Here's to a new start

I started this blog back in 2005 as a way of expressing my interests.  It than became a random place to write posts.  No one besides my friends at the time would respond and so decided to just completely ignore it.  I have decided this year that I would push forward and start anew.  As I mention in the description, this blog is for anyone to express their thoughts, opinions or to just talk in general. 
In the last 9 months my life has turned upside down, but I am beginning to get on my own two feet.  I have met some great people in my life who have become great friends too.  I am completely grateful for all of them. 

So here is to a new year with new adventures and endeavors.

 

Long time no see

It's been a while since I have written anything on this website. Life has been crazy since November and I have had no time to myself. But that is a good thing, because most of that time has been gone by spending time with my son. He is 1 year old and I cannot believe it!! Life has really put me to the test in the past year and I almost felt like I was gonna fail. But I held my head up high and fought as best as I could. I just learned that I am grateful for what I have. As in everyone's mind, there is the hindsight of "what if i did that instead" but than you wouldn't be where you are today. And on top of that you wouldn't be who you are today. I am officially out of hiding and will do my best to keep up with my writing.

An upside with a twist

So a very good friend of mine works for Groupon and I have been privileged to have access to some of the deals that come out. I was browsing and I found the link below . Now this seems like a great deal for a bachelorette party tonight or to just explore. For those of you who take advantage of this deal or go just to check it out, please do tell me your experience. :)

Link to fun :)

Have fun.

It has been a long time

It has been over a year since I have posted on this blog. In that time there have been ups and downs-unfortunately more downs than ups. The one upside is that I finished my puzzle. Even with the happiness of this accomplishment I have become the worst version of myself - as Tom Hanks said in 'You've Got Mail'. I have gotten to a point where I don't know what or who I am anymore and what I even want to do with my life. Yes, I know that I have my issues, but I am trying to improve myself and am looking for a second chance. Religious people can say that oh it was the doing of a higher power, but this was all my doing. I would say in a way that this is my punishment and it is well deserved, but I am not the only one that is suffering. This is very cliche, but I wish I had a genie lamp in front of me so I could rub the lamp and start things all over again.
When I was young I remember that most of the students my age pursued paths as per the "fad" of that time; and I was one of them. However, I specifically didn't realize that this "fad" was beyond my capabilities but unfortunately due to pressures and inevitable failure, I kept pursuing it. I say do what makes you happy, but the difficulty develops in pursuing that happiness.

Puzzle Progress

So I have been working on the puzzle for about a week now and have the border with one corner almost complete. It may be hard to believe, even I don't believe it, but this puzzle is much easier than the 2,000 piece puzzle that I did. And I think the main reason is that there are different colors and scenes that's its easier to separate the pieces and put them together. Said that it's still not easy cause most of the pieces just go together even if they aren't meant to fit. So the key thing is to look at the pattern of the design for that piece, if it doesn't flow not meant to be together. And it's harder than it looks because if all the pieces are green, it becomes blinding. But I still love it!!!!! I will post of pictures soon. I have a friend coming over this weekend so hopefully we will get further.

Been away and thinking of "The World"

I know I have been away for a while, but I have been obsessing over working on this puzzle. Now if I could use this dedication in my job, I'd be the perfect (almost) worker. I don't know what it is, but even if I get stuck with the puzzle, I just keep going. I guess its because I am doing this for myself that it makes a huge difference. When we encounter problems at work, we create excuses out of nowhere in order to get out of it. Basically take no responsibility for it.

The puzzle dilemma

So I have started working on my puzzle and realized that my puzzle mat is too small. It only holds jigsaw puzzles up to 6,000 pieces. And in my search for finding a larger puzzle mat, I found out that it doesn't exist. Anyone know where a larger map for puzzles up to 9,000 pieces can be found? If anyone knows let me know.