Random Ramblings

I hate vomit

Waking up to a retching child in the wee hours of the morning sucks.  Having your partner on the other side of the world makes it suck even worse.  Over the years, we developed a method of dealing with the situation.  I clean up and comfort the kid while Mike takes care of everything else.  Doing both is not only difficult, but it risks a secondary vomit mess.  

So, what to do?!  My first instinct is to throw everything away, but I'm too cheap for that.  How cheap am I?  Yesterday, I actually considered saving panties for hand-me-downs.  I caught myself on that one, but it was a close call.

So I'm left with trying to deal with chunks without spewing my own.  My method this time around was to toss things in the tub and spray them down with the shower hose.  I'm thinking that it wasn't the best choice since the tub doesn't want to drain now.  Bring on the Draino!

And sometimes I read true junk

No, it's not romance novels.  Those bodice-ripping paperbacks have never caught my interest.  My form of junk reading are books based on the TV show Monk.  I love the show and when I saw that there were books, too, I just had to give them a try.  I've read the ones set in Hawaii, Germany and Paris so far - it's always neat to see how well an author brings a place to life.  

So, how are they, you ask?  Pretty much mindless junk, but sometimes that's just what I need.  A story to slip into with characters I enjoy so that I can relax without trying too hard.  The stories are written well enough, but there's a little more cheese factor than necessary.  Kinda reminds me of the junk I read a decade or so ago - Star Trek, The Next Generation, novels.  I'm a geek!