Dear Facebook

I resisted you and then you became the next best thing to sliced bread so I jumped on board. At first it was all fun and games and then I really truly believed that you were indeed the next best thing to sliced bread when my best friend from HS who I hadn’t been in touch with for 15-ish years found me (wrote about that here).

At that time I realized that she found me on FB because I hadn’t gotten married and changed my name. Since then I’ve been reconnected with other long lost friends – who knew I’d reconnect with the folks I lived with in Israel with on Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek? Laura who I celebrated my 18th birthday with in Greece? Fellow CIT campers from Camp Swig (from, ahem, 25 years ago)? All of the people I lost touch with because back then there wasn’t an Internet or cell phones…. ( I was clearly too lazy to keep up sending letters, but I wasn’t alone in that)

But now we have this incredibly fancy Internet and you can online-chat with people from all over the world, in different time zones, and you’d never know that they weren’t just down the street from you.

While back in April I pondered that it was a good thing that I hadn’t changed from my maiden name I’m now realizing that there is much more to it than that. While I’m now try to search for VERY long lost contacts – childhood / elementary school friends – I realize that anyone I want to reconnect with if she's female my chance of finding her has decreased 80% due to the likelihood that she's now married and has changed her last name. So while they can look me up easily enough, if I were to type in ‘Jane Smith’ thousands show up, but in reality Smith may no longer be her last name any more….

Typing in just a first name is useless – my name which I always thought was unusual (couldn’t ever find personalized trinkets with my specific spelling growing up!) when I search it on FB it comes up with pages and pages of women with my name and my exact spelling. *who knew?*

I don’t want to use a reunion service to find someone that most likely also hasn’t joined (cause it's not free), but I wish that Facebook would have a maiden name field or something for all those that are no longer "Ms Smith". I don’t know who to talk to about that, or what difference my request/wish will make, so I hope that by sending my 'reconnection wish' out into the universe makes someone think about looking me up in FB, cause for right now I’m pretty easy to find.

What I'm Watching

Recently I was having difficulty with my Cable Company Issue DVR so I had to trade it in....

The unexpected difficulty I had with trading it in for another DVR is that I had all kinds of shows that I was behind in watching. After too many weekends away last month I really got behind in my TV watching so I had to try and cram as much in as I could.

However I did have to make some choices ..... and in the 'world of TV' they kinda felt like hard choices...

What to Watch & What to Forget:

• Watch: America's Next Top Model
• Forget: Lost - it's on On Demand so I can catch them there
• Watch: The F Word - I've got quite a crush on Gordon Ramsey these days
• Forget: a couple KQED Masterpiece Theater shows I recorded at some time
• Watch: The Coco Chanel Movie w/ Shirely McLaine - good movie by the way!
• Forget: The Bridge - kinda thought the subject matter was just too heavy

In the end I've now only got the few shows that I started recording, but I actually have a sense of freedom. Freedom from my DVR and the shows that I recorded months back but never made the time for. The weekly guilty pleasure TV shows that I always made time for never sat and festered on the DVR, but the others just sat and sat getting lower and lower on the list.

For now with my 4 saved shows (as of yesterday) I'll easily catch up with them and stay on top of the shows and while I doubt I'll change my ways, for now I can try to stay on top of my DVR recordings ... but we'll see.

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Bonus TV Post:

I was very happy to learn that a few of the recently canceled ABC shows will return this summer showing the remaining episodes never shown:

Pushing Daisies: May 30 - June 13 @ 10pm

Dirty Sexy Money: July 18 - Aug 8 @ 10pm

(and though I never watched this one Eli Stone: June 20 - July 11 also at 10pm

Halleluiah!!!

Project Runway is IN!

The Bravo - Lifetime dispute is finally finished!

Considering the most recent season (#6) has already been filmed: the show at New York Fashion Week is done, and the poor designers were cloistered away unable to show their face – I’m happy that they can finally come out of the sewing closet (so to speak!).

Though I hardly ever watch Lifetime, I'm looking forward to enjoying a new season with Heidi and Tim "Make It Work" Gunn!

Double air kiss to Bravo… Auf Wiedersehen