Being at Home for Real

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I've been at home a lot this week, thanks to a bout of pneumonia.  (BTW, wow, pneumonia will stop you in your multitasking tracks.)  Anyway, I've had the unusual experience of being at home during the day without kids squabbling or weekend laundry to do.  Sometimes, I just sat in a comfortable chair in the living room.  I wrote.  I read. I watched a little television, which alternately depressed and fascinated me.  

When I watch daytime television, I come to the uncomfortable realization that I am completely out of touch with American culture.  "Real Housewives" drama exhausts me.  But, if I change the channeI, I just wonder how the man with five wives (and an unknown number of children) afforded all those familes BEFORE they were TV stars--especially since he doesn't really seem to DO anything, except run from one wife to another looking sheepish.  Then there are the talk shows, which always for some reason make me visualize a spike being driven into my brain.  I can't think!  Turn it off!  I can feel it draining all the energy from my brain cells!

Right before I turned the TV off I saw a commercial that both intrigued and disturbed me.  It was for camera that you set up in order to monitor you home remotely.  Kind of like a nanny cam, only without the nanny.  Which made me think: How sad. We're all out working so much just to afford our homes that we don't have time to BE home-- we just have to visit online.

Unless, of course, you decide to get pneumonia.