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TinaNoir
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I love great books, good food, House music, creative profanity, and a well tailored suit.
Last year we had guests and I cooked and I had to juggle so many dietary preferences. It was a LOT. This year, we decided to be lowkey. It'll just be my husband, and my sons this year. Open our gifts and we'll go out to dinner.
18. What are you planning to do this Christmas?
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I don;t get into it like I used to when I was younger, but the snow, lights in the neighborhood, and the music.
17. How do you get into the Christmas spirit?
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A guy I was dating gave me a key to his apartment.

He gave me the key like a) I had been asking for it (I had no desire) and b) like it was a ring (thank goodness it wasn't that either). And he made a whole damn production out of it.

Like, sir, we are not in it for the long haul!
16. What is the worst Christmas gift you've ever received?
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My husband was always complaining he never had time to go to the gym, so I got him a home gym -- weight bench, weights, battle ropes, pull up station, mats, plyometric blocks, treadmill

to be fair... the treadmill was for me...
15. What is the best Christmas gift you've ever given?
December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
As a kid... I got a Barbie styling head and everything to go with it. And a real electric typewriter.

As an adult, my husband surprised me with heated leather seats and an auto starter/warmer for my car.
14. What is the best Christmas gift you've ever received?
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Christmas in NYC is wonderful.
13. What is your dream holiday vacation?
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
All the cookies....
12. What is your favorite thing to eat during the holidays?
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Die Hard
Home Alone
Almost Christmas
Santa Clause is Coming to Town
It's a Wonderful Life
11. What is your favorite Christmas movie?
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Any version of Carol of the Bells. I have a playlist somewhere with every version I could find.

Yolanda Adams' Carol of the Bells/What Child is this is my favorite version.
10. What is your favorite Christmas song?
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Real.
9. Real or fake Christmas tree?
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
One year all the cousins (there were about 9 of us at the time) stayed Xmas eve at my grandparents house while our parents went out. We had a big slumber party and when we got up, under the Xmas tree was was bursting with stuff. We all opened our gifts and my grandad made us pancakes.
8. What is your favorite Christmas memory?
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I have been pretty privileged to have been able to get what I wanted.
7. What is something that you've wanted for Christmas as a kid but never gotten?
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Yes. But they figured it out.
6. Parents, do you let your kids believe in Santa?
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Hmmm.... I don't remember. I wanna say about 7?
5. How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real?
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yes. My childhood memories of the Holidays were like what you see on tv. The house was decorated to the max, watched all the Rankin/Bass shows, music, food and family everywhere...
4. Did you celebrate the holidays as a child?
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My son, who went across the country for school, will be home for a week. We didn't think he'd want to fly back this first year but he is making it happen!
3. What is something that you are looking forward to this month?
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The commercialization of it.
2. What is your least favorite thing about the holidays?
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Family getting together
1. What is your favorite thing about the holidays?
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
In no particular order
The Expanse
Eureka
Fringe
Firefly
4400
Orphan Black
Misfits (first 3 seasons only)
Killjoys
Dark Matter
Orphan Black
Flash Forward
Battlestar Galactica
Jimmy Neutron
Okay Sci-Fi TV folks … give me some of your all time favorites!

A few of mine

Killjoys
Firefly
Fringe
Sense8
Battlestar Galactica
Continuum
Terranova
Dark Matter
Lost Girl
The Expanse
Defiance
Falling Skies
12 Monkeys
The 100 (minus Clarke. Fuck Clarke)
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just finished Turns of Fate, the first book in the Isle of Wyrd series by Anne Bishop.

Can't remember the last time I got so immersed in a book I had to force myself to stop reading and pace myself.

I loved her 'The Others' series and this reminded me a little of that series.

#Booksksy
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Oh, why am I so invested in these strangers' happiness? Good for them!

And I especially love this because there has been a lot of men out here speaking tomfoolery about her and him and now she is effortlessly demonstrating not only is she a baddie, she is a multi-dimensional one.
Megan Thee Stallion made Thanksgiving dinner for her man Klay Thompson and his family 🦃🍗🧀🫘🍰
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I admit I do judge celebrities based on their Spirit Tunnel moves on the Jennifer Hudson show.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Leslie stuff on #BeyondTheGates is so frustrating. Why create a powerful black family like the Duprees and have them crumble like a dry cookie in the face of Leslie's schemes? And then turn around and reward her?

I get the actress is fun to watch but there needs to be consequences.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
House,
R&B,
Hip-Hop,
Funk,
Old skool Gospel
1. What type of music do you like to listen to?
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just finished The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews.

ARGH! So good. This writing team writes exactly to my happy place. Now I sit impatiently and wait for the next one. I am so invested in Ada (and Bear!) and what she will do next.

#Booksky
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM