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- Ooh, geology is so cool! I was terrible with biology - Just couldn't get into it at all. I'm not sure what about chemistry I liked... I'm guessing the logic and structure to it all - Kind of like math, but not physics (ugh, that was the worst). There are a lot of things that I wish I had known earlier in life. Like, I wish I knew about anthropology. It would have led to really interesting career paths, I bet.

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OMG, thank you!!! I can't believe I won. ;___; Such a pretty wig, too! Thank you for hosting this awesome giveaway!

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friends gathering :) decorating the houses with the lights, and ofc a Christmas tree in the house, and last npbut not least, feasts :3 Sadly not much spirit where I live..!

That first breath of cold air, that light chill near the end of October, a shiver as goosebumps cover your arms. These are the things that usually get me going for Christmas time. There's just something special about how simple weather changes can really change your attitude for the better. I can not even express in words just how much a light cold wind makes my heart pump and my body flurry with excitement. I feel the Christmas spirit in the atmosphere.

Now it's a Christmas tradition that on the 23rd, I go out and take a walk, or camp, or just generally stay outside for the Solstice as much as I can. This year will be my daughters first time joining me, and I really hope we can create our own memories of holiday cheer.

Friends and Family and giving gifts. Definitely not my store's christmas music, it's awful listening to it for hours >_<.

I enjoy the act of shopping for and showing appreciation for friends, coworkers and family. I never expect anything in return, I just enjoy the act of gifting someone something I think they would love.

Sometimes it's store bought, other times it's baked or crafted. But in the end I hope that they love my interpretation of their style or interests.

I really love gifting! It's my favorite time of the year (besides Halloween of course. Hehe)

So for as long as I can remember, my family has never been super close-- both literally AND figuratively. We're spread all over the country, and as a result, we see each other very, very rarely. We talk (kinda...sometimes..mostly only if I instigate it though) on holidays and then we all just move along with our own lives in our parts of the world.

I met my fiance 3 and a half years ago, and his family has apparently always been HUGELY into Christmas. His mother makes tons of cookies, cooks a feast for dinner (always Italian though-- that's where she's from), and gives SO MANY GIFTS it's ridiculous. She's also absolutely amazing at wrapping gifts-- she makes her own bows and will hot glue (HOT GLUE! LOL! No tape for her!) festive flowers and decorations on them to add a special touch. My first time meeting his family was actually on Christmas Eve 3 years ago.. we drove for 8 hours and got there shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve. They made me feel so warm and comfortable, and even though they'd never met me before, they had a mountain of presents for me (all personalized through investigation and fb stalking of my likes and dislikes! haha), they included me in some of their traditions, and took me in as the wayward child I was around the holidays.

We're not able to make it down there this year for Christmas, but we've already agreed to a time for a facetime date in the morning so we can all unwrap our gifts just like we were there together.

It's weird, but after a lifetime of not really having the "it's about spending time with your family, stupid!" moment for the holidays.. I finally have it. It's a shame it couldn't come with my own family, but let's be real.. they ARE my family now. Blood or no. :)

It's been tradition all my life to start Christmas Day with eggnog and cinnamon rolls for breakfast. This year, we're just putting cinnamon on a packaged honey bun because actual cinnamon rolls are too much right now in the midst of all the hellish stress my husband and I are trying to deal with right now, but we're going to try to stick to tradition somehow. We usually gather at my grandma's house, where we have a sort of pot-luck feast, and open presents, and she always makes fudge and holiday cookies. I guess it doesn't feel like "the holidays" until we're actually there at my grandma's house.

i really enjoy decorating the christmas tree with my parents and siblings. we always have either the radio on with cristmas music or the TV with a christmas movie in the background

The holidays to me is pumpkin pie with whipped cream, my aunts pineapple ham recipe, even though it's sweeter than the desserts, being surrounded in utter chaos and gift wrapping paper being found stuffed in places days after the holidays. It's watching christmas classics in your pajamas with one of my cats or dog in my lap and my fiance griping about wanting to watch something else but, he's never serious about it. It's my sons face when he opens his presents and can't wait until all the wrappings off to play with them. It's eating more in one day than you normally do in three and then moaning about it, knowing it's your own fault but it was sooo good. It's being surrounded by the people you love and knowing through the good, the bad and the ugly that they love you too.

Christmas has come to mean so much more to me than it ever has & it's always been so special to me. It's always a time of family, traditions, church, love & friendship! When I was back home, it was a special time of putting up the tree & decorating it with special ornaments that had memories my Mom & sister . We had certain ones that were our favorites & liked to put in each year. We'd decorate the inside with stockings for each of us, put the Nativity scene out & tape cards up from friends & family. We put lights on our porch outside together. We always had a special service at church where we did a Christmas program every year & so many people came. At church many times people would give little presents & homemade treats. I loved when we sang Christmas songs & read the Christmas story & watched it acted out in church. It was so beautiful to me & made the Christmas story so much more alive to me. My sister & I would get up early on Christmas Eve night (technically Christmas morning) while our Mom & Dad were asleep & we tiptoe out to get our stockings that Mom had filled with neat little things & we'd open them together. We'd get up early to the sounds of Mom beginning her tradition of Christmas breakfast & we'd help her make it. My brother & his wife & boys would come up & we'd all eat breakfast & later open gifts. In the evening, we'd all go to my Aunt's house to open presents & eat left overs. Sometimes we'd drive to look at Christmas lights. All this is so simple but it has become so much more treasured to me since I've gotten married & moved away from home & into a family that doesn't cherish Christmas like I do. I don't get to go back home for Christmas anymore & that is one of the hardest things for me. Christmas is so much more than material things to me. It's this feeling inside I can't even begin to describe. Every year that I've been away from my family since I'd be been married has been so emotional for me. The songs that used to be so fun to sing & be silly with my sister & Mom & Dad with or sing in church have become so emotional & special to me. I cry so much around this time of year because it's so much more meaningful & precious to me & yes, because of sadness too. Since my husband's family doesn't really celebrate it like I Do, it's become more in my heart & mind than actual traditions anymore. I miss all that so much but I'm determined to still celebrate it as much as I can & hopefully help my husband see how special this time of year can be & hopefully one of these years start traditions with my own children.

Our Christmas tradition in my family is a Christmas Eve dinner at my parents' house. My dad goes all out and cooks many kinds of meat, other people bring sides. Friends and family alike attend. And this year my sister will be here!

I've never been a huge fan of Christmas shopping, but this year what I'm most excited about is my boys getting their presents on Christmas morning. My oldest is almost three so this is his first year to really "get" what is going on.

I love Christmas music, particularly Mannheim Steamroller.

Holy crap...I won something! Thank you so much! I wish you safe travels and fun with family and friends

Thank you!

That is SO wrong...it has to be full disclosure...you can't give a partial spoiler about a series, it's just not Cricket! I believe its in the Bible, the Koran and the Torah. wait...do you mean Rhaegar's son, the one given over to Lord Connoghton before the sack of King's Landing?

Congrats to the other winners!

I craft so gifts for family and close friends are handmade or baked but love to gift in general just to say "i appreciate you" especially to co workers and other managers, usually the gifts are anonymous unless someone blabs "Oh, I saw Chat sneak into your office with a plate."