When I was a little girl someone bought a Charlie Weaver Bartender toy and gave it to me. I don't know who it was unless it was my aunt. She bought almost all of my toys. I remember playing with it alot. I was trying to remember which TV show that Charlie Weaver was on where he played the bartender. I want to say that it was on the Jackie Gleason show, but I'm not sure. I'll have to research that and see if I can figure it out.I saw one of these toys a few years ago at the Longest Yard Sale Flea Market in Dunlap, TN. I should have bought it. Instead I took a nolstalgic look and passed it by. If only I had some of the toys that I played with back then. It sure was a simpler time.
Today I was looking at the newest issue of House Beautiful magazine. This issue seemed to have several articles about comfort, what makes us comfortable, and I saw a page in the back of the magazine called The Last Words. The subtitle read "The House Beautiful staff just couldn't resist telling you our own secrets of comfort." Here are just a few of the things they listed as being their secrets of comfort:- Eucalyptus oil in a steaming hot shower. Mix a little oil with water in a spray bottle. Two or three sprays, and you're done. Edward Ross
- Mrs. Meyer's lavender-scented All Purpose Cleaner. It's the exact lavender scent you experience in many homes in Tuscony. I'm really particular about fragrances, and this one is A+. Newell Turner
It got me to thinking about the comforts that I enjoy. One of my favorites is to sleep on freshly laundered sheets. I'll have to think about the others, but I really liked this article.
This morning when I was making my cereal I noticed that one of the bananas I bought had this Curious George sticker on it. It reminded me of all of the Curious George books. When I was a little girl I remember a story about a monkey that looked similar to Curious George, but I don't think the book was about him. All I remember is that it was an organ grinder monkey. The story went that there was an older lady who was leaving her home one day to catch the bus. She was on her way out her front door when she noticed that the skirt of her dress was caught in her front door. She had already closed the door, so she couldn't get back in. She apparently didn't have her key and the only extra she had was out of reach and under a flower pot on the sill of her wrap around porch. She couldn't figure out what she was going to do, when along came an organ grinder monkey. The monkey helped her out by getting the key for her. She was able to unlock her front door and get her dress out so she would not miss her bus. That's all I remember about the book and I can't remember the title or anything. I wish I could find that book again, just for nostalgia's sake so I could read it again after all these years. I've tried doing searches on the Internet, and I even went to a site once where they look for books like that. You describe your book or story as best you can and sometimes the other readers on the site will remember it and tell you what the story is. I didn't have any luck. Maybe one day I can figure it out.
This morning I overheard my boss telling someone about her recent bout with being sick. She described having a headache that seemed to go all through her body and put her in bed for about 2 days. She mentioned that prior to that at work, she had been stressed about giving a special test that she had to give to some of our students in the library at the community college where we both work. I don't know all the details about the test, but it must have been pretty rigorous and a first time thing for her to have been really stressed about it. Anyway, she said that after all that stress she decided that the illness she had afterward was just that she crashed and burned after it was over with.
I was thinking that I really like that phrase "crash and burn" after going through a stressful event. I had never thought about it that way before. I've heard people say that they were "bummed out" by something or after having gone through some kind of unexpected thing, but I don't know if that qualifies as a crash and burn.
I really think that in the past my bodily response after having gone through a stressful event has always been crash and burn. I just never knew what to call it. I know that after something like that happens I always feel just exhausted and worn out and feel the need to just unwind and not have anything that taxes my brain or anything until I get through it or get over it. Sometimes all I want to do it knit and sort off meditate to keep my mind off things.
I also wonder sometimes if napping is a sort of crash and burn response. Maybe not, but I know that I always enjoy taking an afternoon nap. I think we all need to take naps and crash and burn once in awhile. It's probably the main reason most people take sick leave. Not because they have a nasty virus or cold, but just because if they don't take that time to crash and burn, then they know that they will really get sick. I think it's a way of taking care of ourselves.
I love old antique manual typewriters. I really like this Royal Pink one, but there are others that I really like too. I remember when I was in high school and was taking beginning typing, there were some manual typewriters in the class. I remember trying to type and thinking how hard it was. Right after I started the class, they bought some electric typewriters and it was a breeze typing on them. Now that I'm older, I think I would love to have an old antique manual typewriter just for nolstalga's sake and I also think I would type on it sometimes. To think that some authors wrote entire novels on a manual typewriter. And some still do.
When I was a little girl someone bought a Charlie Weaver Bartender toy and gave it to me. I don't know who it was unless it was my aunt. She bought almost all of my toys. I remember playing with it alot. I was trying to remember which TV show that Charlie Weaver was on where he played the bartender. I want to say that it was on the Jackie Gleason show, but I'm not sure. I'll have to research that and see if I can figure it out.
