My Reading Obsession

New Years morning, well, early, early morning, I was awakened by severe and intolerable pain in my shoulder/back.  Since then I have been in varying states of misery, and battling and weakness and numbness in my right arm–which makes it not so fun to type.  Today I’ve decided to type anyway. What the heck. If it’s not better by now, twelve days later, I’d better learn to live with it. 

We just returned from a weekend in Idaho Falls, ID.  K’s mother fell and really hurt her back, and his father isn’t quite recovered from his Christmas Eve surgery, so we went with K’s sister Julianne to see what we could do to help. K chipped off about 1000 pounds of ice from their walkways and did some cleaning.  Julianne cooked enough meals for them for a month and cleaned. I helped as able, but mainly kept mother company in the living room due to my inability to stand for any period of time or really use my right arm. I did, on Saturday manage to make one dish, and over the weekend did some chopping and helped with a few others.  Saturday we rented all three Lord of The Rings movies at mother’s request.  That really saved the day.  For those of you that don’t know, my favorite actor is in the last two, and it was a nice afternoon….

Reading.  Finished Song of Solomon and didn’t plan for the next bus ride so just grabbed something off the shelf.  Happened to be Emma.  I am a quarter or so of the way in.  It’s fun and light, which is good, since I can’t read for long periods now  (it’s hard to hold a book for long) and need to be able to pick it up after long absences.  Society and class play so much a part of the plot, which is fun and feels a bit silly.  It’s nice to know such a interesting record of how things were has been kept.  No dry history here!

After the movies this weekend I feel inspired to re-read Lord of The Rings, which means I won’t be in any new territory. Maybe that’s a good way to start a new year–old reading.