This was my first year for the Secret Santa exchange. I even convinced my boyfriend to join! I felt a little down as time went on, and my Santa had not pulled my info, But I put my time and effort into my gift shopping for my giftee and making their card, and the card for the card exchange.

Well, my Santa never sent a gift. I spent a lot of time on the SS reddit lookign at all the awesome stories and gifts people got. My boyfriend began to tease me saying I am addicted. I told him "well, I never got anything from my Santa so I am looking at all the awesome gifts people got". He stopped teasing me.

So since nothing was marked as shipped, I got set up for a rematch. I do not hold any anger for my original santa. I tend to believe the best of people. I hope that they are alright and that nothing happened to them. A good number of people in my life have had some set backs abd have gotten some rather bad news lately, so I fully understand and wish them the best.

Well, Redditgifts told me I could post no gift, so I did. Not long after (the next day actually), I got a message saying that my rematch had pulled my information!

I got a message from my rematch santa the other day, saying sorry for the delay, and explaining the circumstances. I really appreciate the fact that she took the time to message me about it! That same day, I got a message that my gift had been shipped! And it showed up today!! Yay!

I had today off, and it came on my day off! What luck! I had been spurred by a fit of madness to try and rearrange and clean my room the other day, I had even lost some sleep because of it. This was underway when my mother got home, and shortly after her return, the doorbell rang.. And I was heading to the door as mom answered it. It was Canada post! I didn't want to get my hopes up, but I asked my mom "is it for me?!" she said it was and I flew down the stairs to take the package from her. I started to open it.. took off the "fragile" sticker. Then realized I had left a huge mess of things to be put back away in the hallway. I told myself that I had to finish things before I opened it, or it would never be finished.

Well, I got it done. Called mom to watch me open it. I unwrapped the packaging to see an adorably wrapped little box, and two notes. One was clearly marked that it contained spoilers! In the other note, Santa described the different ways and reasons I can choose to celebrate the gift. I have decided to make it be something for all three! She mentioned that it could be a Ukrainian Christmas gift (I happen to be half Ukrainian and celebrated this when I was younger), an early Valentines gift from a "secret admirer" OR a gift to celebrate the year of the Goat! I think all three work very well!

I opened that up to see a red box that said "treasures. I opened that up to see a silver object laying on a bed of soft cloth "ITS A DRAGON EGG!!!!!" Well, the egg was on a little stand, and I could see that it opened. Inside was a dragon on a chain!! The little guy is absolutely adorable. Even the egg that he came in is wonderful! In his little claw, he holds a little black crystal, and he is attached to a chain so he can be worn as a necklace.

I read the second note, and learned that Montreal has a HUGE LARP community. I had no idea! I've always been interested in the idea of LARP. She told me that the dragon, egg, stand and even the chain are all HANDMADE! WoW! The boutique is called Dracolite, and has a wide array of medieval items.

She also made a note that if I don't like it, she was willing to exchange it for me! I was shocked by that part. I got a really amazing rematch Santa!

I absolutely LOVE my gift. My parents both agree that it is the most perfect gift someone could get me. I love dragons. My room is full of them. Very full of them. This little guy, I have decided to name him Xenoviar, (Xeno = foreigner, stranger and being from a different province, and a gift from a total stranger, I think it works!) might not join all the dragons on my shelf, as I think I will be wearing him pretty much all the time it is safe to do.

merci beaucoup, Dreya. I absolutely love it!