silver and gold decorations on ev'ry christmas tree....

[myurbandream]

jim and i were talking about holiday traditions- or rather, we started out by debating whether we should watch love actually now AND at christmas, or just wait until christmas to watch it, because you HAVE to watch love actually on christmas- and then we got to discussing other movies and holidays and then i started thinking..... anyway. holidays. i have family traditions. what are yours?

christmas
decorated christmas tree
house/yard lights
candlelight church service
presents and stockings
christmas day dinner
st. nick's birthday shoes
watch movies: love actually, rudolph (the claymation version), it's a wonderful life, grinch (either version), charlie brown christmas, muppets christmas

hallowe'en
trick-or-treat with costumes and candy
pumpkin carving
watch movies: nightmare before christmas

thanksgiving
thanksgiving dinner
fall decorations

easter
spring decorations
easter church service
egg hunt
basket hunt
egg colouring
confetti eggs

st. patrick's day
watch movies: boondock saints
wear green or get pinched/tickled/poked
four-leaf-clover decorations
(jim points out that i should have added "get drunk" to this list; i counter that since i only recently discovered an alcoholic beverage that i can stand to consume, this is not yet a personal tradition. so: nyar!)

did i miss anything?

Comments

[catc10.livejournal.com]

Uh...
We used to rent and watch movies every friday here, does that count?
We never had set movies to watch during holidays, either.
We didn't decorate much for holidays, because eventually my parents got too old to go up ladders, and they thought it was too dangerous for us.
We also never went to church unless we had a relative in a play.
Other than that, it's pretty similar.
ME

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

you guys do your fancy bows on your presents! and i know for a fact you do a christmas tree and all! come on, that counts! but yeah, the house decorations kind of fell of the map after my dad hit forty. ah, well.

[catc10.livejournal.com]

Bows are a part of christmas packaging! (And the boxes getting shipped places have to have very plain, flat bows, so they don't count!) We learned how to do department-store bows because my mom taught us department store bows and anything less is like...mutiny against my mom, which...isn't pretty.
And did you not read the bit where I said, "Besides that, it's pretty similar"?
Also: http://abe-kroenen.livejournal.com/
Re-watch Hellboy 1 and then start reading this. It's like a web-comic but with action figures and random crossovers and I LOVE IT.
And it's super funny.
ME

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

OHMIGAWD that thing is so ridiculous!!! *flails*

yeah, i missed that. oops. ^____^

[catc10.livejournal.com]

When are you visiting?
*begbegbegbeg*
ME

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

i completely forgot about those holidays!!! now i feel dumb. :P

you have strange holiday traditions. *lol* die hard? metallica? oh, you.... ^___^