Middle Aged Memories

ooooh you are SO Good with pictures NM!!!! Thanks so much!!!! I still want to escape and live in that bottle sometimes! You wonder why no one ever made replicas of it. Thanks again!!!

Did you know that "Jeanie" was pregnant during the first season so she was only filmed chest up?

I like the smell of Canoe, and know i had one of those kissing potions too.

Was a big fan of the Yardley cosmetics,   Slickers AND Pot O' Gloss.

Oh, can I play too??

NativeMainer - I think it was Tigress I loved in the early 70s.  Used to buy it in the college store.

As an introduction and I don't get to post much.  North Central Texas. Age 59.  BC found on my yearly mammogram in mid Jan. 2012.  Called back for extra views/sono and radiologist worked in an on-the-spot biopsy; very frank about with her suspicious findings thus path report no surprise.  Results 2 days later.  Lump with wire loc/SNB on 2/21.  IDC 1.1 cm, Stage 1, Grade 2, 3 nodes/all neg, ER+,PR+, HER2-.  Both (biop & surg) path reports show Grade 2. Took 4.7 x 5.2 x 1.8 cm spec (L outer breast).  All margins clean.  Both incisions about 3.5" long.  Bigger incisions than I expected.  Had follow-up with BS; doing fine.  Started back to work 1/2 days this past Monday and will return full time Monday 3/19.  Hospice nurse and I drive constantly.  Had MO appt and going straight to rads.  RO appt 3/23.  Can't figure out which boards I have introd myself on except I know Calling All Stage I Sisters and Middle Aged Women 40-60ish.  

OK no more DX talk.  Look forward to pulling memories out of this fading brain.  Wish I could go back and read all 60 previous pages.

On to happier talk about memories!

Jaytee

Thanks for the welcome.  Playing here and not doing chores this morning.

Traveling today.  Rememer when we were little and when you had to travel over 50 miles it was a big ordeal and you usually stayed over night.  Now it is nothing to drive down to LA just for a Dr. visit or to shop and then come home that same day.  Oh, our busy lives make it so important to do it all now.

Meece.......I loved taking a trip in the car when I was little.  We would take lots of pillows and stuff to do.  There were 4 of us kids and we had definite 'places' in the car.  Big sister got the window side behind Dad, I got the side behind Mom, little sis had to sit in the middle,  Little brother was stuck in the front between Mom and Dad.  My Dad liked to drive at night----I loved staying up and seeing the lights of a big city as we were driving through.   Cincinnati was always beautiful at night to me.  I was afraid when we crossed the bridge over the Ohio river though, always had to bury my head in my pillow til we made it over.  

I remember crawling up and sleeping in the back window.....how safe was that?  When I would go with my grandparents I got to sit on the arm rest in the middle up front.  When we would go on a long trip, like to MI or somewhere (this was with my parents) my grandmother had this little red tin box she would put sandwiches in for us....PB & J and her home made pimento cheese on rye bread.  We also had one of the scotch coolers that we would keep cold things in and use on trips.  We would stop at a road side rest with picnic tables and have our lunch.  

oh, Meece, they didnt let you lean on them!!   Even though we made little sis sit in the middle we did do the domino sleeping pattern,   When we were much smaller, Dad had a De Soto.  The back seat area was large and Mom put a crib mattress back there and we probably slept the whole way to Grandma's house.  I don't think there were any seat belts in that car and the speed limit was about 70 back then.  Whew!  Dad was a good driver, but thats a scary thought now a days.  

I have never seen a picture of a Belvedere, but as soon as I saw that....immediately thought of a looney toon cartoon...........Belvedere....come here boy!!    Belvedere was a bulldog, can't remember who the character was who was calling him----kind of a short little guy like Yosemite Sam but with whte hair and mustache.   

Marybe....I can remember having some of the rest area picnics too!   Then, sometimes my Dad would have an idea of somewhere he would want to stop and eat, but it was usually farther than we could stand it.  We would all read the gas, food, lodging signs outloud everytime we passed one with the emphasis on FOOOOOOOOOD!    

I think the Stuckey's chain was nationwide (or almost, anyway,) and famous for their Pecan Log, if I remember correctly.  Don't know if Stuckey's is still around, but I haven't seen one for years.  Our car ride chant, when we saw one, was a longingly drawn out, "Oooooh..Stuuuu-keeeeeeey's!"

 Marybe-I still have our family scotch cooler and the matching picnic basket. It has a small dent in it and a little rust but I get it out every summer for a family cook-out.

  There were 5 of us and we always had those big Ford Country Squire station wagons with the wood decals on the sides. My mon laid the seats down and we were all in a row sleeping all the way to kentucky. They always left at night so we would sleep thru it. Worked most of the time!!

My dad like the pralines from Stuckeys.  We didn't have them in California so that's why they were such a novelty.

  I think they called those a Woody.   We had a Rambler station wagon....sort of a rust, copper  color with a beige top. 

Mattel had a series of miniature dolls called "kiddles" in the '60's and I loved them!  I had "Rose" from the Kiddle Kologne line; and "Lorna" from the Pocket Locket kiddle line.  I had a "Skididdle Kiddle", who had this ... thing ... that attached to her back that would help her go through the motions of walking.  There were Animal Kiddles; I had "Mouse" and "Tiger".  There was, even, a sci-fi line; I had the cutest little green kiddle (who glowed in the dark) in a pink- and purple spaceship.

Some of these toys are, sometimes, available on eBay and, believe me, I have been tempted to replace all my childhood kiddles just for the nostalgia factor!

Yes, we've wrote of our Kiddles before, and I also had "Violet."

My uncle sent me two original Super Balls, the black ones.  I might have been the first kid in the neighborhood to get one.  We never really had that much open space to play with them and my mom thought I would take out a car window with it for sure.