I'm A Geek, It's True...

A couple days ago Jeff started talking about how he wanted a Rubik's Cube to play with (and waste time), so while he was at Worship Practice on Tuesday I took the kids and went shopping and came home with one amazing little colorful puzzle. He played with it for a few minutes and then got frustrated and threw it down beside him on the couch. Lucky for me it landed close by and I snatched it up. Now the Rubik's Cube came with a solution guide and once I got my grubby little hands on it, that was it, I had to solve this puzzle. Now, I love puzzles, any kind of puzzle (except crosswords because I have never been great with words and definitions and stuff, as you can probably gather if you've read my blog for any length of time) and I have this problem that I can't give up until it's solved. This has created some super frustrating situations for me while trying to solve Sudoku puzzles in pen, and after many changes not being able to tell what number is in which square. By the way, if you love Sudoku and want to waste some extra time on the computer sometime, check this website out.

So back to the Rubik's Cube... I messed around with it for way too long in the past couple of days, well, actually not as much as I would have liked, the kids did need some attention after all, and Jeff too. But tonight while Jeff was playing NBA Live 2K7 on PS2 I sat down in front of the computer, Rubik's Cube in hand, determined to solve this puzzle. I googled "how to solve Rubik's Cube" and obviously many other people couldn't figure it out on their own either because there were about 345,000 matches. After trying a couple different sites I found one that I thought I could work with, and it turns out that after many different tries I finally mastered the Rubik's Cube! I spent close to an hour (sad I know) trying and trying to solve it. I'd get really close to finishing it and make one wrong move and be back at the beginning again, frustrated beyond belief, but once I finally mastered which way to turn which side, I was on fire, unstoppable! Well, close to it, I still messed up a few times but was able to catch it before it got to a point beyond repair. When I actually solved the whole thing I was kind of in shock. I didn't think that I had finished it, I had expected a couple of squares to be slightly off, but after turning it around and around trying to find the one that I still needed to work on I discovered that I'm a genius and had solved it without even realizing it.

So that's it, I did it. Some sick part of me wants to mess it up and try and do it all over again, but another part is saying no, just revel in your accomplishment. I'm not sure how long my self control will last at not taking the cube and twisting the heck out of it all to start again, but we'll just have to see. So next time you're in need of a new frustration, one that Child Protective Services won't come after you for throwing across the room (at least not if there aren't any kids in the room or at least in the direction of your throw), pick up a Rubik's Cube from your local Target or Wal-Mart and have fun!