...My Snacks Santa IS!!!

One of my favorite things about participating in Redditgifts thus far has been talking to my Santa through the North Pole’s Official E-Mailing Service (aka Redditgifts messages). This was the second exchange where my Santa messaged me from the start and seemed like the sweetest person ever, making me feel kid-level excitement awaiting the arrival of my gifts. This is only the second batch of exchanges I’ve participated in, so I felt so lucky to have been able to interact with TWO Santas with this level of kindness!

The first message started out: “Hi Jace! What a nice name! So I thought I would give you my favorite thing that I discovered at - Comic-Con.” Which made my heart so happy. I was thrilled that my Santa was including one of their favorite snack items to make my gift that much more personal, not to mention it was coming from Comic-Con which is plain cool! Santa told me that he would go ahead and mail out aforementioned gift since “the good flavors always get sold out quickly”, and they noted that they make it in an artsy way (appealing to my artistic side.) Lickity split, I had one of the most beautiful (and, later, proving to be as tasty as they are beautiful) fresh, homemade, artisan, and flavored chocolate bars made by Chocolate Moonshine Company. This would’ve been more than a satisfactory gift, but my Santa decided to treat me like I was on the Ellen show and go above and beyond with my gift. Now buckle in because things get WILD from here.

Today, I got a message from Santa saying that their elves told them my package was delivered. I ran down the stairs like a maniac and there it is on my front steps! I took a look at the pretty Minnie Mouse duct tape and finally noticed the sender information, which seems oddly familiar to me. So I think to myself, “surely I didn’t get matched with someone I had sent a gift to??” I started going through my online receipts and can’t find anything, but then I remember the card my Bookmarks Santa sent me. I remembered the last names looked similar and had the same first initial, so I hunt it down, and sure enough the names match! My face full on looked like the Pikachu meme! It was such a coincidence. I opened the box and was in absolute awe, Pikachu face still in-tact!

Santa got me all of my favorite snacks! I got fancy sugar cookies, which was remembered to be one of my favorites from the past exchange, that had cute snack drawings made of icing on them including one with stars and constellations on it and another that had a magic wand on it. I got Harry Potter jelly beans, HP chocolate frogs, HP jelly slugs, and a chocolate version of my favorite HP character’s wand. All things that my Santa pulled from my bio/interests. I got tons of beef jerky with flavors I haven’t tried before, gummy candy (my favorite), more chocolates, more gummy candy, nuts (both my Santa and I seem to enjoy these), and even a mini package of Easter goodies. Plenty of sweet to balance out my salty! To top things off my Santa sent me a Green Lantern poster SIGNED BY RYAN REYNOLDS. Two things I love very much in this world haha. How he was able to let that go, I will never know, but I am eternally thankful.

You really did overdo it, in both exchanges, but I am beyond grateful! You, Santa, will foverver hold a special place in my heart! Thank you, AGAIN, for a great gift and a fun exchange!