Why Are We Doing This Again?

For a little over six months, me, the phenomenal MGF Staff, and my awesome Guest Bloggers have been writing with one goal in mind: To make people laugh and think…even if it was just for us. Somehow, we’ve picked up some regular readers. Orchid, FJ, and BrownSuga have managed to keep me from killing myself. And I’ve learned to (kind of) let go and let the blog be.

Back in January, I put up my very first post, ”The Modern Girl Friday Credo”. I remember sitting on Yahoo Messenger with Elusive Orchid, talking it through while typing it up on Microsoft Word. When we were done, I saved it to my handy jump drive – placing the number 1 at the beginning of the title, so I could keep my posts in order. One turned into twenty. Twenty turned into sixty-three. Sixty-three turned into ninety-two. Today, I will be placing the number 100 next to the title of this post.

I’m not lying – I thought I was going to abandon this project by about week two.

But here we are. I have to say, I am extremely happy with the way MGF has grown. For those of you who read us often, I just hope you take something, ANYTHING from what we throw out on here each day.

My friends often ask me why I keep going. There is no shortage of blogs written by people like us in cyberspace. While I hold MGF Blog near and dear to my heart – we’re nothing special (Yet – give me some time!). And then there’s the time commitment. I need a few extra hands to count how many times since January I’ve entered the evening saying to myself (or Lenny or Orchid or whoever was nearby) “I just don’t feel like writing tonight.” And my friends, heaven bless them, are always willing to give me an out.

“Then don’t write.”

“You don’t have to update it ALL the time.”

“No one says you HAVE to do it.”

“Would you slow down? You’ll burn out!”

If you really know me – you know how OCD I am about content. I KNOW nobody will hate me for taking a night off (and I have). But just when I think I really need to step back – I get a piece of e-mail or a comment from someone who stumbles across us. They thought something was funny. They may have thought we were crazy. They might disagree with us. Or they just wanted to tell us that they thought last night’s post was cool.

It doesn’t matter what they wrote to me about. What mattered was that they found us, read us, and responded to us. That’s pretty much more than I thought I’d get from writing EVER. And that’s what drives me: The passion I have for writing and getting a response from anyone who wants to read it.

I didn’t even know what I wanted out of this blog when I posted the first night. The whole thing started because I got pissed off at work because I was getting made fun of. I wrote about it and after showing it to some online friends, I discovered that I needed some place to post ”To Vex a Verbalist”. Who knew my anger would spawn the most positive experience of my writing life?

MGF may never blow up and get thousands of hits a day. It’d be nice – but all the stars need to be aligned at the right place and the right time for that to happen. We’re one of countless blogs out there. But as long as my computer keeps working, I promise these first 100 posts are just the beginning. We are only going to get better, funnier, and more thought provoking!

When a Modern Girl Friday hits a milestone, what does she do? She celebrates, she shops, and she reminisces. Each of the MGF Girls has done their little happy dance with me this weekend. I hit Lane Bryant and Old Navy pretty hard to perk up the wardrobe. All that’s left to do is reminisce.

This week, we’re taking a break and re-posting up our favorite stuff from the last few months. We hope you enjoy looking back with us. I know we had a blast mining the archive! Have a good week, MGF Faithful! And thanks for making this six months really worthwhile!