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Do you think puzzles are a waste of time? Do you think rat can spend his time in a better way?
November 24, 2015
Puzzles
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i used to work crossword puzzles!
hadn’t thought of them in a long time. i don’t have a large enough surface to work one.
i’d have to get some kind of table i guess. so no. not in my future!
but i like to look at kitties too. LOLOL. love the cartoons you pick. xo
hmmm. wonder if they still make card tables.
remember those? they were cool.
i could always just fold it up when i didn’t want to use it.
might look into that. i’m particular so the search might be fun too!
Yes, our table on the land is still a card table.
the cardtable that had a kind of felt on top, Tammy – have now become something plasticy here but they do still fold up!
my ex, loved jigsaw puzzles and that made xmas buying easy-as! Then you get them from the library but then that stopped – probably too many pieces missing!
I some puzzles daily whilst others when I feel like it – all online…some against the computer whilst against myself!
finally caught up on your blog and rummuser, just a few others to touch base with…
I’m with you, puzzles are fun and relaxing.
Thanks for coming by!
I am totally with Rat. What a luxury – wasting time.
I will do puzzles, say, with the Angel when he was still a child or my mother (she likes company). But no one tell me that puzzles are anything but showing you life’s futility. Mind you, I particularly like puzzles with a lot of sky (five hundred pieces of blue) or greenery (five hundred pieces of green) – it’s why, by way of least resistance, I tend to look at the SHAPE of a puzzle piece rather than its content.
There is one puzzle I do remember fondly. It’s a scene from one of Janosch’s books. A picnic. With a bear and other animals. It’s vibrant, it’s full of joy, activity, anticipation. A bit like cooking.
U
I figure anything that makes me happy is not a waste of time. And at my age being happy so Kaitlin and Torben don’t have to worry about me is my main job. You and I are in different stages of life, so it’s not surprising our priorities are different.
What do you consider to be a good use of your time?
You are right, Jean, we are at different stages in our lives. However, I am not limping far behind you – if this “time racing” lark continues.
You ask what I consider a “good use of time”. I don’t know. In the eyes of many I probably do “waste” an awful lot of time – not least pondering, yet I find that very same time useful. To put it another way: Whenever others want to see me NOT wasting time I’ll be busy. Doing things. That’s what people like to see. Busy, busy, busy. Now, the trick (in my book) is to do a lot of busy work which does NOT occupy your MIND. Your hands are doing the doing – your brain is free to wonder/wander.
U
Busyness is overrated. Although I do sometimes putter around doing some housework while my mind does its thing.
I can not live without my daily dose of crossword puzzles! I refuse to be Rat. Rats!
Yay, puzzles!
Anything that’s fun and challenging isn’t a waste of time. Having some pointless, unfulfilling job or socialising with people you have nothing in common with is my definition of wasted time.
Amen to that!