NEXT !!

 

I don't know what happened, I really don't, but when Independent Living called and asked if I was going to be the Santa this year and I said that I would I took special note of the fact that it was the 19th of December, I think to myself that this is really kind of late for that particular function but that's okay. Somewhere between then and today I got it in my mind that it was the 20th of December so I was really quite surprised this morning when I was relaxing at the beginning of the coffee social and one of the people who used to work at the Independent Living Center told me that or ask me if I was going to the independent living holiday function and was I going to be the Santa today!TODAY!! I did a quick check of my calendar on my cell phone sure enough I even had it written in the calendar that today I was Santa at the Independent Living Center unbelievable it was 9:30 and I had 11:00 has to be when I had to be there. I couldn't quite remember if that was when I was supposed to be there or what I supposed to go on a Santa either way I was flummoxed and moved everything into high gear. I ate my cookies from the coffee social headed down the apartment through one of my warm ponchos on and basically took off to bus stop. The fastest route would be to take the 47 into the Murray station then transfer to the 200 northbound going towards Salt Lake and get off around 3,500 South and travel directly west when I would run into the Independent Living Center.

I did it! I got to the center about 2 minutes after 11:00. I was well within the time that I needed to be there cuz I don't even think I did the Santa thing until like 1 p.m.. the bill Affair this year was spaghetti and salad which they were just putting together as I got there and visited with a lot of the staff as well as the new director and the interim director. It's great to be a rockstar if he wants in a while and even though there was another Santa that was there as part of a play production they were putting on I was the real thing as far as the person to get your picture taken with no short efforts of myself as much as with the Magnificent efforts of my buddy Kim who basically dresses beans puts the beard on and make sure I look fairly presentable lot of Hands-On stuff. It worked I came roaring out of the bathroom where they changed me into Santa yelling merry Christmas as loud as I could right after the last verse of Santa Claus is Coming to Town - - of course. It's a tedious job. They give me a bag of goodies usually cookies of one sort or another or candies or bags of such that I hand out to people as they come in dutifully sit to one side or another and have their picture taken with me. I try to keep the people moving answer a few questions make a few rash Promises of what they'll be getting for Christmas and then send them on their way takes about an hour I think to go through as many people as show up to this function. Most of them are people who are developmentally disabled who really still believe in the beauty and sanctity and magic of Christmas I try to keep that going as well as passing out the treat and sending them on their way next!