My Arbitrary Day started off like any other - a retrieval of my match (who had a detailed profile - yay!) and an e-mail informing me that my match had looked at my profile as well. Soon after I received a message from my santa asking for more details. At that point I felt like I had already received my gift because I don't get many messages in these exchanges, let alone ones asking for more detail.

Shortly following our messages, my santa started showing my gifts as shipped. I logged in and saw two shipped... then three... then four. I couldn't believe it. FOUR Arbitrary Day gifts?? Then guess what I got? ANOTHER message, with INSTRUCTIONS. Truly a first for me - instructions for what to do/what order to open. AHH.

A few days later packages started arriving and taunting me, as I knew I had to wait for them all to arrive so that I could follow the instructions correctly. There was a shipping snafu on the last package, but my santa promptly fixed it and gave me permission to open the packages that had been sitting.

From here my memory is a blur because I CANNOT BELIEVE how incredibly awesome and generous my santa was to me. After opening the first box I was speechless, and I can hardly remember anything from that time period. So while I can't give a play by play, I can certainly describe each item:

CHALK and WATER BALLOONS for the camp I volunteer at during the summer! These gifts would have certainly been enough, because camp means a lot to me and my santa sent a ton of chalk and awesome water balloons.

DEAD OF WINTER(!!) - a board game I have been seeing all over the board games subreddit but hadn't gotten yet because it is constantly out of stock. This is just... I don't know. Was not expecting this at all.

TWO SAMSONITE ROLLER LUGGAGE PIECES. Did you read the beginning of that statement? TWO. TWOOOO. What?? I mentioned that I would love a discount card or coupon to get new luggage as I travel for work quite a bit and my carry-on was broken and taped up and what did my santa do? Find two pieces of awesome awesome awesome luggage in my favorite color(!), one hard shell and one in a soft case.

I am truly speechless (reading this you can't tell, but seriously) at the generosity and sheer greatness of my santa. You always see the gallery posts of people who get santas who go above and beyond, and I never expected that one day it would be ME posting about all of the incredible stuff I've gotten.

THANK YOU Santa. Thank you so so so so much.