The Friday Five, 11/13/26: 5 things I've been up to this week

Happy Friday the 13th and happy end of the work week, although unfortunately I think Outlook is back and running today—I was actually able to write an article I needed to do yesterday because it was down (gave me more time to focus).

Halloween Hello Kitty from CVS

What I've been up to the past two weeks:
  1. Using my CVS ExtraBucks. I have their CarePass+ program or whatever they call it now, and I get $10 per month to use at their store or online. I generally just buy candy and then pick it up online, but every time I tried to order some Reese's, I got a text back saying out of stock, and they refunded me in ExtraBucks, since that's what I used to pay. I finally just went to the store to get something, and they had a 50% off aisle with Halloween treats and goodies, including the Hello Kitty pictured above (and Baby K loves cats, so she loves it).
  2. Not being able to check my work email. Outlook went down around 12:30pm yesterday, for me, and didn't come back ... it looks like it is FINALLY back up, at least for me, as of this morning. It sounds like it was a massive outage that spanned Europe and other countries, as well. 
  3. Going out to eat and getting takeout. Last Saturday, we went to brunch with Baby K and two friends who have a baby almost the same age as her (he's literally like a week younger than her), at Daily Jam in Farmington Hills, which was fun. I hadn't been there before but the food was good and it's a large place. On Wednesday, I got us takeout from Pita Way—they were celebrating their grand opening, in Farmington Hills/WB, and offering BOGO bowls and sandwiches, or "sandweeches" as they call them—and I think last weekend we got Noori from Doordash. 
  4. Getting cheap Speedway gas. I usually get my gas from Costco but Speedway has been doing some incredible offers lately, including 50c off gas on the 7th and 11th of the month—which will repeat in December, too, by the way. I mentioned this on Facebook recently and someone sent me a list of other codes you can text for even MORE savings, too, so when we filled up on the 7th, we got 86 cents off per gallon—a lot cheaper than the Costco near me was, on that day, which was pretty cool. 
  5. Doctor appointments. Baby K had a checkup on Monday, I had my yearly physical on Tuesday, on Wednesday I had to see the dentist because I had a tooth bothering me, and on Thursday they referred me to a periodontist because they couldn't entirely figure out what was wrong. Next week I have more doctor appointments but I think just one, a virtual one, so that's good, at least.
Speedway gas savings
Speedway screen

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