Vacation - Day 5

My little sick nephew stayed an extra night last night. I was happy to have him with me, I just wish he had been feeling better. He's such an animated little boy, always doing something or thinking about something, or asking questions, and to see him just slouching around feeling sick was killing me. To think he's still not feeling good now still upsets me - and now his little brother is sick too - but he's back with his mother who can provide that extra bit of comfort that I can't. It's not like it was a very exciting day for him yesterday; the decision for him to stay an extra day was actually suggested to my sister by my father, and I agreed, but there were no big plans for the day: he got to accompany me to the laundromat, then a trip down to the Bay at Yonge and Bloor to get him some new pajamas as he had none here. We joined Miriam for dinner at her place and watched a lot of cooking shows together, then once back home after his bath (with a Lush bath bomb) we watched the season finale of Doctor Who together, and then the season premiere of Torchwood to follow the ongoing adventures of Captain Jack Harkness. It was a little tricky explaining Jack's pansexuality to an almost-10 year old but I managed, I think. The topic of by own homosexuality has not been touched yet with my nephews, but I am going to take this one's positive reaction to Jack as a sign that it won't be an issue.

Once the wee lad went home today, I was joined by Jay for more Doctor Who (see the other blog) and now I await Miriam once more for, again, dinner and more Torchwood.

Tomorrow will be Wednesday and I'll be halfway through my first week of vacation. I have to get some more things done, I have to get out of the house a bit. All I went out for today was to get milk. Tomorrow I think I am helping my sister move. That's a long story really and it's full of family nonsense that I am really not comfortable putting into a blog. Here's where the written diary worked better for me; privacy was never an issue. Maybe one day I'll blow off some steam about it, but for now I will say that things are not as good as they could be but we are working at making them better.

That is all.