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    Posted in holidays love and relationships personal experience

    Taking down the memories

    I don’t usually wait until Jan. 8 to take the tree down. My family has a tradition of leaving the tree up until New Year’s Day and taking it down…

    Posted on January 9, 2009 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience weight loss

    Something good comes of it

    You may have noticed I haven’t talked much about my Weight Watchers adventure lately. That’s mostly because our last session ended three weeks ago, and we decided to wait until…

    Posted on January 8, 2009 by themoderngal
    Posted in love and relationships personal experience

    The Facebook breakup

    I’ll admit it, I’ve always been slightly bemused by the fact that you could monitor the health of other people’s relationships thanks to the obsessive-compulsive way Facebook notifies everyone when…

    Posted on January 6, 2009 by themoderngal
    Posted in life love and relationships personal experience

    Since then

    Ok, first off — THANK YOU, FRIENDS. I cannot begin to tell you the number of e-mails and phone calls and text messages and tweets and every other medium you…

    Posted on January 5, 2009 by themoderngal
    Posted in love and relationships personal experience

    1,889 days later

    To my Twitter friends, thank you. I appreciate all the kind notes and e-mails. Please don’t take it personally if I didn’t directly respond. For some reason, I find it…

    Posted on January 5, 2009 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience weight loss

    Back on the healthy treadmill

    Although I won’t be making the traditional “lose weight” New Year’s resolution this year thanks to my success this year with Weight Watchers, I am recommitting myself to an eat…

    Posted on December 29, 2008 by themoderngal
    Posted in family food and drink holidays personal experience

    Merry Christmas from The Modern Gal

    Merry Christmas or happy whatever holiday you choose to observe, Modern Friends. I hope it’s colorful and bright! I’m writing this post in the wee hours of Christmas morning after…

    Posted on December 25, 2008 by themoderngal
    Posted in holidays home life personal experience

    A Christmas gift from the universe

    Modern Noodles sent me this story from the Chicago Tribune regarding what your Christmas lights say about you. I can’t quite glean from the story exactly what my Christmas lights…

    Posted on December 21, 2008 by themoderngal
    Posted in food and drink personal experience travel writing exercise

    A story about good restaurant service

    As part of my weeklong tour of my home state, my job has me visiting Chattanooga, the city where I first set up my post-college life, for the next few…

    Posted on December 19, 2008 by themoderngal
    Posted in holidays home personal experience

    The great Christmas lights extravaganza

    I promised pictures of the Christmas lights extravaganza. I think I exaggerated in my own brain just how out-of-control my own display would be. It really isn’t out-of-control, but hopefully…

    Posted on December 18, 2008 by themoderngal
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