TFT: is it just me?

Let's talk about "ice cream".

We all go through some dry spells where we don't have ice cream as often as we would like. It's too hot, we're too tired, we get headaches, we're just not in the mood for ice cream tonight...
But we know ice cream is good and we always wonder, specifically after an especially good taste, why we don't indulge more often, despite some of those excuses.
Even if it is a regular part of our diet, it always seems there should be room for more ice cream.

And then there's the no ice cream diet. My bowl's never been empty for long compared to some who, say for example, only hit up the freezer section once a month or so. But I can tell when it's been awhile. Around here we tend to get grumpy without our ice cream. We start to more easily get short with each other, snipping and snapping over nothing, being irritated by stupid little things. Fighting when we really normally don't fight. It's like there's this tension that builds up without at least a spoonful of ice cream here and there. Ice cream is the great equalizer, the stress eraser, the reconnecter. There's a closeness that seems to be missing without the regular helping of ice cream.

My question is, when you've been omitting the ice cream, when it's been a few too many days missing, why is it so hard to break that cycle? The cycle where you're too stressed, too irritated, too not in the mood for ice cream, but you know part of the reason you're getting more and more stressed, irritated and therefore not in the mood is because you're ignoring that distant tune of the ice cream truck. You hear it and you know you could chase after it, but you're lazy (and unreasonably irritated, remember?). You know it's yummy and you know it would be so refreshing, but it's sometimes it seems so much easier to let that irritation or bad timing keep you just sitting in your house instead of flagging that ice cream man down and reconnecting with him.

It's like we need the ice cream to erase some of that tension, but we need the tension gone to really enjoy the ice cream.

Does anyone else feel the same way about ice cream??