I received the "we missed you" notice from Canada Post yesterday, which is a joke. I am on leave from work due to health problems and I was most certainly home all day long. Regardless, after my boyfriend came home from work today (he has the only ID with our address on it) we were off to the local post office to retrieve whatever items was awaiting me. I was fairly certain it would be my Secret Santa gift as it isn't quite time for our BarkBox subscription to arrive and all the shipped gifts from friends and family are sent to my parents, not me.

So! We arrived at the post office and waited in line for what seemed like forever. Then the clerk went into the back and out she came with a KnitPicks box. Now I will say I was a bit worried about this exchange. My Santa pulled my information twice and then marked it as shipped on December 1st. I had already been receiving emails from RedditGits requesting I post my thank you as their calculations said I should have received it. But I hadn't. There was also no tracking number so I was real in the dark for what was going on. Had I known it was coming from KnitPicks, I would have had no worries. THEY TAKE FOREVER!

...none of that was a complaint Santa. I work in receiving/operations/shipping/whatever for a company so I'm pretty chill when it comes to shipping and waiting, etc. It was RedditGifts who set me on edge and only in the last 48 hours. :P <3

Anyway! I knew it was my Secret Santa gift as soon as I saw the KnitPicks tape. I haven't purchased anything from them in some time because of how atrocious our poor, poor Canadian Dollar was doing. You basically have to sell your soul to make up the difference in exchange rates. My boyfriend can attest to this but as soon as the box was in my hands I was bouncing like a little kid... on Christmas morning. I am pretty sure I didn't walk out of the store, I bounced and just floated out of the place.

In the car, the box sat in my lap and I complained extensively that we were going grocery shopping first and how I shouldn't open it in the car. It killed me. But as soon as we got home, I enlisted my boyfriend to take photos and I sat on the couch with some scissors ready to go. The grocery would wait to be put away, I had waited long enough.

Thank you, thank you and once more, thank you Santa. I love every item you sent. All the images I've included below are the unboxing. Once the project bag you included warms up, I'll take a photo of the entire spread.

If you pay attention to my Apple Watch, you'll notice different pictures of my two cats. Just a little easter egg for the cat lovers. Also you'll notice I am right handed but I wear my watch on my right wrist. I'm weird.