I'm speechless, Actually, factually speechless. I... ok, you can't see it, but my mouth is silently gaping up and down, like the koi on the shirt I received from my tshirt Santa.

I'd given up on ever getting a gift from my original Book Santa, and I was ok with that. Things happen. NBD. I didn't even know I'd been rematched, til the postman just banged on the door (scaring the crap out of me, I was halfway into getting ready for roller derby practice!) and dropped off the package from Amazon.

The note on the package didn't even make sense - "books on here"? Do you want to trade me for books off of my wishlist or something? IDGI.

Then I noticed that the package had a particular... slant... to it. (No pictures of that, sorry. I got excited and promptly tore off the giftwrap like an 8 year old on their birthday.)

It wasn't. There's no way. I never get uber-Santa gifts.

OH HOLY CRAP IT TOTALLY IS NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY.

My rematch Santa got me a Kindle.

MY REMATCH SANTA GOT ME A KINDLE.

::dies::

I seriously don't have words, brewtality. I am speechless and thankful and amazed and SO FREAKING EXCITED TO READ ALL THE THINGS IN ALL THE PLACES.

I'd actually just been talking with my best friend, not even 3 hours ago, about how one of the (many) short stories I want to read was available for free on Kindle today. I downloaded it, to save for a rainy day (sure, I could read it on my Kindle app on my phone, but I never do that), just in case I ever had the cash burning a hole in my pocket to pick up a Kindle, but not really, y'know, banking on it.

Then this. And y'know what? IT IS ACTUALLY RAINING. IN COLORADO. (Colorado gets 300+ days of sunshine a year, and when liquid precipitation falls out of the sky, everyone gets confused and scared. Seriously.)

TODAY IS MY RAINY DAY.

Today I plug my Kindle in to charge, go to roller derby practice, then come home, take a shower, EAT A PIZZA (passover ends at sunset - everything's coming up Milhouse!), and DOWNLOAD THINGS TO MY KINDLE AND READ FOREVER. FOREVER, I SAY.

ETA: OMFG and then I plugged it in and it's a PAPERWHITE, not just the regular Kindle. I AM TRYING NOT TO SHOUT BUT IT IS REALLY REALLY HARD.

ETA2: I was so excited to play with it that I almost forgot to put on pants when I went to leave for practice.

ETA3: I just realized that now I can buy e-subscriptions to all the tiny scifi lit mags I could never afford paper subscriptions to. And I did a little happy dance all over again.

ETA4: A few days later, I opened my email to find 5 shiny ebooks for my new kindle. Santa, you have spoiled me. I promise I'll try to be as good to my future giftees as you've been to me.