My Santa this year was amazing. Right from the beginning, I had little teaser messages about part of my present - something she was making for me. I can't tell you how exciting that was. As someone who utterly fails at being crafty, I've always been jealous of the people who got super creative Santas. So I was thrilled to know I was getting something special - and that was just part of my gift.

Santa got me a little bit of everything - movies (The Muppets, Life of Pi, Clerks II), a book (Dearly Devoted Dexter), a How to Train Your Dragon hat, toys (Mordin action figure, Stitch plushie), a handmade gift, and a mix CD. Everything was awesome. Some things were chosen from my wishlist, and Santa picked a couple other things to add in and she picked some really great stuff. I've never read any of the Dexter books, so I'm excited to get started on that - and I've heard Life of Pi is a great movie, so I can't wait to watch it! (I think I need to buy a thesaurus because I'm running out of ways to say the same thing about everything. I'm just genuinely happy with all the choices Santa made here.)

The mix CD is something I asked for, because it's fun to find new music. I listened to the CD tonight and it's all new to me - yay! - and I really like a lot of it. I giggled a lot while listening to "Hey There Cthulu" because I thought it was just a "Hey There Delilah" cover so it took me by surprise. (I'm listening to it for the third time right now, by the way.)

It was all wrapped up, and there were pictures sketched on the paper to hint at what was in each thing! How cool! That definitely made me slow down. I'm keeping the little sketches, though I haven't figured out what to do with them yet.

I haven't mentioned the handmade gift, though if you people are anything like me, you probably checked out the photos before reading any of this... no? Just me? Okay. Santa made a wicked cute Liara Munny. I can't believe someone made something so awesome for me! She's definitely my favorite thing here.

Thank you, trblastoff. You really went above and beyond for me and made my Christmas a great one. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)