"I hate having my life disrupted by routine."--Caskie Stinnett

proof I could easily have been classified as a bookworm, even in the first decade of my life:

*all spelling/grammatical errors are left as is.

January 31, 2002 

"Yesterday we went to the libary. We bought 21 books home we read them all in one night and one morning."

Look at those vampire-esque teeth! Thank god for orthodontic assistance!

Oh hello, internet. There are 3 more things you should know.

1. 2 weeks ago (I am sooo terrible with being punctual!) the lovely Denise Bomfim from Brazil (again, how exotic, huh?!) wrote a piece about me in her blog! :D Her blog is a great read (http://denisebomfim.blogspot.com) check it out fo' shizzle! She blogs in Portugese and English, so cool. Check out the post HERE!

2. Remember my last Candor article? The totalitarianism approach I took to advise males on how  they should dress? Yeah, you should read it: http://candorstyles.com/fascism-with-fashion-an-unscrupulous-guide-for-males/. 

Now, can't get enough of my article(s) at Candor (heehee)? Well, you're in luck! My second post (counting sweatpants as a deadly sin, presented in a satrical manner) just went up today: GO GO GO HERE GO HERE GO GO GO HERE!

3. THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO NEW FOLLOWERS! Sorry, I am emulating a poopy-face and neglecting my humble little baby blog a bit too much. I miss it! I miss interacting with other bloggers, namely, you all! But I am so unbelievably busy (still, the good kind of busy). 

CAN YOU BELIEVE I HAVE ~1000 unread POSTS ON BLOGLOVIN'!? I have some serious catching up to do. 

Love, love! Toodles!

This is what's happening under my umbrella.

All this free time (the summer, I mean) has given me the chance to do a lot of thinking. It seems that in the past year, with the suffocation of academia in my senior year of highschool, I forgot how to...think. But anyways, this would be a whole 'nother post--rather, several posts.

Some business to take care of, first!
1. I've been featured again! I mean, you know, whatever, this sort of thing happens all the time, so like, whatever.
AHCJDKJ!
Nope.
I can't portray the nonchalance of other bloggers who oh-so-casually mention near the end of their post that oh! "oh yeah, I've been featured on Big Deal Magzine" or "I have an interview with Really Popular National T.V. Station". AND HONEY, frankly, I don't do nonchalance! (Doesn't really fit in with the whole 'maximalist' thing, 'n'awwww mean!?) But anyways, this time it was on another cool blog called MuslimStreetFashion! It even sounds super swell, right? Obviously, I follow it! Go check it out, y'all, HERE!

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2. Hey, my fellow female Muslim followers! Have you signed up for SistersWhoBlog Network yet!? It's a social networking site for female Muslim bloggers. It's got HEAPS of benefits. So take a look for yourself and join! GO HERE GO HERE GO HERE GO HERE!

And, if you join because you heard it from me...do let me know! (I need to recruit five people for the SWB awards.) Speaking of which, if you like Under Urooba's Umbrella...please vote for me! Put your name on the voting list...HERE! Thanks, guys!

3. I've going to be adding a spiffy new feature to UUU. I call it: Best Comment of the Post.
It'll look something like this:

 Best Comment of the Post:                                                                                                         

Sheila from Sheila'sBlog said: "Whoa, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, radical, blah blah blah!"

It's to encourage creative and engaging comments! As a 'word person', this makes sense, no? I got the idea from Adored Austin's blog! Well, here's to hoping I don't get lazy and actually keep this up.

Goodbye lovers! + outfit post soon! WAHOOOOO.

UUU UPDATES. Handlin' some business like you know how I do + EXCITING NEWS.

1. My very first feature--exciting, exciting, exciting! The incredibly cool Rania from Fashioning Faith: Style Inspiration for Muslim Women, has done a post on my style! Ack! She's from Indonesia--how very exotic, huh?! Check it out HERE, and meanwhile, check out her blog, too! It's CHOCK full of incredible inspiration--I became a follower recently, soon after I found her blog. (I did a 'happy dance' after I found out she wants to feature l'il 'ol me. Err, no I didn't. Err, you didn't hear it from me. Err, somebody has surely hacked my blogger! And I can't press the backspace button!).

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 2. Recently, I did something that takes a lot of gumption and guts (not really). One must be really self-confident and be extremely courageous and what not to do what I just did (ah, no)...
...I made a facebook fan page for Under Urooba's Umbrella! Rather, you can now 'like' Under Urooba's Umbrella on facebook! What, you say, you don't know what facebook is!? Well, it's a social networ--Oh, that isn't the problem, you say? Ouf! Right.
Here is where you can go ahead and hit like--I will like YOU, if you do. (There is also a widget for my Page on the left side of my blog, if you should decide you are too pompous to like it from here. Or perhaps you are seeking a thrill of sorts and believe you wil find it from liking UUU by going to the left side of my blog. THE POINT IS, go ahead and like it. =)):


3. My formspring's been running a little bit empty. Now I know y'all ARE DYING to ask me questions. So, unearth yourself from your shyness and do proceed to ask!
ALRIGHT.
You caught me.
It's me.
I'M the one who IS DYING to have you ask me questions.
I admit it.
You caught me.
SO please, won't you respond in the most positive manner to this confessional?! :D
ASK ME HERE (or on the left side of my blog!):

http://www.formspring.me/urooba