My life is so weird right now, but it's a good, peaceful weird. Someone called me today that I completely didn't expect to call. I've spent the weekend tickling and tossing about both my nephews, and now I have a whole week ahead of me with nothing to do but knit, shop, recommend books to my sister, watch movies, and run back and forth between family members. The best part about it is that I'm letting go of feelings of obligation, and it feels so *good*, because then I can do what I want to do and not let certain family members guilt me into coming to them--perhaps once, in the 32 years they've known me, they can come to me if they want to see me. Sweet release from feelings of guilt toward people who rarely do anything for me.
Tangentially, being home (that is, hanging out at my sister's house) and not working at all for nearly a week has been SO refreshing. I'm almost unconnected--no IM access here at my sister's because they don't have wireless and hooking my laptop directly into their connection didn't work for some odd reason (it picks up the signal, but doesn't allow me to connect--they might have a password that their computer automatically remembers, I suppose, but they don't think they do. They think it's just that the connection is temperamental). Oh well, I can still check my email occasionally, and at least I was able to turn around a copyedit that needed to get to the proofreader while I was gone. But the best part is that unconnecting for a while allows me to reconnect in other ways, and it's been so good.