this kind of stuff freaks me out, and makes me realize i am nowhere near being a kid anymore. a kid inside? sure. but when my childhood fashions have become retro, and found on trendy websites...it's just strange. i have some of these barrettes still hanging in my old closet. i think i even have one with a feather.

i was in safeway today, on a quest for cookie dough (making some valentines cookies. cheating, of course. i really have to be in a baking mood to pull that whole 'bake from scratch' thing) and the elusive 'one sweet whirled' ice cream. no osw. ben and jerry's ice cream was on sale, though, and they had both festivus and phish food frozen yogurt. 2 for $5. sweet!

picked up some sugar cookie dough, and went looking for icing. i don't normally shop at safeway, so i went by the asiles, reading the signs...'2 - frozen dinners, frozen pizzas', '3 - soft drinks, juices, bottled water', '4 - cake mixes, baking supplies, diet foods, health foods'. now, of all of the items to share shelf space, those last couple don't seem to go together. a 'what's wrong with this picuture?' make the people buying the cake mixes feel guilty, and offer delicious temptation to the dieters. one side of the aisle is 'diet' the other has the baking supplies. you may be picking out those rice cakes...just don't turn around, there's cream cheese icing to tempt you. on sale, too! 2 for $4! (safeway seems to be big on this '2 for' thing) who was the genius who organized this store?

alas, still can't find that damn 'one sweet world' ice cream. the co-op had every other flavor - even chubby hubby and s.n.a.f.u.. a guy at safeway was unloading a new shipment of b&j's when i was there. hmm. maybe, just maybe...didn't see it. asked the guy working, "um, do you have any new ice creams there?"

"huh?"

"well, they are making this new flavor..."

"what kind?"

"it's a dave matthews band ice cream...you know, like phish food. (i hold up my phish food pint, like the ice cream guy wouldn't know. duh) i think it's called 'one sweet world'"

he looks at me as if i have lost my marbles, and should be scrambling to pick them up off the shiny tile floor. hey, that's only partially right.

"no, we don't have that. are you sure they're making it?"

"uh, yeah" i shuffle away...as he stacks pints of half baked into the freezer.

damnit, i just want to try the ice cream. two of my favorite things in one - dmb and ice cream. how much better could it get? (ok, a lot, but humor me here)