So I've been going rough a pretty rough time these past couple of months with school and work. Everything has been extremely stressful and I've barely had any time on my hands and when I do have time I'm usually collapsed in my bed or stressing about the next day

Because of all of this I figured that I would participate in the reddit secret santa. I thought it would help me take my mind off of everything and give me something fun and "holiday spirity" to do.

Well that decision has definitely started to pay off! I woke up this morning to an e-mail from my secret santa for a twenty five dollar chipotle gift card. I mentioned that I liked tacos in my profile and my santa was cool enough to see what kinda Mexican joints I had in my area. I don't know if he/she is a mind reader, but I LOVE chipotle!

This brightened my day and put tacos in my mouth for lunch today. NOMNOMNOM! The rest of the was long and stressful, but I was able to get through it because of this tiny gesture.

When I finally got home I was confronted with a brown package from UPS. I knew right away it was from my santa, and that instantly put a smile on my face. I opened the box to find three nicely wrapped packages. The first one contained a package of colored pigma micron pens. I knew right away where the other two gifts were headed and I was totally loving it.The next two packages contained a book of comic book layout pages and comic/manga sketchbook. I love comics/manga and I love to draw so I was super stoked and super touched.

With all of the stress I've been getting from work and school these past couple of months I haven't had much time to practice my hobby, which is art and drawing. These gifts have managed to take a load of that stress off my back and have helped to remind me what it is I truly love to do with my time. Drawing and creating beautiful fantasy worlds and characters!

I can't wait to break these in! Thank you betz4444!