So you know how when you sign up for an exchange, sometimes you have a "dream gift" you're kinda-maybe-sorta hoping for? If your SS is psychic and all the stars align? But then you're like, "nah, that'll never happen, [dream gift] is too expensive/hard to ship/totally weird/doesn't actually exist." You know, that gift?

Yeah, that's what my SS got me.

So I'm a practical kinda lady and I like to keep the crap I haul around to a minimum. But there was an incident right before the Everyday Carry signup that made me say to myself, "self, you really should start carrying a multitool."

My horse threw a shoe halfway through a trail ride. Not properly, though, nooo: it was hanging halfway off his hoof all warped and twisted with nails pointing every which way. There were two nails still holding it on, and they were IN THERE. I wrestled with that thing for ages, and eventually I just had to twist the shoe back and forth until the nails broke. This got the shoe off, but left two sharp bits of metal sticking out of my horse's foot. NOT COOL.

So when I went to write my likes/dislikes for this exchange, I told that story. If only I'd had a multitool with a pair of pliers, and some wirecutters, maybe a rasp. Oh, and a hoofpick. A multitool with a hoofpick in it would be the holy grail of multitools, but it would be expensive, and I didn't think anybody made one. Oh well. A girl can dream.

And then a package arrived. It was a small padded envelope containing something heavy. I opened it up...

Golden celestial light shined out, and a heavenly host began to sing. There, in my hand, was the Holy Grail of multitools — everything I could have ever hoped for in one. It does exist, and my SS found it, and she got it for me.

It's going to be so useful. Thank you, /u/akatherunt. It's perfect. You're perfect. I just love everything right now.