Scrabble

Friday, June 20, 2014

Today I am grateful for Scrabble.  Since I have strep throat, along with a lot of pain and no energy, I’ve been watching waaaayyyyy to much TV.  The brain cells are flying out of my head like roaches when I’d flick the kitchen light on in Jakarta.

Last night I suggested a game of Scrabble.  I love Scrabble.  I’m not very competitive and when John, (who keeps score) says, “Do you want to know the scores?” I know he’s winning.  If I’m ahead he doesn’t bring it up.  I don’t really care.  It’s not that I don’t try for the biggest points and look for double word and triple letter spots to use, it’s just that I won’t take forever doing it.  It doesn’t matter that much to me.  I just like playing the game.

Scrabble, like life, is all about the process to me.  Sometimes you hit it outta the park.  Some days you’re lucky to just be there. One day I used all the letters on a triple word square.  Big points.  Another time I’ll get stuck with so many vowels that phonetically it would sound like a silverware drawer being dumped on the floor.  Sometimes life offers big points, too.  Other times you can’t figure it out to save your dumped silverware.

Since we started playing scrabble years and years ago, I’ve realized that I’m no dummy.  I am the intellectual equal to my husband who has such a brilliant mind it’s scary.  He could be on Jeopardy if they had a pause button.  Me, too, but I’d need a group discussion along with the pause.

I’m hoping today brings double letter and triple word scores all around.  I’ll be grateful for them. . .whether I’m playing Scrabble or not.  Tomorrow, if at all possible, I’m getting back in the BIG game.  Life!