Tuesday Twosome

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Holidays

1. Are you almost finished with your holiday shopping or you haven’t started yet?

For the first time in years, I'm feeling a little behind the 8-ball on this. On the other hand, I'm not bothered. I have a few ideas, and I'm buying for fewer people this year. Picked up a couple of things yesterday, and it will all get done.

2. What do the holidays mean to you? How does this affect how you celebrate the holidays?

While I'm not all about "Jesus' birthday" and making this into a ginormous religious campaign, we do try to note advent by following an advent study and generally keeping things on an even keel until Christmas Eve. We do have a pseudo-menorah to honor where OUR traditions came from (Jesus was Jewish, as I recall), and also because there is a strand of Jewish DNA in our family tree. My dad's family didn't actually celebrate Christmas much, and I'm beginning to see the attraction of that. Except...I do like all the traditions.

3. Are you going away for the holidays or staying home?

Home. Unless we need to be elsewhere.

4. What two things do you like about this time of year?

Christmas lights, and (some of) the music.

5. What two things do you dislike about this time of year?

That panicky "never going to get it all done!!" feeling, and (some of) the music.