Scrabble and Jessie - Two of the Loves of My Life :)
(Not in that order)
Mmm, Make that Three of My Life's Loves!
We aren't Scrabble purists - we believe in playing with the dictionary
Showing posts with label Scrabble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scrabble. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
35 Weeks! And stupider by the day...
This has been such an easy pregnancy! God is good. I do not feel like I'm only five weeks from delivering. We leave for Spring Lake in less than four weeks. We will be renting a house there and having a little vacation time until my labor starts (then the vacation is over!). We decided to travel across state for the second time because we are so attached to our midwives.
Lately I have been clinging to things that make me feel at all intellectual. I know I'm not the only one who thinks pregnancy makes us 'stupider'. I can't finish a crossword without cheating, a lot. I used to pride myself on my vast array of random useless information (very helpful for solving crosswords), but lately I just can't beckon up the names of Egyptian deities or former Soviet bloc capitals that I know are lurking there somewhere. Maybe I am just so full of actual useful information now that the stuff I don't need every day gets crowded out. If that is true, then apparently forming an intelligent sentence isn't very vital, either. That whole subject, verb, direct object pattern is SO over-rated.
Therefore I was THRILLED the other night when I watched Jeopardy and found that I knew the answer to Final Jeopardy was "He aint Heavy, He's My Brother"! I didn't know why I knew it, it was just there. I was all the more ecstatic when none of the three contestants (who weren't even pregnant, by the way) knew the answer. However, upon reflection, I realize that knowing the name of 70's top Billboard hits isn't really something that most people point to as proof of intellect capacity. So I'll keep plugging away at my Scrabble games. Because everyone knows that only extremely pointy-headed intellectuals are attracted to a game that depends so heavily on having a list of two-letter words such as 'Qi' and 'Ag' memorized.
Lately I have been clinging to things that make me feel at all intellectual. I know I'm not the only one who thinks pregnancy makes us 'stupider'. I can't finish a crossword without cheating, a lot. I used to pride myself on my vast array of random useless information (very helpful for solving crosswords), but lately I just can't beckon up the names of Egyptian deities or former Soviet bloc capitals that I know are lurking there somewhere. Maybe I am just so full of actual useful information now that the stuff I don't need every day gets crowded out. If that is true, then apparently forming an intelligent sentence isn't very vital, either. That whole subject, verb, direct object pattern is SO over-rated.
Therefore I was THRILLED the other night when I watched Jeopardy and found that I knew the answer to Final Jeopardy was "He aint Heavy, He's My Brother"! I didn't know why I knew it, it was just there. I was all the more ecstatic when none of the three contestants (who weren't even pregnant, by the way) knew the answer. However, upon reflection, I realize that knowing the name of 70's top Billboard hits isn't really something that most people point to as proof of intellect capacity. So I'll keep plugging away at my Scrabble games. Because everyone knows that only extremely pointy-headed intellectuals are attracted to a game that depends so heavily on having a list of two-letter words such as 'Qi' and 'Ag' memorized.
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