2002 Story Set
| July 28, 2002 Ben and Jerry's ice cream is not supposed to come home from the store, even if transported in the back of a pick-up truck in the high heat of the day, looking like soup. It was obviously not frozen very hard at the store. (Albertson's.) In my house, I am the official ice-cream-is-slightly-melted ice cream spoon licker. This means that, if the ice cream is soft on the top when we get home from the store, I get to run a spoon around the top and then lick the spoon. I usually clean up the lid too. My children caught me at that once or twice when they were younger. They wanted their turns. I stuck to my guns. My house - my rules - I lick the soft top off the ice cream! It comes from wanting to do that as a child and being denied. There were six children. You had to fight for things. I have continued to do this ice-cream-licking thing which accounts for the fact that, if I am behaving myself on my diet, I do not buy ice cream. Except Klondike bars. Which I can cut in half and thus spread out a little damage over two days. But, I had a coupon. And this requires that I use it. I am saving money after all. So I got two pints of Ben & Jerry's. Vanilla with caramel and fudge swirl and a matching one with fudge chunks. Supposedly. I noticed that they were soft at the store when I unloaded for the check out. They were really soft as soon as I brought them inside. The tops came off easily. They both were soup. One so bad I could pour it into the lid. I grabbed a spoon and took care of all obviously melted stuff. Not the soft ice cream - because it was all soft - but the really soft stuff that flowed. Within reason. Now, on weekends, I get lazy, and I do not count out all my pills. I skip some. Like the four calcium pills. My body, being sensible, decides that I should have cheese, milk, ice cream, yogurt, etc until it has had its daily quota of calcium. It does not like to be denied. Why I made eggs with low-fat cheese for breakfast. This was no exception. If I did not realize that I was about to make the low-fat lethal brownies again (the nurses at the Day Hospital requested it), I might have eaten a whole pint! As it is, I am in a coma from the floor cleaning yesterday, the heat and fact that "Auntie Flow" has arrived for a monthly visit. So I guess I must be content with shoving the ice cream (what I left) in the freezer on top of the ice cubes. I do miss the 24 cu ft side by side that I got rid of for this top freezer 22 cu ft unit. I want a 26 cu ft side by side or bigger!!!! Of course, when I downsized, I had expected that the boy was leaving home for college. Little did I know! The calcium thing is also responsible for the sudden taste for Starbuck's bottled coffee mixes. They have milk products in them. I just had Caramel swirled with a cup of ice cubes in the blender set at liquefy. Lovely. |
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