HELP...my brain's getting tired

I hardly ever used my cell flip phone, but just before Christmas I wanted to call someone.  Got a message that I didn't have enough money on the account to make the call.  Over the holidays I pondered whether I should just put more money on the account or if I should splurge and get one of these new phones that does all these wonderful new things.

Started looking into available plans and they start talking "data", "megabytes", "gigabytes", "plan"  and a whole lot of other lingo that I had no clue what they were saying!!!  They may as well have been talking Greek to me!!!  I finally talked to enough people and asked enough questions to understand them a bit and found a plan that I thought would work for me.  Ended up with an IPhone. The salesman's theory was that I'd used an IPad so I would be more familiar with the format...he was soooo patient with me and all my dumb questions!!

Then came the fun of trying to figure out how to use it.  Did pretty good till it came to texting.  No matter what I tried and who I questioned it just didn't work, so back to the store and after an hour or so of changing SIM cards and numerous other settings, it came down to me having to keep my old cell phone number...disappointing because the new number was sooooo much easier to memorize!  Now I've got to keep my phone number written down so I remember it but I've got  a phone that tracks everything I do, walk, sleep, eat...you name it!!!!  But.....I'm beginning to enjoy it!!!

If that wasn't enough brain exercise....we decided to upgrade our internet and TV package, including Netflix...more to learn.

Puzzles

We have an alcove downstairs where we have table and chairs set up to do puzzles.  There's a window for some natural light and there is a recessed light in the ceiling right above the table with an nice bright energy efficient bulb in it, so gives lots of light.  We almost always have a jigsaw puzzle on the go.

I have a Santa puzzle I do every year.  I've done it about 4 or 5 times so I'm getting a bit tired of doing it.  In mid November we'd received a little catalogue from Bits and Pieces in our mailbox and found some interesting puzzles in it.  Phoned and ordered them.  They were mailed out by Canada Post so one day we got a key in the mailbox.  Used the key to open a bigger compartment near the bottom of the tower, took out the box, locked the compartment and put the key in the outgoing letter slot...such a neat system!!!  The best part is that we didn't have to worry about someone stealing our parcel off our front porch.

We got 4 puzzles (750 pieces each) and we've already done 2 of them.  They're free form puzzles and so much fun to do because you can't really tell what is an outside edge...no squares or 4 corners on these ones!

For Christmas our eldest daughter got us a 1000 piece puzzle of Christmas ornaments  so we started it on New Years Eve.  Some of our guests were intrigued so we spent quite awhile working on it.  We got it finished later that week. It was a lot harder than it looked but not so hard to be totally frustrating!

We've got another puzzle on the go now.  It is quite the challenge, on the border of being frustrating, but when we get it finished I'll post a picture of it ...... then, we can start on the other two free-form puzzles!