I honestly got matched with the best Secret Santa EVER! I felt SO incredibly special. This person is so wonderful and thoughtful.

She started out a few weeks early by giving me reddit gold, which was fun and unexpected! I'd always wondered what reddit gold got you. Now I know :). So far I've used it to get a free ride with Lyft! Super helpful.

When I received my gift it was in a huuuuuuge box full of packing peanuts. On the top there was a really nice note from my Santa which gave me some direction. She told me to open the box marked "1" first... Interesting! So, I opened the box marked "1" and there was a Lego USB. (She knew from my bio that I used to live in Denmark, and Legos are from Denmark! The first of many creative and thoughtful details.) There was a note with the USB saying "plug me in and watch the video!" So I did! It was a video from my Santa on the box introducing herself, wishing me a Merry Christmas, and talking about how much fun she had making all my gifts! Also on the USB were some pictures of her making my gifts, then a bunch of really high quality movies that I LOVE like Pitch Perfect and Crazy Stupid Love (I had mentioned how much I love movies).

So after that I really dig in! There was such a pretty and crafty card made by her mom, and there were a ton of boxes that were all wrapped beeeaaautifully with really cool paper and nice bows. Even the boxes underneath the wrapping paper were pretty! Some she decorated by hand and put funny notes on (funny notes inside, too).

For one of my gifts she got me nickel-free post earrings which are SO cute! I had said how much I liked post earrings but that I was allergic to nickel. So sweet of her! I'm wearing some as I write this. I'd said I loved to be warm and she MADE me a tie blanket in my favorite colors and bought me super warm slipper. I was so amazed by this- especially by the tie blanket. My mom makes tie blankets (weird coincidence) and those take so much time and effort, so I was super touched.. For yet another gift, she bought me fantastic personalized stationary. It has my name and address on it and everything! I'd said how much I like to write my friends, do stationary was a perfect gift. I will definitely be using it to write everyone letters! From my reddit history she'd picked up on the facts that I liked videogames. She PMed me asking my favorite characters and she made me some little figurines of them...so cute!

This gift honestly blew me away. SO much time, money, thought, and effort went into each and every thing. I was so touched. I literally cried, then called my mom, then posted about it on my Facebook (lotsa likes!), then texted all my friends. This is a woman who obviously has SUCH a big heart and a ton of Christmas spirit. I went into this expecting nothing (except for to have fun, of course, and give a little bit!) and I ended up in happy tears. I am super grateful to my Santa for making me feel so special and making this Christmas so fabulous!

Thanks, Santa!