Ice cream for Spring

 For Alex's birthday, he got a Ninja Creami (which is a terrible name for a good ice cream machine).

We have been making different flavors for the past few months.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 You can't really tell, but some of these flavors worked well, while others were a total bomb.  (I'm looking at you, cinnamon roll!)  But the strawberry (second attempt, anyways) and the pinapple-orange ice cream turned out really excellent.

It's been quite fun to make ice cream ourselves, we were discussing this with our friends Mike and Sarah....they have a professional ice cream machine and they have been working on the basic flavors and agree the simpler the flavor choice the better the result.  Apparently they make a wicked coffee ice cream.

My allergies have actually been manageable this year, which I'm very thankful for.  Unfortunately, it's the long weekend in May and Alex is working, and I'm sick at home with some kind of super cold, so I have been mostly bed-ridden for the last four days.

 

It's given me lots of time for reflection as I feel like this year is definitely a year seeing a lot of people change and circumstances, change, especially me.  I wonder what my life will be like in 10 years (If I manage to live that long.)

 

I worry about the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine, and I worry about how I'm supposed to be effective as an adult sometime/most of the time.  

 

It's been wild and fun, parts of this year, but then there's been times of extreme quiet, and it feels like a bit of an odd back and forth.

 

But it's good, it's sort of giving me some time to reflect on new routines, and different things I'm interested in doing this year. 

 

Anyways, that's all for now, back to laying down and not having energy!