My Skirmish with Ice Cream


My husband and I are doing a poor man’s remodel of the kitchen.  My definition of a poor man’s remodel is painting the cabinets, walls and putting up new border.  It is my job to paint the inside of the cabinets.  I believe my husband gave me this job because he lacks confidence in my painting skills.  If I mess up the inside of the cabinets, no one will know.

The cabinets that I painted last night involved moving the refrigerator.  As I was moving the refrigerator back into place, I began to notice I was a bit hungry.  I was hot and sweaty and eating something cold entered my mind.  Then I remembered that I have some white chocolate raspberry ice cream in the refrigerator.  I was lost.  The more I thought about the ice cream the more I wanted some.  I pulled a small bowl out of the cabinet and proceeded to fill my bowl.  As I am dipping out the ice cream, I begin to think that I might as well eat up the ice cream.  There is only a small bit left in the container.  The ice cream is in my bowl.  But, I am trying to lose some weight.  I know I exercised today.  All that effort is in this huge bowl of ice cream.  I know that eating this much ice cream is not good for me.  I know it is way more than half a cup.  I dip my spoon back into my bowl and put some of the ice cream back.  Way to go.  A small skirmish fought and won.

Today’s battle is even harder.  My husband wants to eat out at Casa Ole for lunch.  I love chips and salsa.  More on this battle later.

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