First day of this year's Secret Santa exchange, I was happy to see my Santa had pulled my information, it was nearly the same time I pulled my own giftee's info. But the next time I looked they had already marked the gift as shipped!!! Holy Secret Santa Fast Snoo-Man! What could it be?

At first the seconds seemed to drag by at a snails pace, then the minutes and the hours soon followed. Then my wife hit me in the head with an empty paper towel roll and reminded me that it's the same day it shipped so it cant be here yet. Hard to fault that logic, so I resigned myself to wait. The next day came and the same scenario unfolded in much the same way except that my wife now had a thicker, more sturdy empty wrapping paper roll to bonk me upside the head with. (Ow)

Day after day I waited, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the postman, or the UPS delivery, or Fedex, or heck , even a kid on a skateboard! As the days went by and the welt on my head grew larger I hoped that my package had not been intercepted by evil doers.

Alas today as I greeted my postman, apparently I'm creeping him out now, a box arrived from Powell's. That's odd, I have not ordered anything from Powell's recently. OH MY GAWD! It's Addressed to TOPVEK!!! THATS ME!!!!!!!!! I almost hugged the postman, but didn't as I could see the mace on his belt, so instead I politely thanked him and turned, ran into the closed door, and then opened it and ran inside. (ow)

Must get the camera! Where is the camera? Argh!!!!!! Oh there's the camera. Right where it's supposed to be. Must... Document... This...

The box was hastily opened. and inside was.... Green paper! Yes!!!!! Wait, was that on my list of likes? (shrug) Oh! it's packing paper, what's underneath the paper? Great Googly Moogly! BOOKS!!! And several of them! My Santa Knocked it out of the park!!!! Thank you so much. I can't wait to read them, but sadly I've got to run to work now. ARGH!!!!! Will begin reading them tonight when I get back!!!!! But first, must hide the wrapping paper roll.