1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays? I live in Houston, it snows here once or maybe twice a decade and just enough to cause havoc on the roads. I hate cold weather, I'd never leave the house if it snowed all the time :-(

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect? Just with my husband and family, at my family home, nice and casual. I don't like traveling during the holidays.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions? We used to open a few gifts Christmas Eve and then the rest Christmas morning. Now we alternate Christmas Eve's with my in-laws, and usually end up spending Christmas day at my parents and eating lunch. My dad always used to get a big deli tray and we'd have sandwiches on Christmas Day to make it easy on my mom.

4. Do you do anything to help the needy? I'll go through my clothing a couple of times a year and donate it, that's about it I'm afraid.

5. What one gift would you like for yourself? Other than a new car ;-) Umm, let's see... a Democrat in the White House? Every year my husband basically asks me what I want (within reason) and then usually gives me his credit card (he's not good about picking gifts). This year I'm getting a new CD rack I've been wanting for ages that holds 800 so I can clear off the rest of the furniture around my stereo. And he's considering getting me a new purse, mine's worn out.