Florida Chick Figures it Out

I completely lack the ability to think rationally. I have no logical thought process, and basically I'm incapable of thinking things through from step 1 through step 5 without getting distracted halfway through. I learned this the hard way in highschool algebra. I spent hours working at the kitchen counter with my dad trying to figure out where two trains would meet if they were going in opposite directions at different speeds through different weather conditions...are you kidding? Give me an essay question anyday and I'll throw around some eloquent vocab and variable sentences and make it work, better yet, let me write a story about why the people on the train going south don't really want to meet the train moving in the opposite direction and instead want to take a vacation in Clearwater Beach.

However inept my logic skills, today, I was challenged to use whatever logic (however small) and solve the Rubik's Cube...which would be fine except that I didn't choose this challenge myself, it was placed on my by my daughter. It wouldn't be so bad if were just a basic challenge, but in our family the cube is one of Chris's prized possessions, he's the only person I know who can solve it without peeling off the stickers and putting them back in all the right places. Actually, he was the only person that I knew until Sunday, when my daughter figured it out...my nine year old daughter.

Being competetive in nature, I took on the challenge heart and soul...I spent the entire second half of the Superbowl working on the Cube and woke up yesterday for some extra practice time. I picked it up again when I got home from work, and took it into work this morning to practice before class. I got the yellow side once, but I'm not sure how - it was completely accidental, and by the time I switched it around again, I had forgotten any moves that I had used to make it work. I almost got the red side together, but apparently it took me too long because Kaitlyn became impatient and finished it for me (after rolling her eyes at my incompetence).

As frustrated as I am, I'm sure I'll get it before the week is out...at some point the rational, logical side of my brain just has to kick in and figure it out - of course, if I don't, I can always sit down and write a story about why the red stickers don't all want to hang out together on the same side of the cube...or better yet, just peel them off and stick them back in the right places...