Up All Night- The Growing Prysocks

The theme of today's post is: current situational difficulties.

Current Situational Difficulty #1:
My wife is very far away and has been so for over a fortnight.
Fortunately, she is coming home tomorrow and I think I'll barely make it till then.

Current Situational Difficulty #2:
My schedule is all crazy. It is the end of May and nothing has changed. This is a first for me in many, many years. I'm talking about the school year cycle. The semester is supposed to end after finals, and then a new and noticeably different season begins. This season should be marked by more free time, more sleeping, a decrease in overall responsibilities, and summer time events.

To be fair, this pattern has been somewhat disrupted before. The past few years I've had a job which obviously kept me busy through the summer and so that offered a degree of continuity from the school year to the summer. There was also continuity in grad school when the internship continued, as well as the occasional summer class. But the summer classes don't count! They were just one to two weeks at a time.

Now it's completely different. I'm working at my job just like I was for the past few months. The only way to really tell it's a different time of year is the ending of TV seasons. I keep waiting for someone to come along and say, "Ok! You're done now. Take a break and stop working so much! Maybe go out of town for a few weeks." But no, this has not happened. I am forced to trudge on in the exact same rhythm of life as before. Being an adult is hard.

Current Situational Difficulty #3:
Blue Bell does not exist out here.




I wasn't joking, go read it again, it's real.

Yeah, that was a major oversight in our decision making process to move out here. Now, our ice cream aisle at the local grocery store is quite massive. They've got every flavor you can imagine in the store brand and many other national and name brands. But no Blue Bell. Which means no Birthday Cake ice cream. (I guess that's one flavor I can imagine that they don't have.)

We've tried to find a suitable replacement, but obviously none exists. However, we have been made aware of a small miracle. I will now recount (to the best of my memory) a recent series of conversations:

(Steph and I are on a date at Outback, Steph reads the desert menu)

Steph: "Omg, this one desert has Blue Bell ice cream."

Me: "Shut up, no way."

Steph: "It's true. I wonder if I can get just a scoop of ice cream, only because it's Blue Bell."

(Later, Steph decides to confront the waiter about this discovery.)

Steph: "So the (forgettable and unimportant desert) comes with Blue Bell ice cream??!?"

Clueless waiter: "Yes ma'am, that desert comes with Blue Bell ice cream."

Steph: "So is there somewhere around here that you can buy Blue Bell, like in a store?"

Clueless waiter: "Oh....uhhh.....I don't really know." (??!?!?!??!?!? CLEARLY not nearly concerned enough about this Blue Bell issue.)

(Later, at home)

Steph: "I can't believe that guy didn't know anything about Blue Bell."

Me: "Yeah, he was definitely not impressed."

Steph: "I mean surely he's tried it, he works there. How could he not know that he was tasting greatness??"

Me: "I don't know, that's pretty messed up."

Steph: "I mean, how can you know about Blue Bell and not be impressed by it?? That's like not really being impressed by the Bible."

Me: "Did you just compare Blue Bell to the Bible?"

Steph: "Yes. Yes I did."

Me: "So you're saying that Blue Bell is the Bible of ice cream?"

Steph: "Yes I am."

Me: "Well played."

For all you people out in Texas, enjoy your Blue Bell! Don't you dare take it for granted!

Song of the day: "Sink or Swim" by Sanctus Real