Zebra - thank you so much…
I was a bit embarrassed getting 2 gifts, thinking my names got in twice…I love the website where you got the candy btw…already spent a fortune ordering tons of yummies.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and your family…
If it feels like the anticipation is building too much, you may want to open it before then. It’s nice, but it’s not the best doggone Secret Santa present ever.
No, no, I think I can handle it. Maybe, there isn’t much else under the tree now so it might just start calling me. 
It has arrived!!!
Thanks, Billdo! I’m a tea fanatic and always have a cuppa when I’m reading the boards. Now, I have a BRIGHT yellow NY Taxi Cab mug to be my official Dope-reading tea container. Thanks, too, for the cool bag. Perfect size!
-C3
(newly) Official New Yorker
(p.s. you gotta love it when you walk up to your house and see a box with HUGE letters saying THIS SIDE UP…upside down)
I got mine today. It was at work waiting for me. I told myself I was not going to open it. I wanted to wait until I got home. Alas, my curiosity got the best of me.
The tape was cut with care so I did not damage anything inside. I felt like Howard Carter entering Tutankamen’s tomb.
I first opened the card. It has three adorable kittens on the front which inspired a loud “Awwww!”.
Next to be opened was a cow print box. Inside was an ornament. A cow! But not any cow. No, this one is special. It’s not your run of the mill black and white cow. This one has an abstract design on it in white, green, red, yellow and black. Very cool.
I discovered chocolate! Superior milk chocolate that melts in your mouth. Mmmm! Delicious.
As I explored the box further I found a paperweight. It is cube shaped with a happy face inside and foil confetti in the shapes of music notes, moons and stars. Chicago is written on the front and there is a place for me to stick a pen. It’s sitting on my desk now. I’ll never have to hunt for a pen again.
I also got a toy! A MicroPet kitten named Swirl. It walks. It runs. It turns around. It sings a happy song. I played with it all afternoon. It’s adorable and a lot of fun.
Thank you, Kat! I love it all.
I got my box Saturday.
Naturally, it’s Hanukkah, so I felt no compunction about opening it. 
From LittleMiss, I got some cool bath stuff. From MissTake, I got a cup with Minnesota stuff on it, some nice hot cocoa, a chocolate bar, and a small jar of hawthorn jelly. Yum!
Thank you!!!
Robin
At 4am after a long yucky 12 hour shift I came home to find my gift waiting on the coffee table.
Dave0071, Persephone is right, you are a God!
I got Chocolates!
The children have been informed that if they enjoy their little fingers they will stay away from mom’s chocolates as tempting as they might seem.
And holy cow! I thought I would just try one of the non pareils and they melt in my mouth!
Next up are the pretzels. I haven’t had those in years!
Pearls Chocolates are horribly addicting. Don’t be suprised if you get e-mails from crazed woman trying to bribe you into sending more my way.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
And he works late into the evening. My dog announced the arrival of my gift at the front door. My SO announces loudly (several times) that I’ve got a suspicious looking package from out-of-state. I tear myself away from the boards and go over my anthrax contingencies while I hightail it upstairs.
And there, lo and behold, is a present from Badge (my SDMB friend)! A nice card wishing me happy holidays awaited inside the box, along with a mysterious smaller box wrapped in blue floofy paper (sorry, don’t know what else to call it). Wonder what this could be?
Open box excitedly.
Styrofoam and tape, no biggie.
And staring up at me is a beautiful blue and gold DRAGON. He’s nonchalantly guarding an overflowing treasure chest and many coins litter the ground around him. He sits amidst an impressive array of large blue crystals.
However did you guess I would love this?
Thanks, Badge! A Merry Christmas to you and yours. I have named this one Cecil and he sits in a place of honor atop my computer desk (until I can get a glass cabinet to display the entire family) next to my prized Grand Dragon incense burner. A worthy addition to my eclectic collection of mythical flying lizards.
Oops, I forgot the title for my post: My Secret Santa drives a UPS truck…
Now the first sentence kinda makes sense. :smack:
I’m glad you liked it, Elaella. I believe the cow is supposed to be one of those from Chicago’s Parade of Cows a few years ago. 
I also have to apologize to my Secret Sant-ee. There was a slight miscommunication between me and the nice old man at the local post office: I took the gift over and said “I’m really busy but I’ll pay you lots of money if you make this so it’ll be where it’s supposed to be by December 23rd” and he said “Okay I will” and then he mailed it on December 23rd. Which is today.
So it’ll be a while before your gift reaches you. 
But I hope you’ll still enjoy the present. It’s not the type of thing that spoils easily. (I should know, it’s a childhood favorite of mine…oops, not giving too much away now, am I?)
Jurhael
You got a barbie? Cool. Funny thing … I also have you down as my secret santa giftee, that is if you have the nicest location in the whole eastern seaboard. (meaning, this is if the names/addresses haven’t been mixed up)
Anyhow, am mailing it today, but it looks like you actually get TWO Secret Santa Gifts.
Lucky you!
-White Ink
BTW,
Kudos to my Remote State living secret santa who didn’t reveal a name, but who clearly saw the way to my heart with a bottle opener and the most delicious sugar high ever, and the EYES!
I got my gift yesterday! The coolest wooden motorcycle. Unfortunately, I only have their real name (I won’t post it.) So who is from St Petersburg? Thanks so much!
Now for my apologies. I also just mailed out my package today. I don’t have a good excuse, except that it didn’t arrive at my house until yesterday. I’m so sorry, Amarinth! It should be there Friday or Saturday. I feel so bad…
Thank you, Rocking Chair for our very sweet presents!
Susie sends love and snuggles for your contribution.
Love,
Quasimodem and Susie-Q
y’all are most welcome. they were all inspected and okayed by 3 furfaces.
I got my Secret Santa gift yesterday … and my hubby didn’t tell me!!
I didn’t see it sitting next to the door (lots of stuff there) until I was on my way out for smokes.
“Is that box for me??? Is it my Secret Santa gift?!? And you DIDN’T tell me!!!”
I was going to wait until Christmas … but then he told me to go ahead and open it. So I carefully cut the tape on the box from Washington, D.C. Right on top is a lovely red card with a velvety tree made out of swirly green lines on the front, simply signed SECRET S.D.M.B. SANTA. Then I start digging.
Ooh! Tissue-wrapped oddly-shaped thingy. digdigdig OOH! Bright shiny gold-wrapped box. digdigdig OOooh! Bright shiny red-wrapped box.
Three gifts - woohoo! What a generous Santa I have!
First package: very cool primitive Santa head on a large metal coil. The top is star-shaped, with the top point as his hat, complete with furry ruff and a bell on the end.
Second package: a half dozen cute litte ornaments made of red and buff cloth, covered in glitter. One is mitten-shaped with asnowman head in the hole; one looks like a pointy hat on top of a snowman head; one is shaped like a stocking; one looks like a bag with a snowman head in the top; one looks like a beard on the snowman’s head; last loooks like Santa’s coat. And they are covered in glitter, which I proceed to fling upon my husband.
Third and final box: two more ornaments … SpongeBob ornaments! YAY!
My Santa was right on the money (though anonymous).
Thank You, Santa, Whoever You Are!!
After a fairly crummy day at work (I realized about 2:30 that I effed up mightily about a month ago and now have about a day to straighten out something that wouldn’t have been that bad if I’d thought through what I was doing, say, a month ago), I arrived home to find…(yeah, right, nobody sees where this is going)…my Secret Santa package! From the extremely delightful Da Toad, who’s my new best Board friend.
In the package were: [ul]
[li]a very cute stuffed turkey that indicates that a gift was made in my name to a Food Bank[/li][li]an extremely beautiful Santa ornament[/li][li]Belgian chocolate drool[/li][/ul]
My idea of waiting to open it, BTW, was to feed that cat first. Like I had a choice.
Thanks, Da Toad! – very cool!
Kat, you shouldn’t have told me that. I was up until 2:30 a.m. last night scouring the web for a picture of my cow. I wanted everyone to see it. I blame you for my being tired today.
Two Days Till Christmas…
Stupid Mail.