Drink Deep from the Well of Knowledge

Well, daylight savings time is here, which means in Maine it gets dark at, oh around 4:30. So to keep myself busy through the winter, I’ve singed up for mind games at lumosity.com. These are supposedly scientifically proven games to keep your mind sharp to battle those lovely things like age related decline (other known as the “crazies”). It tracks your progress and I’m happy to report in the 14 days I’ve been doing this, I’ve gotten exponentially smarter.

I’ve become a bit addicted to one game called “Word Bubbles.” My husband and I battle continuously for the high score. I thought I’d never beat his 2710, but I just  hit 2980. YES!!! My eyes are red and burning, so I may be blind as a old timer, but hopeuflly my mind will still be active. The only problem is that as I’m trying to sleep I can help but think of words beginning with random sets of 3 letters like:

exp
exponent
exponential
expatriot
expatriots
expatriotic?
expire
expired

ant
ants
anteater
anteaters

sle
sleep
sleepy
sleeping
sleepyhead
sleephyeads
sleepyheaded…

There’s also a site called mindhabits.com that was recently featured on yahoo. They have the advantage of having anti-stress and mood enhancing games, but I thought it was less user friendly. Plus, no word bubbles.