What did I do this weekend? Well, last week all Yahoo! got an email that there's a 25% off sale, above and beyond any other sales or markdowns, at Linens 'n' Things for all Yahoo! employees and their guests this weekend only. Friday I got my first Yahoo! paycheck.

You can see where this goes...

Sunday morning Emily, Ali, and I ventured to Pleasanton for a little binge shopping. Like any bachelor, I find that there are certain kinds of things that follow the binge-purge cycle: build up the laundry 'till you're stuck for clothes you'd dare to be seen in, then spend a whole day at the laundramat, washing everything but the clothes you'd never wear, but can't seem to bring to throw or give away, grocery shopping (and all the people reading this who really know me can shut up now. It's a generalization. ), and of course shopping of all other kinds that don't fall under the 'impulse buy' or the banal needs of the id.

Shopping for the bedroom falls squarely in the realm of the bulimic. I don't do it often, but when I do, I revel in it, and I'm glad that I had two friends with me with a better sense of decorating than me. So three hours, 750 dollars, and a couple cartloads of comforter, chenelle, pillows,and varied assortments later we were done.

Ali and Emily each came away with respectable hauls as well. I'm sure Ali already put her ensemble together to greet her husband returning that evening from Los Angeles. Emily's probably putting hers together as I write this, and I'm putting my new bedroom together as soon as I get home and post this.

I have a houseguest coming in tomorrow, and so I have another bed to make up as well as my own, and more dauntingly, a living room that has seen the brunt of my long hours at work and little time to straighten up these past few weeks.

Assembling furniture and cleaning a room is a lot like taking a bath when I was little: you kick and scream against it, but once you're in the thick it's actually pretty great.