Today I had an awesome early Christmas because my secret santa package arrived! The box was intricately decorated with a bunch of rage faces and even a couple rage comics of my SS' own. Inside the box was an envelope (letter and sticker), a coaster, a mug, and a lab coat.

The first thing I saw when I opened the letter was the Something Corporate sticker. SoCo is my absolute favorite band in the world and Andrew McMahon has been my favorite artist since I was in middle school. I was thrilled to see the sticker, but then I flipped it over and nearly passed out. As I learned as soon as I started breathing again and examined the letter that my secret santa had enclosed, the sticker was signed by the band for my secret santa when he followed them around in the early 2000s. My secret santa is actually the coolest person.

I thought that the coaster was awesome! It's made out of corks and inspired me to make some similar gifts for my friends. The mug is going to make all of my science friends very jealous :D It is a clear glass mug with a green caffeine molecule on it (perfect for me, because I love black coffee!). I'm going to use it every day that I'm home and bring it to my laboratory as soon as I return to college. The lab coat was especially considerate and sweet of my secret santa. The front has a Herpina face on the pocket and my name above the pocket, on the back is the troll face with "problem? yo, I'll solve it DJ Ice-Ice Bergus" in text below it. This is the coolest lab coat I've ever seen and I'm excited to show it off to all the redditors in the building that my lab is in (there are a lot of us).

Both the box with the mug and the coaster were wrapped in rage comics. At closer glance, my secret santa had selected rage comics that I had commented on and comics that I had made to create the rage comic collage that he (presumably, given the hints to a wife in the rage comic my SS made on the box) assembled to wrap my gifts in. This was an especially nice touch on the part of my secret santa. It made me feel like he did a very thorough job stalking me.

You're the best, secret santa! I am very, very thankful to have been paired with you :D You definitely succeeded at this gift exchange. I am the happiest recipient on reddit and I sincerely hope that you received a great gift in return.

By the way, as per the letter enclosed and an email that my SS sent me a week or so ago, I apparently have another gift coming as soon as it gets off of back order from where ever my SS ordered it from. Like I said, best secret santa ever.