Note from my Support Bunneh (<lj user=”aajwind”>)

With his permission, I’m posting the nice note that put in my secret support bunneh gift:

2003-12-02
Stephanie–

Hey! It’s me, your secret bunny santa-type person! Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays or whichever December greeting you’d prefer. I’m sorry that it’s taken me so long to get this stuff to you. Here I am– I’ve already received two gifts yet I’ve not sent out any. I really do feel guilty, money has been tight lately, but, moreso, time has been tight lately. I have been constantly busy and for that I do apologize. I hope you can read my horrible handwriting alright.

Anyways, because my time is so limited lately with the holidays and finals inveritably approaching (hint!),I’v opted to ignore the rules and send you one, big, compilation gift (encompassing my other gift plans) as opposed to three separate gifts. I hope this is alright with you.

In deciding what to get you, I took into consideration your wishlist, your interests, and what I thought you’d like. I hope you do like it because I put a lot of thinking time into it.

Well, I’ll let you go now. I don’t want to bore you to death or subject you to reading my scribbles any longer. Hope you like your gifts. Have a great holiday and a great 2004!

♥ - secret santa

P.S. I hope you got Dana’s relaying of my message. :) I know you’d be wondering where your gifts were.

P.P.S. I thought you’d like this notebook. I collect similar notebooks and this is one of my favorites. Use it or don’t. Either way, it’s yours. :P
P.P.P.S. I’ll reveal myself to you in good time. Don’t worry!

And then there’s a drawn picture of a holly berry/leaf with “” next to it.

Awww

OK, first my thoughts on the Secret Support Bunneh gift I received on Friday.

It totally made my day. I am not kidding. Friday was yet another cruddy day, filled with just incredibly frustrating and opaque computer problems that I couldn’t get anyone else to solve for me.

And then I got home and there was this lovely box from my secret support bunneh.

I was in such a bad mood when I got home, though, I just posted a comment to my support bunneh so they would know that it had arrived. I didn’t want to open it yet. I didn’t even want to talk to my husband yet, I was feeling so anti-social.

Gradually, though, I came out of my funk and brought the box into the den to open it.

In it, there were:

A book by Anne Rice
TWO leather-bound journals for writing in
A bottle of white merlot (I’ve never had white merlot– I’m looking forward to trying it!), wrapped in a beautiful cloth wine bottle bag (I’ve always wanted one of those, but never wanted to spend the $ on it)
A box of BLUE ornaments for my holiday tree
A candle (the kind where you get a bunch of wax beads and put a wick in it)
All of this arrived in a basket that is big enough for all my remote controllers in the den!

Inside one of the leather-bound journals, there was a note, which I won’t post here until my secret bunneh reveals himself or herself and says it’s okay to do so. But the gist of it was that they had spent a lot of time reading my journal and wish list and figuring out what kind of person I am, what I might enjoy, getting to know me, etc.

I was really touched by that. I’d been concerned when I didn’t get a card in October or November, because I hoped my secret support bunneh wasn’t ill or going through one of those horrendously stressful months. But to have direct, tangible evidence that, not only was my secret support bunneh okay, but that he or she had been thinking of me, very carefully selecting specific things that I’d enjoy– it meant a whole lot to me, I guess. It made me feel special. Important. Liked.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell my secret support bunneh thank you.

And I know who you are. ;)
An unforeseen consequence of adding everyone from to my address book this morning.

Secret Support Bunneh

I don’t have the right words to post about the gift I got yesterday from my secret support bunneh; I love the gifts, and will post tomorrow about how much opening that box last night meant to me.

Thank you.