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Scruffy Six Twenty: Holiday season, again

So the holiday season is fast approaching, yet again. Which is good for me, because that means my birthday is coming up, and then Christmas. Halloween is also in a couple of days. And Thanksgiving is being thrown into the mix.

But anyway, this is going to be holiday themed.

  1. Do you dress up for Halloween? What was your favorite Halloween costume?
  2. Do you actually like Thanksgiving?
  3. What traditions does your family have for the holidays that you like?
  4. What traditions do you not like, that your family has for the holidays?
  5. What traditions do you wish you had?
  6. What do you want for Christmas?

29 October 2006 03:00pm UTC • 659 views • 11 comments

Tagged with holidays, traditions, halloween, scruffysix, christmas, thanksgiving

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11 comments

  1. Peon Peetie 38

    29 October 2006 03:57pm UTC

    1. as often as i can, but i'd rather not dress up than dress up half-assed and such. two best halloween costumes ever: first, arthur. my junior year in high school. wore a yellow sweater, huge glasses, had ears (since he's an aardvark), jeans, red chuck taylor converse allstars. oh yeah. second, mr rogers. one of the greatest men of all time. my senior year in high school. i dumped a pair of shoes and a cardigan in class before anyone showed up and waited for the bell to ring. then i would walk in late whistling beautiful day in the neighborhood and change.

    2. this question is tricky. i'll answer it based on two cases. first case: no pumpkin pie- i don't like thanksgiving. second case: pumpkin pie- i love this holiday

    3. we play charades in front of the fireplace every christmas eve and then every christmas morning we hang out upstairs until everyone is awake and then we go downstairs in some bogus order (alphabetically by fourth letter of your middle name) such that abby is always first.

    4. i haven't been home for it in years, but i hate easter. not any specific traditions, i just don't like it.

    5. when it comes to my family, there's no such thing as a _bad_ tradition

    6. my two front teeth. and a trip to europe

  2. Dread Pirate Benjamin 1

    29 October 2006 05:26pm UTC

    1. I don't normally dress up for Halloween. But I was a lego in 3rd or 4th grade. That costume was sweet.

    2. No. I don't like the food. But one of my happiest memories ever was a thanksgiving sophomore year of college.

    3. My family doesn't really have a whole lot of traditions. We always have dinner with the relatives Christmas Eve. And some sort of party with the three houses. It used to be on Christmas morning that we would have to make rules on when we could wake up. But now we have to talk about what time my parents are allowed to wake me up. We also go to a movie Christmas day. But that is increasingly becoming more of a pain in the ass...

    4. We don't really have any other traditions.
    5. That's why I asked! To see what else is out there!
    6. Oh no. This is going to take me forever. I'll answer this in a blog post tonight.

  3. Carpenter Courtney 46

    30 October 2006 01:08am UTC

    1. Do you dress up for Halloween? What was your favorite Halloween costume?

    I wish I dressed up for Halloween more enthusiastically these days. My favorite costume was "the ocean." I wore a dark blue skirt with a large, plush squid on it, a blue t-shirt with whales on it (from an aquarium!), and my hair was dyed blue with lego wind-surfers glued to hair clips. It was pretty sweet.

    1. Do you actually like Thanksgiving?

    Yes! I get to tell everyone the tale of the UnTurkey.

    1. What traditions does your family have for the holidays that you like?

    My family gives everyone some sort of game each year, and then if we're together, we'll play the various games. It can be quite exciting!

    1. What traditions do you not like, that your family has for the holidays?

    My family has a tradition of stress and melodrama. Blergh.

    1. What traditions do you wish you had?

    Bruce, the CC Chaplain, has this neat tradition that started with his kids writing letters to Santa. He'd stay up and write replies. They still do that, even though they're grown. It's just such a cool thing.

    1. What do you want for Christmas?

    For everyone to go veg. ;)

  4. Carpenter Courtney 46

    30 October 2006 01:09am UTC

    I apparently answered 1 several times.

  5. Completely in love with Benjamin 51

    30 October 2006 03:40pm UTC

    1. I like dressing up for halloween, but it often stresses me out because I want a good costume and can never think of one. I think my favorite costume was a book. I was "The Secret Garden." My dad made our costumes, so he crafted a giant book out of cardboard. I was inside it, and my vision was limited to a few slits in the pages side. It was pretty difficult to see out of and it was kind of difficult to maneuver due to the fact that it was just a giant rectangle that caught the wind really easily, but it was still an awesome costume.

    2. I really like Thanksgiving, and have gained a new appreciation for it over the past few years when my friends and I prepare the meal for ourselves. I get to do it again this year, too.

    3. My mother always makes boiled custard and cream cheese danish for christmas. Our traditions are largely food related. We also typically go to at least one family movie over the holidays.

    4. none.

    5. That's hard. I kind of wish we played a sport. Typically it's just my immediate family, though, so that might be hard with 4 people.

    6. I want those tennis shoes with wheels on the bottom that I mostly see 12 year old boys wearing.

  6. Peon Peetie 38

    30 October 2006 06:57pm UTC

    liza, i want those too! i'd probably kill myself, but what a great way to go!

  7. First Mate Beca 6

    30 October 2006 10:16pm UTC

    1. Yes I do, although this year is looking like not. I was a unicorn once. It was pretty sweet, I even had a rainbow vest on over my white furry suit thing and a horn and everything.
    2. I love Thanksgiving, my family revolves around food.
    3. We used to always go to my grandparents for dinner with the extended family, now its just us. Also, we all get matching (or color cordinated these days) pajamas and my mom wraps them and we get to open them christmas eve.
    4. I pretty much love everything I do with my family for the holidays, I pretty much love the holiday season.
    5. I don't know, maybe a season trip to NY or London or something to see a tree lighting? I really don't know.
    6. This is tough, I need black boots, or a brown jacket?

  8. The Anonymous Poppy 53

    1 November 2006 08:57pm UTC

    1. Do you dress up for Halloween? What was your favorite Halloween costume? I occasionally dress up for Halloween, but I don't like to unless my costume is really awesome. I don't like to dress up half-assed or ever have to explain what I'm supposed to be (unless it's an obscure and specific character).
    2. Do you actually like Thanksgiving? Yeah, I really like Thanksgiving. My immediate family usually has a big meal together, but for the last several years I've just done whatever and it's been great and really relaxing.
    3. What traditions does your family have for the holidays that you like? On Christmas Eve, we all go to the Mesa temple and look at the lights. (The Mesa temple has beautiful grounds and they put Christmas lights all over them for the season.) We also tie a quilt every Christmas. It could be for Humanitarian Aid or just for a family member, but I LOVE tying a quilt with my family.
    4. What traditions do you not like, that your family has for the holidays? Um, I dunno. I don't think we have any bad traditions!
    5. What traditions do you wish you had? I wish we made a tradition of seeing the Easter Pageant that's at the Mesa temple every year, because I always want to see it but no one ever really wants to go with me. But I guess that's not a "holidays" tradition, but an Easter one. Um, I wish we did something for New Years? Nah, not really.
    6. What do you want for Christmas? An awesome new laptop.

  9. The Anonymous Poppy 53

    1 November 2006 09:00pm UTC

    Oh, and my Dad writes a Christmas poem every year, and he reads it to us on Christmas Eve right before we read Luke 2 and then I recite that Ogden Nash poem. His Christmas poems are always so amazing, and usually hilarious. That's probably my favorite Christmas tradition.

  10. First Mate Beca 6

    2 November 2006 02:59am UTC

    guess what! one of my neighbors dressed up as an orange lego last night! It was so sweet! Anyways, thought of you, hope you had a happy halloween.

  11. Kate the Quiet 80

    3 November 2006 03:16am UTC

    1. I don't dress up anymore. In sixth grade I won "scariest costume" at school for dressing up as a Klingon warrior. I had several Star Trek-themed Halloweens, in fact.

    2. I like Thanksgiving, but I haven't been home for it in three years. This will be the fourth. So that kind of sucks.

    3. Traditions in my family have kind of faded since the kids have grown up. One we still have is creatively labeling the presents at Christmas. For example, if the gift is a chemistry set, you would have to label it "from Bill Nye" or something to that effect. The consequences for incorrect labeling are steep.

    4. I don't like the tradition of going to another person's house on Christmas. I'd rather stay home, always.

    5. I can't think of any traditions that I could "wish" for. I wish I was home for the tradition of baking gingerbread cookies, but that takes place a few weeks before CC lets out.

    6. What I want for Christmas...Serenity (not the movie). Or a boyfriend. Unfortunately, those are mutually exclusive, I think.

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