Role Model Take 2

Earlier this week (or was it last week?) I posted about my role model, Jessica Fletcher from the old TV series, Murder, She Wrote.  Well, between that and my other post on classic television, I remembered another role model.  Mary Richards from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Mary Richards had great style, an awesome little studio apartment, a fun job, and an awesome best friend.  Her life just looked like so much fun, even if she only made $8000 a year.  There are other things about that show that I loved, too.  Like how people just decided to get married and had a little wedding on Wednesday.  And how it was set in Minneapolis.  I love Minneapolis, it's such a great city.

Can I somehow mold myself into a combined Jessica Fletcher and Mary Richards?

Classics

Today I discovered something wonderful.  Netflix has The Cosby Show on instant streaming.  Finding that out made my whole day.  When I was younger, I got to stay up until 8:30 on Thursdays just to watch that show.  It was just such a great show.

One of my great pleasures in life is watching old television shows.  Mr. Logical and I both can watch seasons of shows over and over.  Some of our favorite old shows to watch are: Night Court, NewsRadio, Farscape, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Terminator; The Sarah Connor Chronicles, any Star Trek series, ALF, Murder She Wrote, Monk, and more recently Cheers and Law & Order.  We do watch some newer shows quite a lot, mostly Psych, Big Bang Theory, and Last Man Standing.

Role Model

We all have someone we consider a role model, don't we?  Well, mine is Jessica Fletcher.  Do you remember her?  The main character of Murder, She Wrote, played by Angela Lansbury.  I know, I know... she's not a real person, but you have to admit she is a pretty awesome fake one.  She is a successful writer, she has hundreds of friends, she travels the world to exotic locales, has pretty good fashion sense, and something interesting is always happening in her vicinity.  Ok, it's usually murder and she doesn't know how to drive, but still...

So, in short, Jessica Fletcher is who I aspire to be.  Who's your role model?

Folding

When we first started dating, Mr. Logical had a roommate.  She introduced us to the TV show The Big Bang Theory, which is now one of our favorite shows.  Mr. Logical is pretty much a cross between Howard and Sheldon.  Sheldon does laundry on Saturday night and uses a flip fold.  As a joke, Mr. Logical's roommate gave him a flip fold for Christmas a few years ago.

I don't think he has ever used it, but I use that thing like a beast.  It is seriously one of the greatest things we own.  I really hate to fold laundry, but I love using that flip fold.

And apparently, my life revolves around TV shows!

Logical Life

QSL card from Last Man Standing

Mr. Logical and I started dating almost 3 years ago.  In the past three years, I have learned a lot about a lot of different things.  For instance, the Free Masons are probably the nicest guys you will ever meet, Bose speakers are actually bad, don't use soap to wash the good knives, and sometimes you should use a circular polarizer sometimes when you take digital SLR pictures.

I knew about most of Mr. Logical's hobbies early on in the relationship.  Last winter, however, he busted out the ham radio hobby.  He had mentioned that he had a ham radio license in passing, and I thought nothing of it.  Now ham radio is a part of our daily lives.  So much so that we started watching Last Man Standing, just because the main character, Mike Baxter, played by Tim Allen, is a ham.  Lucky for me, Last Man Standing is actually pretty funny and I enjoy it.

A few weeks ago, Last Man Standing put out a call for QSL cards from ham radio operators.  Mr. Logical sent one in, and today got one back autographed by Tim Allen.  This is probably the only part of ham radio that I understand (well, besides that it involves a radio and antennas).