Christmas is coming!

Well I know, you know its coming but ....its coming!  the Marbardis are coming up to play with us and we might have a house full here as a central place to host folk but we are still working out the arrangements. 

Bluey  is going to work right up to Christmas Eve but I'm off now until late in January!  I've started doing things for the holidays like I've finished my christmas baking..... that's going to the stores buying stuff and putting them into  tupper ware in nice groupings and dropping them in the frezzer only to be discovered in March of next year. Oh I do a Christmas cake... Step One: take the local fundraising cake, this years its the Lions cake, soak a cloth in rum and wrap it up in the cloth and then plastic wrap. Step two: open it up every few days, add more rum and mavel at what genius you are, rewrap. Then when the season is upon us serve up delicious cake that no one around here likes but I find totally delish! And I get lots of it.  What is it about Christmas cake that people really love it or really hate it?

Did I tell you I played Santa at the Neighborhood Centre Volunteers party last Monday and got asked to come back to the Limited Hours Child Care Centre on Wednesday. The Child care is the gig that started the santa business in the first place, but I haven't done it due to health and then they wanted a less confronting image for the little kids so have they have had an Elf do it the past couple of years. I was an old bushy santa with my red and green hawaii loud shirt. my red shorts pulled up to my arm pits with this big black belt across my big belly (no padding needed unfortunately) and black slaps on my feet.  So the director of the center though it might be less confronting.   I had the whole beard hair and hat going as well. I only terrified one child and  a couple others stayed back but some were pretty cool and came right up. Its way fun.  

At the volunteers party I had the same dress but they didn't really have anything for me to do so I greeted folk and had this big empty bag so I sort of did Prednisone Santa and went around collecting purses  and the crackers off tables.  "every year its give give give but this year its all about santa getting something." I thought I was hilarious and some others thought so too but some were still trying to fathom a Santa Clown figure.

We are off to the "The Correct central Queensland city" (Wright-McKay's) for breakfast, then we are all going to see AUSTRALIA the movie at 9:30

Why am I up at 6:00 am blogging? because Floydd was up for his walk at 5:00! I'm getting some good walking and lots of time in the mornings to do things, but I'm beat at night.

more later

Chris