Like everyone else, I've been tracking my package like a maniac, watching it move at a painfully glacial pace from Washington all the way here to Georgia, trying to distract myself with Reddit and Netflix while I wait (laundry & housework be damned!).

This evening, it finally arrived! I was delighted with a box filled with 3 really great skeins of yarn and two new crochet hooks (can't EVER have enough of either!), not to mention the metric assload of Starburst, which my husband immediately began sampling. (Called it "tribute" -- sheesh!) I was quite impressed with the artwork on the envelope, as Codemos didn't cheat by using the natural lines as his guide [the way I do :-O ].

But the ultimate icing on the cake was when I opened the envelope, read the note (shout out to my homebiscuit in the hippie liberal PacNW!), and saw that he had included a PATTERN FOR A SKYRIM VIKING HELMET!!! (To be exact, this one: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyrim-inspired-viking-helmet). All the yarn, the hooks… they are exactly the supplies I need to make it, accompanied by enough candy to keep me sufficiently sugared up throughout the entire project! :-D

This gift is the perfect combination of stuff I love: making things out of sticks & string... and Skryim. Codemos deftly put together clues from my Reddit breadcrumb trail to make a thrilling, personal gift just for me. In absolute sincerity, I don't know how this gift could have been any better.

Thanks to Codemos for this wonderful experience, and thanks especially to the RedditGifts mods who make this whole thing possible. You are helping make the world a better place. :-)