T-Shirt explained

My T-Shirt logo today

Today was a day with a lot of driving back and forth. First driving the kids to school, then driving myself to work. After finishing there, driving to pick up my son from school and back home. I dropped of my work things, researched where to get a pizza for the pot luck in the evening changed into gym clothes and drove there. One hour gym and back home I went. Changed again and ordered pizza, got everything else together (brownies and drinks) and the kids, picked up the pizza and drove us to the potluck to celebrate the end of cross country season at the middle school. I was really proud of my son that he wanted to do cross country without any nagging from my side! The teachers were great and he seemed to enjoy it. After we had dinner there I drove us back home and now I finally have a minute to sit down and finish my post for today.

At the gym I got multiple questions what the meaning of my T-Shirt was. Do you know the logo? It’s from a German company that already exists since 1826 and was started by Maria Clementine Martin a nun who lived in cologne Germany. “Kloster” is a monastery and “Frau” means woman, so it basically refers to the woman who started it since she was a nun. The main product was a tonic containing 13 different herbal alcoholic extracts one of which is lemon balm that gave it it’s name “Melissengeist”. Melisse meaning lemon balm and “geist” referring to the high alcohol content (79%). You can still buy it today (even in the US) and it is a staple in a lot of German households. It’s supposed to help with all kinds of things like anxiety, sleeping problems, stomach upset, a cold. I think we only ever used it with a headache or muscle ache. You simply apply it to the affected area. Honestly I mainly liked the logo. Blue is my favorite color and it’s white on a blue background.

Are there any household staples in your household I might not know about?

I am still sad about the election result but have to figure out first how to best process it all before I write anything down. I am so tired. Tobia wrote a great post about how to cope with it all and there were some good suggestions. If I wouldn’t have said I do NaBloPoMo this would be the time I would hibernate because I don’t know what to say.

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German by birth, American by choice - home in both places. Always trying to make sense of it all. Mom, wife, friend, researcher, crafter, gardener, holder of schedules (in no particular order).

18 thoughts on “T-Shirt explained”

  1. Interesting about the TShirt, and yeah, the election was a LOT. I am worried and anxious and angry, and trying to figure out how to be a useful human being and let go of some of this for my own health.

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      1. I think you have to – my eldest daughter caught me sniffling (I’d just read a twitter post “your body – my choice – forever”) – I can’t explain to her how bleak things could become, or how quickly – and I don’t think it’s fair to her either… ugh… what a world! I do think that governments can be slow to change course, there are so many layers, and things might yet be OK. xx

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      2. I am hoping, too. We will have to see. I feel good about living in California right now but it makes the country smaller for my kids. There are certain states I would not consider moving to these days because of the legislation.

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      3. FOr me – as a total outsider, so ignore my opinion if it is uneducated / unaware – it is the guns that would terrify me – I worry about a “shoot first ask questions later” vibe that comes through in the news articles here… regardless… know that I’m thinking of you xx

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  3. I have actually applied to work at Klosterfrau as they have an outlet and a factory here in Germany. No such luck yet but I keep trying. It would be a fun company to work for.

    However we never have had it in our household. I may have seen it at my grandparents but in my home it was nonexistent. However we did have tiger balm aplenty.

    I am glad my post helped ease the turmoil a bit.

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    1. They sure have a fun logo. I mean how cool is a company that got started by a woman at that time? I am now more of a Tiger Balm person, too (helps a little with the migraines – if not with the pain at least with the nausea) but Klosterfrau is so expensive in the US.

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  4. Hugs, friend. I’m giving myself over the weekend to grieve and rage and then I’m pulling myself up by the bootstraps and preparing. T-minus 73 days to figure out what our response is going to be and we’ll need every day.

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  5. I love collecting Tee shirts like this, so unusual and, at times, I have to say, I feel like a KlosterFrau! Great name for a blog, by the way.

    As for the election? I think half the planet is still scratching their collective heads wondering how that <i>Man</i> managed to wrangle four more years. Even up here, in Canada, so many are worried for what this might mean for all of us, not just Americans.

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    1. What I can’t wrap my head around is that over half of Americans WHO Cast their vote, voted for him. I think we as democrats and a nation have some soul searching to do. Anger did not fix this last time.

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  6. What a great logo! I also like fun T-shirts, my drawers are busting with them, so many T shirts, too little time. I have a lot of Rock T shirts, I suppose I like to buy them at concerts to be ‘cool’ although I’m not, but they also support the artists. I would hope so, they tend to go upwards of $60 per T shirt nowadays.

    Being Chinese Canadian, I tend to have a lot of Chinese lotions/remedies dropped off by my mother, for aches and pains as I age (Mom is 87!) and more so for my kids. We don’t have Tiger Balm, but some of these stinky bottles with what look like 1940s portraits of Chinese Male doctors, cure-alls of some sort. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.

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