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Well luckily enough there IS a this or that for the holidays, so without further ado I shall answer the questions!

1. Opening presents...rip 'em open with all abandon, or carefully open, preserving the pretty paper for recycling? Rip 'em open!! Unless the paper is extra special.
2. Do you and yours take turns, opening one gift at a time, or does everyone just rip into everything at the same time? At my home home we pass them out one at a time. At the other relatives', we usually pass them out and THEN go one at a time.
3. If you get something you don't like...do you try to return it, or keep it so as not to hurt the giver's feelings? If it doesn't fit or whatever, then yes. But usually if you just simply don't like it, you keep it unless the person tells you "oh, go get whatever you want if you don't like it."
4. Do you spend the holiday at home (yours or someone else's), or do you go out and eat, see the newest movie, whatever? We do the same thing each time. Xmas eve with dad's side, xmas morning at home and xmas afternoon/night at mom's side.
5. What do you do with Christmas cards after the holiday is over? Save them, or toss them? I usually save them. I mean, why not?
6. Cook Christmas dinner, or does someone else do that? Depends on who is hosting. And of course people usually bring stuff they made at home.
7. It's Christmas Eve, and you have run out of wrapping paper. Do you go out and buy more, or wrap the rest of the gifts in the Sunday comics? Any gift I wrap is ALWAYS done with the newspaper. Just adds to that personal touch.
8. On Christmas morning...up at the crack of dawn, eagerly anticipating the loot...or would you rather sleep in? I can NEVER EVER get much sleep xmas eve. It's just the way I am, ever since a little kid. If I do get any, most of it is where you are just laying there but not dreaming yet. We will see if this year I can actually wake up at 7:30 or 8.
9. Do you want a white or a green Christmas? In Oregon, both!! But we won't get white this year, so Oregon will just have a green Christmas.
10. Going to church on Christmas...yes or no? We aren't churchgoing people, so no. But I will go to that little chapel in my head where I worship the beauty of the world and the wonderful emotions that music can bring.