Mom's Place, Day Three

Not a whole lot new to say, but I thought I'd check in and say "hi." Things are going OK here. Taking care of the family patient isn't any trouble at all (although I suppose I'd probably feel differently if I were the one who had to wake up when he needed something in the middle of the night), and neither are any of the little things I've been doing around the house to help out my mom. Living in the same house with smokers is a somewhat different matter; I think I'm just going to have to get used to having all the linings in my respiratory system in a more-or-less constant state of irritation. And living in the same house with anybody leads me to suddenly realize just how long it is that I've been living alone. I'm just not used to having people around talking to me all the time. (I'm also totally not used to having the TV on all the time... If I'm less eloquent than usual (ha!), blame it on the auditory distraction. I have great difficulty hearing the words I want to say in my head when the radio or the TV is trying to force its own words through my ears and into my skull.)

Speaking of words, if anybody remotely cares, the state of my reading list currently looks like this: I did finish Tricky Business before I left. An entertaining enough book, that but not anywhere near as good as Big Trouble, in my view. I'm now about 3/5ths of the way through The Three Musketeers, which, by the way, I can recommend as an excellent "travelling" book. Absorbing enough to pass the time well on, say, long plane flights, but fairly leisurely-paced, so it's easy enough to sit it aside when you need to go and do stuff. Fun book, too. A bit less swashbuckling action that I'd expected, but a bit more intrigue to make up for it, along with a delightfully sly sense of humor that I totally hadn't expected. Ah, there is something to be said for catching up on the classics...