B-I-N-G-O

I am a gamer.  Word games, luck games, skill games... I love 'em all.  (Except video games where my mario kart only spins at the starting line and I get negative points. Bleh.) 

Favorite games I will stay up all night playing include:
Bananagrams
Phase 10
Settlers of Catan
Cranium
Dutch Blitz
Boggle
Would You Rather

But for some reason I keep being drawn to making up Bingo games to entertain myself.  Maybe it's because Bingo can be played by one person or a hundred.... and you can fill those beautiful empty spaces on the game board with whatever you want. And don't forget the free space.  Who doesn't love a free space?

Someone may or may not have made a Bingo card during a recent choir recording session about things that happen during a typical session, which included the ringing of the Nauvoo Bell outside.  Never have more people been thrilled with a ruined take by that dang Bell ringing, giving several people Bingo at the same time...

I digress.

But this time, I am taking Bingo to a whole new level.  Eclipsing it with my New Year's Resolutions.  I called it "Bucket Bingo 2011".  Bucket meaning when 2011 kicks the bucket, I better have gotten my GAME on.

These squares are filled with fairly challenging goals, and as a Bingo row is completed there will be some serious prizes for myself.  I haven't even told myself what the prizes are, they are THAT good.

 

I know some of you are looking at my goals.  Ya peepers.  And by the way, I have several squares that are duplicated so that I will be doing them more than once.  I had to break down some of those bigger goals.

So now I'm excited to play.  I should have called it Bingoal!

Since no one else is playing, I have a pretty good chance of winning, and my strategy is ultimately going for Black-Out, of course. 

And so far I'm not stuck spinning at the starting line.

What are your goals?  How do you stay motivated?  Or forget goals (I hear some people don't believe in them).... what games do you like to play?

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