Well, he isn't about to bring up his bright idea of mixing her pain killers with alcohol in what could be viewed as a passive suicide attempt -- not by him, but other people might make that leap. And he doubts she wants to hear about his apartment hunting or the way his previous life is blending into whatever he has here. Life problems. Ironic as that is.

He would shrug, but he doesn't want to make her slip while she's got the scissors in her hand. "Just the usual." Then he thinks a moment and adds, "What about you?"

For Spike, the question is more along the lines of the trouble someone might get into for being a sympathetic heart, but he'll leave it as implied.