What is your favorite comfort food?
My favorite all time favorite comfort food would have to be ice cream. My favorite flavor is a blend of chocolate and peanut butter. The ice cream just tastes so good and is so soothing. It has a rich flavor I can savor. I don?t eat it really fast. In fact, I take my time eating it. Slowly I begin to relax. By the time the ice cream is all gone, I begin feeling much better.
This is a good prompt for me today.
My weakness has always been ice cream first and then candy. They are the first things I reach for when I am stressed. I haven?t found an effective substitute yet that will satisfy me and soothe me. Is there one out there?
Last night I had to have ice cream. I wasn?t feeling well to begin with and then I felt surrounded by quarreling kids or kids with attitudes. I?d just sent Billy and Kristin upstairs because they wouldn?t stop bickering with each other. I was listening to something TB was telling me in the kitchen. Heidi suddenly goes, ?What is wrong with you? You seem so ANGRY.?
Well, I don?t know if I was or I wasn?t but why was she interjecting herself into a conversation I was having with TB? If I sounded pissed to him, he could tell me so. I told her to butt out and the next thing I know, we?re both yelling at each other. So TB and I bail out and go for a ride ? to WaWa?s and I picked out a pint of ice cream for myself.
What could I do instead?
I don?t know ? I can think of all the right alternatives and *maybe* one or the other would help me feel better. I think if I was at the shore, I could go walk on the beach. That would do it. But the beach is an hour away and walking in the neighborhood wouldn?t do it.
Today I would like more ice cream but I?m not going to buy any.
I was napping and woke up suddenly to Heidi?s voice screaming something. By the time I got out of the bedroom and into the kitchen, she?d already run upstairs and slammed the door.
There was another incident on the bus, another bus substitute unwilling to do anything. There was a kid on the bus named Chuck. He was wearing a Santa hat that had a penis on it and he was poking Billy with it. I guess he wanted Billy to fight him from the get go. Billy said he wouldn?t fight him and advised Chuck to get away from him.
Chuck didn?t. He started insulting Billy who gave back whatever he got. Chuck was getting more and more obnoxious, trying to get Billy into a state where he?d fight. They got off the bus together and Billy said again, he wasn?t going to fight. Chuck was still running his mouth and then Heidi decided she had to step in. She tried to kick Chuck and he slapped her face.
Billy did not step in to fight Chuck.
Heidi was furious. She was embarrassed and angry with Billy.
TB was trying to talk to her when she started screaming. Then she ran upstairs. She came back down a few minutes ago and understood that she shouldn't have provoked Chuck but she is still furious with Billy.
I called the school and placed a complaint with the assistant vice principal. Does all this sound familiar? I wonder if we'll get any further with this complaint than we did with Heidi's?
And if I?m not getting ice cream, where the heck is my beach?