1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?? Hot Chocolate
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrap and Sit under tree
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Yes
5. When do you put your decorations up? Between Turkey Day and Christmas
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Shrimp
7. What’s your favorite Holiday memory as a child? Visiting both sides of my family
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Kids at school in 2nd grade
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Most of em
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Colored Lights, Tinsel, & ornaments
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it
12. Can you ice skate? Yes
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Money!
14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Kids enjoying Holiday
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cheesecake
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Opening gifts with family & friends
17. Do the holidays ever make you feel sad? Yes
18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Rumpapumpum
20. Candy Canes! yuck or yummy? So-so
21. Fave Christmas Movie? None
OK, you need to give me the answer
Shadus Ramblings
… Mad World, the version I like best is from the movie Donnie Darko by Michael Andrews and not the original performed by Tears for Fears.
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
[chorus]
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very…
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
[chorus]
Mad World…
Mad World…
Music, Shadus Ramblings
Those of you who know me fairly well know I have no real problem with religion in and of itself, I do however have a problem at times with the way some people present themselves, especially to children who aren’t theirs.
I read a really interesting story about a high school student exposing a teacher lying about some biblical statements he made in a public school classroom, the entire recording of the class is at the bottom of the page. After listening to it… wow. None of my teachers, even those with *VERY* strongly held religious beliefs *EVER* did anything like that… and if they had I’d have done all in my power to have them removed as a teacher, no one has the right to inflict that on someone else’s children. It’s both ethically and morally wrong in the extreme, not to mention a massive abuse of power.
Sick stuff in the extremes… scary.
Politics, Religion, Shadus Ramblings