Middle Aged Memories
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I remember Sing Along with Mitch. It looked like his arms were made of wood, they were so stiff. I had clackers, too, and I was really good at driving my parents crazy.
YAHOO for having your drains out NM. I hated those dang things.
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Has chemo brain hit us all? Have we run out of memories or just brain cells????
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I think I ran out of brain cells. No, I KNOW I ran out of brain cells.
Here's my memory from the 60s. Every Sunday evening, my dad would pop popcorn and we'd get to have popcorn and a little dixie cup full of koolaid (there were four kids and the cups came in four colors so I had Green, my D Sis had Yellow, my D Bros had red and blue and those became our life long favorite colors) - anyway, I digress.
Then we'd watch the Wonderful World of Disney. Life was so good!
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My mom would take me "back to school" shopping, one time per school year. She did not drive then. We went on a bus, and we had to get a paper "transfer" and connect with another bus route. I remember the year large plaid designs were stylish, and jumpers* were stylish that year too, and I got large plaid jumper in Fall colors, with coordinated turtleneck. This was in grade school.
Another year I got a brown, black and white swirl-design pair of giant bell bottoms. My neighbor's dad said they looked like wallpaper. He said it like that was a bad thing. Ha-Ha!
(*I don't mean what the non-U.S. calls a jumper, I mean a sleeveless dress with a low scoop neck.)
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I was required to wear jumpers with a white shirt (Catholic school). I could have a choice of three colors for a sweater or socks though - I could have dark green, yellow or white. My school shopping was for new white blouses a sweater and new shoes. The new shoes were the best! We moved in 6th grade so no more uniforms cause I moved to public schools. I was allowed to start wearing slacks in 6th grade and jeans in 7th grade. My first pair of plaid bell bottoms were in 7th grade.
Fond memories.
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I wore a uniform for 12 years, never had any choice about what I wore to school. You obviously didn't have to wear saddle shoes, or even worse, the navy blue oxfords that replaced the saddle shoes. The woolen jumper that I was allergic to and had to wear for the first two years of high school was the worst.
We even had to get the same regulation notebooks and pencils and paper from the school store on the first day of school.
I think that's why I always enjoyed back to school shopping with my kids, it was my first opportunity to do it.
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Oh ya, I remember the school bookstore. My parents had to pay a book fee and then we had to buy school supplies at the bookstore. I was lucky though, we changed from wool jumpers to polyester when I was in second or third grade. They were so much more comfortable!
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Gaad. I remember getting my bell bottoms stuck in the side part of an escalator at either Sterns or Orbachs. As I went up, my pants cam down. My Dad had to lift me up to get me pulled free.
Anyone remember the rubber monsters that went on the eraser end of pencils ? Or the hand held hole punchers so that you could neatly put papers into a 3 ring binder (or simply make a whole bunch or confetti dots ) ?
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I use to get my bell bottoms stuck in my bike chain. Remember the hip huggers with elephant bells? We'd go to our local mall and go barefoot in them because they were such wide bells. We walked like ducks as we tried to keep our feet hidden!
We use to have "Play Day" once a year in grade school and we could wear pants that one day. I remember what a huge deal it was when we finally got to wear pants every day. We use to wear shorts under our dresses so we could go on the monkey bars and do flips.
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I too wore shorts under the dress - loved to hang upside down on the monkey bars! Got to wear pants in the winter too for recess but not in school. How the heck did I get those pants off without showing my tidy whities??? I'll bet I gave most of the boys a show everyday!
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Always wore shorts under my dresses. I didn't own denim until I was in sixth grade.
We watched Wonderful World of Disney right after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. I remember those monsters for your pencils.
How about the candy machines that only took a penny? Or the ones that took a nickle but gave you a prize like a ring in a capsule?
Barbies with unbendable legs?
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I loved the Wonderful World of Disney and Wild Kingdom. Every time a lion or tiger would catch a running animal I would cry and have to leave the room. I also loved the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. I use to love his accent. Bubble gum machines were my favorite. When one of my parents would get a Canadian penny from a store we thought it was so cool that they worked in a gumball machine!
I had a Twist and Turn Barbie with bendable legs. Remember her neon orange two-piece swimsuit with a netted shirt over it?
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Maybe this was for Barbie, maybe not, but for a very short time there were little doll outfits that changed color when they were wet. You would "paint" them with water to change the color. My memory is not great on this one, because my nieghbor was the one who had that. It was for a Barbie-sized doll, whoever it was.
p.s. Just remembered...it was vinegar that changed the color, then water changed it back.
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I think I remember that, and perhaps it was for a special edition of Barbies, i.e. Malibu?
My sister had the barbie with the net over her suit. The suit was made of flourescent orange plastic.
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My first Barbie was the one with dark hair and non-bendable legs. My dad sold her at a garage sale when I went to college (I still remind him of that occasionally). I found one just like her at an antique store (that was the day I first felt old) and take her out and look at her occasionally. I'm sure I'll give her to my oldest granddaughter one day.
PJ was my second barbie and she had the twist waist and bendable legs. I was totally a barbie girl and my sister hated barbies. Isn't that funny.
I didn't watch wild kingdom because I didn't like it when the lion or tiger would catch the running animal. I did watch Jacques Cousteau - thought that show was so neat.
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I remember being about 11 years old and watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. My my how history changed. I had a Barbie and a Ken and a little plastic car. I will never forget getting a "Chatty Cathy" doll when I was real little. My dad teased me with it all morning because I was too young to understand how it could talk.
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I still have an unbendable legged Midge somewhere. My sister used to make fun of her because of her freckles. I also had PJ. She had that long staight blonde hair in two pony tails with beaded bands, and that mini dress in pink and orange. Mine talked and had the sting in her back. "I'm PJ, Baa-bee's English Cousin".
My sister had Chatty Baby. She waS not much of a baby doll girl. Barbies were fun for her as long as hers were better than mine, and she was able to control the scenarios we played with them.
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Maybe I was like that with my sister and that's why she didn't like Barbies! I'm such an "oldest child"!
I had Midge too - the with red, white and blue bathing suit that covered everything including her flat little chest cause she was a teen.
Earlier this morning we were talking about punching balls here at work. You know - the things that were like balloons and had a string at the end. I got a lot of aggression out on those things. Maybe I need to get one again.
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This was like my Midge (She was my sister's hand me down)
She was the same build as Barbie.
My Sister had Casey and I had Francie (Both small busted and a bit shorter) Then we Had Skippers, hers a blonde and mine brunette.
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I had a talking Barbie ("What shall I wear to the prom?") with the string in her back. I also had a Scooter, and a Julia (based on the tv show with Diahann Carroll) and my sister had a Skipper. I was so envious of the Skipper because she had long straight hair that that you could actually braid. I seem to remember that Scooter was Midge's little sister.
I love to bake, and I credit that to my Easy Bake Oven.
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There goes my chemo brain in true form. It was SKIPPER I had, not Midge. She looked like this:
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Yep, that was my sister's Skipper. Mine was brunette and the same swimsuit.
Somewhere in a box in the garage I still have my Easy Bake oven.
It isn't in tis nice of condition, and should probably be junked. My cookbook, as I recall, was yellow and brown. Everything else is the same.
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Actually th eEasybake oven got a lt of use as Barbie's professional kitchen.
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Wow Meece, that was exactly like my Easy Bake!! Thanks for the memories.
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We couldn't afford the mixes, so I used the recipe book most of the time. When I got the oven it had a cake mix and a frosting mix, and I baked the frosting mix!
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You made fudge.
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It was good, too!
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I had one too ! I remember it cooked by the heat of a light bulb. The outside was always burnt and the inside raw. And my poor, good natured, big brother would eat it without complaint. (He's still that good natured but my cooking has gotten lots better !)
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Mine too, but maybe that Easy Bake Oven was the training we needed at that early age. Just think, Giada may have had an Easy Bake Oven, or Morimoto!
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Thinking of girlie things, does anyone remember the vending machines in Howard Johnsons ladies rooms ? They sold "diamond rings" and 3 D puzzle key rings that came in the shape of animals among other things. My parents always gave me coins to get a present...up until the day I returned wearing bright red lipstick which I had bought instead of the toys....and HoJos icrecream sodas were the best ! When I got older, I loved their fried clams.
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