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[same_sky]

I am.. not having a good day.

But I don't want to talk about that! Let's talk about ice cream instead! I just finished a bowl of Breyer's vanilla, all smooshed up to the consistency of a spoonable milkshake, delivered to me by my boyfriend. It's funny how "husband" used to sound fake and pretentious, but now "boyfriend" is the one that sounds weird. He is a boy and he is my friend, so technically it still counts. Kinda. Anyway, carrieb thinks Breyer's ice cream is gross, and I was trying to figure out how that was possible. It's so yummy! I am apparently out of my Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice cream phase, as the last pint we bought ended up freezer-burnt before it sounded good. Other than that, I have very fond memories of Jamocha ice cream from Baskin Robbins. That was always my favorite, whenever my parents took us out for overpriced dairy treats. But then we stopped living in a town with Baskin Robbins, and I pined away. Or maybe I mostly forgot about it, whatever. Once upon a time, M and I drove to a small town called Paintsville, in some sequence of events that utterly escapes me now, because seriously, there ain't nothing there worth driving there for, and the only thing we did once there was go to Baskin Robbins, so why did we drive a couple hours out of our way for it? But I had Jamocha ice cream and it was almost completely worth the drive! Now it's kind of bugging me as to why we drove over there, though, that makes no sense at all. I don't really understand why I like coffee ice cream so much, though, since I really don't care much for coffee. I can drink it, if I have to, but I don't enjoy it.

(Actually, I am not having a very good week.)

Okay, enough about ice cream. What about hibiscus plants? The one we planted a few weeks ago has been flowering, and I gotta say that I'm not so impressed. The flowers are really pretty, but they are lasting less than a day. Is that normal? Is that caused by planting it when the buds were already there? Or is that just how they are? It's really not very attractive behavior in a plant. On the bright side, some weird lily-like sprouts that came up in early spring but never did anything are poised on the verge of blooming. We figured they were goners, so what a pleasant surprise! And even though I have kept myself indoors and away from gardening work for at least a month now, I seem to have gotten more poison ivy in a very awkward location. Get your minds out of the gutter, it's on my shoulder. On the back of my shoulder, near my armpit. I CAN'T BLOODY REACH IT. I have had a lot of shoulder pain this week in general, presumably because I napped in the car on the way back home Sunday, and it has coincidentally been itching all to hell. Great. And what I want to know is.. how the heck did I get it back there and nowhere else?

But at least tomorrow is Friday.

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Nope, we didn't go to the DQ in Beckley. M and I stopped at DQ on the way home, too. You really made it sound good, so I thought that a milkshake would be nice. I'm sort of in an ice cream kick at the moment. Umm.. at least it has calcium? Also, I mis-read this earlier and thought you were saying that you never ate anything that wasn't sugar-free, and that left me feeling very confused because what do they have at DQ that is sugar-free? I don't like sugar-free stuff, either, because I can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners. Except in iced tea, it doesn't bother me then.. not so sure about that. And besides that, most of the time the stuff you buy that says it's sugar-free is still just as high in carbs as the regular stuff, and if I was going to cut out one I'd just as soon cut out both. If only I could stand the low-carb lifestyle, things would be easier for me.

Marshmallow cream does not sound like good eats. But, better luck next time!