Alphabet games

apple
bottom
candy
dogs
elephant
frogs
good
heaven
ink
justice
keep
link
mine
none
open
people
quick
rest
television
usually
very
wish
xray
yesterday
zebra

This is how I destress. Saying words in order a words b words c words... see where I'm going. This is how I keep the noise away. It doesn't help. For a little while it does. It eases my mind so that I can rest. And then I get so involved with my alphabet games that they keep me awake. Then I switch to number games but they only frustrate me because I was never that great with math. It's not that I wasn't great, I was just slower with numbers. It's why I don't play dominoes. One of the reasons anyway. Alphabet games are better. Except there aren't enough x words. That bothers me. I find myself collecting x words and z words and tuck them away in mind, in my bra, my front pockets, anywhere so that I will remember to pull them out later when I need to rest and can't.

How long? Well, I've always been this way. For as long as I can remember. When I was a small child I would recite Bible verses. Count the letters in sentences. Recite song lyrics backwards. Alphabet games have always been a part of my sleep. Or not.