1. The Salt Lick in Driftwood, Texas: I visited my sister and nieces in the Austin area last weekend for my elder niece’s ninth birthday, and we went out to dinner to celebrate on Sunday night. We’d been to the Salt Lick before and I specifically requested that we go again while I was in town. I don’t even like meat, but their veggie sides are so good and their BBQ sauces are seriously to die for: so mustard-y and tangy…MMMM!
I was so excited to come home from errands and work yesterday to find my latest Stitch Fix sitting at the front door! This was Fix #10 for me—I can’t believe how many I’ve gotten already. I’ve been wearing the sleeveless plaid button down from my last fix a whole bunch lately—in fact, I wore it yesterday—and I couldn’t wait to tear into the box and see what the stylist picked out for me this time.
Can you believe we’re already a week into October?! IÂ certainly cannot. I’m well into my 31 Days of Horror Challenge and I’m happy to report it’s going swimmingly, even with my four-day trip to Texas. When I arrived home from the airport on Tuesday, my October Birchbox was waiting for me at the front door, so that was a nice little welcome home after a long, somewhat stressful day of travel.
For this month, Birchbox subscribers were given the option to pick one of five mascara samples OR one of two featured boxes (Game Face or Power Pose). I selected the Power Pose box, which included five samples from Estée Lauder brands. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so Estée Lauder Companies partnered with Birchbox to donate $104,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and this month’s box is fully Breast Cancer Awareness-themed:
1. Supernatural Convention in Secaucus, NJ: a little while after Comic-Con, my friend and I decided to buy Sunday tickets to Creation Entertainment’s #NJCON. I’d never been to a show-specific convention like this before, so I was super excited to go! As part of the con they throw a Friday night karaoke party hosted by becostumed Rob Benedict and Matt Cohen (theme: Cult Classics) and featuring the stars who appeared that day. So obviously my friend and I went to the party…and it was a blast! In the pic below you can see Erica Carroll (Hannah), Gil McKinney (Henry Winchester), Osric Chau (Kevin), Rob Benedict (Chuck), Tyler Johnston (Samandriel), and Matt Cohen (Young John Winchester). Misha Collins (Castiel) also made an appearance to talk about his charity Random Acts of Kindness’s five year anniversary, so that was amazing to see him. Also not pictured: Travis Aaron Wade (Cole), whom we ran into at Houlihan’s after the party ended. 😛 The actual convention on Sunday was fun, and we got to see panels with Erica Carroll (with a surprise appearance by Misha), Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles (always a delight to see them) and Mark Sheppard (hilariously sassy). I don’t know if I’d pay $120 to do the whole thing again, but it was a cool experience for sure.
Happy October! I love Fall, and Halloween is my favorite holiday, so the start of October is always exciting for me. I also love horror movies; even the really shitty, 2-star ones on Netflix usually have some sort of entertainment value (as in, “so bad they’re funny”). 
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1. Scream Queens: another year, another new Ryan Murphy show…not that that’s a bad thing! I love Murphy’s campy sensibility, and SQ is full of that, along with an excellent Heathers vibe, a heaping helping of extra bitchy Emma Roberts snark, and SO MUCH SCREAMING. I was amazed-slashed-amused by some of the stuff the pilot managed to get past FOX censors, including a metric shit ton of poop talk and the terms “gashes,” “blumpkins,” and “bikini burger” (I had to Google the latter two, so thanks for adding those to my vocabulary, Chanel No. 1). I’m confused by Nasim Pedrad’s character’s outfits—she’s supposedly stuck in the 90’s but her clothes look like solid 80’s to me. And what’s up with Chanel No. Whatever’s furry earmuffs? Also…candle vloggers, lol. 😛 My favorite characters so far are Jamie Lee Curtis’ Dean Munsch and Niecy Nash’s rent-a-cop Denise Hempville. It’s also fun to see Lea Michele play a super-weirdo. I can’t wait for more!
I’ve been fighting a cold all week and still feel pretty crappy, so I’m going to keep this brief (and BTW, it’s almost entirely St. Louis-related due to my trip home last weekend.)
1. This pretty little Wedgwood Jasperware St. Louis dish was a bridesmaid gift from a close friend of mine many years back when I was in her wedding party. It’s been sitting in my room at my parents’ house, but I decided to bring it back to NYC with me.
How the hell did September happen already…and how on earth is it already halfway through the month?! Anyway, I just returned to Brooklyn after a few days of visiting my parents in St. Louis, and was greeted with my September Birchbox when I came home. Side note: I keep accidentally typing “Bitchbox,” which I think would be an awesome idea for a subscription service…I’m just not certain what those boxes would contain. 😛
For the September box we were given a choice of either customizing our box by picking one of four samples, or selecting the customer favorites box. I decided to pick my sample: the POP Beauty Portfolio Eyeshadow in Sugar Plum.
Now, on to one of the most fun parts of getting a Birchbox every month: this month’s box design reveal!
While at home visiting my parents in St. Louis I was browsing through the Ladue News over breakfast; the neighborhood weekly is basically real estate porn with some articles thrown in there for shits and giggles. The LN contained a full page ad for a home for sale called Falicon Mansion, a place so insane it has its own website. After checking out the website, complete with—no joke—84 photos of the mansion, I thought it’d be fun to do a little St. Louis area vs. Brooklyn real estate comparison. Continue Reading…
1. Aperol Spritz! I know, I’ve written about this aperitivo a bunch lately, but I went to a friend’s backyard BBQ over Labor Day weekend and one of the available drinks was the Spritz, complete with orange wedges for garnish. So of course I mixed myself one (or several). Deeelish!
