My cat fails to understand the importance of reddit. He's trying to sit in my lap as I type this (or maybe he wants to thank Santa for his gift). I've seen a lot of gifts posted where the giftee has been having a shitty time and... I can sympathize. I crashed hard back into depression and anxiety around Thanksgiving and being able to shop for my own giftee and put together a gift package for them really helped.

I dragged myself out of bed this afternoon to play some FFXIV:A Realm Reborn before work and as I was about to log in my phone buzzed. Ooo! Text message from USPS. I have a package in one of the parcel lockers. So into the chilly Central Ohio air I go. There's some kinda thing from UPS, one of those envelopes where you have to tear open three sides on a perforated line. Eh? Go away UPS. Ah! There it is. Parcel locker key. Ooooo. Box!

Back inside I go. Move the OSU blanket from my ottoman (the cat likes to sleep there under it) and I plop the package down there. Inside are four neatly wrapped little packages, one of which is for my cat Edmund! He seemed to know this because he was peering up over the ottoman. Naturally I opened that up first, it was a package of Christmas themed cat toys; two shiny crinkly paper balls, another ball with a bell inside, a gingerbread man, and a gingerbread woman! CUTE! I tossed them to him one by one and he went nuts.

He must've rolled around on the floor for like fifteen minutes batting wildly at the gingerbread man before nudging and chasing the shinies around the floor (the ball with the rattle-bell thing inside is now laying in his favorite spot under the tree).

With the cat sated I move on to the other gifts! I opened the skinny one first. Inside was a license plate frame that says "My other ride is the Millennium Falcon" XD Haha! I <3 it. Definitely gonna put it on my car before I leave for work. It will add an extra geeky touch to my Superman plates! Also included was an R2-D2 lanyard which is going to come in handy because since I work night shift and we wear t-shirts on night shift I don't really have a reliable place to clip my badge; which I have to have handy to swipe to open doors. Well guess what? I won't have to bunch up a section of my t-shirt and clip it there any longer!

The next package I opened was the rectangular-square-ish one. An R2-D2 ornament! (I listed him as one of my favorite characters!) Santa has no idea how well he hit a home run on this one. I have a science fiction/fantasy themed Christmas tree (with a lit up Yoda on top) and a Star Wars tree skirt a coworker made me. I had to get a new tree this year because I moved and the old one just wasn't going to survive the move. I lost some of my ornaments too so it was feeling a bit barren compared to last year. Well now there's a spot that looks a lot less lonely!

The last package I opened contained two neat-o LEGO Star Wars magnets! I've never seen these before. One is Obi-wan from the original trilogy complete with lightsaber and the other is Han Solo with his trusty blaster. THEY. ARE. MAGNETS! I didn't put it in my likes/dislikes but I love LEGO. (Given the amount of stuff I listed that I was interested in I didn't want to overload Santa, plus I always get funny looks from people when I mention I still like LEGO.) These are going straight onto my fridge to protect my Pepsi from the Galactic Empire! :D

Santa, I hope I got your reddit username right. If not leave me a message and I'll correct it, the label on the package was a little bit scuffed up from transport and it kinda marred your username. Thank you for the gifts. :) I listed that I was most passionate about Star Wars and you were on point! I hope you have a wonderful, amazing Christmas.