No Mo' Mojo

I admit it.  I've been in sort of a slump lately, and I just don't mean the topics for this blog.  Yes, I have been grasping at straws quite a few times here in the last few weeks, but this type of thing frequently occurs.  No, I am talking about a few other things.  Mostly, it is about my games.  I am on multiple losing streaks, and it is starting to frustrate me.  On one game, I hadn't won in three days until I finally beat my opponent in a very haphazard playoff.  I was getting so bad that I not only had to drop down a level, but I also was nearing the point of giving up on the game for awhile.  On another game, I was stuck on the same level for about as long, before a few lucky moves finally got me through, not to mention the use liberal use of a few tools.  I also missed out winning the contest for a major bonus, by less than one hundred points!  I could have won, if I had just remembered to double check my competition and played one last round to help my chances.  Speaking of special tools, I used up pretty much all of my resources in a third game.  It was a moment of weakness.  I stuck past two really hard levels that had been giving me trouble, but I had to use up the last of my uncommon bonuses.  I still have a stockpile of starting bonuses, but I try not to use most of them up unless things get super desperate.  I hadn't realized that how much I had been relying on my "free" bonuses, those I get by just logging in every day or completing easy challenges.  Many of these challenges haven't been showing up as often as they used to.  In fact, I managed to use a bunch of such freebies to pass through many levels on one of my games just this past weekend.  Still, one in five games is not that great.  The same things I happening with my puzzle skills.  I had been trying to finish up all of my favorites in my oldest puzzle magazine, but I somehow left all of one type to the end.  Unfortunately, solving forty of the same type of puzzle gets very boring after a few days.  I don't want to start on the next magazine until I finish this one, with only eight more to go and a month to finish of the next one before a new one comes out.  I had even skipped some of the puzzles I only sort of like, just so I can finish the stupid thing a little bit sooner.  I mean, some of these puzzles didn't seem fair.  They were using words that even I had never heard of, and I'm an English major with multiple interests, as well as being a lifelong puzzle enthusiast.  There aren't that many words that I am totally unfamiliar with, but somehow, these puzzles are finding new ways to befuddle me.  I could go on with my problems, but you can get the picture.  I am slowing getting my enthusiasm back, but it has been tricky.   Well, that's all I can write this week, so don't expect a well-written ending.  I just don't have it in me right now.