In what will probably become a "thing," I spent six hours thinking about the box in my car. Eight hours, because it was raining today, and instead of leaving the box on my front steps or under cover at my back door, the UPS guy left it on the front seat of my car, where I wouldn't find it until I was on the verge of being late for work and therefore unable to do anything but dwell on the fact that I was working while there was an Amazon box with my name on it in the parking lot.

Going home has never felt so sweet.

I mentioned on my profile that I have two cats. One is mine, and the other is now also mine, after she abandoned my brother to the dog and decided to take up residence in my room. They now have pets of their own, in the form of a chirping catnip bird and mouse. I'm about 90% sure that these cat toys mark the end of any and all sleep I could ever have, for when the cats are done hunting their kibble, they will undoubtedly invade my room and hunt squeakers under my bed.

Further down in the box, there's a nice surprise with drawing tools! Kneadable and rubber erasers (I can't express how much I love these two very objects, I go through them like my cats go through catnip), and a plethora of assorted pencils, charcoal, charcoal pencils, sharpeners, pastels, tons of colored pencils, watercolors (!!!) and two brush-shaped items that the packaging assures me are actually pencils. I don't believe the packaging, but I find it highly unlikely that it would lie to me.

There was also this really sweet sketchbook, which works out great since I've been working out of a notepad for the last three months!

Finally, I pulled out a package of bamboo handled steel crochet hooks! I do a ton of crochet, and I've been slowly working with smaller and smaller hook sizes, so these couldn't be a more fitting gift! Especially as the smaller hook sizes have incredibly thin handles that really start to wear on the fingers. I've been looking at trying out bamboo hooks (I love my bamboo knitting needles to death!) and I really can't express how happy these make me (how happy these all make me, actually. I've already busted out the sketchbook).

And I don't know if it's just how the cards fell, but the case for the crochet hooks?

Purple.

I love purple so much.

Santa. Chris. You are the best darn Santa around.