...and it seriously exceeded my lack of expectations! A "Colors" theme can be very broad and I wasn't sure how my particular Santa would choose to interpret it.

I just finished typing up my post for the 300 exchange and I talked about how I really love three things in life: going on adventures, chocolate, and reading. I actually think that I have to add a fourth thing and that would be socks.

I'm going to go off on a small tangent here.

Last summer I did a really long hike. I spent several months beforehand thinking about it and planning it and collecting gear for it. Necessary gear includes several pairs of shoes and even more pairs of socks. I collected pairs of socks for months. No sock sale went unnoticed by me. One night I was actually laying in bed browsing around on my phone and I saw posted somewhere that the Running Warehouse was having a 25% off sale that ended at midnight. I jumped up out of bed at 11:45 PM and got on to my computer to order a couple pairs of shoes and several pairs of socks. I tell you this (admittedly very boring) story to illustrate how strongly I feel about having plenty of socks around.

Sadly, my favorite socks are also kind of expensive (compared to the 6 pack that you can buy for like $12 at Costco) and so I don't splurge very often. Here's where my Santa comes in. My Santa got me not only my favorite brand of socks but also socks in my favorite color. Perfect choice. Like completely perfect.

The second way my Santa chose to apply the Colors theme is by sending me a Kindle book that has a brightly colored cover, which I think is a brilliant interpretation! I haven't started reading the book yet, but it sounds great and - even better - I've never heard of either the book or the author so I will be exposed to something completely new! Sorry for the bad picture of it...when I opened it the pretty color went away so I had to do a screenshot of it on the Kindle bookshelf.

Thank you so much Santa, you did a splendid job!