I guess that's what happens when you live in a one-horse town like mine and don't do a lot of traveling. XD; But gosh, now I'm wondering if I shouldn't give up my Starbucks-ginity and see if our local one has those brownies! I'm a huge sucker for peppermint too. T^T (Have you ever been to a Cold Stone Creamery? I remember having this insanely good cake there that was called something like "Dark Peppermint Pleasure"... IIRC, it had layers of red velvet cake and dark chocolate/peppermint ice cream, covered with ganache and garnished with crumbled candy canes and quite possibly tincture of pure evil. Aaahhhh.)

Same here, same here. Looks like this is more widespread than I'd thought, judging from the comments you're getting here. I'm a recovering social phobic, so I always assume that I'm way worse than everyone else when it comes to shyness and such. But hey, maybe everyone else is as scared of me as I am of them. XD; I mean, when people don't comment on my journal I usually figure they're either busy or not interested in whatever I'm talking about... but now I kinda wonder how many of them are just being shy.