It all started on Tuesday, December 9th. I received a message through RedditGifts asking if I had transportation to get to an unspecified location on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday morning. I cautiously replied that I had been sick so I couldn't guarantee it, but I should be able to. My amazing santa said he was a nurse and gave all sorts of suggestions to help get me better asap and told me he'd send an address for me to go to Saturday morning.

Well, on Friday night, I received a package from /u/Stefer that was full of amazing goodies - two of his favorite condiments that are locally made in West Virginia and an amazing book, The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, which is right up my alley. Had this been his entire gift, I would have been thrilled. The package also contained a note about the gifts in the box and another note saying this was one of three parts. What? Three parts? This is ridiculous!

Well, the next morning I received a message with an address to a popular part of town telling me to ask for Sarah. I decided to not google it because worst case scenario I could nope out of there and go to any one of dozen of great places in the area for food or gift shopping. Well, turns out the address was to the Back to Eden cafe and bakery that I had been meaning to try out, I just hadn't found the time to go. I walked in and spoke with Sarah as instructed and she so excited that I was Nae. She started telling me how wonderful /u/Stefer was, how great he was to talk with on the phone, and how awesome of a program RedditGifts is while pulling out a huge box then tells me to pick out a dozen cupcakes! Do you know the best thing ever after you've been sick for a week? Cupcakes. Cupcakes make everything better. After we had picked out all of the cupcakes, she told me there was another part of the gift - /u/Stefer had also given me a $20 gift card! I was so shocked at this generosity–thank you again so much. I had a bowl of biscuits and mushroom sage gravy, but instead of biscuits, I ordered a garlic-herb roll and it was absolutely incredible. Seriously, if you're in the Portland area, get over to Back to Eden and get a bowl of biscuits and gravy. You will not be disappointed.

At this point, I responded back and told him how wonderful everything was and how great the cupcakes are and how fun of an adventure it was and thank you for all three parts of the gift. He then responded back saying that actually there was still another part coming in the mail because he wanted to add in a practical gift too. What? You've done so much! What's more practical than cupcakes, brunch, pumpkin and apple butters, and an amazing guide to making travel more interesting?!

/u/stefer knows what's more practical. I recently started a new job and my desk is empty. I had mentioned in my likes/dislikes that I was looking for some cute stuff to put on my desk to make it more my own, including looking for a mug. Early this week, my boyfriend texted me that a package had come in from 'somewhere really amazing' addressed to /u/nae42. When I got home, I saw it was from "The Pokemon Center" and squealed. I'm not really proud of that, but this was my reaction. I opened the box up and found the cutest Pikachu mug I've ever seen - and I just got back from Japan. It has a winking face on one side and a smiling face on the other and is just absolutely ridiculously cute. My coworkers are already jealous and I am so incredibly grateful.

I seriously can't say thank you enough. Let me just recap what my santa did for me for a second: gave advice on getting over the flu, two amazing fruit butters, an excellent travel guide that isn't even available in print, a dozen cupcakes, brunch, and an adorable mug. Had any one piece of this been your entire gift it would have been perfect, but you went so far above and beyond. Thank you so much, /u/stefer, from the bottom of my heart.