I am blown away. Absolutely, completely blown away by the generosity of my Santa. This week has been an incredibly bad week for me, and this package and how thoughtful and playful it is made me smile when I thought it would have been impossible to get me to do so. Thank you so much, not just for the awesome gifts, but for giving me something positive for this week.

And the gifts are indeed awesome. Check it out:

Upon opening the very heavy box, I discover a note and a ton of Swedish Fish (the only kind I can eat since I'm allergic to all other kinds of seafood). An ominous black envelope contained both a way to communicate with the spirit world and a lovely note from my Santa. It took a while to dig down and during the process I came across some gold (chocolate) coins and a couple of bugs with glow sticks in them to make them light up, but I persevered.

The first package appeared, wrapped in orange. I braved the spiders and witches to find a beautiful set of colored pencils. I've taken up meditative coloring recently, and while I have a great set of markers, I didn't yet have pencils. So this is great!

Relieved that the first package contained no tricks, I carried on to package number two, a black parcel labeled poison. I made sure not to eat it. Instead, inside I found a pirate coloring book! To use with my new colored pencils! Yar!

My pirate-inspired courage led me to the next package, which was nestled in even more Swedish Fish, chocolate coins, and I noticed some salt water taffy sticking out. I tore past the ghosts and pumpkins to get to my gift, a copy of the board/card game Coup! I'm planning a board game night with some friends in a week or so and this will absolutely make an appearance.

I took a small breather to calm down from all the excitement and then looked down into the box... to see a HUGE pile of candy. I could barely dig down to the bottom of the box. No wonder this thing was so heavy. I swore to myself I would not make myself sick eating this all, so I shared two Swedish Fish with my coworkers. Now I can eat the rest and I won't have eaten it all. Ha! Take that, rules about being an adult!

In all seriousness, thank you again for being a great Santa.