What's Secret Santa without a ridiculous challenge? So instead of listing all my peculiar likes and dislikes, I challenged my Santa to send me a gift based only on my Instagram account.

My Secret Santa package arrived... well, I wouldn't call it a package. It was really a flat envelope. So flat! To be honest, I was sorta disappointed at the flatness of it all. Then I thought about it. Perhaps, it's Bill Gates sending me a check for a million dollars or a gift card to Applebee's or BOTH! Maybe my Santa sent me a letter from my long lost father who went missing while on an expedition in Africa. That would be cool -- but also weird because my dad never went to Africa and he's downstairs doing whatever dads do.

So I carefully opened the envelope because I wouldn't want to rip that million dollar check from Bill Gates. Sadly, it wasn't Bill Gates. Instead, a nice handwritten letter by my Santa who told me of her struggles over what to gift me. I looked in the very flat enveloped and three smaller pouches fell out. I emptied the contents on the table to discover that she sent me a stamp collection!

How did our little intrepid Secret Santa do in my little sadistic Christmas challenge? She definitely took a risk in sending a very specific kind of gift that I never mentioned any interest in. Final verdict: +1 for you! Here's a high five and a fist bump! The gift totally came out of no where but she managed to combine my passion for travel, pop art, and space into one gift! She sent me a set of vintage space stamps and two sets of vintage stamps from around the world. What Santa didn't know: I actually visited the World's Largest Ball of Stamps in Nebraska a couple years ago and picked up a bunch of international stamps and space stamps! So she just added to my collection! It may not be a Bill Gate's gift card to Applebee's but I think you did awesome job! THANK YOU SO MUCH! (Appreciation noted by the use of capital letters and bold)

P.S. I'm a fan of Twin Peaks. I visited Snoqualmie, Washington just to eat a pie in the Double R Diner. I'm also in the middle of watching Stranger Things. Meow Wolf looks so trippy! I think I would've loved tickets to it. Any excuse to make it out to New Mexico! Everything is better with green chili. Thank you for stalking me... hopefully you didn't find my Twitter account where I live tweet episodes of "Hoarders" and "House Hunters."