I started a new puzzle yesterday – it’s called “Gecko Madness.” It’s another 1,000 piece monster – I actually got this for Dalton once because he is so good at puzzles, but he never did even open it.
Now, every time he happens by he manages to find a missing piece immediately; I do not know how he does that!
I have found that I enjoy doing these though; especially if they are particularly challenging – and this one is that, for sure.
Something else I did yesterday: as I was going through some of my things and putting them away in my “art credenza” by my desk, I saw something on the floor and thought perhaps I’d dropped something. It was just a little thing – looked like it was perhaps a thumbtack, or – I really didn’t know, but I picked it up. It was black. And it was a dead spider, legs curled up in a ball – and I shrieked and dropped it. I actually picked up a dead spider with my bare fingers! Horror of horrors! And it was not a tiny spider. It was a rather large, leggy, hairy spider – thankfully dead.
I hate spiders. I get chills just thinking about them. I did manage to pick the thing back up and throw it in the garbage. But I used a tissue this time.
I’ve been having strange dreams (and I remember that this happened last time I quit smoking); after seeing a poor dead cat (that had been run over) at the side of the road for the last couple of days, the other night I dreamed that it came back to life and started talking to me. I’d say that’s a bit strange…. And then last night I dreamed that Louis came back, but his son was still the little 8-year-old boy that he’d been when I first met them, and my son (who is older by only a couple of years) was a big teenager – but even bigger than he currently is. So that was weird too.
Sometimes life is just full of little bits of weirdness…
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March 11: PUZZLE UPDATE – I have finished this beast – and it was fun; however it seems to be missing two pieces! I do not know if the cats somehow did something with them or if it came that way from the factory. Oh well…