not on the internet

It seems downright odd nowadays, if I do a websearch on a product and get absolutely no results found. I mean, how unlikely is it that a professionally-packaged product available in the United States would have no mention on the internet?

Someone gave Q a curious Halloween novelty candy. It is a clear plastic test tube filled with orange goo and candy gummy eyeballs. Another odd thing is that the label says that for Nutritional info, write to such and such address. It's a U.S. address. But no ingredients list nor web address is on the label. I was curious about the ingredients - it probably contains gelatin and is therefore non-vegan, but you never know. So I did a search on the product name and company - "gummy eye balls" + "imaginings". No results found! I did find out that Imaginings 3 is another name for Flix Candy. Flixcandy has a website showing their candy products, but these gummy eye balls are not included. A search on "flixcandy" + "gummy eye balls" also yields no results. The fact that I didn't find what I was looking for is no big deal. But the fact that no results were found is an oddity!


Addendum:
Now that I've posted this entry, if Google indexes it, there will no longer be no results found. Heheh.

groan

Why does me not getting hardly any sleep in a night result in me having a horribly runny nose and allergy symptoms the next day? I'd take some loratadine but I'm afraid it might make me drowsy all weekend like it did last time.

It's been cloudy and rainy and cold all week! Whine!

It's Divali. I shall try to remember to light some candles later this evening.


You know, I was thinking... sometimes you're sitting on the toilet trying to pee, and it takes a moment till you remember you have to relax certain muscles in order for it to happen. But I was thinking that falling asleep is sort of like that too... when you have insomnia, you can't remember which part of your brain it is necessary to relax, in order to fall asleep. Your brain's all tensed up and you can't remember how to let go...


I could transfer all my music CDs to MP3s and get rid of the CDs to free up some space. I was thinking about that, and then decided to hook up the MP3 player I got before the Germany trip to my stereo, to play some music. I couldn't remember where I had put the MP3 player, and had to go looking for it. That's something to be said for CDs - it's a lot harder to misplace a multimedia cabinet full of CDs, compared to a little MP3 player or flash drive.

I put a bunch of songs that I like on that MP3 player. It's so neat being able to play it on random, and to have all these songs which I like play one after the other. None that I want to skip so far.

Hah!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22gummy+eye+balls%22+%22imaginings%22

Wow, Google indexed that fast.

unsteady emotions

Damn. I broke my favorite screwdriver because the instructions on the magnetic doorstop didn't say how to get the pieces apart. It screws in! Why couldn't they just say that in the instructions, so you don't assume that it must snap in somehow, and that you therefore need to snap it out! Making me cry over my broken screwdriver! My poor little screwdriver!!!

I'm feeling more emotional than I did the last 2 months. Not sure if it's the Wellbutrin, or the lack of Lexapro and Pristiq. I don't remember any of the stress-related fits of anger while on the other meds. But I had a temper flare-up yesterday at work due to something that shouldn't have been a big deal, and I decided I needed to go on a walk to cool down... ended up at the fitness center and did some stretching to relax and calm myself. Today I had a flare-up of anger again, because of something on the computer not working right. Once I get over the anger, I'm ok again and can logically think of how to deal with the problem. But during those flare-ups, I want to yell and hit and break things. Watching the season premiere of Ugly Betty yesterday seemed to affect me more emotionally than usual too.

I gave in a little while ago and took some loratadine. Being drowsy has got to be better than constantly sneezing and having to blow my nose.

dream

I'm possibly overdoing the number of postings here today.

But I had a dream the other night, which was sort of a combination of Return from Witch Mountain and Return of the Jedi. I was a jedi, and I had to protect Tony and Tia.... sort of cool.

Last night my hands and feet were cold, and that kept me from falling asleep. Then I turned the heater on and finally after a while got warm enough to fall asleep. But then I kept waking up with a totally dried-out mouth - dry-mouth is supposed to be one of the side effects of Wellbutrin. One of the dreams I had, this guy was trying to break into my house at night, and I was peeking out the windows trying to see if he was still sneaking around outside.

oh yeah... i was wondering... mp3 players

With MP3 players, are there any that have removable memory cards? Or that connect to a separate flash drive, so that you can easily swap out the memory card or flash drive with a different one which has a different set of songs? Because otherwise, the number of songs you can put on the MP3 player is constrained by the size of its built-in memory, and you have to hook it up to a computer each time to change the songs.

am i the same person

I came across a small piece of paper I had turned into a piece of artwork long ago, with colorful words written in pretty script and cleverly placed based on special relationships between the words. It is so beautiful. How did I do it? I haven't created anything beautiful like that in a long time. I don't create beauty anymore. Instead I create functionality; I get things done; I make things work. Aren't I still the same person? It used to come naturally; I didn't have to exert any effort at it; it came together in my mind and in my hands. Is beauty something you can only create during a certain part of your life?