The doorbell rang and UPS dropped off a package. "Oh, good," I thought. "That must be the gift I ordered from Amazon to send to my Arbitrary Day recipient!"

I picked up the box and it said my name along with "GLITTAKNITTA"... "Wait, this isn't something I ordered, this is my gift from MY Santa!"

I brought it in and there were two wrapped packages in the box. I opened the tag on the top package. The tag reads:

"clear alcohol is for rich women on diets" - Ron Swanson

Hahahahahaha! I don't remember how I filled out my form, but the sender obviously read my preferences closely. I am a whiskey aficionado. I also ADORE Ron Swanson, but I can't imagine I put that on my list of likes and dislikes? This is obviously going to be something fantastic.

I opened the top package... What is this? Oh, cool!!! A charred oak insert that enhances your whiskey! This is going to be fun! Now I need to decide what kind of whiskey to add it to. It will be fun to buy two bottles, use it in one and then compare the difference. Yay! Thank you so much, Megan, I LOVE this!

And another package! It's a book! "TASTING WHISKEY, An Insider's Guide to the Unique Pleasures of the World's Finest Spirits." Wow... This is a beautiful book. Very in-depth, full of gorgeous photos and illustrations. I can't wait to sit down with a nice whiskey and start reading it.

Thank you so much, Megan. This is a fabulous gift. I just love these reddit exchanges! You've made my day!

Edit: There's more!?!?!

Two more packages showed up and I'm feeling so overwhelmed at all of the amazing goodness!!

First, a I open another package from Amazon and there's a gift wrapped up neatly inside. It's a book! Parallel Worlds!! Okay, I am officially one of the world's biggest science geeks and this is SO right up my alley! I'm really excited to read it. And even though I have a tablet that I sometimes read books on, there's just nothing like sitting down with a good, physical book.

Next, a cute little package with a note saying that my Santa hopes I enjoy the presents immensely. :) Heck, I was thrilled yesterday with the whiskey stuff. Immensely is exactly how much I am enjoying these!

Oooooooh! It's a VERY FANCY tube of French hand cream! I had to immediately open it and use some. Absolutely heavenly. The scent is awesome. Love, love, love it. Thank you!

Finally, one more HEAVY gift... What in the world? Oh. My. Gosh. It's an incredibly beautiful, thick, huge coffee table book called Biophilia. It's full of stunning photography of all kinds of things from the natural world. Insects, flowers, rocks, skeletons. This is just stunning and SO totally ME!!

Thank you again, soooooo much. You went above and beyond and I'm just taken aback at how amazing all of these gifts are.

Edit #2: Okay, this time I waited until I was sure all of the gifts came... I can't EVEN tell you how much this all means. You really did your research, Megan. :) The Ingress Enlightened handmade soap? Holy moly. I can see how you dug deep and figured out that I play Ingress and am team "Enlightened." But do you actually know that I make handmade soap? Or was that a coincidence? It's beautiful. And smells WONDERFUL.

The adorable and awesome cosmos-themed socks? WHAT? They are so cool.

The coffee-chocolate steak rub? Do you know I'm a foodie, too? I can't believe this is your first reddit gift exchange. You have the sleuthing skillz of Santa, himself. We went on a trip this last weekend to stay in a farmhouse and grilled ribeyes and filets every night and loved it! (I also took Parallel Worlds and read it every night at bedtime - BRILLIANT, amazing book!)

Crap. What am I forgetting? There are at least three more things... but I wanted to wait and update until I was sure everything had gotten here... There was so much to remember. And ALL so incredibly thoughtful. :)

You've gone so far above and beyond. I can't tell you how much it means to me to have gotten such amazing, thoughtful gifts. I truly want you to know that I enjoyed every single thing immensely. With every package, I ran to grab my husband and he had to listen to me laugh and scream and yell like a little kid at how surprised and happy I was. I promise to pay it forward on my next exchange. <3

Another edit: OH! The adorable notebook with the Neil DeGrasse Tyson quote!!! LOVE it SO much!!!

Oh! And the kitchen timer! You must have seen my reddit exchange present from Christmas and known my kitchen was that color of red??? Seriously. So fantastic. I love it!