{"id":4167,"date":"2007-12-26T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2011-12-27T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:36:43","slug":"the-best-christmas-gift-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/26\/the-best-christmas-gift-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Christmas Gift Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been tagged by a meme! I don’t know if I have ever been done so before. Thanks to St. Wendeler of Another Rovian Conspiracy<\/a>, I’ve answered the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wrapping or gift bags?<\/b>
    \nGift wrapping. I was a bagger for a couple years in college, so it’s hard for me to respect the “effort” required to put something in a bag.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Real or artificial tree?<\/b>
    \nI’d prefer real, but the wife is highly allergic, so we have a very realistic artificial tree. So realistic that it drops needles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  3. When do you put up the tree?<\/b>
    \nThis year, we put the tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving, we put lights on it about two weeks after, and we put ornaments on it about a week and a half later. We wanted to acclimate our child to its presence slowly.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  4. When do you take the tree down?<\/b>
    \nSometime immediately after the first of the year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Do you like eggnog?<\/b>
    \nI did as a child, but I can’t stand it now. Maybe I got really drunk from it at age seven, blacked out, and developed the aversion then.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  6. Favorite gift received as a child?<\/b>
    \nCommodore 128 received in 8th grade, followed by Atari 2600 I received in 6th grade.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  7. Do you have a nativity scene?<\/b>
    \nYes, but we don’t put it out because we have cats who would drop it from wherever we would put it onto the aforementioned child.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  8. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?<\/b>
    \nCome on, I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad Christmas gift. However, in 2005, I got the Bad Cat desk calendar from my mother in law, and it was so inappropriately not funny that my coworker and I started most weekday mornings groaning over the captioned photographs of cats. The humor relied a lot on drug and sexual innuendo. I thought it was so bad that I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get a 2007 version.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  9. Mail or e-mail Christmas cards?<\/b>
    \nMail. E-mail, contrary to what the SEC would have you believe, does not provide permanent artifacts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  10. Favorite Christmas movie?<\/b>
    \nAs you know, gentle reader, it is Lethal Weapon<\/i>; I posted my top five list in     2003<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  11. When do you start shopping for Christmas?<\/b>
    \nWhenever I first see something that I think someone I know would like for Christmas. But mostly in October\/November.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  12. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?<\/b>
    \nMy mother’s pumpkin pie. My mother can cook only one or two things well. This is one of them, and it always pushes my gluttony button.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  13. Clear lights or colored on the tree?<\/b>
    \nColored lights this year; I think we used white last year. Whichever I find first, I guess.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  14. Favorite Christmas song?<\/b>
    \nI like Mannheim Steamroller’s “Deck the Halls” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”. Another winter favorite is Dean Martin’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have not, however, tagged anyone else. Sometimes, you can take the Scrooge to the meme, but you cannot make him by a goose for Cratchit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have been tagged by a meme! I don’t know if I have ever been done so before. Thanks to St. Wendeler of Another Rovian Conspiracy, I’ve answered the following: Wrapping or gift bags? Gift wrapping. I was a bagger for a couple years in college, so it’s hard for me to respect the “effort” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10701,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/10701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}