Absolutely and entirely loved my first Reddit Secret Santa Christmas presents!!!

I made it a point to only open my Reddit presents at the same time as my more regular presents at midnight sharp on December 25. As my SS gifts had been sitting on my desk for more than 10 days (thanks for sending it super early!) the burning desire to just tear all the wrapping apart was overwhelming.

My gift was actually a tri-force, comprised of a cardboard tube, a parcel and an email.

Cardboard tube:

My SS picked me a kung-fu poster written in Chinese and its design is utterly mesmerising. I seriously can't take my eyes off of it. And while I have many Japanese posters, this is my first ever Chinese one. It really feels it came into existence to bring company to the Bollywood romantic movie that watches me sleep. I feel more chemistry with this poster than with most of my tinder dates (#kiddingbutnokidding).

Parcel:

The maple syrup sugar cubes were delicious! (will eat the rest when I've escaped from the sugar heaven/hell that is Christmas in France).

I have a tacky magnet collection that I display on my fridge and the sorry-but-fuck-yeah-Canada kind of magnet found a super natural spot on the fridge next to dear Pepe Mujica.

Speaking about deers, the green and yellow cap I got made my family laugh. Apparently John Deer does tractors?! I like the idea of walking around the biggest and most concrete filled metropolis in the world wearing a symbol of Earth nurturing. I think that ought to earn me a million hipster points.

Also got a book about -real- horror stories that happened in my SS city/county. Will read the book on the plane back to Japan and I find it so very thoughtful that my SS got the author to sign it for me!!

Email:

One day of December, I got a notification email from Doctor Without Borders in English which is more than half expected since I'm donating every month but usually the email is in French. Jaime, my glowing SS, donated to Doctors Without Borders on my behalf and that meant the world to me.

Thanks for the excitement leading up to the D day of Christmas, to making Christmas all the more special and something to look forward to and for the actual presents I got.

That's one Christmas I will never forget and Jaime should be the face of Reddit Secret Santa!

THANK YOU JAIME, THANK YOU REDDIT!