So, I want to give a little background first.

I'm a recent Seattle transplant. I've worked at a job since I got here that makes it genuinely really difficult to socialize. I've been lonely, and I've been missing snow, and my friends who actually made me stop disliking the holidays quite so much.

Well, I got it the night the gift came in! Not even an inch of snow and my bus was delayed an hour (for chains, which hey, better safe than sorry). I got home miserable, cold, and lonely.

And then I opened this package.

Now, the other thing here. Those friends I mentioned? Huge nerds. One of our things was that we played a lot of a few particular board games. One of which was Mice and Mystics, which became heavily associated with Christmas time in my head because we bought the game for a friend when it first came out as a gift.

So, when I opened this, with the snow outside coming down (and I was happy about that once I was home), and all, I actually felt a great deal better about life.

I was going to show a few of these painted but I actually haven't had any time to start on them yet! Supplies are almost ready though.