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December 23, 2006

There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays

I think this is Christmas lyric title number 8! Only a few days left until I have to start being original again... or boring, either one.

Tonight, a bunch of my friends and I went to Vanessa's house to watch TV and catch up. It's so nice to be home again with all my high school friends. I have to give a special thanks to Molly's sister, Sara, who provided us with "death by chocolate" for dessert:

It was absolutely deliciuos. We all took up our little semi-circle around the TV in Vanessa's basement and relaxed, ate more chocolate (Kristina brought us M&Ms!), and did a lot of gossiping... I mean, "catching up." I wish I had taken more pictures, but all of my gorgeous friends were doing the "Don't take my picture, I look awful" thing... ugh.

Completely unrelated to any of this, a Ralph Lauren Rugby Store has opened up on Greenwich Avenue! Brent told me he had heard about a new Ralph Lauren store that didn't have catalogs or an online store so you had to go to one of their very few locations, but that he had heard it was worth the trip. We went to Boston last September and trudged through the rain until we found the Newbury St. location. Rugby sells rugby shirts (obviously) along with cute skirts, dresses, sweaters, jackets... anything you can think of. Brent especially likes the store because he loves pirates and one of the logos Rugby uses is a skull and crossbones. One of the cool things about Rugby is that you can customize your own rugby shirt with different logo patches, or you can choose from a lot of different ones that they've pre-made. Wow, shouldn't they be paying me for this or something?

Anyway, I strongly urge you to check it out. The locations are here on the Ralph Lauren website.

As you can see, the newest location is lovely Greenwich, CT which opened its store this month on Greenwich Ave. Greenwich Avenue has been changing, has anyone else noticed? Definitely for the better, in my opinion. I think our latest additions have been Lucky Jeans, Rugby, Lilly Pullitzer, and Vineyard Vines (which started here in Greenwich, not Martha's Vineyard-- as a quick sidenote, Shep and Ian apparently go to my yacht club and one of them is a neighbor of ours!) Of course we still have some old favorites like Saks and Richards along with all the couture boutiques. Greenwich Avenue has been referred to as the "Rodeo Drive of the East" but I don't buy it. Beverly Hills may have a "Greenwich Avenue of the West," but certainly not the other way around, that's just absurd. Is their town clock a Rolex? In the words of Michelle Tanner, "Oh puhleeeease!" I do hope people know when I'm kidding... or am I? Anyway....

If you're interested in shopping on Greenwich Avenue, check out this cool website I just found today, Shop Greenwich Avenue.

And finally, for those of you who miss the Tanner family as much as I do...

Here's a Tanner Family Christmas Video!

I think we all wish Uncle Jesse hadn't left the band to become an ER doctor, but maybe there will be a Tanner family reunion sometime soon.

Posted by lauren at December 23, 2006 01:04 AM

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Posted by: brent at December 27, 2006 01:57 AM