Tag: Miscellaneous

What’s In Progress?

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling12 Comments

Happy Sunday dear readers! What’s happening on your boards this weekend? I finished up the Dogs with Jobs, completed a 150 piece mini (it was so cool!), and have started sorting my next puzzle – a 1000 piece Hot Cocoa collage. I’m hoping it’s as much fun as it looks!

I’m certain you’ve noticed that recently I’ve been posting every third day about what’s in progress instead of posting only new puzzles every day; that’s because my queue of puzzles has dwindled down quite a bit and I’m trying to stretch them out. Hubby has needed me to be his helper and chauffeur since the beginning of the month when he had his surgery, and it’s worn me out – the puzzling has slowed down significantly.

He has just this week had his sutures removed and is now able to walk with a boot, though not all the time. Since the crutches and scooter are not needed nearly as much now I’ve been back at the puzzle board – thank goodness. My services, including making meals and carrying things are no longer as in demand as they were before and I now have a bit more time for myself. Yay!

So what are you all up to? Working on something fun? Something awful? Have you been shopping in stores or online and found anything exciting?

Do tell!

I Chickened Out…

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling, Miscellaneous13 Comments

Remember this puzzle from just a few days ago? Well, it’s not on my board anymore. I chickened out – as soon as I started sorting it. The colors seemed so similar and muted and looked quite difficult; I just didn’t feel up to it.

To be honest, although the image altogether looks very interesting, when I looked at the pieces themselves it didn’t seem as though it would be that entertaining to assemble – at least not right now. Just not feeling like it’s the right puzzle for the moment.

I’ll assemble it eventually, my frame of mind just needs to be different than it is at the moment. We’ll get there someday. Hopefully.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Miscellaneous2 Comments

Whether or not you celebrate Valentine’s I hope your day is filled with friends and family that love you and that you love. 💘

We don’t do much for the love holiday here at our house. We try to treat each other with love and affection all year long; and gifts, chocolate, flowers or jewelry just aren’t our love language. There’s nothing wrong with celebrating and exchanging gifts with your partner, it just isn’t for us.

In fact, my husband and I (with our dark senses of humor) tell each other “Happy St. Valentine’s Day Massacre!” We are weird, hubby and I, and perfect for each other.

Anyway…….Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤

Think Good Thoughts, Please.

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Miscellaneous20 Comments

Hubby is having surgery today at the V.A. He’s in his 50s and this is the first surgery he’s had in his whole life. I’ll probably be away from my board for a few days until we’re settled into his recovery and how it’s going to work. He’ll be unable to drive himself anywhere for many weeks, so I’ll be chauffeuring him around to doctors appointments and physical therapy – and unable to take any of my pain medications on days that I have to drive.

I’ll probably be cranky and a little b*tchy because of it, so if that shows up in my writing please forgive me. I’ll do my best, that’s all I can do.

So if you have a moment, think good thoughts for hubby’s surgery today, and for me for the next 6-8 weeks – I may need the thoughts and prayers too.

Post #1500!

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Miscellaneous16 Comments

Can you believe it? This is post number 1500 for my little blog – the one I thought would be finished once I completed my monster 40,000 piece puzzle. The picture above is from the very first post ever on My Jigsaw Journal, a few days after I received the giant puzzle from Germany in September of 2016. It seems like a lifetime ago, although it’s only been about 5 ½ years.

It wasn’t my plan to become a puzzle blogger, I began this as a way to keep family and friends updated on the giant Disney Memorable Moments puzzle that I was assembling. Social media isn’t my thing, I have no facebook, instagram, twitter, etc., so I created the blog to post about which section I was working on and how it was going. But I realized once I started that I love everything about puzzles; I love shopping for them, looking at them, reading about them, talking about them, assembling them, and writing about them too.

I ended up with many more “followers” than just my family and friends, and was surprised to see that people from around the world were reading my posts and keeping up with them every day. It helped keep me motivated to make progress on the enormous puzzle every day, and I also found a community of like-minded puzzle geeks – what a blessing I didn’t even realize that I needed!

One thousand five hundred posts, that’s quite a lot; I’ve written about puzzles in progress, and my lack of progress on them when I’m dealing with life. I’ve written about my family, puzzling with mom and how much happiness that brought me, and working on puzzles with each of my children and my husband too – and the joy of sharing my passion with them. I’ve written about my puzzle pal Buddy, who kept me company while I puzzled, and always watched over me away from the puzzle board as well. I show off the puzzles I’m proud of, the ones that were fun and the ones that were just….meh….and warn you all about the ones I wish I’d never found. I share my life through the puzzles I complete, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the friends I’ve found here.

So congratulations to me for keeping with it; and many, many, many thanks to my faithful friends who come here to see the puzzles I assemble, read about me and my posse, my struggles with P.A.D.S., depression, anxiety and life in general, and who keep me company on my puzzling journey. I don’t think I’d still be here doing this if it weren’t for you all, thanks for sticking around.

Congrats to us all on post number 1500! 🎉🧩🎉