The sky is grey, again. No telling if it's cloudy or simply lacking in colour, lacking in light. The morning is close, though. As soon as I woke sweat lathered over my entire face and neck. I should switch on the fan, but some mornings it feels too noisy. A foreign sound against the silence of the slow dawn. I'll simply put up with it. If I could've at least put my hair up it would've made a difference, but I am here, in the chair, before the computer now. The keyboard clatters and the computer hums softly. There's the click of the clock on the wall beside me and that held breath of morning before the first rays of sunlight spill over the horizon.The deed is finally done. The tellie is no longer in the house and he also got rid of a monitor we could use to view videos on as well. The last night we watched anything was Sunday night, when we watched Gladiator, again. True to his word, hubby switched it off and hasn't put it back on since. We couldn't take it down to the local pawn shop, where we actually purchased it, until yesterday arvo. We were the last customer of the day and I think the guy was generous just to make the transaction go quicker so her could get out of there and go home. We got $40 for the tellie, which was a bonus as far as I'm concerned. We only paid $55 for it when we bought it in December. When we looked into hiring a tellie the prices were through the roof. At least this way we only really paid $15 for nearly two months hire. Not bad at all. Hubby was very tired last night, so while he lay napping on my daughter's bed we all sat on my bed and played Yhatzee, I think I'm spelling that correctly. My son won, as usual, and then I called for some reading time.
I'm trying to finish reading The Hours which is really annoying me, if I want to be perfectly honest. Some of the prose is lovely, but I wouldn't go around recommending it to anyone. It is so incredibly secular, if that makes sense. It's almost a celebration of immoral lives and why they should feel good about the choices they've made. Maybe I'm reading into what isn't really there, but it certainly hasn't inspired me to read any of Virginia Woolfe's work. Which is probably the major problem. I am so uneducated. I didn't even finish high school. I am probably missing all the layers of meaning, but to be honest I am glad I am, because I think they have made a real unmerited fuss over this one. When I was at the library yesterday I picked up The Parrot's Theorem and even though I do want to read it, I encouraged my daughter to try it out. She's never read an adult novel before, but this might just be up her alley. She started it last night and she actually read an entire chapter. There were parts she read out to me with delight as the subject of the book is maths. My daughter loves maths and that's why I thought of her when I read about it ages ago.
I also joined up the book club at the library. I've wanted to join one for absolute ages, but most wanted to meet in the evenings and I already do enough at night as far as I'm concerned. I don't need another thing to take me out of the house and away from my family. But this is once a month and they meet on an arvo in plenty of time for me to still go and collect the kids from there. I was rapt and made inquiries straight away. It seems they hire the books and we only need to pay $5 a month for them. Not bad at all. I walked out of the library with a newish copy of Atonement by Ewan McEwan. Now, I'm not so sure about the subject of this story, but it will certainly make lively discussion when I go to the meeting. With no tellie now I want the family to get into more reading. My son read The Indian in the Cupboard for a while, but then he finished off a picture he wanted to enter into the local kids pages of the newspaper. He only had to colour it in really. It looks terrific. I hope they select his for publication. The prize has gone up to $15, so he's really keen. It was a good evening. Hubby came to our bed when my daughter was ready for bed, like a swap, really. I'm happy with the tellie gone.
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