There will not be one unhappy item in this entire list. NOT ONE. You will not bring me down, 2026!
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Bonus puzzle photo: When I put puzzles away, I separate the edge pieces. Do you do that?
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| Thursday night |
2) San photos - There is a lot of construction happening in my town. They're putting in fiber optic cables or something. That means there's a lot of digging and marking of where underground lines and pipes are located on the ground. Meanwhile, I keep spotting spray paint that reads SAN and immediately think of San. You're welcome for this little peek into my daily walks.
3) Book event - On Tuesday, I met with Sarah and her friend Shannon to go to an author Q&A with Caro Claire Burke, the author of Yesteryear. Then we went out to eat tacos! I didn't get home until ten, which is insane for a school night! It was so much fun.
4) Snail mail - I have been so remiss in thanking everyone for sending me snail mail! Postcards! Little notes of encouragement! I really appreciate it. And look what Tobia sent me! These little purple bracelets make me so happy. I wear them every single day.
5) Mystery book reveal - Dulcie sent me an email with the reveal of the mystery book from the giveaway I did a few weeks ago!
I've never even heard of that book!
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Anyone read Kitty Karr? Do you like jigsaw puzzles? What do you consider "late" on a worknight?
Happy long weekend to my American friends. Happy regular weekend to my international peeps!
What a fun week you had, filled with so many blog friends! Wow! I do love jigsaw puzzles but I don't put them away like that - everything just goes in the box. Part of the fun is finding the edge pieces in my humble opinion!
ReplyDelete10:00 might as well be 2 am as far as I'm concerned! That's super late!
Yes, it was super late and it took me until the end of the week before I recovered. Ha! I am usually in bed by 10 at the latest, so getting home and still having to do evening chores was exhausting.
DeleteI don't do puzzles at home but if I came to visit you, I would happily do a puzzle on your dining room table!
ReplyDeleteYes, I would consider 10 pm late to be out on a weeknight. I'm rarely asleep by 10, but I like to be in bed reading by then. But I would make an exception for a fun event, of course.
Happy long weekend! I work tomorrow and Monday (hurumph) but at least I won't have to cook- I'll get my husband to make dinner since he'll be off.
I have tried to be the person who says yes to invites to do things, even if they are at a time that I normally wouldn't do them. That's worked pretty well for me and I'm getting to do some fun things!
DeleteSue has started doing jigsaws. There is not much room at the table for two of and she mostly does them while I am doing things up here in the den.
ReplyDeleteWe do have to do some shifting to make sure we can still eat at our table. Fortunately, the table seats six, so there's plenty of room.
DeleteNot one Hannah/Zelda pic? NOT ONE? How can this be a happy post? Then again, you had a lovely blog friend week, seeing Birchie, Anne, AND Sarah! Amazing. Like Jenny, I don’t do puzzles at home, and would happily do them at your house. Would I sort the edges when putting it away? I think that tracks with my anal personality, but also I like looking for them, so maybe not. Hmmm.
ReplyDelete10pm is definitely late on a school night. I tend to go to bed at around 9, and read for as long as I can manage before dropping off (sometimes only 15 minutes…)
I forgot to say, I love the pretty bracelet Tobia sent you!
DeleteI am surprised by the number of people who say hunting for the edge pieces is part of the fun. I just find it frustrating - where is the last edge piece?
DeleteI like to be in bed by 10, so just getting home at 10 is crazypants.
Yay for Anne and Birchie! How cool are those "San"-in-the-wild pictures?! I am not one to go out on work nights, so anything after 8pm feels wrong to me. There are exceptions to this, but they are so rare, haha! PS: that purple bracelet is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't remember the last time I was out past 8:30 or so on a work night and that is usually because we go to the grocery store after dinner.
DeleteI have a love/obsession relationship with puzzles. I start them, usually in the winter, thinking they will soothe my nervous system, which they probably do, but I also stay up until four a.m. being unable to tear myself away. I haven't done one since Christmas when Angus brought the one for us to do together. Doing a puzzle with friends on a rainy afternoon sounds blissful.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is like that with puzzles. He becomes monomaniacal about it - just one more piece! - until it's done.
DeleteSeparating the edge pieces seems like cheating to me. However, I am the first one to become impatient and swear I'm never doing another puzzle again and that I hate them. (It's all a lie. I just set out a new one on the dining room table to start when we get home from the lake.)
ReplyDeleteIf I stay up past 9:30 I feel like a wild thing. I swear I actually hear my bed calling to me starting at about 9. Look at you, Party Girl!
How nice that you had a blogger hang! I'm sure you all solved the world's problems as you puzzled. I'm assuming there were snacks. Did you bake?
Have a great long weekend but don't stay up too late! ;-)
You know what, Nance? There weren't snacks. I offered; they declined. I served water. That's it! Isn't that crazy?
DeleteI am so jealous you live so close to so many bloggers.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of someone separating out the edge pieces. It's kinda genius. That said, I'm not really a big puzzle fan. I get too impatient. But the idea of doing it with blog friends sounds delightful.
The geography of being near so many bloggers makes me very lucky! There's a crew of Florida bloggers that makes me envious, too. I don't take it for granted, that's for sure.
DeleteOh, I love having to separate the pieces by shape and brute forcing them. It's satisfies my hard work gene.
If this wasn’t a delightful, cool bloggers happy post, then I don’t know what is… I am so thrilled (and a bit jealous) that you live so close to so many cool bloggers that you can just meet up randomly. And that doggie puzzle was just PERFECT for you, Birchie and Anne to do together.
ReplyDeleteI am honored I was also mentioned because you see my name spray-painted on the sidewalks… now I am just curious: what does it mean???
I love puzzles by the way, but I have like three sitting in my closet that I haven’t started yet.
San, you probably don’t want to know…I’m guessing SAN stands for Sanitation - like the sewer. I could be wrong, maybe it’s the acronym for a local company.
DeleteI don't know for sure, but I suspect J is right and it has something to do with sanitation. I can't think of what company it would stand for. I like how it's always in the same color, too.
DeleteWe have A LOT of puzzles. I bought a lot during the pandemic and took a few from my mom's house when I cleaned it out. I should do them more, to be honest.
SAN is to mark the sanitary sewers. Why do I know this? 49 years with a construction guy. Much of this knowledge was acquired against my will.
DeleteI think that separating the edge pieces...makes it easier to do the puzzle! I had a puzzle that had sections stamped with letters so that you could sort out areas of the puzzle. On the one hand, it's not the old school "work for it" approach that we grew up with. But on the other hand...sometimes you just want a break and there is no law that says that everything has to be hard.
ReplyDeleteIt was so great to see you and Anne! And of course Ms Hannah Banana and Queen Zelda.
It was so much fun to have you both here!
DeleteMy Christmas advent puzzle has the sections stamped with letters on the back so that you only do 40 pieces a day in that order. It's a fun thing for us do every night in December!
Wow, so much fun social time for you this week! Anything after 9pm is late for me. Good for you for staying out for something fun, though!
ReplyDeleteI do not separate the edge pieces when storing a puzzle. Picking then out is part of the challenge. But I also do not ever put a puzzle together twice. It would still be hard the 2nd time, but once I’ve done it, I don’t want to do it again.
Oh, we regularly put together puzzles multiple times. You'd be a perfect candidate for a puzzle swap, though!
DeleteWait, why do you separate out the edge pieces? But also - do you do a puzzle more than once?
ReplyDeleteSo many cool bloggy connections in the post.
I think conceptually "late" on a weeknight is 10pm. But do I go to bed then? No! I go to bed after midnight most nights .... is there a word for "beyond late"? But you know, when I have an evening rehearsal, it usually ends at 10pm, so yeah it's late, but late has lost all sense of meaning then because we still have another 30 minutes of wrap up left, which means I don't get home until 11:00 or so.
Well, yeah, I do the puzzles multiple times. If you haven't done a puzzle in two or three or ten years, it's like a brand new puzzle to you. And if Past You has separated out the edge pieces, so much the better.
DeleteBack in the day, I used to teach classes from 6-9 and would regularly not get home until 10. I don't know how I did it. I don't know how YOU do. I'd be chronically tired.
ReplyDeleteAs you know, we love jigsaw puzzles. Since my daughter has a rule that we are not even allowed to look at the picture of the completed puzzle on the box, I can't imagine what she might say if I suggested we separate the edge pieces out when we pack them up. That would also interrupt our usual start to the puzzle which is search through the box for the edge pieces. After we have a decent pile we split them up according to who has decided to make what part of the puzzle.
Oof. I have heard of people who won't even look at the picture to help them. That seems insane to me! We are here to make puzzling fun, not punishing!
DeleteI’m trying to get caught up on blog reading. I have not read this book. I try to go to bed around 10:30 or 11 on a work night but since I can roll out of bed minutes before the first tot shows up here (and my food and clothes and shower are all within reach) so I sometimes go to bed later. I’m not often OUT on the town though. Just home staying up too late to get stuff done.
ReplyDeleteYeah, my goal is to get to bed by 9:45 and have lights out by 10:15, but most of the time it's after 10 before I get to bed. If I'm just getting home at 9, there's no way I can get to bed by 10!
DeleteYeah for a happy post.
ReplyDeleteI love doing puzzles and I would NEVER separate the pieces. That is a no go for me.
Also, my little bracelet finally arrived. I am glad. I was worried it was lost and I was wondering if I need to make another one.
And I would also think of our San immediately when seeing these graffiti's.
I'm sorry, I should have let you know ASAP when they arrived. They're such a fun treat and I wear them everyday!
DeleteLate on a work night is embarrassingly early for me. Like, 9 p.m. early. And yet, the rare nights that we actually go out somewhere and get home late, I always end up enjoying.
ReplyDeleteI will admit that I didn't recover from this Tuesday night out late until I could sleep in on Saturday. Ha! I just can't recover the way I used to, I guess.
DeleteTen o'clock is LATE on a school night!
ReplyDeleteYes, I love puzzles, but I've never thought about separating the outside pieces. Does this mean you will revisit a puzzle again and again?
There is a lot of buzz around the Yesteryear book---adding it to my list.
A bloggy hangout where you all did a puzzle together?! That is MY KIND OF HANGOUT. Okay, I'd probably be terrible at the actual puzzle part, but I would be good company, I think. I haven't done a puzzle in so long! The last time I tried, I had done the whole edge, turned away, and Eloise had gotten on the table and destroyed it. Sigh.
ReplyDelete10pm is SO LATE for a weekday! I would consider anything past 9pm as late. If I have evening plans and get home before 9pm, I feel like I've hit the jackpot. I was social AND I didn't sacrifice my bedtime, haha.
Congratulations to Dulcie for winning the prize! It looks like a really fun package - the sunglasses are too cute! And I'm so pleased because I see the postcard I sent to her in the photo!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes! She said it came in the mail on the same day and it was a great mail day for her.
DeleteThank you for not calling me out as the weakest link in the puzzle activity. (I'm commenting late, too, so probably no one will see this comment but you. Ha.)
ReplyDeleteSo many fun things. You deserve every one of them.