Okay, what is the deal with mannitol? I know it's supposed to be a sugar derived from wheat and is ostensibly gluten free but my last batch of Centrum vitamins (with this ingredient) have made me super sick. I've had all the fun of a glutening; stomach pain that wakes me up in the night, nausea, IBS flare, etc.

Anyone else have problems with this ingredient?

Working six consecutive days is not fun, full stop. Working six consecutive days over Thanksgiving weekend is INSANE. I am never doing this again.

I was at the front door to greet the initial rush of customers at six a.m. on Black Friday. I'm never doing that again, either. One more shift, then I can die. Or at least curl up on a pile of stuffed animals and sleep for twelve uninterrupted hours before going (aaagh) back into the fray.

Be kind to your retail drones in the upcoming weeks, people. We're hideously overworked, savagely underpaid, relentlessly unappreciated, and there's one of us for every two hundred of you in the store at any given time. At the store that employs me (and probably all other big-box department stores) the seasonal merchandise on hand is based on last year's sales: if no one wanted blue icicle lights last year, then only a few will be sent to our store. If you wanted some, and we're sold out in the first week of December, it's probably not (just) because I'm a stupid bitch.

Oh, and when we sell out of ornament hooks, which we inevitably will: paper clips work just as well (or better, unless they're the big doofy primary-colored coated ones -- well, maybe those, too. Depends on the tree). Trust me.

No internet for the two days Darkclaw was still in the U.S. but after he flew back to Ohio.

*weeps*

I also couldn't check mail, update my bank accounts, or research moving options. Ah well.

It's back as of last night (obviously), so I'll have some catching up to do. In the meantime, I have a fuzzy purring cat curled up on my arm. :-)

I <3 <3 Darcklaw! Come back soon, love!

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Are you an adventurer who just can't seem to adventure? Are you a villager whose name is Villager? If so, you'll find the perfect home in Wildhollow, a well-crafted RPG/adventure/simulation game from KarjaSoft, creator of Spandex Force. In this light-hearted, humor-filled game, you play the role of a young boy/girl returning home to find your parents missing and your family ranch destroyed. Don't frown, though, as this game takes itself about as seriously as a clown working at a pie factory. Tagged as: adventure, affiliate, demo, download, game, karjasoft, macwin, rating-y, rpg, simulation

Turkey's a curious place, especially when you've lived so long in a nation tied inextricably to Islam. I really shouldn't be surprised as I was by Turkey's secular policies, nor should I really compare a nation with nearly 80+ years of enlightened governance (atop the Ottoman Empire's legacy, at that), with Malaysia's relatively young history. But there are a lot of lessons one can take home from visiting a place like this.



( And a lot of pictures too! It will eat your bandwidth. )

That's pretty much all the pictures that I uploaded to my flickr account.

I was in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago for my sister's wedding. The day of the wedding, I woke up with a migraine (which I managed to catch quickly, take my meds and only have about an hour and a half of downtime). After waking up from the migraine, I was starving, and googled to see if there were any gluten-free spots nearby. I found one, called to make sure they were open and zoomed over.

Gluten-Free Creations is on 29th and Thomas, hidden behind a muffler shop (down the street from the Biltmore off of the 51, and not far from PHX). I wanted something breakfast-y, as well as something snacky for later while getting dressed and ready for the wedding. I ended up getting a 4-pack of gluten-free plain bagels as well as a box of chocolate chip cookies. I stopped by Starbucks to get a couple individual cream cheese packets and a latte, and slathered myself up an untoasted bagel. It was DELICIOUS! It had more of an english muffin texture than a bagel texture, but I didn't care because it was SO GOOD. The chocolate chip cookies were also really good too...I forced a bite into my fiance and he thought it was pretty good "for being gluten-free". They were a bit pricey, but I thought that it was worth it for post-migraine starvation :) I'm very happy that I now have a place I can point my mom to for the next time I visit!

• 01:06 @Selasphorus ah kk :) What race/class? ;) #
• 03:21 Good choice. X3 my main is one too! #
• 03:23 @Selasphorus oops totally hit post instead of reply. X3 #
• 03:28 In other news, my mom is awesome and bought me Dragon Age today. :D #

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Truly there are few gifts greater than that of a well-deserved rest.

I shall have to find myself a hobby over this coming winter. I've no bard's voice nor a songweaver in my heart, yet perhaps I shall find some sort of instrument with which to practice, lest my hands go idle.

Ah, but perhaps for now, I shall give into sloth... at least, for a short while.

~Samhuinn Runetotem

I broke Dragon Age today...

I was trying to plug in and recharge my controller as it went out with the game going...and I accidentally tipped my Xbox 360... Horrendous grinding sound ensued and BAM...my game is no longer playable.

I weep. I weep bad.

Going to Best Buy tomorrow to exchange it hopefully....

So much weeping...

Phew wow accnt canceled again. Sucks bein' black friday time and not really bein able to buy all this junk.. borderlands for 20! l4d2 for 30! things, things!!! missed out on something I wanted to really buy so i hope it comes up again before xmas in time... doubt it sigh.

codmw2 is fun..wont have the chance to beat it before goin back to campus groan. can you believe finals are in 2 weeks.. that ive been here for a semester already.