kittiwake | The alt.callahans Holiday Gift Exchange (Reply)

On Friday, I found two postcards from Parcelforce in my mailbox, saying that they'd tried to deliver a parcel. I knew that this was my a.c Secret Santa gift, as the postcards were addressed to Isabel instead of my real-life forename. On Saturday I rang to arrange to pick it up from the closest post office on Monday, but at 9 am this morning they tried again and this time I was actually in. Hurray for Sunday deliveries at Christmas!

What I found was a very well-packed box from Kansas in the USA. By 9:05 am, I had unwrapped the box, fought my way through a million electro-statically charged polystyrene pieces and found: a pack of Kansas playing cards, a box of sunflower cookies, a chocolate cheesecake 'cake in a jar' and two local newspapers for Wichita and Winfield in Kansas.

I took the 'cake in a jar' and the sunflower cookies over to my sister's house this morning with a bag of clothes, books and stocking fillers, as I will be staying there over Christmas to cat-sit. I was planning to suspend my low-carbohydrate diet over Christmas anyway, so I am looking forward to eating them.

I like the idea of sending local newspapers with a Secret Santa gift; maybe I'll do that next year too.