Lame news: Black Rifle changed their recipe for the iced coffees. Probably why they were suddenly at Costco, because they can’t sell them well enough elsewhere. Lots of complaints on Reddit starting about nine months ago. Now, instead of sugar, they use sucralose. Lots of people hate them. I had one today and didn’t even finish it. I wondered why I disliked it, when I used to love it so much. Thought about it and realized the flavor seemed off, like it had a gross ingredient. Sure enough, sucralose. And I confirmed that it wasn’t always that way. Huge bummer.
I’m actually really upset by this, it turns out. I was very excited to give this special treat to my husband, since they were on sale for less than the Kirkland brand ones, and I decided we needed to get those instead of his buying something for $3 a pop every other day. But now this special treat has been ruined and I feel stupid and worthless. Like I should have checked the ingredients, even though we had no reason to think the recipe had changed. There was no reason to check the ingredients on something we had purchased semi-regularly for years. The packaging wasn’t even different.
So, I gave him hope and delight (and myself, too, because I used to love them – it was something we shared) and now have ripped it away. And, because of our financial situation, we need to go ahead and return them, at least the more expensive ones we’d gotten. Which is another layer of upsetting him.
Just feeling like a super failure over here tonight. Also because my husband is sleeping in his car tonight because I failed to find local accommodations for him at his new job in another city. He’ll be able to commute daily in another week or two, we hope. Just have to wait for the plane to get here for him to use it. But it isn’t here yet and his job has already started, three hours from home driving. So, he can’t commute daily. We had a place last week. But that fell through for this week suddenly, which was its own kind of crappy (She didn’t even let me know one way or the other – just kind of ghosted me.). And it wasn’t because of us. It was because other people have been staying there a lot lately, so the husband is tired of having visitors. So, we get the backlash of that. He said he doesn’t mind sleeping in his car, but I know he needed to go to bed early today, as he has a rising cold that sounds horrible, and he couldn’t go to sleep, because it was too hot today, and he couldn’t just leave the car running. So, he had to wait for it to cool down enough, and finally went to bed just after midnight. (This is all kind of crushing me, by the way.)
Also, my throat started hurting tonight. Not cool.
Oh, random funny bad thing: I turned on the outside light just before coming to the bedroom to finish getting ready for bed. It initially lights up the whole backyard, then the main light is only motion sensitive after the first thirty seconds or so. By the time I made it into the bedroom, though, after flipping on the light, I was suddenly hearing a rooster crow. I’m sorry… what?! We don’t have any roosters. Just hens. They lay eggs. That’s why we have them. But, suddenly, a rooster was crowing. I rushed to the back door and opened it to confirm location. Yes, it sounded very much like it was in our yard. I went and threw on some clothes (because our fence is still down on one side, and I can’t go out there naked these days still), then rushed out back. However, the crowing had stopped and I never found a rooster anywhere. I was surprised by where one particular chicken was sitting, like it was posted for night sentry, as it was a new chicken. But all the chickens seemed to be awake and alert. I opened the back and found no rooster, though. Super weird.
Anyway, goodnight.
Post-a-day 2025
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