Mixed Nuts Part 2

[jonestavern]

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate (Kahlua, Baileys, Tia Maria, DiSarno)
eggnog w/Captain Morgan

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wraps---augh!!!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
White inside, spotlights on the window wreaths

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
DH does!
PM me for more info!

5. When do you put your decorations up?
In Dec when we get back from WDW.
Outside before Thanksgiving. We just have wreathes w/bows on the front windows (10 windows)

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Aged prime rib w/Yorkshire pudding

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
Grammy’s over & reading Peter Pan, we’re in the living room w/the tree lit.
Mom is in the kitchen baking cookies, good smells, pine & oatmeal!
The little German angel chimes are tinkling.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Huh?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
DS opens one gift. DH & I wait.
We're good at delayed satisfaction

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
I decorate with an anal attention to detail!
I learned this from my Dad—one by one, inner to outer branches, bottom to top, strand by strand tinsel—no longer!
We have multiple trees in different sizes.
One ‘craft’ tree—punched tin ornaments, paper cones w/dried flowers, felted angel etc
One ‘50s/’60s tree: C6 bulbs in primary colors, color wheel, blown glass ornaments, big star
One ‘modern’ tree: all gold, silver white mini lights, angel
Various small (3 ft) trees (fake) in bedrms

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
Nice if I’m not driving or have to shovel it!

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes!
I am the fat, brunette Tonya Harding of New Hampshire!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Timex watch w/grey leather band (when I was 7).
Gilbert chemistry set & microscope!

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Well, primarily religious. That and family togetherness.
A time for reflection

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
We are great for tasting little bits of everything.
We do order beinenstich from a great German bakery

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
On Christmas Eve, DH & DS part the presents & lay under the main tree looking up at all the lights and ornaments, I read ‘The Night Before Christmas” & ‘The Polar Express”.
Then DS places baby Jesus in the manger

17. What tops your tree?
stars, angels

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Love giving!
I’ll take cash in lieu of gifts—I don’t feel its tacky people!

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Good King Wenceslaus; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Adeste Fideles

20. Candy canes:
Great for décor, yucky tasting!

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
A Christmas Story. We actually saw this at the movies!
Well, separately, we didn't know each other then!
Nightmare Before Christmas

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Cookies and eggnog w/rum
Carrots for the reindeer.

And a subtlely worded invitation...

 

[blue_river]

But I provide pictures, pizza, and beer...

Oh well in that case.........we can share

I'm easily bribed - or so I've been told

As far as being Canadian...well, babe, I'm 1/4 Scottish. Even the Irish have nothing on a Scottish temper!

Uh oh...I better watch myself then


Okay..that was my last post till later.

Have a great afternoon y'all.

I look forward to taking the survey DM

 

[apirateslifeforme]

But Blue is a German Canadian ... so watch yo back!




The question said SONG, not SONGS! Not fair hogging all the good songs ...

I guess you forgot the song, "Santa Baby"

Well...uh...I'm also 1/4 German. No lie. I have a joke about what I call myself when I'm in a bad mood, but it might be points-worthy (it's not dirty, but could be considered racist, I think).

I can't choose between those 4 songs! They're ALL my favourite!

 

[Disneyolic]

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
DS opens one gift. DH & I wait.
We're good at delayed satisfaction

Wish I may, wish I might, respond to this one, but ... must stop self!

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
We are great for tasting little bits of everything.
We do order beinenstich from a great German bakery

What is that?

 

[Disneyolic]

Well...uh...I'm also 1/4 German. No lie. I have a joke about what I call myself when I'm in a bad mood, but it might be points-worthy (it's not dirty, but could be considered racist, I think).

These better not be points worthy but I've heard things like:

Heinz 57 or, my personal favorite, mutts.

I am a "mutt": ½ Russian and the rest a mixture of English & German.

 

[jonestavern]

Wish I may, wish I might, respond to this one, but ... must stop self!

What is that?

Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)

Source: The Art of German Cooking by Elizabeth Wason

Bienenstich cake mixture:
1 3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 Tablespoons (1 stick) of butter (use real butter) 2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 tablespoons milk

Almond topping mixture:
1/2 cup slivered blanched almonds
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) butter
1 tablespoon milk or cream

Filling mixture:
2 1/2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 egg yolks, lightly beaten
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
3 egg whites, stiffly beaten
a pinch of salt



Doubtlessly made better by the fact I don't have to make it!

Yes, comment is best left to PJ or Liz

well, the phone calls are fast & furious, check in a bit later!

 

[apirateslifeforme]

These better not be points worthy but I've heard things like:

Heinz 57 or, my personal favorite, mutts.

I am a "mutt": ½ Russian and the rest a mixture of English & German.

Grandpa also used to say that. Apparently I really am close to the Heinz 57...mostly English, Scottish, German, and Hungarian; possibly some Dutch and Austrian (of course, couldn't that also be considered German?) thrown in.

When it comes to the Scottish part, I do have to wonder...my great-great grandfather was from the same small village in Scotland that Ewan McGregor is from. Someone here at work said that he and I have the same strange greenish-greyish-bluish eyes. I wonder...he could be something like my 7th cousin 4 times removed...

 

[Disneyolic]

Thanks for the recipe but I'm no baker! And I don't like nuts. Oops! Is that the wrong thing to say here on the Mixed Nuts thread? The comment I was going to make, and am still not going to make now, was based on your reply of you and DH being good at delayed satisfaction.

When it comes to the Scottish part, I do have to wonder...my great-great grandfather was from the same small village in Scotland that Ewan McGregor is from. Someone here at work said that he and I have the same strange greenish-greyish-bluish eyes. I wonder...he could be something like my 7th cousin 4 times removed...

Keep dreamin'!

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Thanks for the recipe but I'm no baker! And I don't like nuts. Oops! Is that the wrong thing to say here on the Mixed Nuts thread? The comment I was going to make, and am still not going to make now, was based on your reply of you and DH being good at delayed satisfaction.

Keep dreamin'!

Oh, believe me, I think it's improbable myself, but seeing as how that town was smaller 130 years ago...who knows?

Plus, I just like to tell people that

 

[Goofster57]

I think I love you

HEY!

He's all mine!!! I found him first

You better be careful......nothing worse than a jealous Canadian woman

Blue's not here now so you can be as nice as you want. You can go back to your "witty" self later ...

But I provide pictures, pizza, and beer...

As far as being Canadian...well, babe, I'm 1/4 Scottish. Even the Irish have nothing on a Scottish temper!

Ladies, Ladies…I go to lunch and come back to find you fighting over me….Stop your making my Ego swell.


SSSMMMAAACCCKKK

Oh Sorry must have been in dreamland again, thanks for snapping me out of it.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Ladies, Ladies…I go to lunch and come back to find you fighting over me….Stop your making my Ego swell.


SSSMMMAAACCCKKK

Oh Sorry must have been in dreamland again, thanks for snapping me out of it.

I'm biting my tongue here, because I will get points for what I was just thinking.

But...

Isn't it nice to have ladies fighting over you?

 

[Goofster57]

I'm easily bribed - or so I've been told

Yeah, A Shiny Limited Edition pin can go a long way....

 

[Disneyolic]

Ladies, Ladies…I go to lunch and come back to find you fighting over me….Stop your making my Ego swell.


SSSMMMAAACCCKKK

Oh Sorry must have been in dreamland again, thanks for snapping me out of it.

Well, since you're the only guy here today ... you'll have to do.

Yeah, A Shiny Limited Edition pin can go a long way....

Blue loves shiny objects!

 

[Goofster57]

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
I’ve been on the bad list so long I can’t remember.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored all atround.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
YES, but that is all I am saying.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
I’m lazy, I put them up back in 1982 when we bought the house and never took them down.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Jennifer Lopez…Oh you said not Dessert…I guess it would have to be Honey Baked Ham

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
All of them, Christmas was always a good time

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Do you know something I don’t

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
I don’t not enough Talent, Sorceress takes care of it, and she does a really nice job.

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
Love it, just don’t get any here in Sunny Southern California.

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, But why?.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Too many to list.

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Getting to do the Chocolate Advent Calendar..oh and that family stuff too.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Jennifer Lopez, Didn't we already cover this?

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
The two weeks I get off from work

17. What tops your tree?
Nothing we have the best tree in town

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
this is just points waiting to happen

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Little Drummer Boy

20. Candy canes:
Take em or leave em.

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
Breakfast Club

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Credit Card Bills!

 

[Disneyolic]

5. When do you put your decorations up?
I’m lazy, I put them up back in 1982 when we bought the house and never took them down.

So, you're one of THEM ... !

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Do you know something I don’t

I have no clue what this question means!

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
Love it, just don’t get any here in Sunny Southern California.

I posted this on another thread and it seems that the only people who love snow are the ones who don't get snow!

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
this is just points waiting to happen

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
Breakfast Club

I totally forgot about this Christmas classic! "Don't you, forget about me, don't don't don't don't, don't you, forget about me ... as you walk away ... "

 

[Goofster57]

So, you're one of THEM ... !

Yep, Guilty

I posted this on another thread and it seems that the only people who love snow are the ones who don't get snow!

I could see that,

I like rain too and my friends that live in Seattle tell me I'm nuts

 

[paigevz]

Oooh, can I play????

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
Oh geez, I like both, um, egg nog.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
He does both actually!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
white

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Thanksgiving weekend

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
CRANBERRIES

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
One Christmas, I heard noises and I went into the tree and there was a huge box, I had to stand on tiptoe to look in and way at the bottom was a puppy. That was our first dog.
Another time, I woke up to noises, and my parents were playing with some contraptions they had for our stockings that you push and they whirl round and round and make sparks. They were laughing. I'd never before or since seen them laugh together like that.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Probably that second memory. I think I was about 9.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Yes, one, and the kids get the one we choose.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Colored lights, an Angel on top, lots of Disney ornaments. Typically it's me and the kids while their dad is watching football.

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
Love it, because we don't get much.

12. Can you ice skate?
Um, no, where would I do that?

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Two, that puppy and a dollhouse I got that had real lights.

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Watching my kids' excitement. That and the food.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Christmas cookies.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Driving around to look at the lights, and afterwards drinking hot chocolate and watching the Christmas movies.

17. What tops your tree?
An angel

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Do you hear what I hear?

20. Candy canes:
look pretty on the tree.

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
Okay, this is embarassing, but here goes: Jingle all the way with Arnold Schwarzenegger

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Cookies and milk

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I guess moving back home was too good to be true. It's only been one month and already she's doing the "your feelings are stupid" business.

We're supposed to go to her friend's daughter's house for Thanksgiving. She talked to the daughter today, who told her that there will be 11-13 adults and 5-7 children. I know only my mother and her friend. I have social anxiety, mild agoraphobia, and I do NOT handle a group of unknown people very well. I usually end up having a panic attack.

Her response? A very disgusted "Oh, Elizabeth, will you knock it off already?" I just wish you all could hear the tone she used. I felt like saying, "Yeah? Screw you and your feelings, too!"

This is how she's treated me all my life. Any time I have misgivings or anxiety about something, I get told either to "knock it off" or "get over it." I really thought things had changed between us, but I think I was wrong. She'd better get a job soon, so I can save my money and get the heck out of here.

 

[Disneyolic]

Liz ~ living with parents is very tough, no matter what you age. I live next door to mine. I'm glad I can walk away but they are still always there and my mom always feels a need to tell me when I do something wrong. Yet, my brother she would never even think to say something to. Sometimes I really tell her to shut up. I love her, she's one of my best friends, so I can tell her to shut it.

 

[disneymama73]

I guess moving back home was too good to be true. It's only been one month and already she's doing the "your feelings are stupid" business.

We're supposed to go to her friend's daughter's house for Thanksgiving. She talked to the daughter today, who told her that there will be 11-13 adults and 5-7 children. I know only my mother and her friend. I have social anxiety, mild agoraphobia, and I do NOT handle a group of unknown people very well. I usually end up having a panic attack.

Her response? A very disgusted "Oh, Elizabeth, will you knock it off already?" I just wish you all could hear the tone she used. I felt like saying, "Yeah? Screw you and your feelings, too!"

This is how she's treated me all my life. Any time I have misgivings or anxiety about something, I get told either to "knock it off" or "get over it." I really thought things had changed between us, but I think I was wrong. She'd better get a job soon, so I can save my money and get the heck out of here.

Liz, I'm sorry your mom is so insensitive of your feelings.