Monthly Archives: July 2010

Public service announcement

Posted on July 30, 2010 by themoderngal

Modern Friends, after several months of banging my head against the wall I’ve managed to tie down a slightly better domain name in themoderngal.com and have located hosting space and have installed wordpress.org and all that great jazz that the … Continue reading →

Posted in blogrolling, public service announcement | 4 Comments

Stay: The lady behind the book

Posted on July 29, 2010 by themoderngal

Have you gotten your copy of Stay yet? No??? Here’s the Amazon link. I’ll STAY here and wait until you take care of that. … Now that you’ve taken care of that, Allie did me the huge favor of answering … Continue reading →

Posted in books and magazines, pets, writing exercise | 3 Comments

Stay: Four paws up

Posted on July 28, 2010 by themoderngal

So this post is way, way, way overdo, but I didn’t want to sit down and write it until I had legitimate time and brain power to give it the focus it deserved. You may have read on some other … Continue reading →

Posted in books and magazines, pets | 1 Comment

Baseball, and a whole lot of it

Posted on July 23, 2010 by themoderngal

Thank you so much for all of your comments on that last post! It’s reassuring to know there are others who have either gone through this or feel the same way. Let’s figure this all out together. I’ll be sharing … Continue reading →

Posted in baseball, personal experience, sports, travel | 4 Comments

Reinventing myself

Posted on July 19, 2010 by themoderngal

I had a really crummy week at work last week for reasons I won’t get into, but suffice it to say I’m tired of dealing with the same old BS that makes work difficult at times. It’s not something that … Continue reading →

Posted in employment, personal experience | 12 Comments

Am I old enough to stop having them?

Posted on July 13, 2010 by themoderngal

Tommorow is my 28th birthday. I know you probably won’t believe me when I say this, but I honestly kept forgetting that my birthday was on deck until two days or so, and even then I haven’t given it a … Continue reading →

Posted in holidays, life, personal experience | 7 Comments

Kroger fail

Posted on July 12, 2010 by themoderngal

The Modern Love Machine, who, as a teacher is off work for the summer, has done most of our grocery shopping and cooking since we moved into the new house, God bless him. While at work today, I received this … Continue reading →

Posted in food and drink, shopping | 8 Comments

This post ends with gay square dancers

Posted on July 11, 2010 by themoderngal

So Auntie mentioned she was going on a road trip soon with her boyfriend and was worried about the trip possibly ending in killing one another, likely over what was being played on the radio. Fortunately, the Modern Love Machine … Continue reading →

Posted in personal experience, travel | 4 Comments

At the home again, with apologies to Willie Nelson

Posted on July 7, 2010 by themoderngal

I wish I had kept stats on our beach-to-Midwest road trip just to quantify how ridiculous of a plan it was, but I didn’t so I’ll now estimate a few stats for you … 14 days10 states (three of them … Continue reading →

Posted in personal experience, trivia | 4 Comments