• only wears red, plaid, white, black and brown
• shortens his beard in the summer, but hasn't shaved in 30 years
• is overweight in a teddy-bear kind of way
• wakes up early to feed the reindeer
• cooks delicious spaghetti sauce
• makes breakfast-in-bed for mother Christmas every now and then
• goes to Brazil for New Year's
• loves aviator sunglasses
• won't admit he likes Elton John, Paul McCartney and John Lennon
• jives surprisingly well
• can call birds
• prefers bow-ties
• isn't cranky. except when mother Christmas makes salad for lunch.
• vents his frustrations by painting his sleigh
• knows mother Christmas knits yellow socks when she's sad, and reads The Chronicles of Narnia when she's extra sad
• knows mother Christmas needs him to take her ice-skate to make her happy again
• can't ice-skate to save his life
• loves apple cinnamon tea
• sings all the time, Christmas classics and 70's pop
• builds quirky snowmen with elves on their breaks
• ices his gingerbread people to look like John and Yoko (he can't help it)
• paints his locomotives to look like the Hogwarts Express when he's sad, and bakes peanut butter cookies when he's extra sad
• is happy when mother Christmas plays La fille aux cheveux de lin on the piano
• would be a math teacher if he wasn't santa

words and ideas are mine, please respect.

image: ~Leesa