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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 19, 2014 - 04:11am PT
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Nick,
It's wrapped. You can take it out of that ugly box.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Dec 19, 2014 - 05:22am PT
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Haha!
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Dec 19, 2014 - 06:23am PT
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Cheers Strider. zip is a good guy. Like you I wait until Xmas day.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 19, 2014 - 07:49am PT
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hey there say...
:)
you guys are soooo much fun, :)
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Strider
Trad climber
ಠ_ಠ
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2014 - 12:53am PT
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Ha! Thanks for the heads up Zip!
I am so excited to open the gift and card from you and everyone else. Thanks guys!
On another note...someone with the initials F.W. needs to check their email because their Santa has had some difficulties the past week and I just sent an update. Sorry for the troubles for you both.
Seriously, no new gifts today???? Post up you lazy elves.
-n
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Dec 20, 2014 - 05:35am PT
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I have not received mine yet, and today I leave for the tropics so hopefully it will be waiting for me when I return next week!
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 20, 2014 - 07:01am PT
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I received a box from an address I don't recognize, and I am assuming it is from my STSS, but I have not fully opened it.
I cracked open the box just enough to see if it was wrapped, but it did not appear to be, so I ceased further investigatory.
I will wait until the 25th.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 20, 2014 - 12:26pm PT
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hey there say, anita514 ...
wow, hope someone can watch over it, for you...
(it is not from me--
my 'folk' that i sent it to--keeping it a secret-santa, 'til it gets there) as it is more a fun mystery, for a bit longer:
will not get the gift, 'til monday...
happy tropics to you, and safe trip! :)
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Fogarty
climber
BITD
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Dec 20, 2014 - 01:28pm PT
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I know your probably waiting by your box every day, not to worry. I will be hooking up with santas sleigh today.✈️
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Dec 20, 2014 - 06:10pm PT
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I've been so off the grid, I forgot about the secret santa exchange.
Have fun you guys. And happy holidays.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 20, 2014 - 07:27pm PT
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Hi H, good to see a post from you,
Phyl
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Dec 21, 2014 - 03:29am PT
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My sincerest and deepest apologies. Checked out why I seemed not to have paid for the item yet. Something went wrong when I ordered, it doesn't seem to have gone through. My internet has moments of unreliability sometimes. Redid today, (tonight for you), so it will probably, very likely, be late. Maybe it arrives in Denver just in the nick of time.
Mine hasn't arrived, and I'll be gone until almost New Year, so I'll check for it then. Very stoked, headed for beach and sun and Christmas escape together with my daughters.
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Jingy
climber
Random Nobody
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Dec 21, 2014 - 07:47am PT
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Not sure why.... but I got gifted from people I don't know very well, but who wish me well, nonetheless....
I appreciate this gift.
Day one.
Gift One, from: Nita + Andy...
From: Rob
To: Nita and Andy - Thank you for your gifts... Tasty chocolate always brings on a smile.
A couple that I have admired from the moment I them at one of the facelifts, I can't remember which. It must have been the general sense that this is the team to be near when the sun goes down and the campfire light flickers on the faces of those in the circle.
(Did anyone notice how I always just 'had' to sit in a place that, to me, helped to complete the circle around the campfire.... I don't know why I did that...(Psych 101 anybody?) Maybe I imagined that I could be let into this special circle of friends if I sit where no one does in order to give myself the impression that I completed this circle, somehow).
Thank You BOTH so very much. With you, I feel something familial that I cannot quite put into words.
(P.S. Now I know where the package that freaked me out last year came from. I couldn't figure out who sent it... I savored the Orange! I shared with my co-workers while speculating on who my secret admirer could be that was sending me this sweet treat?)
Love,
Rob
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GLee
Social climber
Montucky
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Dec 21, 2014 - 11:47am PT
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THANK YOU SECRET SANTA, THE JYTTE HAT IS WONDERFULL !!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 21, 2014 - 12:18pm PT
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hey there say, rob (jingy)...
wow, this sounds fun, thanks for sharing with us all:
wow... say, as to this quote from you:
From: Rob
To: Nita and Andy - Thank you for your gifts... Tasty chocolate always brings on a smile.
A couple that I have admired from the moment I them at one of the facelifts, I can't remember which. It must have been the general sense that this is the team to be near when the sun goes down and the campfire light flickers on the faces of those in the circle.
(Did anyone notice how I always just 'had' to sit in a place that, to me, helped to complete the circle around the campfire.... I don't know why I did that...(Psych 101 anybody?) Maybe I imagined that I could be let into this special circle of friends if I sit where no one does in order to give myself the impression that I completed this circle, somehow).
Thank You BOTH so very much. With you, I feel something familial that I cannot quite put into words.
(P.S. Now I know where the package that freaked me out last year came from. I couldn't figure out who sent it... I savored the Orange! I shared with my co-workers while speculating on who my secret admirer could be that was sending me this sweet treat?)
well, actually AS to the whole post, wow:
FIRST:
here's to your 'psych 101 anybody' , here you go:
A VERY MUCH NEEDED thing to do:
to dare to SIT and make the campfire circle complete...
folks never really realize this:
camp fire, is in need of a circle... SO IS a beaded necklace...
encircling, is what makes it a treasured 'event' (to be kept and savored, even later, as to memories) OR AS TO THE NECKLACE--
a thing (meaning the necklace and keeping it near on, to grace one)
all cultures have campfires, and all cultures have
necklaces and most are beads...
WELL, a necklace is not a necklace if ONE BEAD is not connected...
it breaks... :(
you can claps it, but the missing bead, will make the whole thing just
slip off the neck and fall away somewhere, with all the 'treasure that graces the wear'er, lost upon the dirt of life' ...
circles NEED the 'join in er' (as well as any 'first bead')...
yep, they need the next bead... the new bead... the older bead... why some even need just the metal clasp, if it is not made of string, only...
AND THEY need the LAST precious bead/beads, as well!
or--just got a loose strand.. soon to slip apart...
phych 101--
you found the perfect spot, rob, to keep the CIRCLE to be
a treasure of life!
otherwise, the ol' campfire, would be 'a straggle' and the old cold winds
would chase folks away, :))
now, as to this... this is sooo fun:
mystery solving:
P.S. Now I know where the package that freaked me out last year came from. I couldn't figure out who sent it... I savored the Orange! I shared with my co-workers while speculating on who my secret admirer could be that was sending me this sweet treat?
oh my... i love how mysteries get solved, later in life...
happy sweet christmas to you all...
we got some great over-flow, here,
at this christmas thread... :)
thanks for sharing, rob...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 21, 2014 - 12:28pm PT
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hey there say, lolli...
wow, thanks for sharing, too...
say, you are still 'in the circle; :))
christmas, actually, if we see it as a young child sees
the hope of hands that love to give:
last the whole new year through...
i remember my gift from you...
and it actually DOES sit here and last all the year through...
even though, hee heee, remember, the ONE LITTLE bit,
came late...
:)
made it more of a 'open at a time' and savor, type gift...
they will be so happy to get a gift from over the ocean,
that time will just melt away, into fond 'travel time' enhancement of it all...
happy sweet christmas, hope you get your card in time...
hope any slowness melts away, into enhanced travel time, :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 21, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
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hey there say, wow... and we got a gleeeee'ful GLee HAT share here, too...
oh my...
well, i got to get busy around here...
hope my person gets the secret santa, tomorrow... :)
as they will see, it is going 'the round about' way...
hee hee, a myster for that person, and they will 'see' when
they get it...
:)
*goofy ol' lead-reindeer got a tad worried, as to 'houseing troubles'
:)
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OlympicMtnBoy
climber
Seattle
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Dec 21, 2014 - 05:12pm PT
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Ooh Ohh, I got a package!
It's all wrapped nice and stuff, better put this one under the tree.
Hmm, I wonder what's in it though, what if it's perishable or something, and all those people on the internets want to see it anyways, maybe I'll just open this one a little early.
Mmmm, tasty treats for my next adventure, and a cool new hat!
Thanks Zip!!!
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Dec 21, 2014 - 07:04pm PT
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Jingy...
"(Did anyone notice how I always just 'had' to sit in a place that, to me, helped to complete the circle around the campfire.... I don't know why I did that...(Psych 101 anybody?) Maybe I imagined that I could be let into this special circle of friends if I sit where no one does in order to give myself the impression that I completed this circle, somehow)."
Umm, that was kind of precisely how I felt initially.
Now it's like falling into loving arms at the camp.
Cheers to you, and Nita and Andy.
Loving the pics of the gift exchange!
PS Hi H!
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 22, 2014 - 05:50am PT
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OMB,
You're welcome.
Selecting a gift for someone you don't know can be a challenge.
I know that it can get kinda cold up North, so a hat seemed to be a no brainer, and the treats are good no matter where you live.
I checked out TNF, Patagonia, and Mountain Hard Wear first, but nothing really jumped out at me as Olympic Mountain Boyable.
Then I saw the pic on the label of the sherpa dude of the hat I finally selected, and he looked kinda cool. I tried it on and Boy Howdy,,,,,I looked damn sexy.
To me, the hat had a kind of up town, hipster, Seattle grunge look to it, so I went for it.
You are a lot better looking than me, and you make that hat work.
Enjoy.
Zip
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