Now it's the third day in a row that steam is updating when I try to play Skyrim.

This is really annoying since it takes 5 - 10 minutes everytime. Is that normal?

I think I should just go offline with steam now to avoid this, I just wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing this too?

Yes, my Steam client's been updating like crazy too.

I've had two updates - further information http://store.steampowered.com/news/?headlines=1&enddate=1362124800&feed=steam_client

my game didnt update today though there was steam client update when i started steam today