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Have a great Halloween weekend! The weather is supposed to be beautiful and perfect for trick or treating, costume parades or anything that strikes your ghoulish fancy! Boo!

Yesterday was a gray and rainy day, plus I am in London prep mode so obviously I have umbrellas on the brain.

Yesterday was the first time in awhile I was stranded without my handy dandy purse-sized umbrella, but even though it is functional, my little Tote’s umbrella is nothing special. To remedy this issue I’ve been lusting after a big, coverall, plastic umbrella like the one the lovely Gossip Girls use!

The Hub is a new channel on time Warner cable and they show Fraggle Rock for an hour every weekday! Not only is the show a relic from my past, but it’s also brilliant Jim Henson humor and creativity. And I even showed their religious figure some love!

Fraggle Rock theme song:

Dance your cares away
Worries for another day
Let the music play
Down at Fraggle Rock!

Work you cares away!
Dancing’s for another day!
Let the Fraggles play!
We’re Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red!

Woweeee!
Wow-eeee!

“Ooooh a Fwaggle! Hehe, hey look Ma, I caught a Fwaggle!”
“Ahhhhhhh!”
“Wahhhhhhhhhhh! Woopee!”

Dance your cares away
Worry’s for another day
Let the music play
Down at Fraggle Rock!
Down at Fraggle Rock!
Down at Fraggle Rock.

One thing I haven’t done in London is go for a proper tea. I think tea time at the Brown’s Hotel, the first hotel in London, is the perfect place to start a new London tradition. Pinkies up!

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I ran out of religious figures and decided to just wish everyone a Happy Friday! I’m in DC for the weekend and looking forward to a relaxing weekend with old friends in a great city!

I just bought his great blazer from urban outfitters and I’m thinking of recreating this refinery29 look with babydoll dress, shrunken blazer and wedge booties.

Regardless of my personal stance on Facebook, which I will share in a bit, I was absolutely brimming with excitement to see the movie about the boys behind the site. And all my excitement paid off when I saw it earlier this week. I think the movie was amazing. It was a masterful piece of work by Sorkin and I think all the actors were amazingly cast.

In August 2004, in preparation for heading down to DC for my freshman year of college, I was introduced to facebook — only 2 dozen schools or so had access at the time. It was as clean and straightforward as you can imagine, there were no bells and whistles.

One of the themes strongly driven home in the movie by both the Winklevi (see the movie) and Zuckerberg himself is the idea of exclusivity. What was going to make this site cooler than friendster and myspace? The .edu email address that only the Harvard students had.

Without sounding totally and completely obnoxious, this has been a real point of contention for me. When the site first launched and there were only a handful of schools, it really was the best way to find, and stalk, people who you met on campus — an online yearbook of sorts. But then it all changed. First it became a place to connect with friends from high school who attended different colleges. I had no problem there, I was still friends with some of those people and it was nice to have a site where we could stay connected. But then it was opened up to everyone over 18 and exclusivity was gone. Suddenly the site was about reconnecting with people who you once knew, and I had no desire to reconnect with elementary school acquaintances. By the time the site was open to the general public, and the world, the panache was gone. I may be totally outnumbered but I was fine, and actually preferred, when my number of facebook friends was directly proportional to the number of actual friends I had — I never felt that desire to strive for thousands of “friends”.

Justin Timberlake, who plays Napster founder Sean Parker, mentions that we once lived on farms and in cities and now we are going to live on the Internet. The growth of the sites’ functionality also inherently changed what the site was used for. For me, the site has changed too drastically from it’s original bare bones structure. As a user since 2004, I’ve had to change the way I use the site too many times for it to be important to me anymore. Maybe I have more issues with change than I would like to admit, but the same principles of the site don’t apply to me anymore and so I’ve just learn to live without it. The picture tagging was nice, reliving experiences online was something that previous picture sharing sites didn’t offer. But even the wall was a bit strange and way too gossipy for my taste. Then there was the news feed, privacy settings, chat, blah blah blah … I didn’t feel a need to do all of that with the hundreds of non-friend friends I had on the site. Call me old fashioned, but I’m OK with using more than one site for different things.

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Its official! I’m heading to London at the beginning of December and I am seriously considering staying for good! Even though I studied abroad there and visited a bunch of times I’m excited to go to places I’ve been missing (i.e., Diana’s Diner, Rock & Sole and some of the best vintage stores in the world) and finally see some sights I’ve never made it to.

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I redid my bedroom a few months ago with a new bed, dresser and freshly painted white walls. One of the walls is really blank and I have been looking around for ideas on how to decorate. These ghostly white frames are perfectly scattered and I love the mixed and matched ornate and simple frames. I also hung a small flat screen tv in my room and I’m thinking of using some painted crown molding to build a frame around it. It seems to be the perfect quite elegance a bedroom needs.