What a great weekend. The weather was sunny and warm and I didn't have much that I <em>had</em> to do.
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On Friday night I made dinner/nachos for my friends P. and H. It almost didn't happen because of technology. I emailed the invitation out at lunch time. I heard from P. but not from H. After school I thought: I'd call her to follow up but when I did her phone was dead/turned off. After work when I got home, my email/internet was down (ug). So I left a note on P.'s door asking her to call/contact H. if she had internet. P. was successful and H. got the message.

Oh the magic of a good old fashioned note! And the lure of nachos and beer on a Friday night!!<!--more-->

We ate nachos and talked the whole night. There'd been some discussion of playing the board game Settlers of Catan but this didn't happen. It didn't happen mostly because we had so much to talk about and we and we had to tease H. The communication issue that we had had was due to the fact that H. (is awesome and) still uses her yahoo email address. Somehow she didn't get my original email. P. and I teased her about this and suggested that a switch to gmail might be in order. H. just smiled at this suggestion and said she couldn't abandon yahoo because she's had this email address for 14 years.

Anyhow, in the end everything worked out and we had a great time.

Saturday I had a lazy morning.

I made forest fruit yogurt muffins that turned out great and then in the afternoon I met a new friend L. for a drink downtown at Memento and then we went to Sun and Moon for dinner--the new branch at the little five corners. L. has just moved to Sofia for work. It was really nice to meet her and to introduce her to a couple of my favorite places.

On Sunday I woke up with the trappings of a cold. But I'm determined not to get my first cold of the year at the end of September so I drank a lot of orange juice, water and tea and I'm willing the cold away.

Feeling a little sick, I spent my morning curled up on my couch where I read a book. The whole book from cover to cover. It was a quick read and most importantly it was funny but also thoughtful and insightful. It was not great literature but that's okay. I liked <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Woman-Caitlin-Moran/dp/0062124293" target="_blank">How to Be a Woman</a> by Caitlin Moran. Oh and because the author is British there's some really great British slang.

Then on Sunday afternoon I got busy. I cleaned my apartment (and wondered why the girl who lives here couldn't be a little tidier). I did a load of laundry. I took out the garbage and watered my house plants. I went grocery shopping. I whipped up a quinoa salad for dinner and to take to school for lunch this next week.

I decided to make a batch of granola (because who doesn't love homemade granola?!).  While the granola was cooking, I got myself organized for the week and when the granola finally came out of the oven, I spoke to my parents on skype for an hour.

Now I am writing this blog post.

What a wonderful weekend. I almost don't want Monday to arrive.