Just because I have ideas doesn't mean they are good ones

[olivermoss]

I was out in the rain eating ice cream. Since I forgot to get coffee on my last grocery run I was supposed to walk a certain direction while photowalking tonight and grab coffee on the way. I'd just stick it in my camera bag. Instead, I walked to Salt & Straw since their Halloween flavors are out. The current vegan flavor is Double Bouble Toil & Trouble, which is a fruity bubble gum ice cream. When I was a kid, the Baskin Robins near us only sometimes had bubble gum ice cream, but I always got it when they did. So, instead of getting a basic staple I need for daily life I got sugary coconut milk with bubble gum chunks. It tasted exactly like cheap Halloween candy. I think kind of like Smarties? (What Americans call Smarties, the pressed powder candy. Not what EU peeps call Smarties). It was great. No regrets.

And I had to wait, on a Monday night, for ice cream in the rain. There was a line. The person ahead of me ordered the toasted cricket ice cream. I'd like to try the more adventurous things, but milk bad for me.

Now I need to go hunt down something pumpkin spice... and also restock on coffee at some point.

I'll have to see if any of my pics came out. I am not spotting a lot of Halloween decorations yet, even though this town has skeletons year round. I got the front element of one lens thoroughly soaked. Also, my adapter is still missing. Right now my gear is air-drying so I can clean it later.

Comments

[james]

I support your excellent life choices!

[olivermoss]

I am going to eat that sugary stuff at least once a week while they have it :)

[mistressofmuses]

That absolutely sounds like #noregrets. I'm glad they have something that will work for you, if dairy is a bad plan.

But coffee is an absolute necessity, ha.

We took some drives around the neighborhoods for a bit the last couple days, and I was slightly surprised how many Halloween decorations we did see. Mostly just commercial stuff (armies of inflatables lol), rather than wildly creative displays, but still. (Seeing little white-fabric ghosts hanging from trees, and plastic pumpkins, and silly headstones always gives me warm fuzzies, tbh.)

That's extra frustrating that the adapter hasn't shown up yet.

[olivermoss]

Hopefully I find some good stuff soon. Anyway, I will keep looking. I also need to take some nights where I go way south of there to hit some different areas.

I found the darn thing! It was under my Kindle, which I swear I checked. Maybe it just popped out of existence for a while.

Oh yeah, I can't have milk but I am near 3 separate places that make vegan ice cream.

[mistressofmuses]

I hope so! Maybe there'll be something fun in a new territory.

I'm so glad you found it! Ugh, sometimes shit just *does that*, I swear. I look in a place that seems likely, and it's not there, and then later on, that's *exactly* where it is. Wormholes.

I'm glad you have options!

[sperrywink]

Ice cream is always a solid life choice, I find. Glad you could treat yourself.

And I see in comments you found your adapter- congrats!

[olivermoss]

Yes, I did!

The ice cream was more nostalgic than expected.