It's cold, folks. Officially. As Chili would say, stupid cold. Single digits today, wind chill factor about 20 below. I went to the grocery store today only because we ran out of milk. It was probably a good thing to get the car started and run it for a bit, too.
Many of you know, I am VERY brand loyal to certain things. I don't always care about things like socks or ponytail holders or furniture. But I do care about other things. Diet Coke being the one I most am known for. My Diet Coke addiction is well known. Rarely am I without one. I admit to drinking far too much of it, but whatever - it's a thing. My excuse is always this: I could be addicted to far worse things. Anyway, I'm telling you all of that to give you an idea of how difficult a decision I had to make at the grocery store today. I bought Diet Pepsi. I know. But MAN. Diet coke was $4.19/12 pack and $8.19/case. Talk about seventeen kinds of ridiculous. Diet Pepsi was on sale for less than half of that. What was I supposed to do? That Diet Coke price is damn near vending machine prices. I'm not sure if there has been a large increase in price of production or what....I mean really. How much can it cost to produce soda? Water, some bubbles, caramel color, caffeine and bam....soda. And all I really need is the caffeine anyway.
We're watching the super bowl....hard to feel bad for the people who spent thousands of dollars to sit in the rain :-) The commercials sure are good, though!
Many of you know, I am VERY brand loyal to certain things. I don't always care about things like socks or ponytail holders or furniture. But I do care about other things. Diet Coke being the one I most am known for. My Diet Coke addiction is well known. Rarely am I without one. I admit to drinking far too much of it, but whatever - it's a thing. My excuse is always this: I could be addicted to far worse things. Anyway, I'm telling you all of that to give you an idea of how difficult a decision I had to make at the grocery store today. I bought Diet Pepsi. I know. But MAN. Diet coke was $4.19/12 pack and $8.19/case. Talk about seventeen kinds of ridiculous. Diet Pepsi was on sale for less than half of that. What was I supposed to do? That Diet Coke price is damn near vending machine prices. I'm not sure if there has been a large increase in price of production or what....I mean really. How much can it cost to produce soda? Water, some bubbles, caramel color, caffeine and bam....soda. And all I really need is the caffeine anyway.
We're watching the super bowl....hard to feel bad for the people who spent thousands of dollars to sit in the rain :-) The commercials sure are good, though!
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It helps to be a little flexible. I, too, love Diet Coke (though my variety is the caffeine-free kind), but I've recently branched out to diet root beer. If the Coke is stupid-expensive, I go with the root beer, which is good because I'm NOT brand loyal to root beer: A&W, Mug, Barq's - it doesn't matter. Whatever is on sale is good with me. I'm sorry, but I would go without before I'd drink Diet Pepsi. Bleh.
You think the commercials are good? I'ma little disappointed, really - though the rock-paper-scissors ad in the first quarter was pretty good...
Okay, the talking lions in the Taco Bell ad were pretty good. "Ricardo Montalban?" Funny...
Those are the two I liked as well.
And a couple Doritos ones weren't bad.
I think - I'm not SURE, but I THINK - the guy who made the winner ad is from the next town over. I heard it on NPR on Friday. The only Doritos ad I saw was the one with the guy using the chips as an airbag when he rear-ended someone because he was busier looking at the cute chick than he was with his driving...
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