I LOVE EATING SNOW.

The snowflakes today were particularly tasty. Something about their size and the fact that they didn't instantly melt as soon as they hit your comparably-warmer skin...and possibly the fact that I was letting them fall on my tongue as I walked to the gym at...oh...noon. On a weekday. If you can put two and two together, you will be able to deduce that I HAD A SNOW DAY TODAY!!! A truly unexpected miracle!!!


The mounds of snow I faced when I walked out of my apartment in the West Village.


Later on in the day, I made my way over to Bryant Park. Here you can get a good gauge of the snow fall level, as it was nearly covering the subway sign!! The snow never stopped falling from the previous morning!!!


Look how beautiful the New York Public Library looks when coated in a frosty white and guarded by snow-covered trees.

So, as I was saying...the snow tasted EXTRA WONDERFUL today. It made me suddenly begin to have crazy cravings for shaved ice and patbingsu!!! And started making me somewhat delusional...


It took all my willpower to not shove my face into this perfect POWDERED SUGAR DONUT...until I finally came to grips with the fact that it was, in actuality, a GARBAGE CAN.


I meannn...does NO ONE see a Drake's Cake coffee cake in that middle mound!?!? To the left is obviously a Starburst, and to the right is obviously one of those fun sized chocolates.

OK, DONT DAMAGE WITH ME. I, like, JUST came from the gym and I was HONGRY, dammit.


It was a good thing I quickly made my way over to Cafe Zaiya before I started diving into the piles of snow screaming, "WHO NEEDS FOOD STAMPS WHEN YOU CAN ENJOY ALL THE GLORIES OF MOTHER NATURE!?!?!" Which would have resulted in me being shipped straight to an old Roosevelt Island mental facility and suffering from a bad case of frostbite on my lip. They have a super yummy BLACK SESAME SOFT SERVE there!!!! If there is one thing I love more than ice cream, it is SOFT SERVE. I have NEVER had black sesame flavored soft serve before and this one was 100% YAMMIEZ - super creamy, full-bodied (not fluffy, Tasti-D style), and DERICIOUS.

I became kind of concerned about the fact that I was SURROUNDED by ice, slush, and snow and still felt the need to consume some form of ice and cream. Which got me to thinking...is there like a ICE/SLUSH/SNOW version of PICA, a disorder in which people feel an unnatural urge to consume inedible materials such as paper!?!! WHY DO I LOVE EATING SHAVED ICE, SOFT SERVE, FROZEN YOGURT, AND ICE CREAM SO MUCH!?!?! Oh right. That disease is called obesity.