First Tag Chicken of 2013
by Jenners • 01/06/2013 • Tag Chicken With Trisha • 63 Comments
It is 2013 and my game of Tag Chicken with Trisha at eclectic/eccentric is still going on. To celebrate, I thought I’d make a Face in Hole.
Which one of us will turn into a chicken nugget by quitting first? In related news, Trisha regrets posting a photo of herself on her blog — never knowing I would use it for nefarious purposes!
Let’s get going before these questions expire! First, I answer Trisha’s questions.
When is the earliest acceptable date to decorate for Christmas? (I just had to hear your “rather strong feelings”)
For residential homes, the absolute earliest date you should decorate for Christmas is the day AFTER Thanksgiving. Ideally, you should wait until the first week of December. For retail establishments, this business of putting out Christmas stuff in September is insane. First you do Halloween. Then you do a bit of fall decor. Then, starting in early November, you are allowed to put up Christmas stuff. But no Christmas carols playing over the store loudspeakers until AFTER Thanksgiving is over!! The early arrival of Christmas is one of my huge pet peeves. It tends to make it less special when you see all the decorations and hear the music THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE ACTUAL EVENT. Whew. Thanks for letting me get that out.
What is the funniest book you’ve ever read and what made it funny?
I remember giggling hysterically when reading Nicholson Baker’s Mezzanine (but that was on a flight back from London and I think I was just exhausted.) I’ve been almost constantly amused when reading some of Christopher Moore’s books (You Suck comes to mind immediately). Most recently, Caitlin Moran had me laughing through both of her books (except for the serious bits). I also was dying of laughter during Steve Hely’s How I Became A Famous Novelist. Basically, any book with a slightly skewed world view and lots of snark will get me giggling and I love to giggle. The most I’ve ever laughed while reading was the one chapter in David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day when he was talking about Easter in his French class.
Do you say Kleenex or tissue?
Tissue. And really, you should write it as Kleenex®. The fact that many people use Kleenex® as an interchangeable word for tissue is one of the cautionary tales about protecting your brand that they taught us in journalism school advertising classes.
When hanging pictures on a wall, do you measure and level or just eyeball it?
To Mr. Jenners’s annoyance, I’m an eyeballer. It is why I’m not allowed to hang pictures in our house.
If you could have anything you wanted for Christmas, what would it be? (And I’m not talking world peace or anything else a ditzy beauty pageant winner would say).
C’mon, Trisha! What do you expect from me … I’m way too selfish to say “World Peace.” HAHA! I’d say hardwood floors in the downstairs of our house. Sadly, Santa didn’t come through this year … but I did get an awfully cool labelmaker!
And now my five questions for Trisha (unless she feels like conceding victory to me):
- Which celebrity would you rather smack some sense into: Kim Kardashian (now pregnant by Kanye West … did she learn nothing from her 72-day marriage?) or Taylor Swift (who falls in and out love so fast and publicly that I cringe on her behalf)?
- Which books coming out in 2013 are you most excited about reading?
- If you had to dress from head to toe in one color for the rest of your life, what color would you choose?
- What are three things on your bucket list and are you doing anything to get them crossed off?
- If you had to pick one word to guide you during this new year, what word would you choose?
I love these posts. You guys seriously need to do a talk show together. It would be hilarious!
Oh how fun that would be! Now if we could just get a budget, video equipment and a studio!
I sincerely apologize for being so late to the game, and I absolutely love that picture and think it should be like our meme picture from now on. You are too awesome!
We shall agree to disagree about the Kleenex/tissue argument….
These questions were so reasonable. Totally out of character for Tag Chicken
Haha!
The only kleenex I use are Kleenex®….so I think I’m allowed to always call them kleenex.
I’m amazed at how long you two have kept this going. You come up with the most ingenious questions and hilarious answers!
And, Jenners, are you one of those Award-free people? I tried to hunt around and see if you say so (and didn’t see anything–but then I didn’t hunt real long because I got distracted by Tag-Chicken)…Anyway, if you are, then disregard. If you’re not then, have I got an award for you: 2012 Blog of the Year.
If you buy the specific brand, you are allowed to call them Kleenex. I absolve you.
I’m surprised how long we’ve kept this going too. I wonder when we’ll run out of questions!
And I tend not to do anything with awards but they always make me happy! I’ll pop on over to see what you said about me!! : )
I can’t stand the commercialism of ANY holiday; it drives me nuts to see that stuff out months ahead of time. Seeing you guys on chicken nuggets made my Saturday! Ha hahahahah
I know … they shove holidays down your throat so much these days but Christmas is by far the worst.
I agree with you about Christmas, enjoyed Christopher Moore as well, thank goodness I don’t chicken nuggets.
I think I’ve ruined chicken nuggets for all my readers with this post!
How do you two come up with these great questions? I say tissue, and yes day after thanksgiving is acceptable. but no earlier.
I tell you … it is getting harder and harder to come up with good questions as we keep going.
This is great fun. But I don’t think I’ll ever again be able to look a chicken nugget in the eye.
As one of those chicken nuggets, I’d rather you look us in the eye so you don’t eat us!
This is such a fun game!
I’m with you on the Christmas decorations. No earlier than the day after Thanksgiving. When it comes to stores though, I’m more tolerant as I often forget to shop for Christmas early–and the stores remind me it’s time to start giving it serious thought. And I disagre about the music. Christmas music is good year round. How can I tell my daughter she can’t sing Jingle Bells in August? It’s too adorable.
I’m with your on the eyeballing to hang pictures. My husband breaks out his stud finder/leveler every time.
I’d like hardwood floors downstairs too. It’s a pipe dream though. Hubby has other ideas.
We shall fight for our hardwood floors … yet I suspect we shall never win. Sigh.
And Christmas music sung by children in August is OK … but not in the stores!
Always entertaining to read these posts. I would be worried about answering no. 3.
I’m glad you find them entertaining. I always wonder if this game is overstaying its welcome.
Klennex. Kleenex, kleenex, kleenex.
You forgot the trademark sign!
Ok, this is going to sound so weird but seeing you guys on the chicken nuggets made me hungry. Then again it’s probably the pregnancy talking and I just want to eat chicken nuggets even though its almost midnight here…
Anyway… I totally agree with you on the Christmas thing. It drove me insane to hear Christmas music on the radio in November when we lived in the states. NOVEMBER! Seriously, Christmas songs are nice and all but hearing it played everyday for 2 whole months is a bit much. Plus there are only so many different songs out there. It can get old really fast.
Of course in Japan, they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving so the minute Halloween is over, Christmas is all over the place here. For some reason it doesn’t really bother me as much since it’s mostly holiday lights that are put up. It does make the city prettier. Plus, they like to take it ALL down the minute the date goes from the 25th to the 26th. Seriously, you’d never know that Christmas was even here if you walked around town on the 26th because they’ve already started decorating for the new year.
You have every excuse to want to eat chicken nuggets — you’re eating for two!
And wow … that is fast to take down all the lights — Mr. Jenners is the same way though. The day after Christmas it all comes down. I’m fine with them being up until January 1 or something but there are still people in our neighborhood who have all their lights on (and tree!) and it is January 13th. Enough already!
I hope you don’t turn into a nugget–how would you type and bring us all this fun stuff to read. I hope she caves first.
I seriously wonder how long we will be able to keep this up. I think the one year anniversary is coming up in a few months.
Oh, I do love your games of chicken tag! And that photo – so hilariously disturbing!
I’m still waiting for Trisha to see herself as a chicken nugget. I hope she doesn’t mind terribly!
Y’all continue to crack me up! And I’m so with you on the Christmas thing. I don’t put up decorations until December rolls around. In the south, we’re also very superstitious about taking them down before January 1st. I wanted hardwood floors put down in the upstairs of our house, but sadly didn’t receive this gift either!
Why can’t Santa come and install the floors on Christmas night? I don’t get it … doesn’t have have magic powers???
I’ve never seen anyone photoshopped on a chicken nugget before. It’s cool … and a little disturbing.
I’m waiting for McDonald’s to contact me to be their McNugget spokesperson.
I’m an eyeballer too, but I’m also a Kleenex-say’er and I refuse to say otherwise. So there! (I buy it though so I’m thinking I get some kind of pass.)
If you actually do buy the Kleenex brand, then you do get a pass. We don’t … so we need to say tissue.
Hmmm… I’m glad you set us all straight on the Christmas thing. I agree with the majority.
I’ve laughed while reading lots of books, but I remember really laughing in some of those early Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich.
I seriously wish I could pass a law about the Christmas thing. It bugs me so much.
And I thought the first few Plum books were funny … then I felt like I was reading the same book over and over.
So so agree about the Christmas thing! It is too soon- makes it lose some of the magic. I think I jump back and forth between tissue and Kleenex all the time- but I think I say tissues more.
Exactly!! It loses the magic when you see and hear Christmas stuff for four months.
Oh, I have to agree with you about the Christmas thing. I hung lights out in my front patio that were rainbow colored, because I like to sit there and chill, and someone mentioned the fact that I was hanging up Christmas lights in October. I had to disabuse this silly person of the notion that just because they are LIGHTS doesn’t mean they are Christmas lights. I also hate it that the stores bring out the Christmas stuff out in September. I mean, come on, that’s just nuts. Also, you guys look wonderful as nuggets!
Aren’t we cute little nuggets? I can’t wait for Trisha to see it!!
Funny meme. Love your answers! Christmas cannot start until after Thanksgiving. End of story. I saw Christmas stuff in Walmart at the end of September. BEFORE October. Seriously, bugs me to no end. 2 Kids and Tired Books
Me too!! Before Halloween even! One thing at a time people! I’m glad I’m not alone in having this pet peeve!
Nothing like coming back to my first day of work and seeing your face on what I can only assume is chicken. Bwhahaha!
We always put our decorations up the day after Thanksgiving but it’s always such a big deal and then before you know it, it’s time to take it down again so I am thinking they need to go up a bit early. Like maybe the week before Thanksgiving.
I want hardwood floors too but the stained concrete that I did last July is actually nice, I just wish it was all throughout the house. It was darker than we anticipated so it doesn’t really go with the tile next to it but oh well. When I am rich, I will change it. Another laugh for the morning.
Glad you enjoyed my “back to work” present. : 0
And I’m fine with people putting the lights up BEFORE Thanksgiving but they should not be turned on until after.
I say tissue ever since a discussion with about a 4 or 5 year old D-man when I brought home a generic brand of tissue and asked for a “Kleenex”. On the Taylor Swift issue…..I wonder if a little bitty (or huge) part of her picks men she knows are wrong for her because she is afraid if she is happily in love/married/stays together for a long time….she will completely run out of writing material for her songs. I feel sort of sorry for her and she is frequently used as an example not to follow for my children and their future love lives! I love her songs though.
You make a good point about Ms. Swift. At the rate she is going, she should have material for 10 more albums. I just wish she wouldn’t go so hard into it — like buying a million dollar house near her Kennedy boyfriend after dating for a few weeks!!! Too much!!!
I totally do the Kleenex thing :/ I blame my parents.
Go ahead and blame the Kleenex corporation too — they didn’t defend their brand!
Great to have another dose of chicken tag, I laughed out loud at your picture on that chicken nugget – simply delicious.
Delicious to look at, right? Not to eat … cuz that is me and Trisha on those nuggets!
OMG I hate the Xmas stuff in October! Right there with you. And I’ve got a goofball smile on my face thinking about that Sedaris segment where he is trying to describe Easter in his broken French. I just knew at that point that this is exactly how I sound when I’m trying to communicate in Polish.
I don’t remember all the details (and I read it … I should listen to him as everyone says his voice and delivery are amazing) and I just recall something about a flying bell.
I can’t stand Christmas stuff going up so early. Ditto about Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Easter, etc. etc. etc.
I’m going to have to check into some of those LOL books!
I just saw all the Valentine’s Day stuff out now. Jeez … give us a second! Who wants chocolate that is bought two months early!
There is one radio station locally that starts playing Christmas music 24 hours a day starting a few weeks before Thanksgiving. I will admit that around the first of November I start flipping over to that channel to see when they’ll start with the holiday tunes. I love them and will listen to them before Christmas with glee (occasionally, not constantly). However, I don’t like it when the stores start playing those tunes that early because then I’m a captive audience, and there is only so much you can take when you can’t turn it off or change the channel. So for me it’s a control issue I guess.
We don’t do our decor until after Thanksgiving though. Um and another confession – I tried to convince my kids to watch a Christmas movie with me today because I forgot to put it in our lineup of shows to watch before the holidays were over. They didn’t go for it.
You’re right … if you WANT to listen to it, you can but you shouldn’t be forced to. It actually puts me in a grumpy mood when I hear it before the actual holiday season.
I think your kids were right on the money. CHristmas is over … hope you remember it next year! HAHA!
We have strong opinions in our household as to when to put up Christmas decor. At minimum the day after Thanksgiving but we generally wait until after hubby’s birthday.
I don’t know what color I would dress in the rest of my life but I know my daughter would say pink. That I would definitely say no to.
I think most little girls would say pink or purple. I’m thinking “all black.” : )
I so agree with you on the Christmas decorations at the mall-please people why do you not put them up with Easter-KK-that is one tramp and if she really is pregnant boy do I pity that child=is she capable of thinking of someone other than herself.
Interesting on the Kleenex-we say it all the time here-I was recently in France and did not know the word for tissue-(I do now)They did not know what a Kleenex was.
OK … not sure what happened in the middle of your comment — did someone take over? Did I miss something??
And funny about Kleenex not being a “French” thing.
Haha, I was thinking that picture of Trisha looked like the one she posted the other day!
Ok so I hear you on the Christmas stuff… we put our lights up the weekend before Thanksgiving this year but not to turn them ON, only because we weren’t going to have any time that following weekend and I wanted to be able to start turning them on around that time. So I don’t feel as ashamed as I thought I might, hahahaha.
I am OK with putting the lights up before Thanksgiving to take advantage of weather … you just can’t turn them ON!
And I’m dying for Trisha to see this photo. I hope she will still posts photos of herself on her blog!!
I am soooo with you on the Christmas stuff!
Good to hear. Together, we can stamp it out.