Pieceful

here's something you didn't know about me.

it's that i love to do jigsaw puzzles.

yes, those old fashioned, boring, tedious, mind-numbing, addictive jigsaw puzzles.

and here's what's funny. i've always loved doing them, but i very seldom do them. i don't even think i had very many of them around when the kids were growing up. i guess because there never seemed like their was any leisure time back then.

But you'd have thought that when the kids dumped me for their own lives, i would have gone straight to the dollar store to pick up a bunch of them. and had one going at all times.

and you would have thought when the so-called great guy dumped me, i'd have gone on a puzzle bender.

but you know what? i didn't. once in awhile at christmas i'd get this old christmas one out. but that was mostly it.

and i don't know why. just never occurred to me, i guess.

but all the sudden about three weeks ago, i was walking past them at the target. and i thought, "hmm."

and so now i've got one going on my dining room table. and here's what it is. it's soothing.

it's soothing and settling. and calming. and cozy. and it's always waiting for me when i come back from where-ever i go. it's constant. but not in an annoying way.

and you know why, i think? because it's something you can concentrate on but it's not hard. and it's something that you know that you'll have success at. there's no time limit, no buzzers, no bells, no nail-biting moments, no anxious, nervous fears, and you know darn well in the end that you're going to win.

it's everything that the real world is not.

so here's what i think would be a great business. a puzzle pub/bar. where you could go and order a bottle of wine or beer if you can stomach the stuff and sit with strangers (and only strangers- you couldn't bring friends and if you did, they'd have to sit at other tables) and do puzzles together.

don't you think that sounds very cool? i'd go there everyday. right after work. of course somedays i'd drink tea or apple cider or ginger ale or something. because the main thing would be the puzzles.

i think if i started one of these bars, i'd call it "Pieces." Just so people could say, "i'm going to pieces."