So during the plushy exchange, I ended up with four cephalopods: http://redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/accidentally-double-dosed-cephalopods/

This is after getting an octopus tee in the shirt exchange: http://redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/professor-octopus/

And a cuttlefish mug in the snack exchange: http://redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/all-my-favorite-things-not-even-my-all/

Imagine my glee when I opened my first Arbitrary Day package (another is on the way, so I hear) and saw another cephy! This time a beautiful handblown glass octopus.

You probably looked at my profile and saw how many octopi (and similar aquatic animals) I've been receiving lately, santa, but there's one thing you couldn't have known: On Saturday, I got an octopus tattooed on my arm.

So.

This is a lot to process.

I think maybe I ought to remove the entire phylum from my profile, but at this point I'm curious to see how many I can acquire.

Thanks for adding to my growing menagerie, santa!