tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875695.post115838081231616103..comments2024-02-07T21:24:37.121-08:00Comments on Blogtrotter: John L. Murphy / "FionnchĂș"http://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875695.post-1158643277392784752006-09-18T22:21:00.000-07:002006-09-18T22:21:00.000-07:00Ah! How could I resist such a nice compliment? You...Ah! How could I resist such a nice compliment? Your blog is/will be read over time!<BR/><BR/>I have just finished watching Wife Swap, a network show in the reality genre where two households exchange their feminine elements for a two-week period. It's the first network television I've watched in several years!<BR/><BR/>The only reason for watching it was this week's particular theme of Sally Bauer of the Talk Like a Pirate Day fame swapping with a model organizer of the Container Store/Martha Stewart ilk in suburban, stucco California. <BR/><BR/>What added a moment of surreality to the evening was my own project of hand-painting a jolly roger flag on black canvas for tomorrow night's festivities. My older flag, hand-stitched, failed to turn up after two attic raids. But look! In a box, neatly labeled 'patterns' there was an envelope labeled 'homemade patterns' and in that envelope, the newspaper template for my original jolly roger which provided the outline for tonight's painted version.<BR/><BR/>So we're a household of pirates who have raided the Container Store a few times ourselves!<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure why I felt like relating this story, but it does show that all is not online in my life and tomorrow night I'll be yo-ho-ho-ing along with the rest of the scurvy crew gathered at the Glaser Center.<BR/><BR/>Talk Like a Pirate Day. Next year I intend to be better prepared to enjoy it to the fullest!Miss Templetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01180851775819540758noreply@blogger.com