Quick Catch Up

     

So I have yet again neglected my blogging duties... I have just started reading a new book (I am literally like 2 pages in) and immediately loved a line/concept in what I have read. The narrator mentions how he moved to New York in the late 90's to be a writer at a time when magazines were everywhere and writers actually got paid to write. What intrigued me was he said how his mind ponders things deeply and moves too slow for blogging or tweeting... I do not want to plagiarize the book, but that is the gist of the paragraph I read. It made me smile because I can totally relate to that idea. I started this blog because, in my endless search for direction in life, I considered becoming a writer for a brief time and believed that a blog would be a good way to hone my writing abilities. Yet I have often been unable to come up with something meaningful to say. If you have been reading my posts, you will notice a lack of consistency each month. Also, I resort to writing about my picture game for most of the time. Do not get me wrong, my life is really so uneventful that the picture game is the best source of material for me. To be honest, I enjoy the game as well and am often intrigued by the things I learn about each theme when I do further research for these posts. So they may seem silly, but I enjoy writing them. But still, this is truly a blog often filled with superfluous content. I have long since given up the idea of being a writer, but  still like writing the posts so I have no intention of stopping the blog anytime soon. This book, though, has made me fell less terrible about my failure to post regularly. 
    
       The point of this particular post is to catch you up on the themes I have missed. I have not posted in a month so there are technically 4 themes that I should tell you about. I'm not going to give you details and pictures on all of them though. I will tell you about the first two then mention the last two. My reasoning is simple. Last week's theme is one I love a great deal and want to devote an entire post to telling you why I love it. This week's theme has just begun and so I am on schedule to reveal it. It is theme, however, that also deserves its own post. In fact, I have mentioned it in previous posts and have probably devoted whole posts to it last year. I cannot help repeating myself sometimes. There are just some things I love in life that come around more than once and feel the need to share my love of them. And so, to begin...

       The first theme I missed was a tribute to summer. We actually used this theme once before when we played last year. I chose it again because it was almost September and thus summer was ending. We used it as one last tribute to the beauty of beaches, pools, hot days, and cool foods. I won't show you a ton of pictures because you can just go find the old post and look at those. I will say that I did not repeat a single picture and while I hate summer I love the pictures I came up with. I love to swim and I definitely love the beach so finding pictures of summer was a breeze. Following our tribute to summer, I chose back to school as our theme. In my home area that week was the week all the kids went back to school. I have been out of school for a while but I miss it horribly. So I thought it would be fun to post pictures that reminded me of school. Plus, it was a quirky theme and posed interesting challenges. I will share a few of the pictures from these two themes so you can get an idea of what we came up with. The other two themes are ones you will just have to tune in to find out. On the plus side, this means I will post a bunch of times this week. On the down side (maybe) you will have to come back to satisfy your curiosity. I will tell you one is a country and one is a season. If you know me or have a brain you can probably figure out one if not both of them. If not, you will just have to return and find out. Until then, stay well...