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Thanks Rick
1. What are your five favorite Christmas songs?
Carol of the Bells
O Holy Night – (especially fond of the South Park version)
Little Drummer Boy (I’m a drummer what can I say) (Bing and Bowie’s version rocks!)
most any song by Mannheim Steamroller
The 12 days of Christmas (the 12 pains is good, but Bob and Doug McKenzie’s version is the best! Hoser!)

2. Five foods you look forward to at Christmastime?
Turkey
Eggnog (esp the diluted kind)
Cranberry Sauce shaped like a can
Fruit Cake (my MIL’s original recipe)
My mother’s Christmas Bread [Kuchen] (already have the real butter in the fridge waiting for it to arrive)

3. Five favorite presents of all time?
I love the things that my kids get me from the ‘santa shop’ at school each year. One year our oldest got my wife a little nativity scene of Mary, Joe and baby Jesus in the manger with a cross in the background. It wasn’t for me but it is still one of my favorites.
Can’t remember the year but one year I got a little 3 piece screwdriver set that I still have and use regularly.
Christmas 2002 my wife got me a car stereo that was knock my socks off good (still have it and use it everyday).
Christmas 2005 my wife got me a mini fridge that is on my desk at work. (keeps my fruit and yogurt cold and nearby).
(can’t think of another one off hand)

4. What are your five favorite holiday TV specials?
Charlie Brown Christmas
Original Grinch
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
WKRP in Cincinnati “Turkeys Away”
When the Packers play the Lions on Thanksgiving!

5. Top five holiday-themed films?
A Christmas Story
A Miracle on 34th Street
White Christmas
A Christmas Carol (George C Scott version)

I have never seen “It’s A Wonderful Life” and don’t plan to. And I have never seen “Christmas Vacation” but we bought it this past year so I will be watching it this weekend and it will probably be added to this list.