GRANDMA'S WORLD

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Thursday, September 18, 2003

Grandma brings something to the table and rants about Jewish Barbie

while serving up Churrasco BBQ'd t-bones covered with salsa or molho. Non cable t.v. showed news about Saudis outrage and banishment of Jewish Barbie dolls a few days ago and it is stuck in my head. When I first heard this phrase, "Jewish Barbie", I laughed out loud and then tried to understand it. It must mean that her creator was Jewish woman and that seemed very significant to the Arabic community. Then, I tried to understand why someone would tell us, the American public about this phrase,... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Grandma spits at her television again. Wiping the screen off calms her down

somewhat. Ripping apart the newspaper really feels good. Elderly Rant The Morning News: An old woman awakes, puts her teeth in ( foreign dentists ruined her real ones in her youth), changes her diapers ( the pregnancies, the many pregnancies) and turns on the t.v. while filling the coffee machine and preparing her breakfast of bacon and eggs and toast and fruit slices. She eats politically incorrectly, loving the lost art of frying bacon and then putting those free ranging chicken eggs into the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 12, 2003

Too pooped to participate and ever the optimist, I try again. 17 computer

crashes later, I am trying again to believe that it's now fixed. I am an expert at wiping hard drives and reconfiguring now and had to go out and buy more tea as I used it all up. I finally just put huge bottles of sun tea outside, to keep up with my consumption of the stuff. The computer is still flawed and I have another one winging its way to my home. This one ticks like a clock while I write. Thanks for the kind notes from visitors to my blogs, even though I could only read them today. My... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

My Computer crashed again FOUR times yesterday. I drank a lot of tea.

I didn't panic this time. I carefully followed Monir's written instructions on wiping the hard drive and restoring the whole darned thing. It came back and then crashed again each time that I tried to update my Windows. I thought that Monir's instructions must have been missing something and so I called him, and just like a child who doesn't cry after falling out of a tree until they get to their own door, see their Mommy's worried face and hear her ask, "What happened, baby?", I began to cry.... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 25, 2003

My Computer Crashed!! I was gone a wk.& no one noticed! BN went crazy w/out

their old Abuelita to keep everyone cool and on an even keel..... I received an email from IM Messenger saying that I had to update or lose my Messenger ability. So, I went to their update link page, clicked on UPDATE, clicked on download and then later clicked on the OK button to restart the darned computer. Well, all Hell broke loose and my world fell apart. It took 4 hours to open Windows and opened it in the Safe Mode and then wouldn't let me do anything like Troubleshoot. I'm too old for... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 11, 2003

GRANDMA'S FLASH MOB suggestions, about where to go and what to do.

I LOVE THE IDEA OF ‘FLASH MOBBING’ FOR GOOD. Emailing people to gather at a moment’s notice and then telling them what to do for five minutes or so and then having them disappear like the winds they flew in on, is wonderful. The contributions of people suggesting the exchange of small wrapped gifts and salutations is wonderful. The second idea, that of gathering at a ‘hurting place’ and making it better, ie. picking up garbage for five minutes, filling garbage bags with debris, stacking them in... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 8, 2003

Grandma's Demented and Going downhill fast.

I've already started talking to the newspaper and I haven't even had my first cup of coffee and first cigarette. Another neighbor has just been evicted for non-payment of rent and the marijuana smoke cloud coming from the house next door, has just begun to form itself in the branches of the trees next door, a little like a sweet Scottish mist in a forest. And, sometimes that cloud smells more like methamphetamine or paint fumes. I have a headache a day and I thought that it was caused by... Sign in to see full entry.

8 YEAR OLD BECOMES MILLIONAIRE IN 3 SHORT WEEKS.

Small business entrepreneur: I was eight and I could see it, I could see the twenty ponies trotting through my desert corral, the eight monkeys playing in the trees, the ice cream man permanently parked on my ranch property and a new bike. Somehow, I’d have to build that new ranch less than one block away from my neighborhood, so that my friends could see it and visit me and ride my ponies and eat my free ice cream. Yeah! So, I cut out the ad in my Superman Comic book, filled it in, forged Mom’s... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

GRANDMA'S TIPS ON PARENTING: 1st tip: Have no more children than you can

safely, feed, clothe, cook for and chase after. I had more than my limit, not knowing my limit at the time, and it often got wild around our house. 2nd tip: When your hippie raised babies go into the military service, after you had purposely excluded toy guns from the house for flower power reasons, well, then love and support and admire the hell out of them anyway; they make their own choices and you live with them, showing love. 3rd tip: When your daughter, allowed to play more and clean up... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 27, 2003

GRANDMA'S BEAUTY TIPS: First, never let your teeth get more than four feet

away from you at any time. There could be a fire, a break in, an unexpected visitor or some old flame knocking at that door. Second,if unwilling to perform those tricep and bicep exercises, wear 3/4 length or long sleeves. Third, when young and hot, flaunt it. It will soon go and then you must NOT flaunt it, as it is gone forever, and public foolishness is hard to live down. Fourth, do something wild and unpredictable with your hair. And, wear huge earrings of some spectacular design. It draws... Sign in to see full entry.

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When your immediate family has people from just about every race and religion and political belief, a world view becomes the only one open and available to you or your brain melts, your heart explodes and you develop a tic in one eye while you stutter about America First and Best and Only.It's a big and human being filled world out there. I'm only one temporary inhabitant of it.

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