You can see my grandmom on YouTube
Posted By: Grandmom's girl on 2008-02-07
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With all the talk about grandparents, I wanted to share a video of mine. My cousin just recently posted a home movie of our grandmom on YouTube. Her cole slaw was the best, and she's making it in this video. It's not a terribly interesting video unless you knew her, but I wanted to share it. She died a few years ago at the age of 94. The video is about 20 years old. She was an amazing, tiny tower of power. When she was 10, her mother died, and as she was oldest of four children, she became the mom in the house... at the age of 10. She raised her own four children during the depression, and she wouldn't waste anything. You can see her in the video getting every shred of carrot off her grater. She was full of wisdom, but she dispensed it very practically. She was as likely to tell you flat out that you were being stoopid as she was to give you yummy cookies... both when deserved. I was her only daughter's only daughter, so I had a special place in her family, which "ran to boys". I was the only one she taught to make the cole slaw! And when I was in college, I lived with her in her tiny three room apartment and for four years slept on the sofa bed in the living room. She was my college roommate. I really miss her. If you want to see my grandmom, you can check it out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JTq3KYZth3E
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Your grandmom was very fortunate to have you too! (sm)
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Later in life, I heard of a female patient named....Golden Body. I never met her (both of these women are now deceased). I don't know if Golden married into the Body family or if it was a maiden name, but I always thought if I retired to a beach, that is what I'm changing my name to!!
You did your rant, laughed your ___ off and wrote off your Mom and Grandmom!
You have a lot to learn. When they are dead, you will realize it didn't really mean a thing except that you "wrote them off" and laughed your A@@ off at any suggestion that you should make peace with your Mom at Christmas. You only have one Mom, you came from her loins, no one else's. Too bad you can't realize how wrong you are to judge. No one said you have to see her every day but she's a human being and human beings make mistakes. Glad you are perfect and your kid is perfect. Hope you always remain "perfect." Merry Christmas! Sounds like you have a lot of people backing you up, so you think you're right in ditching your Mom and Grandmom. People in my family have done horrible things to me but I rise above it, send them a Christmas card and wish them a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year. I am not God. Perhaps you don't see your Mom's tears, but believe me, one day you will be sorry and it will be too late. Get a heart! You are telling your son in effect, "These are bad people, write them off!" Bad advice methinks. You are hearing only what you want to hear, so go ahead and laugh your a@@ off if it makes you happy. Watch out you are not that "Mom" one day, you've set the scene and have written the script, to "write Moms off."
Even sadder, more infuriating...on CNN,grandmom has announced she is "abandoning her daughter, sh
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Youtube
I only recently discovered youtube!!! Now I'm hooked. I sat and watched  Josh Groban sing "She Dances" this morning. What a cutie pie, not to mention talented. 
Oh if only I were younger . . . sigh
Youtube fun dogs
This is what it's like to have 2 Siberian huskies. They aren't mine, but this is how mine were when young. Now I have snuggle bunny dogs that don't realize they are Siberians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKF0DpJ6tUs
Search on YouTube. Bet it is there, too.
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Try YouTube and iVillager. nm
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I watched it on youtube, but it looks....
like she is lip-synching. And her voice sounded far away...rather strange. Maybe it's the youtube video that is off. But I am wondering if this is a publicity joke. Her voice, while she can definitely carry a tune, I didn't really find it extraordinary. I hope it's not fake, because she would be an inspiration to all.
Need a little YouTube break from typing? - sm
Then take a mini-tour of San Francisco, the way we skaters like to enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwe8B2o7EhE&feature=related
well it wasn't a por n site, it was just YouTube
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Anyone else seen Youtube of woman singing Les
You Think You Have Talent show? I don't know how to post that, but it is very inspiring.
Reading the first comment on this Youtube
We need more of this today. The generation of MTV'ers and Xbox'ers is a pathetic spectacle.
Watched a few seconds but manners we learned from our parents and grandparents. It was a wonderful time to be raised, totally unlike today. I would not trade my younger years for anything, such a glorious time. Hey, these golden years are turning out about the same. Don't hate on what you apparently missed out on.
Just about everything ends up on YouTube eventually.
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Someone posted a video of birth on youtube!
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I was watching some of the stories on youtube yesterday.
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It must be the youtube thing - might want to check your computer
Sometimes if I haven't cleaned out my temporary folder and have a lot of junk on my computer the youtube and other sound/pictures won't match up (too much junk on the computer). I've been watching her over and over (she even has her own website). The sound and pictures match perfectly on my end. Also her voice is not far away either. I know that the camera pans in and out and shows the audience, so that may be what you're experiencing.
Not a publicity joke though. She's been singing in her choir since she was 12. Sings at the clubs and Kariokee, etc.
She has an amazing voice. Of course a couple notes were off but for someone who hasn't had professional singing lessons she is amazing. But, not a fake and your right, she is an inspiration to all.
I searched him and found some more videos on him on youtube. He is incredible! sm
His name is Nick Vujicic. I am going to read as much about him as I can find. I need all the inspiration I can get right now :)
I having a standing appt to view YouTube every Sunday. Best part is
the enjoyment of forwarding them to my friends for their listening pleasure. MUSIC IS THE BEST MEDICINE, AND AS FAR AS I KNOW, NO ONE EVER COMPLAINS OF ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS OR ALLERGIC REACTIONS. 
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