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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:33 pm
There's so many issues that are dredged up when someone dies that linger for a long time. It's best to have everything in writing. Even then you have to watch out. When my mom and dad were doing their will, the lawyer suggested they write a list of everything specific they wanted to leave to us kids rather than put it in the will (cheaper that way). My mom had had a stroke, so my loving sister wrote the list with her own name by all the things she wanted without concern for the other 3 siblings. When you have a list of 20 items and your name is by 15 of them, something is wrong. Fortunately, because the list was in my sister's handwriting, we all just ignored it and tried to do what we thought my mom would want. Besides some of the items she wanted were already given away by my mom before she got ill. My sister wasn't happy about it and it remains a source of contention to this day.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:43 pm
It's funny, as I sit here and think about what I have that might be something someone would want. Heh. I don't have much of anything that's of real value. Rings maybe, and even those are probably worth more sentimentally than anything else. I wish I had some of Gramma's scottish family heirlooms that seem to have been displaced and misplaced. Oh well. I'll get my own when I go to Scotland and pass them down.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:43 pm
I don't understand the fights over 'junk' It's all junk. I told my brother and his wife to take all mom's diamond rings and watches. I didn't want to bother with them. SIL gave mom's diamond watch with a diamond band to my daughter, plus just about all mom's other jewelry. None of us care. It is very freeing not to give a darn about 'stuff'...even expensive stuff. Besides, I have too much stuff of my own and don't want any more. Mom had only lived in her new apartment for less than a year. It had all new furniture which we gave away. The only thing I wanted was two cross-stitched framed hummingbirds I'd made and gave to her several years ago. I am satisfied.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:51 pm
Well "Her" kids (Step GIL) were fighting over the TV and Grampa's stuff (with my dad in the room) before the Neptune Society came and picked up his body. Dad left and never went back to that house. Dad went to my mom's parent's house and said "this is home" even though my parents have been divorced for 27 years. Gramma and my mom agreed that it would always be his home since he spent so much of his childhood there with my mom and stuff. I don't want that to happen when I am gone, the fighting, bickering, etc. I want it to be a happy occasion of rememeberance, smiles, love and sharing.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:52 pm
We have some nice paintings that might cause some contention or hard feelings but I put sticky tape on the back with names. Whole family knows about this and one time when niece was talking about DH's Cuisinart coffee maker that grinds the beans...a real extravagance but he loves his coffee...anyway she asked whose name was on the sticky. She wanted her name on it. I think if you can put everything out there and keep a sense of humor about it...things will be okay!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 9:15 pm
This is pretty sad: Amy Winehouse video
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 10:04 pm
It is beyond sad...I felt sick to my stomach when I saw that video last week. She has an incredible band that she calls her family and her best friends. How do they feel after watching that video. I have all her records and was amazed at her talent but then to see how she is ruining her life with drugs...but what can you expect from someone as sick as she is, sick in spirit, mind and body! This is a video where she introduces her band...they are amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGWGiMsljJ0
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 10:59 pm
Supergranny, about the will thing...."we think alike"....
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 11:00 pm
Yes, her band is very amazing. I just don't understand how she could sing those things in that youtube with the band 'family' she has. Talent, flushed down the toilet.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 11:16 pm
I think Zalon will go on to do great things...he has a fantastic voice. All this time he has been her back-up singer and now she behaves like this. I just keep saying why!!
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, June 16, 2008 - 11:20 pm
And I will never buy another one of her records...I'll wait for Zalon's to come out. I do love that bluesy jazzy type of music.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 1:47 pm
thought this was a nice pic:

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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 1:52 pm
I posted about the Amy winehouse stuff last week, and no one seemed offended, which kind of bothered me.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 2:12 pm
How cute is his daughter?!
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 2:22 pm
I have to remember to watch that Amy Winehouse vid at home but what is on it? Just bad singing?
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 2:26 pm
She's Flippin adorable but with Parents like Tiger and Elin how could they help but make a beautiful baby!??!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:01 pm
Denecee, it's a racist version of head, shoulders, knees and toes.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:06 pm
Sam stole my heart when she reached out for her daddy. Love babies!
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:09 pm
Yes, she loves her daddy! It looks as though they will have plenty of time to bond in the near future; in his effort to win the US Open it may have cost him the rest of his season. 
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 7:11 pm
Wow, that baby looks a lot like the mom, Elin Nordegren. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be so genetically blessed!!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 7:24 pm
I loved seeing Sam when she saw her daddy on Monday after he finally wrapped up the US Open.. and that Sam and Grandma were wearing lucky red outfits, of course.. (Elin probably too but I forget..)
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 9:11 pm
I don't look at the Amy Winehouse stuff. I don't know who she is and don't care to learn. And what little I am learning makes me even less inclined to watch anything on her. Yikes. 
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 8:49 am
Uh oh... http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/8258466/Tiger-to-have-season-ending-knee-surgery
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 9:01 am
Thanks Ladytex, I didn't even bother looking at it last night and now that you told me what it was about, I won't look at it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 5:30 pm
Youch, Tigerfan! I know how much an ACL injury can hurt (not to mention the instability, though for regular walking I'm sure his hamstrings and quads are holding things together, but the torque when he drives the ball.. I'm betting those grimaces were when it went "out" and that isn't even mentioning a stress fracture. == I won't be looking at that either Ladytex, no need or desire..
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