I is for seeking Improvement

I sort of suck at Scrabble, but I want to be better!  I want to kick my friend Kelley's butt!!  Therefore, I am seeking improvement.  I am studying two letter words, like aa and mo, and words without vowels, like hmm and shh (or hm and sh), and q words without u, like qat and qi.  The Scrabble dictionary is a mysterious thing, really, quite unlike any normal dictionary I've ever seen.  Don't expect to find all of the normal words in it, and you can be certain there are a lot of really odd words that you would never use in day-to-day life.  I was particularly disappointed to discover that "fart" is not in the Scrabble dictionary.  Really?  Fart isn't a Scrabble word???  "Bitchen" is, however, in the Scrabble dictionary, I was delighted to learn on Sunday evening as Kelley and I battled out our second game of the night.   

I also just finished reading the book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.  I loved it.  I love the writing style and the mix of pop culture/history/fiction.  I loved all of the new words I had to look up.  I probably won't remember many of them this time, but if there's one thing I've figured out as I've gotten wiser (read: older), there is nothing like a lot of books under your belt to help build a vocabulary (which goes hand-in-hand with adding years under the belt as well).  Happy Scrabble to you, my friend(s).

H is for what the Hell?

Why would I think F comes after G?  Oh well.  My debut back into the blogging world can't be perfect!

F! F is for re-Finding my Blog

How did I get back here? I'm not really sure, but it was such a joy to look at my last post and remember my alphabet blogging and all of the other things I posted about before disappearing for more than a year.

Why did I disappear in the first place? Hmmm. I think this new world of Facebook and Twitter has displaced my blog to some extent. After all, I'm a busy mom and I don't have a lot of time to devote to this sort of thing. Facebook is instant gratification defined. Pop on, check out everyone's goings-on, new photos, etc., post a one-sentence status, and leave. (Although sometimes it's the "leaving" part that I have trouble with.)

Maybe I'll come back to blogging. I miss it. I miss knitting, too. It can be a dual come back (I never finished Versatility because, alas, I ran out of yarn and by the time I got more, I'd lost the momentum).

Because I hate to post without pictures, here's a beautiful photo of the Sagavanirktok River on the North Slope of Alaska.