Getting Defensive

I’ve been playing a lot of Words with Friends lately and one thing that’s rocked my world is that — unlike with the scrabble program for my iphone –– these people often play to win.
You can tell pretty quickly if someone’s wise and strategic, and if they are, you have to start playing super-defensively.  You simply cannot just put down the best word you can possibly think of with all your letters if you’re also positioning them for something potentially amazing.
I’ve learned that lesson now the Hard Way with Alexa from Acre who is actually astonishingly great at word games.
“Norm” the scrabble computer player plays a decent game but does not play to win.  Norm never uses all his letters (which is an extra 50 points in Scrabble but only 35 in Words with Friends), nor will he try to max out the J, Q, X or Z for all it’s worth.
Not so, Alexa.  Not so.
Note:  this goes painfully against every Allowing and Law of Attraction belief I practice –– “this is an Abundant Universe where if you can imagine it, it can be yours” –– not to mention the entire yoga, non-competitiveness thing (although if we’re being honest, I never really got behind that so much).
In other news, today was a day of massive housecleaning, both physically –– I found a cobbler for two sad pairs of formerly chic shoes –– to intellectually –– major database and webpage clean-up.
Speaking of which:  if you’re reading this and you like me, would you please LIKE my new Facebook fanpage (and make sure you’re on the mailing list?).   Here’s the LINK for the page & for the list sign-up.   [And remember, if we’re facebook friends and you didn’t get the reminder email about last Thursday’s call, that might mean you are on the Do Not Mail list via the facebook purge that constant contact insisted on.]
All this is prep for the re-write of my script starting tomorrow, inspired by my amazing conversation with the great Sarah Finn.
Belle, by the way, is DYING to see the AVENGERS tomorrow which Sarah cast, particularly because Chris Hemsworth (aka THOR) might just be an excellent choice for our lead.  [Sarah reports that he’s a genuinely great guy.]
And, since I have begun my own physical regime three days ago, here’s a little comparison of his days on that Australian soap opera which turns everyone into a superstar and his Thor-body.
[Honestly, for my film, I want something a little between WeHo Diety and Norse God, but still … it’s ultimately entirely Belle’s decision.]