to friends and family this year? If so, which one traveled the farthest?
I didn't.  
 
4. Did you buy yourself a gift this year?  No.  I have far too much junk to want anymore.  I'm gearing up to give a ton of stuff to the Good Will over the next few months. We are having a clearing out!
 
5. What's your favorite holiday-themed movie? Have you seen it yet this year?  I have two favorites currently.  One is, "Get Santa", and the other is, "It's a Wonderful Life".
 
6. Thinking of movies, Christmas is lucrative for Hollywood. Have you ever gone to a movie theater on Christmas Day?  I don't think so.  I seem to remember going to see something around Christmas Time but not of Christmas Day.
 
7. Have you ever suffered an embarrassing moment at the company Christmas party?  No.  And that's probably because I've never BEEN to a company Christmas party.
 
8. What's your favorite beverage in cold weather?  I haven't had it for years, but I like the sort of hot chocolate that one can get in France. Thick and silky smooth.  Like the stuff in the movie, "Chocolat"


 
9. Share a memory from last Christmas.  I put the tree up, but didn't decorate it.  I've done the same this year.  Maybe next year I'll feel like decorating.

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