Even though it has been years since I took a spelling test in school, I still try to ensure that I know how to spell words.  In a society where relying on a spell-checker is commonplace, I think that there really needs to be some emphasis on knowing how words are spelled – a spell checker is not infallible and often makes mistakes.  In order to do this in some sort of efficient manner, I have made a point of working on a couple of crossword puzzles every day.

My day usually starts out with doing the crossword puzzle in the newspaper each morning.  This puzzle certainly isn’t very hard, but it is a great way for me to jump start my brain in the morning.  For the most part, these puzzles have had a large variety of topics that change pretty much every day, but this past week, things have been a little different.

I don’t know where they have been finding their puzzles for this last week, but the theme has been male dog names.  For most people, this would be an easy subject, but for me it has been difficult.  It is embarrassing to admit, but since I never had a dog of my own, I don’t know many of the names that “normal” people do.  So, I have been struggling all week and I have been very frustrated.

I am hoping that the puzzles return to their usual styles next week as I am tiring of feeling frustrated each day.  If there is not some sort of change soon, I might just have to go out and invest in a crossword puzzle book.  I don’t want to get to the point where crossword puzzles are too frustrating to me and I no longer want to do them.