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I’m A Secret Santa

The Engi­neer­ing Depart­ment at ASCO has decided to adopt a needy kid from a list pro­vided by Help­ing Hands through our HR Depart­ment. There were 6 kids on the list given to our com­pany and each child had made out a wish list, plus we were pro­vided with sizes so clothes can be pur­chased too. Yes­ter­day we went to Wally World and bought a pair of sneak­ers and a foot­ball. Today we stopped at a book­store and bought a half dozen mystery/educational books.

I also signed up as a Secret Santa on Road­ster­Chat, a place I do a lot of lurk­ing and very lit­tle post­ing. I went and read up on some of the recent posts by my secret recip­i­ent and I know the place I’m going to shop, but I’m hav­ing a tough time nar­row­ing down just which “gift” to give.

And for those of you who have been naughty and not nice this year, you will really wish you got a lump of coal in your stock­ing instead of this cook­book: Nat­ural Har­vest– A Col­lec­tion of Semen-Based Recipes.

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December 1st, 2008 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

2 comments to I’m A Secret Santa

  • Randy
    Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 8:46 am

    Sev­eral years ago, my first Christ­mas as a sin­gle dad, I got involved in my company’s “Angel Tree”. Even took the kids down to wrap some of the presents. I wanted them to see how some other kids lived.

    My favorite moment was when we deliv­ered the presents. One young boy was help­ing take presents into the house (a local children’s home) when he saw his name on one of the boxes. He looked up at the adult near him with a smile and twin­kle in his eye and said “that’s my name, this one’s for me.”

  • Brian the Red
    Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 10:54 am

    In the past we have adopted a kid from Help­ing Hands through work, done the Sal­va­tion Army Angel Tree in the mall and Samaritan’s Purse Shoe­boxes, but this year decided to only donate food items to the local Food Bank. We started in Octo­ber buy­ing a cou­ple of extra items that were on sale dur­ing our weekly shop­ping trips and have a nice selec­tion of stuff to donate. When my depart­ment elected to adopt a needy child I was ini­tially hes­i­tant, but like another hes­i­tat­ing engi­neer said, “My heart is big­ger than my wal­let.”, so we jumped in.