This was my first time participating in the Secret Santa on Reddit. I was really excited when I did my gift and had a lot of fun doing so. I honestly didn't know what I'd receive, if anything. A package arrived this evening from Amazon. My husband had a peek to make sure it wasn't something from my not-so-secret Santa (aka: him). He said it was indeed the Reddit gift. squee

First off, after I told my husband that I was signing up for this exchange it occurred to me that I could possibly be perceived as a crazy cat lady. This being because almost all of my reddit activity was about my cats or some internet stranger's cat. I'm not saying that I'm not a crazy cat lady, but someone did agree to marry me so at least I'm not a spinster. I digress.

I did list my likes and dislikes as: Likes: Cats, Comics, Anime/Manga, Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror books, action figures such as the Bishoujo Kotobukiya girls, Video Games such as the Final Fantasy franchise especially Moogles and Chocobos since they are adorable.

Dislikes: Math, Cantaloupe, Spiders, being woken up before 8am and Marmite.

Notice cats was listed first not helping my crazy cat lady case one bit.

Back to the gift. I was really blown away that someone all the way in Portugal was kind enough to send me a gift. It's so nice to make the world feel smaller thanks to the internet. You can see by the photo of the card that my cat lady persona did indeed come into play, not that I minded one bit.

So with the help of my cats, we opened up the lovely gift. Odin ran away with a bit of paper, but Yuki behaved and let me take some nice pictures.

We were all over the moon when we saw the "Big Book of Cats" filled with gorgeous photography and illustrations containing all things feline. It's the loveliest book I own now and I'm so happy. double squee

So, thank you vgasmo... you truly made my day bright and I can't wait to snuggle up with my furballs and read it cover to cover. I hope you have an amazing Christmas and you get many gifts as thoughtful as the one you sent me.