I was woken up at 9am on a day off by someone ringing my door bell.. Ugh, who does that?! Oh, mail lady. That's a fairly big package for me.. could it be... YESYESYES! My Secret Santa present finally arrived all the way from Reno, NV in the States! Sweet :D

It's somewhat heavy and I can hear what sounds like glass rattling from the inside, I hope I didn't break anything in my excitement.

I appear to have opened it in the right end, as I see two pieces of paper with text written on it, and from the first few glances at the stuff inside, I can already see that this is going to be an awesome package!

The letter was a description of the stuff inside and read as follows: "rpbtz, Happy fucking December 25th. I hope you enjoy all this stuff. Let me know if the shark is as cool as it looked in the store [spoiler: it is]. It was all I could do not open it up and try it out.

Rebelstar reminded me of that Final Fantasy Tactics game - enjoy.

The xx - Coexist is easily one of my favorite albums. Perfect for drinking a glass of scotch to.

LEGOs - You love them, don't even try to pretend you don't.

Yahtzee - My go-to game. I'm not sure about the 'steal the deal' bullshit, but Yahtzee kicks ass.

Cards - Learn how to play spades, and then come to Nevada and play with me.

Shot glass - It's all we do in Reno.

Nerf gun - If you can't have fun with a Nerf gun, you suck.

Love, Jawshua"

Holy shit. So much stuff. My slow woken-up-on-my-day-off-morning was definitely saved!

So where to start? The shark IS awesome. There are some sensors on the side of it that activates it on contact - including contact with water. I included a video of it swimming, it's really quite brilliant. I kinda wish I had a tub, so I could swim around with it, but oh well, maybe when I get rich someday :)

I really like Final Fantasy Tactics, and it's really awesome to see that my SS paid attention to my interests. Unfortunately it's a GameBoy Advance game and I was never fortunate enough to have that system. My brother had 2, though, so if I'm lucky he might still have one of them left for me to borrow.

I was extremely pleased to see the Coexist cd. I've heard the album on several occasions, but never gotten around to actually buying it. As I'm a huge music fan with close to 2000 cds and over 600 vinyl records, it's a job quite well done to find something that I don't already have - kudos! Coexist is easily one of the best albums from 2012 and I'm looking forward to drinking a good scotch while listening to it :)

LEGOs. LEGO were my entire childhood. I played with that until well up in my teens, and I still enjoy building stuff and creating worlds and scenarios with them. Fun fact - LEGO is a Danish invention and company, so well chosen :) I might do a race between the Ford toy car also included and the LEGO police car later ;)

The Yahtzee, the cards and the D20 were pleasant surprises as well. Proper Nevada-stuff, that'll definitely please my inner gambler. I'll admit I'm not much of a card player - but I'll make an attempt to learn Spades! And if I'm ever in Nevada - you're on! I can only agree with you on Yahtzee - it's a brilliant game, and I've spent countless hours playing against family, friends and an AI on an old MS DOS version I have on my pc.

You hit the nail right on the head with the shot glass. I have this weird stomach condition, that makes me unable to drink anything with bubbles or fizzyness in it (beer, soda, etc.), so I'm all for hard liquor. And my drink of choice on a night out? Shots. Shots all the way. Spot on, my friend!

For the Nerf gun - fucking awesome! I always wanted one when I was a kid, but never got one! I feel like I'm 10 again! It's also perfect, because me and my gf are considering getting a cat, and a gun like this is perfect when it's misbehaving, then we can just shoot it in the head and.. jkjk. But seriously, that "laser sight" on the gun will probably result in hours of hilarity with the cat :)

Then there's the chalk. Perfect for making inappropriate (and easily removable) graffiti in my building! Also my gf is quite creative, so I'm sure she can work her magic with this :)

All in all - Holy shit, dude - you're awesome. Thank you so much for making this Secret Santa exchange better than I could've possibly imagined. I hope your gift will be equally badass, cause you deserve it. Thanks! :)

CLOSING REMARKS: I may or may not have ranted a teensy bit on /r/secretsanta about the present not being sent on time. I apologize - that was impatient and not really okay. I'm aware that everyone's busy this time of year. Sorry!