Weekly Sundown Rundown

Happy Sunday!

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Links (mostly from my Twitter):

Want to buy a tower? The one I work in is for sale.

Baby snow leopards.

More and more people are choosing to dine alone. So if you’re not totally phased by the idea of doing that (I am), here’s a list of the best places to do so at.

The Atlantic did a study, and found that you can predict a Twitter user’s income level based on his or her Twitter’s content.

Tomorrow is Columbus Day (I would much prefer Indigenous Peoples Day), and Corporette rounded up a list of sales for you to peruse.

I’m about to make this vegetarian chili recipe for dinner this week.

I liked this piece about why Millennials leave a company. I was nodding my head along with a lot of it. What do you think?

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And my highlights this week?

• Um, hockey is back! I celebrated the Friday night home opener for the Red Wings by heading to Lincoln Park’s Tin Lizzie (Chicago’s Detroit sports bar) to watch my boys shut out Toronto with a beer in one hand and pizza in the other.
• Sephora goodies! I stopped into Sephora to pick up a Naked Basics palette, and ended up snagging some birthday freebies. This year’s handouts were the NARS velvet matte lip pencil both in Cruella and in Rikugien.
• Dinner at Wicker Park’s Piece. Spinach and goat cheese pizza? I recommend.
• Rosé at City Winery‘s Riverwalk location with my coworker Haley.
• Dinner (and hard cider) at Andersonville’s Hopleaf.
• Cheap beer at Uptown’s Carol’s Pub.
• A dark chocolate cake from my mom! She mailed it, and while it got a little lot damaged in the journey, it still tasted amazing.
• I finally pulled the trigger and bought this adorable Gossip Girl coffee mug from The Trendy Sparrow on Etsy. Her stuff is adorable.
• A quick bathroom print rehab. I replaced my “Medieval filth cauldron” print from my last apartment with something a little more girly.
• Drinks at Lincoln Park’s The Other Side Bar. Fun fact: This bar has PBR for $3.50 (cheapest I have yet to find it in this city) as well as $3 Fireball shots. Both deals were taken full advantage of.

(You can keep up with this stuff as it happens if you follow along on Instagram, or on Snapchat at randimshaffer.)

And this coming week?

It should be somewhat exciting! I have a birthday this week (oh man) and I’ll be celebrating it with some of my friends here in Chicago.

What’s on your radar? Let me know in the comments!

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