Finished A "Friends" Puzzle...It Messed With My Mind

 My wife ordered a Friends-themed puzzle. She thought it would be fun.

Turned out, it wasn't as fun as she thought it would be.

Oh, it wasn't the worst puzzle we've ever done--that would be a thrift store find that was missing puzzle pieces. No, even though the photos used to make up the puzzle are fun for fans of the show, this puzzle had a lot of negatives going for it.

First, it wasn't "high-quality." We've put together a lot of puzzles (more than some, not as many as others...) and we've gotten used to a certain quality of the product. Most of those puzzles we've finished were from Dowdle Folk Art Puzzles. We love them. The pieces fit together nicely, but better yet, they include a separate larger-than-the-box picture of the puzzle, a picture you can pick up and look at closely.

The Friends puzzle only had the picture on the box, and a lesser-quality picture on the bottom of the box. It started giving me a headache trying to pick out the tiny details found on the individual puzzle pieces.

My wife did almost all the puzzle. I swooped in at the end and finished it. I don't think I could have done it all--there were just too many issues with this particular puzzle.

If you're a fan of the TV show and a fan of puzzles, I'm not going to necessarily discourage you from choosing this puzzle...

I'm not necessarily encouraging it, either.

The One With Where The Cast Of Friends Got Brain Transplants

People love the weekends for many reasons--a big reason is that many of us get to sleep in. Lately when I've had the opportunity to sleep in, I keep waking up early, sometimes earlier than I do for work. This wouldn't be a problem if I would go to sleep at a decent hour, but I don't on weekends because, well...hey--I can sleep in.

This morning, though, for whatever reason, I was able to slumber beyond my normal time of waking up. It was great. The system worked. This particular morning, however, I woke up with a dream fresh on the brain.

And it had to do with brains.

Thanks to the modern miracle that is "binge watching," we've had the show Freinds on a lot lately. Last night's/this morning's dream had to do with all six stars of Friends. For some reason, the friends were all together and they needed to get brain transplants. In the dream, this made sense. The transplants were only supposed to be temporary, so that's good. The actors assembled and the transplants began.

But, they were not fitted with good brains, not even "Abby Normal" brains were used. No, show's characters were given chicken brains.

Why chicken brains?

I have no idea.

So, they get their new brains and began walking around. The next thing you know, none of the characters could do their jobs because they had forgotten how to do their jobs, or do anything else. This also made sense because they had chicken brains.

I woke up at this point and told my wife I dreamt about the characters in Friends getting brain transplants with chicken brains. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not able to sleep in more often...