When the idea of exchanging gifts was announced on the HivePH server, I was reluctant to join the event. I am saving some money from time to time hence extra expenses will not be much entertained this season. But after giving some thought, I joined afterward to support the group's initiative.
A channel for a wish list was created for everyone who joined, in that way the participants will have an idea of what people would like to receive. Some input $HBD, $HIVE, game assets, and even GCASH but some also listed some physical gifts. Accomplishing a wishlist is a hard feat for me as aside from diapers and box of formula milk I don't have anything in my mind until I saw some post from Hiddenblade sharing her journal so I decided to input on the wishlist a journal for something that I want to receive.
Friday in the afternoon, someone I am well familiar with is knocking at our door. Let's call her Princess for pun intended. Princess is the regular J&T delivery person in our area, if we have an expected order from TikTok on a certain day, for sure she's the one to deliver it first thing in the morning. Our house is near the J&T warehouse thus each time that we have a delivery, the first drop-off will be our home.
I was sleeping when she knocked, under the impression that April will entertain her with the order I shrug off and decided not to bother. Apparently, when she knocked on our door April's not around she was in my in-laws' house visiting Chewy the dog that she's caring for in the meantime. Princess sent a text message asking if we were in our home and informed us that she left the parcel in our doorstep since no one was answering her.
I checked my TikTok account to double-check if I have anything to receive today. To my surprise my order tab is clean.
I picked up the parcel in our doorstep and proceeded to sleep again.
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Later that night when I woke-up I already realized what's the parcel for and it was indeed for the exchange gift. I do not have any idea on who's the sender as it is randomly picked by Adam but I think I have a hint of who's the sender since 
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Aside from teal green, I love earth colors. Plus the fact that it is customized for me. INSPIRE TPKIDKAI and DREAM TPKIDKAI is such a strong word and what I always aspire to become one. The DREAM speaks volume to me as the email that I always use is connected to it. There's also a gartered lock for the notebook in that way it cannot be opened easily. The journals that I usually buy in the malls are not like these types and more often than not I ended up buying Cattleya brand for it's minimalistic features.
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The smell of freshly created pages are enticing. Is it just me, or others too that they try to sniff books/notebooks to feel the paper on it. The journal's dotted too, this is the first time that I will be writing stuff in dotted journals. I usually picked the lined ones or the blank pages. I am quite OC when it comes to lining my letters thus it will be helpful for sure in maintaining it.
I plan to use this by next year. I haven't bought a good pen to accompany the journal. My go-to brand's Pilot G-tech with .3 mm ball point but getting one's quite a challenge as I am living in a remote area and bookshops selling this type is hard to find. Since I opened the INSPIRE journal I might be using it to write the prompts that I will be blogging if I cannot access my laptop and for the DREAM probably things that I dream for 2024 and goals to achieve. I will still be blogging that but it will always be nice to have it written elsewhere.
For my recipient, since the product is imported overseas it will probably pass the Christmas day for her to receive it. I wasn't able to order it timely as I tend to forget things as always.