Solitaire's the only game in town...

I'm back after a particularly traumatic house move. I'll spare you the details, but if I say that five days before were due to move out of our house, we still didn't have anywhere to live, you get the gist of it. And now, after weeks of packing and unpacking, assisted by grouchy husband and bored, whingeing child, sitting on my bum studying, alone and un-pestered, suddenly seems a much more attractive prospect.

So here I am, and of course, I can't just get straight down to it. Must check all my emails, have coffee, eat chocolate (hey - I'm not a qualified nutritionist yet!), and of course, update my blog!!
Priorities first. Then, although I will try and fight the addiction, I know I will have a game (or two) of Solitaire before I start.

I can't count the amount of games of Solitaire I have played since starting this course. It helps me concentrate, or so I tell myself. I need it to get my brain into gear before I try to study. Really, I'm just an addict. I'm not sure what the attraction is, though I do find it almost meditative. My particular poison is Spider Solitaire, medium setting.
Not too easy, but not too hard (the idea is not to have to THINK!).

I've tried the others, Freecell etc., but they just don't cut it. I even have the occasional game of Chuzzles, but it just depresses me. I can't get beyond level 13, and the fluffy little critters stay disturbingly imprinted on my eyelids for hours afterwards, which can't be a good thing. So for me, Spider Solitaire is where it's at, and I don't care who knows it. I may be a complete saddo, but I'm proud, despite constant derision from my family (hmph! as though they could talk, the hours they spend on virtual race sites and 'Paperdoll Heaven').

I did get a bit twitchy a while ago when my daughter told her teacher that Daddy's hobbies were football and motor racing, but Mummy 'likes playing cards on the computer'. Hmm. That did hit home, making me sound like the saddest saddo in Sadtown. I did cut the hours down after that, and now have my addiction under control!
So, now it's just the odd few games during the day, when I need a change from molecules and enzymes. After all, you have to admit, 'Solitaire' is a pretty appropriate diversion for a 'Lonely Learner'!