So I was really excited to get my gift in the mail the other day. I've participated in exchanges before, but this was my very first arbitrary day exchange.

So I'm deathly allergic to both bees and penicillin, to the point where I have a medical alert tattoo for it just in case I'm in an accident, or if I get stung while no one is around. It just says, Penicillin and Bees with a caduceus in the middle. I jokingly told OP I'm good with anything except for a jar of bees covered in Penicillin.

So my Santa sent me a Jar of Bees!!!!!

Haha but it was a jar of Burts Bees stuff, so it was OK :) I had a pretty good laugh with the BF about it.

I opened all my gifts with my cats, which is a good thing because they had a gift too! They got some fancy grain free treats and a compressed catnip ball candy toy. Francois was all about the treats, and she's kinda picky. Fatty Nicodeamus eats anything so they went over well. Francois was meh on the toy, but my chubs Nicodeamus was pretty excited about it.

I also got the newest SAGA which I love! Its one of my favorite series right now. Lying Cat forever.

I also got some really delicious smelling coffee, I made it this morning in my french press and it was heavenly. I don't have a lot of fancy things, but coffee is my one luxury I let myself go crazy with. It was a really thoughtful inclusion.

My santa also had a spare rubber ducky from her exchange and so now I have a really awesome cat rubber ducky! I should put it in our bathroom with our toy dolphin. (The BF hates all dolphins, he has been convinced by the internet that they have rape caves. Now he hates the Ocean on principle. Really we live in Montana, when is he going to ever meet a dolphin I ask? His sister has me hide dolphin stuff in the house for him to find, he hates it. He drunkenly confessed his hate of dolphins on Christmas, now he gets dolphin stuff all the time.)

I work as an artist and I've been thinking about switching to clutch pencils for drawing. My Santa saw that and sent me some leads to try out as well. I've got some stuff to draw for a printmaking project, I will have to break them in!

Santa you are awesome! Thanks so much for my gifts! Nicodeamus and Francois love their gifts as well!

It even snowed today, like it was Christmas in June. I added a photo for proof. Or just look at the Montana reddit. Butte got snow this morning. :)