A Long Week

This week, Taz and I are playing host and hostess with the bestest of intentions.  And its been interesting.  My older sister is in town for the better part of the week, and now that she's spent four days at my younger sis's place and they've visited (i.e. bickered) each other into sibling-overexposure, she is staying with me until next Thursday.  So....that makes this day 3 of....7.  That's not halfway... 
Right now, we are in the library on campus so that we can all access the internet without fighting over the single laptop at home. (Yes, we are *gasp* a single laptop couple.  And its 5 years old.  With no internet connection.  Sometimes when I tell this to people on campus, I get pity faces like it must be physically painful not to get on the internet at home. But I digress.)

Taz and I don't usually have company stay for a long time.  Sure, we get the occasional parental overnight or friend who crashes after drinks with dinner, but most of the time its just us two in there.  This is the longest I've had to "behave" in my own home in 18 months with hubby, and its been a challenge. You develop couple habits, like language short-forms that other people don't understand, naked Saturday afternoons, and early morning conversation routines that go something like
"morning"
"unnngg. Coffee?"
"Counter. Dog?"
"After"

But when you have a guest in the house, all that changes.  You have to remember to close the door when you're changing, for example, a habit I'm having a lot of trouble remembering.  This is a looong 7 days.

But there is a deepr point to this blog post than the inconvenience of having to cover my butt in my own house for a week. This has been a hard couple days for my conscience. I can't write about it at the moment, because I don't have time and I need to sort out how I feel in the end, but I'm posting this now so I can hold myself responsible to it later and actually get the damn thought down.  Maybe in four days when the apartment has returned to its usual state, and we can cook dinner in the buff again.