QotD: The Last Time I Surprised Someone Else

When was the last time you surprised someone else?

Now that I'm looking at that question, I've decided it's been way too long since I surprised someone.  Hmm.

My sister started college last fall.  She decided to decorate her dorm room in electric pink and and equally electric orange.  (No, those weren't her college colors and no, I don't know why.  Just go with it.)

She goes to school at a small college in an equally small town (first college town I ever saw that didn't even have a Starbucks or any other type of coffeeshop) in Michigan.  It gets FREEZING up there.  Actually, let me rephrase that: it is freezing up there and it just warms up to the 60s for a few weeks a year.  Maybe it isn't that bad, but I've never been there when the weather hasn't been just plain nasty.  I went up in June (June!) last year, and about caught pneumonia.  It was pouring rain most of the time and I don't think the thermometer went over 60.  Ugh.

Anyhow, when I heard what her color choices were, I went into action.  I found electric orange fleece easily enough; the electric pink was surprisingly difficult to find.  I eventually found it somewhere on clearance.  With these two, I made one of those tie-blankets that were really "in" when I was in high school.  But it wasn't the standard 5'x6'ish size; I made it more like 8'x5'.  This sucker was BIG.  And warm.

I folded the blanket with layers of tissue paper throughout.  Inside the folds, I put various college "necessities": study food (trail mix, dried fruit, chocolate), tea, gift card to the local drug store, funkily fuzzy socks, etc.  I then wrapped the whole shebang up in yet more tissue paper and mailed it.