Yup. The review reward system for Birchbox is aces.

The Real Chemistry peel reminds me of when I was a kid and working with rubber cement. You know how you can let it dry on your skin, then rub it off and it pills into little balls? It’s like that, only on your face. Gross, but soooo satisfying.

I highly recommend the blog of the costume emroiderer, Michele Carragher. She has fantastic detail pictures of several of these.

Yes! These roses have thorns.

I was thinking she must sleep standing upright in a closet somewhere to prevent that masterpiece from getting the slightest bit deflated.

This time last year Vogue was trying to tell us that skinny jeans were out in favor of giant, JNCO-style jeans. I’m pretty sure you can safely ignore their pleas.

I’m mesmerized by her hair.

Ugh. My last apartment I lived next to a wannabe EDM DJ. Every goddamn week it was the same. damn. thing. Monday - Wednesday he’d start “composing” around 11:00 at night, just as we were trying to go to sleep to go to work the next day. Thursday nights, he managed to have a gig at a local bar. He’d inevitably invite…

He was too pretty. Just ridic.

My ceremony was performed by a retired judge who was one of the first female attorneys in my state. I work in the legal profession, so when we went in for our planning session, it was 5 minutes of talking about the actual ceremony, and an hour and a half talking about how much of a boys club law was and still is. It…

Nichelle Nichols is the most elegant, gracious person I’ve ever met. She also has fab jewelry. That’s it for my wonderful celeb stories.

YES.

Is that why she’s wearing a turban? If so, you’re brilliant and I look forward to this movie.

Seriously. If your ancestors came from a small island nation especially, they were sleeping with their cousins.

Yup! The second book features characters introduced in the first, but she does a great job summarizing the situation in a non info-dump manner. Plus, the heroine is a pirate airship captain with literal cat reflexes. It’s great fun.

Yup. Though thank the cover gods that the outrage over that one forced the publisher to change the cover image.

Try some Nalini Singh or Meljean Brook! They both write some seriously well-developed worlds that I find interesting enough even without all the romantic trappings.

I was beginning to worry you were me there for a second, but I went on my honeymoon afterwards. 8 minute ceremony for the win! Hilariously, the video of our ceremony has the videographer (sister’s boyfriend with a digital camera) going, “What, that’s it? 8 minutes! Awesome! ... oh, shit, I didn’t press the-”

Gah. You just reminded me of when she was in the relationship with Pastor Casey. He was funny! He was interested in the same pop culture stuff she was and understood her references! He helped her be a better person. I sometimes like aspects of the Mindy-Danny relationship, but even I have to admit that in comparison…

Second only to Parks & Rec? Clearly, you need to start watching Brooklyn 99. I mean, I like the New Girl cast and all, but Brooklyn 99 has the best cast chemistry I’ve ever seen.