splendid things

okay

so months ago i blogged about jeni's ice cream

and that i wanted aaron to take me on a date.

i mean

i KINDA blogged about it

and then later

he actually did take me on a date!

that involved jeni's ice cream.

and i didn't reeeeaaaallly blog about it then

because i was in the beginning of my "blogger depression"

where i just posted photos for you guys for awhile

until i got back into my mojo.

well, obvs my mojo is starting to come back

because OBVS i'm posting more and more things

obvs.

OKAY WELL ANYWAY!!

so i'm a die-hard ice cream racist.

meaning.

i love the ice cream that is the only ice cream i know

and i rarely love any other kinds

simply because they are different

and not what i'm used to.

meaning

I LOVE THE DAIRY QUEEN ICE CREAM IN FARMERSVILLE

and

i love bluebell ice cream.

which is, honestly, super super tasty.

but only available in texas.

i always justify the "i-only-like-farmersville's-dairy-queen-ice-cream"

by saying

that all other dairy queen's along the highways

just don't have that

second-hand smoke and grease and unibrow sweat in them

that the farmersville dq has.

and the bluebell?

well....it's bluebell.

ALL THAT CHANGED WHEN I HAD JENI'S ICE CREAM.

because, my friends,

jeni's ice cream is much more than superb.

it is creamy.

it is decadent.

it is varied, and complex, and unassuming, and light, and pure.

it speaks to the informed woman inside of me

coos to her

pleases her

whispers in her ear.

it delights her.

so i love jeni's ice cream.

and i was all "HEY FRIENDS GO EAT THIS ICE CREAM"

and really, suddenly, one of them totally did.

and then,

because my friend Lara is a woman who takes things one step further

she texted me and was all

"YOU KNOW

you can buy jeni's ice cream at all ohio whole foods stores"

and i went AAAAAAUUUGGGGHHH I'M BUYING SOME RIGHT NOW.

and then i did.

pretty much right away.

because i so happened to be in the car

on my way to buy groceries.

and because i was so proud of my exceptional work weekend

where i worked so freaking hard

and because i was so proud of aaron painting the ceiling and making such exceptional headway on the house

and because i was so in love with myself for feeling good about my hard work

and because i was so in love with aaron for working hard on the house

i made a detour

and bought some

ASAP!

now, i'm not gonna mention how much it costs to buy these babies in store

although

it's not as expensive as buying them online

but i will tell you it is definitely an

"only sometimes"

kind of purchase

(even though jeni's has me totally, completely hooked and all i want to do is eat through every single one of their flavors forever.)

it was completely PRICEY

so much to the point that i almost didn't buy them getting there,

but realized i didn't want to detour all the way out there for NUTHIN

and got 'em.

please let me say

that they were probably worth it.

that ice cream is beyond delightful.

i picked up salty caramel (for aaron)

and ugandan vanilla bean (for me)

and ate them both.

and even though aaron was all

no i don't want any i'm happy already

i put extra in my bowl when i made it

because i knew he was going to eat some

as soon as he had a teensy weensy bite.

and he did.

and we were both happy as clams not being cooked.

and finally!

we have a post!

on

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams