[summer_gphib]

1. Are you cooking this year for Thanksgiving? If not, who will and where will you be?
We're going camping for Thanksgiving this year. So we'll be cooking burgers and roasting marshmallows.


2. On average, when you travel for Thanksgiving, how far do you go?
We usually go to my parents home in Missouri. That's right at 1,000 miles from where I live now.

3. Or....if you have families at your home, are the gatherings large or small?
Small, because we neither one have family near here.

4. Even eat out at a restaurant for Thanksgiving?
No! I usually cook a huge meal. I did an early thanksgiving meal about a week ago. I knew we'd be really busy this week and next week.

5. When do you start shopping for Christmas gifts?
Honestly? June or July. That's because our family is all spread out and we have to ship gifts. I'm completely done shopping, and just need to wrap at this point.

6. Do you decorate/get a tree for your home for the holidays?
We usually put up some sort of tree or arrangement, depending on if we are traveling or not. This year we will be here, with my family coming down and us all staying in a condo. (A week before Christmas) So we're going to put up a tree and decorate over there.

7. What is your most favorite holiday song?
Probably "Rejoice with Exceeding Great Joy" from the EPCOT Christmas Processional. That is the best part of the year, although this will be the first year in a long time we haven't gone, because they sold out in August for the dates we needed. I should have planned earlier.

8. Do you join in with holiday festivites at work?
I own a tax office, and we only work from Jan-April, so no. But I am hella busy getting ready for Tax Season. (50 days from today!)

9. Are you an early shopper (starting in November) or a last minute shopper (last week up til Christmas Eve?) I start in June/July. I am very early.

10. What other activites do you engage in to get you into the holiday spirit?
We go camping a lot in Nov. and Dec. so that puts me in the mood for the holidays. We also go to Disney a lot during these months.

11. Do you attend church on Christmas morning?
It depends on where we are. We'll actually go camping Dec. 21-26, so we won't.

12. Favorite television programs during the holidays?
All those very wonderful Christmas cartoons!

13. How much vacation time do you take during the holidays?
I'm ALWAYS working on my business during the holidays, no matter where I'm at! I HOPE that camping will give me a little time from it, but I love it so it's ok.

14. Do attend New Year's functions or spend quiet evenings at home?
I spend it at my office and then home. This year I want to go to the beach again.

15. Ever been to Times Square?
I've never been to NY at all.

16. Do you remember where you were for Y2K?
The beach. Hubby and I took a picnic and a bottle of champaign to the beach. Very romantic, until he got a parking ticket! DOH!

17. What do you do as far as charity / community service during this time of year?
I do a lot for charity all year, so I don't do a lot extra this time of year. Especially since I'm kind of in a hectic pace for tax season.

18. If there is one thing that you could outlaw during the holidays, what would it be? ANYTHING FAKE. Fake trees, fake kindness, fake people.....

19. If you care to share, who is that one relative that is the most embarrasing one to have around for the holidays?
Oh I have so very many... There is my toothless uncle, he's a hoot. Or my drug addicted crack whore cousin, who is also a theif. Or the very cold, know nothing about me grandparents... I have a very interesting family.

20. By the end of it all, how much do yout hink you will have spent?
Probably a thousand or so.