31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 14
When we moved from California to Indiana, it was in January….yeah again, I’m stretching the holiday memory term…but it was close to the new year.
Anybut, it was my first time seeing snow.
Also, our refrigerator hadn’t been delivered yet, so we kept drinks outside, buried in the snow…I really remember that more than the actual first time I saw snow…weird.
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 13
A very poor quality picture of a 2016 New Year’s Eve Party….Best I’ve ever looked, really…
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 12
A show I worked on back in 2016. I stage managed this show in Oregon and it was a lot of fun.
All four boys flew out from New York to work the show and were extremely talented.
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 11
I LOVE peppermint. Peppermint candy, peppermint mochas, peppermint schnapps, peppermint candles, peppermint soap, peppermint, peppermint, PEPPERMINT!!!!
The odd thing is, I don’t like it the rest of the year…and by that I mean I won’t go out of my way to get something peppermint. Until the holidays. Then it’s OPEN SEASON!!
Even in Candyland…my favorite character was Mr. Mint……the PEPPERMINT lumberjack clown. And I’m talking the original Mr. Mint (cuz apparently he’s gone through a redesign?).
Anybut, enough about peppermint….have I mentioned I love peppermint?
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 10
Okay, this is cheating a bit. This isn’t a memory but I thought it was something to share.
We now have a possum living in our backyard. It’s a biggun’ and so far the only thing it’s done is stink up the backyard a bit.
Since it’s only appeared in the past couple weeks, I’m considering it a Holiday Miracle.
Trying to think of an awful pun name for it…..I’ll get back to y’all (unless any of you have any ideas for names).
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 9
HA! I bet you thought I wouldn’t bring up memories from Thanksgiving, did ya?!
That’s why I called this the 31 days of HOLIDAY memories.
ANYBUT!!
Every year (at least when my uncle still came to Thanksgiving dinners) my uncle made brussel sprouts. He was the ONLY one who ate them and all he did to them was boil ’em.
They’d stink up the house for days and everyone hated brussel sprouts. My dad claims he likes them, but he’s a liar. Okay not a liar. He likes them when they’re cooked, not boiled.
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 8
I used to work for Disneyland. One of my memories of working during the holidays is from way back in 2008.
I worked the attraction Autopia…’scuse me, Chevron’s Autopia (that’s who sponsored it back then). If you’ve been to Disneyland during the holidays then you are familiar with their holiday parade and fireworks show which have been the same FOREVER!!
Okay, not forever, but for a LOOOOOOONG time.
Anybut, there was a position on Autopia where you, the cast member stood in the middle of the ride all alone….my favorite position, to be honest.
It was a safety position in case something happened on the ride. There’s also a position where you walk the attraction (my second favorite position), but I always preferred the position standing in the middle of the ride.
I especially LOVED this position during the fireworks. There were speakers behind the position and you could listen to the music and get a pretty good view of the fireworks. Not the castle, but the fireworks.
I also liked this position during the fireworks because usually not many people rode the attraction during that point so you were pretty alone and got a show out of it.
I have a few other holiday at Disneyland stories from when I worked there…but I’ll try to keep them spaced apart.
And don’t worry Disney…none of them will be reveals of secrets or things not already publicly known.
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 7
Only around the Holidays do I ever get the desire to learn how to bake and cook. I don’t understand WHY, because I have no desire to learn the rest of the year.
Last year it was real strong.
I even asked for a recipe card box so I could write down all the recipes my mom had. I was also the one to encourage my parents to bake cookies with me.
Though to be fair…the cookies is mostly because we used to bake them every year when I was little…..so I guess I can understand why that’s become such a strong thing around the Holidays.
But the COOKING?!
And I hear you all saying, “Well, didn’t you help with Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners?”
Yes, but I didn’t LIKE helping with those. Unlike the cookies.
Anybut, this strange Holiday Phenomenon (doot doo di doo doo)keeps haunting me every year.
31 Days of Holiday Memories!
Day 6
Remember when Beanie Babies were HUGE?
Yeah, I lived through that with only a couple hundred purchases…much to my parents’ chagrin.
Anybut! My first 2 Beanie Babies were Christmas gifts. A stingray (Sting) and a pink flamingo (Pinkie)…the irony that I grew up to be afraid of stingrays is tragic…
They were my introduction into the Beanie Baby world and I still have ALL of my collection…but especially my stingray and flamingo.
I blame Beanie Babies on my desire to be a writer. I created an entire city that my beanies lived in. I had couples, families, villains with dastardly plots….the whole shebang.
I miss the classic Beanie Babies. The new ones have less beans and are just not as well-designed…in my opinion.
31 Days of Holiday Memories!!
Day 5
My favorite home movie is from when I lived in Indiana. We made a snow slide in the backyard that started at the top of our back porch and went straight down into the forest behind my house.
My mom was up and as she went down, she tried to stop the sled, but her hand hit a tree and she rolled out.
But what I remember the most, and the best part of the video is my mom turning to look at my dad who’s filming and she says, “I hit my hand! I tried to…TURN THAT THING OFF!”
And then you hear my brother and I being the best children and burst out laughing.
She was fine, just embarrassed that we got everything on film.
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