Before January Ends

New Post, new post, new post. Everyday I tell myself to write one and then I don't. What is there to say? I'm a blue person. I don't want to be depressed and mopey on my blog, I save the special honor of listening to my sad self for poor Mark.

Anyway, here I am waiting for another blast of snow to start. Were you out on the Tuesday after MLK day this week in NYC? My god that has to be the worst weather I've ever experienced. EVER. I mean it wasn't snow it wasn't rain. What was it? It was like it was raining pure slush. Not like snow falls then turns to slush- it was raining slush. I was totally amazed and horrified.

Today as I left my babysitting gig I was passed by a stroller being pushed by the dad. And in his hand was a shopping bag bursting with tampons and pads. And I couldn't help it: I released an immature giggle. Here is a dad staying home with baby, which is all Go Dad! Go Equal Parenting! but then there is that silly cliche of the wife who forces the husband to do the menstrual shopping and I just cringe for the poor guy. Maybe that's why he was walking so fast. He had to get out of the open.

I'm on a reading binge. I can't stop. I read so much in one week that my eye was literally exhausted and couldn't even focus anymore. I was reading a trilogy that my pal Mario had hooked me up with. That was entertaining if also a little strange. But right before I was swimming in Young Adult, Sci-fi, post apocalyptic world, I was looking for something to do and I picked up an old book that I've had since my AmeriCorps years. I didn't remember everything about it but I did remember enjoying it. So here I am diving in and suddenly it makes itself apparent. Holy Crap! This is a romance novel! I had no idea. I definitely remember 'those things' happening but I guess it just didn't dawn on me when I first read it that it was a romance novel. There's no Fabio on the cover. No woman busting out of her corset.
So I read it. Also, I had discovered a number of months ago that the author had decided to develop the characters and create a series out of it. And low and behold I had bought the second one for 6 bucks at Barnes & Noble before I was reintroduced to the first one so I had the second one waiting for me and of course I dove in because I was hooked. It's romance. But it's also historical fiction which I'm a total sucker for. And it's tasteful. :)