Is Cookie Cream Ice Cream eating healthy?

188.5. OK, frustrating day and just felt like getting something. So I went to the store for a half gallon of ice cream. Half was $3.68, but you could buy 2 for $5.00!....  I am not sure why, knowing in my brain that $3.68 is less money than $5.00, I still chose to purchase 2 halves so I could "save" money, but I did.

And of course, I planned on just having a bowl. I want to share two important truths with you. The first is, if it is in the house, I will eat it. The second I need to preface with the fact that I hate solid hard ice cream. I much prefer it mushy and soft. I accomplish this by setting the ice cream in the microwave for 15 seconds.  The second truth is if you are distracted and let the microwave go for a full minute.....you now have ice cream soup. And as a special bonus, truth #3 is, ice cream soup still tastes the same as normal ice cream, just not as cold.

In spite of my huge transgression, I stayed the same. I expect tomorrow to be better.

So what can I do today to make someones day a little brighter? I will start here.

Wherever you are, whatever you challenges, today YOU can make progress with them.

You can stop here if you want. I am going to share someones story that is very inspirational to me.

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I have an incredible lady in my life that has inspired me for the majority of my life. I am not naming her because I don't have permission to, have not asked.

She has MS. Has had for quite some time. MS is a progressive neurological disease that destroys people and peoples lives.

She works 60 to 70 hours per week and that does not count her 3 hour commute time each day and she typically works 6 days a week.

Since being diagnosed, she has been uplifting to others finding out they have this horrible disease. She typically says something along these lines: "Fantastic! It was not something worse. The hardest part is over because now you know what you have and there is no more fear of the unknown. And you can be grateful for for that!"

She has had multiple "flare ups". This is where the disease shows up and takes something from you. It can be the ability to walk, feel, talk, see, always something. Sometimes you get most of what you lost back, sometimes not. She has never felt sorry for herself for very long. Always picks herself back up and fights back.

She has worked when she could barely see. She has worked when she could not use her hands enough to even get dressed, yet she figures out ways of propping a pen in her nearly useless hand and learned to write left handed as that hand had more control than her right hand. People at her job don't even know what she has. She always comes up with a reason for whatever is going on.

This would be big enough, what I have already told you. But there is so much more. She is the most generous person I have ever met. Completely selfless. If someone needs something, she helps, giving all she has, giving her best, giving things she may not even have.

Once she heard of a woman who had saved a long time for a new TV, like a couple years. Then shortly after getting this, someone broke into her home and stole it. My lady took some rewards she had been saving from her job for something for her family,  and went down and purchase a brand new big TV for this woman and delivered it to her door. It was a much nicer TV than she had sitting in her own home. She did not even know this lady. This example is far from unusual for her and is just what she does. The only reason I even know about this is I happened to go by her home when the huge box was sitting in her living room prior to them delivering and setting it up. Otherwise, I never would have even known.

I could go on and on. She could go on disability, refuses to do that, it is for "people who really need it". She is honest beyond belief. And she will fight for what is right no matter what the consequences are. Sometimes that means she has to go up against much higher people in her job to fight for someone that has been in some way wronged. Nothing stops her.

She reminds me of a wolverine. In that she is small, fearless. Once she starts something, she won't let it go, it will be accomplished! She has backed down people much larger than herself who were being threatening to others physically. And she has done it when it meant standing up to a superior at work or saying something in a huge meeting about a policy that is wrong. Totally fearless.  That is really wrong. It is not that she has no fear or does not understand the possible consequences, it is that she does not let that knowledge stop her.

And maybe the best of all, and yes there is more, is her kindness. She has a heart that is even softer than it is generous. She is so kind hearted. If there is someone in need, they seem to find her. People just know. Complete strangers tell her their life story. They pour out their hearts to her. She finds a way to comfort those in pain. She listen, she cares, she loves.

She is my inspiration. She is my Hero.

Now go have a good day.