A Piece of the Puzzle & Perspective
Last night, as I was watching the Canucks lose to Anaheim (boo hoo), I was working on my 1500-piece picture puzzle, which at this point I'd say is about 3/5 completed. It's taken FOREVER because I have so little evening time. Anyway, at one point, I looked down beside me, and my sweet little Sam, who you've all seen in a picture or two, was paying attention to something on the carpet between his paws, and yes, he'd worked over one of the puzzle pieces so it was mush: non-recognizable aside from shape and a general lightness to it. Ruined. I cried. Literally. Months ago he ALMOST ruined another piece, he sort of scratched it, but we rescued that one. This one is beyond repair. We have decided to buy another entire puzzle just for the two pieces (well, the one, really) to make a complete puzzle. A big 1500-piece picture puzzle is really a waste with a missing piece. The picture is of Schloss Neu Schwanstein in Germany. It's a really HARD puzzle; the hardest I've ever done and I'd been making very good progress the last week or so. I really want it off the coffee table before summer.
I lost all joy at doing the puzzle after that (well, and the silly Canucks were losing) and so I covered it up and stopped for the night.
Tonight we're going to see the Overcoat, which is playing to rave reviews everywhere, but I've heard people say it's really weird, too. For one thing, there's no dialogue, it's all sort of mimed, and set to music by Shostakovich, which, eeeeeeeee, I'm a huge fan of classical music, but I'm not that fond of Russian composers in general, with the exception of Tchaikovsky. But, who knows? Go with an open mind. A friend of mine won tickets and she asked me and then it turned out she couldn't go, so she gave the tickets to me and so Mr. P and I are going. I think he's a reluctant companion, but he agreed to go with me.
Now for the perspective on the ruined puzzle piece. My (adopted) sister in Germany may have lost her partner last night. He's had cancer for a few years and has fought it with chemo and the usual surgeries and what not, but last night my parents said that they'd talked to her and she said he'd slipped into a coma and the doctors didn't expect him to make it to morning. My parents are off to Germany today (coincidentally). I think they'll be seeing her on the weekend. It's very sad, and it sure puts into perspective the "tragedy" of a chewed picture puzzle piece.
I lost all joy at doing the puzzle after that (well, and the silly Canucks were losing) and so I covered it up and stopped for the night.
Tonight we're going to see the Overcoat, which is playing to rave reviews everywhere, but I've heard people say it's really weird, too. For one thing, there's no dialogue, it's all sort of mimed, and set to music by Shostakovich, which, eeeeeeeee, I'm a huge fan of classical music, but I'm not that fond of Russian composers in general, with the exception of Tchaikovsky. But, who knows? Go with an open mind. A friend of mine won tickets and she asked me and then it turned out she couldn't go, so she gave the tickets to me and so Mr. P and I are going. I think he's a reluctant companion, but he agreed to go with me.
Now for the perspective on the ruined puzzle piece. My (adopted) sister in Germany may have lost her partner last night. He's had cancer for a few years and has fought it with chemo and the usual surgeries and what not, but last night my parents said that they'd talked to her and she said he'd slipped into a coma and the doctors didn't expect him to make it to morning. My parents are off to Germany today (coincidentally). I think they'll be seeing her on the weekend. It's very sad, and it sure puts into perspective the "tragedy" of a chewed picture puzzle piece.
posted by Pirate at 6:43 a.m.
3 Comments:
I'm sorry for your sister's husband that is always so sad.
I hope you show a picture of your puzzle. I am burnt out on puzzles until winter, well what we call winter here.
I forgot to say go Ducks. I didn't realize your team was playing our local team, not that I follow hockey.
Aw... Sorry about your sister's situation.
Yeah, that one piece. I had a friend who had a puzzle of the Taj Mahal on his wall with one piece missing. Underneath it was written, "Your objections to anything, don't mean sh*t". A great reminder that we expect things to somehow magically go our way, and that the Universe doesn't always play along.. I loved that, it always made me laugh. :-)
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