It's the most wonderful caaaarb of the yearrrr.

(Seriously this sweatshirt is my everything.)

It's been about a month and a half since Erin and I opened glam | camp's metaphorical doors, and it's going...surprisingly well, actually. E-commerce, as I was told by virtually everyone who I mentioned the shop to, is a notoriously hard (verging-on-impossible) arena to break into, mostly because there's just so much stuff out there on the Internet to buy - and so many options for where to buy it - that in order for someone to decide to buy *your* product on *your* site a whole lot of pieces have to fall into place.

I discovered this bronzer-and-blush duo on Francesca's makeup table and fell in love. Mostly love that you can get it at the drugstore (or here) for around $25.

Madewell's gift guide is a good one, if you're looking to get an early (well, earlyish) start.

I've been following Yale's Halloween Costume Drama obsessively. It highlights so much of exactly what's wrong with activist culture today. (The New Intolerance Of Student Activism, via The Atlantic.)

Yesterday, on the endless, practically featureless drive down I-5 from San Jose to Los Angeles, my daughter sleeping in her car seat in the back, my (extra-large) Red Bull propped between my knees, I called a bunch of friends, because six hours on the road seemed like a good time to get some catching-up done. "So why are you going to LA?" they asked.

And I had a bunch of answers at the ready: I have no work this week that I can't do remotely; I was in the mood for some girl time; my dad's in town for a few days and I miss him. I wanted to see how Goldie would do on a just-us-two trip (I usually take Indy on weekend trips because he's easier to travel with, but he's got a new school schedule now that I didn't want to disrupt). I have a few colleagues in the area who I've been meaning to meet with for awhile.

See? Lots of reasons.

This is not what I look like right now. Pretty dress, though.

Dress (similar) | Blazer (similar)

See that? That photo was chosen because it's a nice autumn-ish image (from a photo shoot I did for TJ Maxx), and not because it in any way resembles what I look like right now.

{ Mill Valley, California }

Stuart Weitzman Boots | Zara Camo Jacket (similar)

On Sunday, we drove up to Mill Valley for bahn mi (seriously, the bahn mi place there is good enough that it merits an hour and a half drive...and the drive also presents a way to get the kids to take a nice, long, simultaneous nap, so that's a bonus). We didn't take many photos - just the two you see here, of us sitting in something called a "Gravity Car" - because we weren't doing all that much; just wandering and eating and occasionally stopping into a store. It was a peaceful, largely uneventful day.