Ice Cream Countdown

Author copies of The Summer of Firsts and Lasts arrived at my house yesterday, and I celebrated with a BIG BOWL of Hagen Daaz coffee ice cream drenched Hershey’s syrup. Since the book is dedicated to them, I also incorporated a tradition my sisters and I established growing up, of mooshing everything up into a sort of mocha “soup.” Offering up a toast, I slurped away.

This is only one of the ice cream celebrations I’ve had at my house, however. April 2nd marked the official Thirty Days Until SoFaL, and I decided to spend each day with a different ice cream flavor. So far I’ve had chocolate chip cookie dough, lemon sorbet, Neopolitan, and the aforementioned coffee/chocolate soup. I’ve got my eye on a few flavors (Breyer’s mint chocolate chip, gingersnap maple gelato) and I may even MAKE some (my grape/rosemary sorbet is infamous), but am, seriously, taking suggestions.

Meanwhile here’s the playlist of the Songs That Have Been in My Head Upon Waking:

“Take me Home Tonight,” by Eddie Money
“In Your Room,” by Depeche Mode
“Always Something There to Remind Me,” by Naked Eyes
“Telephone,” by Lady Gaga
“Games Without Fronteirs,” by Peter Gabriel
“What It Feels Like for a Girl,” by Madonna
“Some Velvet Morning,” by Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra