I'm a simple man. All I wanted for this little vacation was an opportunity to puzzle without being attacked by my new freeloader. I had the house to myself one morning so I put Hacks on the big screen and got to work. Historically, 1000 piece puzzles can take me around 7 hours so that was the amount of time I budgeted. I had my timer going while I was puzzling, but paused it when I took a few short breaks. I tried to pause every 30 minutes to drink a glass of water and stretc

This is the story of where my love for puzzles began, since I’m sure you’re all wondering where the desire to be the fastest puzzler in the world came from. I knew from a young age that I was really sad. I was a depressed kiddo. We always had puzzles around and did them during the holidays. Once I became sentient, and would start puzzles on my own, my dad would grumble about how he couldn’t walk by the puzzle without doing it. I would set up our puzzle board in front of the

What I'm Listening to: My word of this year is pleasure. As I was perusing https://dreamymoons.com.au/ and shopping for my new year planner, I came across the Aphrodite journal. It got me thinking how disconnecting from my body I become when I’m anxious or unregulated. I can’t say I ever really learned to be connected to my body, with the repressed queer religious upbringing that we don’t have to get into today. It’s already expensive (but worth it) shipping these journals fr