So I came home from a weekend away and found a package on my doorstep! From SA! And there was Lush and fruit tea and chocolates and a beautiful little notebook, and a fantastic Leonardo da Vinci action figure!

Thank you so much! Yay!

I also ate some of the chocolates already. Just to make sure they were okay, you know.

Yum.

Dear ND's Slacker Secret Santee,
You don't know who you are, but I hope you aren't worrying about your lack of gift. As soon as I can get myself to a post office during business hours, I will mail his present out to you. Unfortunately, I don't know if that will be before Saturday, but I'll do my best to make it sooner.
Love and glitter,
ND's Slacker Secret Santa Lackey

a fantastic Leonardo da Vinci action figure!

awesome!

Jars, I have good news and not so good news.

The good news is, your Sekrit Santa giftee was not pilfered by the postal service.

The bad news is, 8 weeks after leaving my hands, it has returned to my hands with a groovy bilingual sticker on declaring 'not called for'. Now, in 'merican vernacular that means something other than I suspect was intended. I sent it to the Waterfront address. Was that correct?

Bah on the postal service, even if they didn't pinch the box.

Wow, 8 weeks? No, the Waterfront address is right. I suspect 'not called for' means I was supposed to pick it up at the post office. But they left no note to tell me it was here! Stupid post office!

I'll email you my address again just to make sure it was the right one. But still. Stupid post office.

I just got my Seekrit Santa package! And it's completely lovely, and a box of treats in the middle of a bout of unemployment bitterness and angst turns out to be even better than a box of treats amongst a bunch of other boxes of treats at official treat box time.

A gorgeous rainbow-colored (but a deep, rich, saturated rainbow, that suits my coloring beautifully) scarf (knit? crocheted? anyway, it's gorgeous, like an amazing intricate spiderweb, delicate-looking but strong and warm), a box of deliciously sleazy pulp fiction book cover stationery, and, best of all, beautifully framed and Photoshop-customized pictures of Matilda and Emmett. I have one set up on our shelves right now and am setting the others aside as a sign of hope that I'll soon have a new work desk to put them up on.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Santa Theo!!!!

Yay!

Yeah, the scarf is knit, though it looks lacy and spidery like crochet. It came out the way that I wish all my scarves looked! So glad that it will suit! And I thought long and hard about the pictures, and finally concluded that two sets would be a good idea. :-)

Yeah, the scarf is knit, though it looks lacy and spidery like crochet.

I have one of those and it is, indeed, gorgeous.

Also, Theo, the dust mite doll just recently met its demise...but with great gusto and after many, many hours of pooch play.

Does this mean we can close the thread now?

Heh -- well, at least the doll gave good service.