I was pretty excited to get my package for Arbitrary Day 2014. My Santa had messaged me to keep me in the loop, and while I appreciated the message I was also incredibly curious as to what she had in store for me.

So, tonight when I got home and saw a box sitting on my front step I just knew that it had to be from Redditgifts, and I pounced on it pretty quick. I didn't even make it inside before opening it, I was that excited!

There was a nice little note explaining how I should peel the tape, and definitely under no circumstances was I to use a knife to open it.. however, my boyfriend could only watch me struggle to peel off the tape for a couple minutes before he carefully used his little pocket knife to open the box. I was fluttering around, worried that he would wreck whatever was inside.. but, we had success! The box opened, and nothing exploded or broke or was otherwise harmed.

The first thing I saw was a lovely little Domo envelope sitting on a lovely sea of blue tissue paper. However, when I opened the Domo envelope to see what was inside, I was foiled. Turns out the envelope was the note! So, I peeled opened it up and read the lovely note attached. I hope you had as much fun putting this together as I did opening it; this is why these exchanges are AWESOME.

I got a kick out of the wrapping for the two smaller gifts included. I recognized the Sephora logo right away, and laughed out loud at the "Sorry it's not from" put in front of it. I had just made a $120 online Sephora haul, & I was pretty glad that it wasn't from Sephora. The mystery of of the gift was way awesomer.

The first package turned out to be some pretty awesome leather. The note indicated that I should use it in one of my bracelets.. however, I think that I'm going to make a dream catcher instead!

Second package was an assortment of charms for crafting that were human anatomy shaped. I GOT AN ITTY BITTY SILVER RIB CAGE. How cool is that?! AND A LITTLE ANATOMICAL HEART. AND A PELVIS AND LSPINE.

Seriously. Can we just say that again? There was a little pelvis that was connected to a little sacrum and coccyx, that was connected to 5 lumbar vertebrae (plus what I am imagining to be t12, but is where I am to attach it to things). That I can put on something. The little heart has a little aorta that branches off into a little brachiocephalic artery, a little L. common carotid artery and a little L. subclavian artery.

Honestly? I would have been happy with just those. They made my day. I'm trying to figure out how to attach one of them to my work lanyard right now.

Then there was the big gift that was in the crazy blow up packaging. Homemade bitters!! Om nom nom! I love vanilla and coconut.. and while I'm not a huge maple fan (I know, awful Canadian), I'm willing to give my SS the benefit of the doubt here because everything else in this concoction sounds amazeballs. So in a couple weeks I am going to combine this crazy sulfur stuff and this awesome bitters mixture and have the greatest scotch old fashioned's ever.

Who makes homemade bitters!? I didn't know that was a thing. But, I am definitely going to have to jump on the bandwagon now.

And lastly, a small gift for Sherlock. A little magnifying glass so he can search for clues! And search he did, as I made him come outside where the presents were. (Safely on a leash.) He does not often come into the great outdoors, so he was pretty overwhelmed. But I feel like he did a great job searching for arbitrary day goodness.

Thank you for the lovely Arbitrary Day, OrdinaryBird! I absolutely loved it all! And Sherlock says "Thank You" as well!