This weekend, I:

• Slept in, in my own bed!
• Had a long overdue dinner with Lori at Cheebo.
• Went to Old Navy (got a hoodie) and Steve & Barry’s (got jeans and a purse) with my sister.
• Went to boule and checked out the candy corn (it was their recipe that I used to make mine) and bought two tiny $2.50 fleur de sel chocolate caramels. They were good, but not sure if they are worth that much money.
• Tried to go to the Whole Foods at Santa Monica and Fairfax to pick up the powered soy milk they ordered for me (so I can make vegan candy corn) but after driving around the parking lot for five minutes looking for a space, we declared it a bust.
• Did grocery shopping at a very empty Ralphs. The checker said he hoped the lack of people had more to do with football and less to do with the writers’ strike. Also, the bagger was a kid who lives in my apartment building.
• Went to Target and bought travel size stuff for my trip to Texas.
• Did three loads of laundry.
• Paid bills and shredded a million pieces of paper from my “to shred” pile that was taking over my desk.
• Baked cupcakes using my coworker’s leftover Halloween candy. They were a slight failure but I’m sure will be gobbled up tomorrow anyway.
• Cleaned my apartment, including cabinets with way expired medicines and stuff. The weather today made it a perfect day for cleaning and organizing.

A relaxing and productive weekend, which is exactly what I needed after being out of town for the last one.

In other news:

• If you’re in the market for a new camera, the one I bought earlier this year is on sale for a good price. I bought it for $215 and when I wrote this post, it was $165; the price keeps fluctuating for some reason.
• It appears I had photos on the now defunct Yahoo Photos. The only reason I know this is because they sent me an email stating they moved my photos over to a new free Flickr Pro account (which remains free so long as I keep ATT&T as my ISP). So, I am in the process of moving my baking photos over to the new Nosh With Me Flickr account.
• Ever since my apartment building started recycling, I have been going to the trash chute about a once a week instead of the nearly every other day I was doing before. That is awesome.
• What do I need to buy so that I can listen to music directly from my iPod and have it play on the speakers that are connected to my receiver? Is this possible? Or is there a better way? I think I’m (shockingly) finally ready to give up playing my CDs.

The end.