OP delivered.

Oh man, oh man, did OP deliver!

First of all, knowing they were shipping late, they sent me an appetizer gift.... a pair of socks I'd asked for explicitly on my blog. So they'd stalked my blog. Always a good sign, right? But still, I tried not to get my hopes up.

Then the gift came, in a wee little package, which wasn't what I was expecting. But then I opened it and...

This gift was personalised to PERFECTION. My gifter stalked my profile with the type of dedication normally reserved for 14-yr-olds who like boybands. (On an unrelated note, at the age of 26, I can still tell you all of the Backstreet Boys' favourite colours.)

She found pictures of all three of my dogs and sent me TWO personalised ornaments with pictures of all of them. In other words she stalked my Reddit history and my blog, found out that my dogs are the most important thing to me in the whole world, and constructed a personalised gift around that.

PLUS she saw my joke comment on /r/secretsanta about getting Snoop Dogg as a gifter and wanting Beats by Dre, and got me beets. Plus a glossy Christmas letter with pictures of their pugs and some holly jolly sentiments that brought tears to my eyes.

Gifter, thank you so much! This is by and far the best Secret Santa gift I've ever gotten. I was so surprised and this surpassed my wildest dreams. Merry Christmas!