Words, Words, Words

It must be stated here, right from the start: I am a word game geek. As long as I can remember, playing word games has been a favorite past-time. The first game I remember playing had orange letter cubes and a plastic orange cup for holding the cubes. You shook the cubes in the cup and then spilled them out and tried to make words out of the letters. The game: Spill and Spell. Happily, this game is still in my possession!

No Junior Scrabble for me as I got older...the real Scrabble was my next favorite. My whole family enjoyed this game, and my Mom was even playing it with finesse into her 80's.

In fact, my Nelson side loved to play all kinds of games. We'd get together for family reunions and learn new games --- and the word games were always my favorites. Enter Boggle, Perquackey, and Syzygy.

The good and bad about playing these games, however, is that they need two (or more) to play. Once the kids moved out, I was out of luck---Wes is not a fan of word games. My sister and I enjoy playing together, but again, she is not available around the clock as whim dictates.

How to solve this problem? Computer, of course. I play my CD ROM of Scrabble. And Facebook Lexulous is fun. I find "Lex" the robot to be a good partner these days. Funny that real "friend" people playing online caused me more stress due to my apparent competitive nature surfacing, so I have put that on hold for now.

Further proof of my word game geekiness is that as I try to fall asleep at night my brain gives me random letters to organize into words. I work on word endings, what words have the letters v, q, and k and w in them; I work on prefixes and compound words and words with many vowels and consanants. Sometimes I think counting sheep would be a whole lot more restful!

What do YOU think about as you are trying to head off to the Land of Nod??