Eh, Scrabble this

So, I got an iPhone for Christmas. Sort of. What actually happened was:

• my old cell phone broke
• I wasn't due for a new phone until April
• the rest of my siblings all got iPhones for Christmas
• the iPhone looked like fun
• my husband had his old iPhone just lying around

So, I took it. And I gotta admit, it is a fun phone.

I downloaded about 50 unnecessary applications, from MoodSense (which is pretty much the dumbest app out there) to fun games like LineUp and Word Warp.

The boys have had a great time with my phone. Even my 2-year-old knows:

a) which phone is mine and which is Daddy's
b) how to turn it on
c) how to find the games he likes (Paper Toss and the Lightsaber app)

As with most things, of course, the novelty wears off. I don't like some features of the phone. I still hate that the phone doesn't have buttons, so I never text correctly. I appreciate autocorrect, but I'm also annoyed by it. Sometimes I misspell things on purpose and should be allowed to do so without the spell check police. I know you can turn it off, but, like I said, I appreciate it (see: I never text correctly).

Anyway, it went back to just being a phone for me. Until my sister told me to download Words With Friends. Which is Scrabble. With friends. Who have iPhones.

I thought this was a great game for me. I have my Bachelor's Degree in English, I'm fairly well read, I have a word of the day emailed to me every day. I am smart enough to make words out of letters.

I have never felt so dumb in my life.

In the 4 games my sister and I have played, I've only won once. And it's never even close. She beats the pants off me every time. She's an expert at using the double and triple letters to gain 50 points with one 3-letter word.

I hate her a little bit.

This last game, she played the word meze, for 70 points. What the hello is meze? According to dictionary.com, the word doesn't exist, so I should be able to call foul, but the damgame (a word my iPhone would have autocorrected) allowed it.

My brother has a theory she has another app installed on her phone that provides her words with the letters she has in her queue. I wholeheartedly agree. Because she's a cheater. Normally, her cheating is to my advantage as I'm usually on her team, but when she's playing against me, it's bullsheet (another word that would've been autocorrected).

Anyway, I played a game with my husband. In the beginning, we were fairly even. He had some pretty good words, giving him 20+ points each time. I am now losing to him.

Screw Scrabble.