MY PACKAGE ARRIVED!!!!!! So a bit of a backstory. My card came from Canada and was mailed on December 9th. It made a leisurely journey to Colorado and to Denver and then (instead of being delivered) decided to take jaunt across the country to Massachusetts (WTF?) and then to NJ before coming back. A total of an 18-day journey. My Santa was awesome and kept in touch and filed an inquiry after the post office radio silence of 3 days when it was in route to Massachusetts. We thought it might be on a return trip to Canada!

But hope was not lost and this might have been for the best because on Christmas Eve my wonderful mess of a dog decided to shred all the presents under the tree- the wrapping AND the presents.... including my other secret santa gift. This is helping to make up for the tears that were shed. And before someone says "Christmas isn't about presents, it's about family" let me tell you this is one of the few years I have been unable to spend with my family.

Today it arrived and when I got it from the post office I heard what sounded like glass hitting together and I thought the post office had broken something on this epic journey. Thankfully it didn't- scroll down for more on that.

Now onto the gift. This is for the Holiday Card exchange so everything was well above and beyond. My Santa rocked it!

I received a cute plushy of a brain neuron because I love neurobiology. (As I write this my dog is sitting next to me trying to acquire this new toy to promptly kill it as well. It will likely live at work if it survives the weekend!)

I also received a notebook and some awesome rocks/stones (those were clinking together and sounded like the broken pieces of glass). This is where the psychic part comes in. There is nothing I know of anywhere that is stalk-able that would have this info on it. And certainly nothing on Reddit or my wish list/ likes/ dislikes.

One of the reasons I fell in love with CO was on my first trip seeing this amazingly beautiful red fox in fresh powder of snow. The fox sat and stared at us for a long time and needless to say, I was hooked and decided then that I wanted to live here! The notebook has a red fox on it and it immediately reminded me of that first trip to CO.

AND I have collected rocks since I was a kid. It helps that my Santa studies geology too but needless to say I was excited to add these to my collection.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Tl;DR: The post office sucks but my Santa is the greatest and quite possibly psychic.