P.S. October in Review

A recap on my favorite month of the year. Plus: new lipstick, my favorite fall boots, and a plaid dog collar.

Dear Friend,

It was definitely an October for the books, since I spent the final week of it exploring London in all it autumnal glory. I'll be posting a full recap later, but it was a dream trip that has been about 24 years in the making. I've wanted to visit England since I was six, and first read Harry Potter (I know, I know). Of course, over the years, the reasons I wanted to visit only continued to evolve and multiply, but I certainly didn't expect it to take me until age 30 to finally get across the pond.

In a way, though, I'm sort of glad I went now, when I'm financially stable enough to afford to do the things I want and stay at a beautiful hotel, as opposed to making it work with hostels and sketchy Airbnbs.

We stayed at The Ned Hotel in Central London, and it was a dream. The building was a former bank, so it’s huge – I truly felt like I could have spent a full week just in this hotel. It had something like seven restaurants and bars, which we made good use of. A highlight was t…