Tales from the Cookiegal

Got Milk?

2008-01-06T12:20:00.001-05:00

Here is that commercial I was tellling you about!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxX-cgluWXQ&feature=related

Telvision Preview

2008-01-06T12:13:00.001-05:00

My husband got an invitation to a "Television Preview", an event where we can go and see "not yet shown tv things". We THOUGHT we were going to see a TV Pilot. We have done this before, and we really did see a Pilot. We also were given snacks, or free things or coupons for discounts.
Well, this was not that AT ALL!! This was a marking ploy to get our Opinon on PRODUCTS. They did show us "Pilots" - but for shows that are never going to be seen!! One was done in 1997! And my husband had seen it once before!!! There were no snacks provided, and only 6 people "won" anything (which will be mailed to their homes!) What a scam!!! I wouldn't have minded if they had told us up front that it was for commercials and such, but to have the pretense of something different. ARGGGGGGG.......
The only good thing, was this really cute commercial. It showed aRussian family, that looked like they were dispondent over what they were eating. Out of no where came the Pillsbury Dough Boy - he had for them warm fresh cookies. Everyone was smiling and happy. but then the mom, came out with an empty carton of milk, and everyone, including the Pillsbury dough boy, had a look of sadness and shock on their faces, then the screen went blank and said "GOT MILK???" It was sooooo funny!

outragous

2007-12-22T15:13:00.000-05:00

Last night when I got to my car, I had a piece of paper on the windshield - I thought maybe it was from security because I hadn't parked in just the write spot....intesead it was a flier, here is the short of it:

"outraneg! Amaber A is facing seven years in prison for having and abortin"

In January 18 Year Amber went to the hospital for trying to to termintate a pregnancy by taking a drug misoprostol. Shee was betweek 23-25 WEEKS pregnant!! The result was a miscarriage - they baby (they say fetus - I say baby) was 1.25 pounds and lived for 4 days. She was arrested and sent to jail for three nights - 15K bail. .......

......Amber didn't think she and her family could support another cild. had she been FORCED (forced?!?!?!) to give birth, many of her life options would have be forfieted. For the next 18 years Amber would be responsible for providing for a child for which she was unable or unready to provide for, CHAINING herslef, her baby and family to a life she didn't choose. Would that be a lesswer or greater injustice than if she is thrown in jail now??

In South and Central America alone (she is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic) upwards of 800,000 womane are hospitalized each year from complications resulting from unsafe and predominantly illegal abortions. This highlights the need for free, safe and accessible abortion services as one of the bare minimus for the true liberation of women.

I just don't get it! had this girl never been told of the world ADOPTION!!!! I would have taken her baby so she woudn't have beeen "Chained down" And as for "liberation" - I can vote, work and be free - how much more LIBERATED do I need to be!?!??!?

This is a crazy world we live in......

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TUPPERWARE

2007-09-11T16:28:00.000-05:00

By the way, I am selling TUPPERWARE again!

*******Check out TUPPERWARE!!!******

http://my.tupperware.com/nancymarie1

checking back in

2007-09-11T09:48:00.001-05:00

Okay - so it has been FOREVER since I last wrote right??? We since, I last wrote I changed jobs. I am now working at Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital in Salem, MA. It is sooooooooooooooooooo much better!! http://www.skrh.org/

I am also doing some visiting nurse work as well. Life is going much better.

We are trying to sell our house - want to buy it???

http://re.boston.com/sales/View_Ulisting.asp?lid=274-70597699

Hope you are doing well!

More to come later!

being eaten alive....

2007-01-29T23:52:00.000-05:00

sorry it has been forever since I last wrote! I have been very busy being a wife and a nurse. You may wonder what the subject line means? Well, read this Dear Abby article and you will see:
http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/?uc_full_date=20061012

I am not saying that ALL of the nurses I work with are like this - but MANY of them are. It is not a positive and happy place to be as a new nurse!!!!!

arggggggggggggg!

State's I have visited

2006-10-12T18:57:00.000-05:00

Check this out - hope it works!

http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedStates/statemap?visited=AKAZCACTDCFLGAHIILMEMDMAMIMONVNHNJNMNYNCOHORPARITNTXUTVTVAWI">

August 30th

2006-08-30T09:01:00.000-05:00

Married life produces a heck of a lot more laundrey than single life!!! I am going to have to stat buying the bigger bottles of detergent!
Life is going well, although I am bored at night. Richard is back to work, and I don't start until the end of September. I have my Tae Kwon Doe, although I haven't gone this week! Back to a regular schedule next week!
We started working on our thank you notes - lots of them to do! but, if we just do a few a day, then they will get all done right?

Home from the Honeymoon!

2006-08-25T21:43:00.000-05:00

Richard & I are safely home from the honeymoon! One piece of my luggage decided to take an extended stay in Rome, but it is back now. =)

We had a great time. Nancy did get sick one day, and we were banished to our rooms so we wouldn't spread out germs. Richard was a trooper! Even though he wasn't sick, he had to stay with me the whole time. Poor guy!

Now we are settling in to home and trying to find a place for our great new things!

having too much fun!

2006-08-16T08:56:00.001-05:00

no, we haven't fallen over board, we just ran out of internet minutes!! We are in Malta today - at an internet cafe. We are having lots of fun - there is so much to see and do everywhere. I may not get a chance to write again until we return. I hope you are all doing well!

oh what day are we on?!?!?

2006-08-13T15:20:00.000-05:00

Well, I know it is SUNDAY! but I don't know what "day" of the cruise it is. Having too much fun to keep track!!
Today we were in Barcalona, SPAIN!!!! We took a tour of the city. It is very nice. We went to this church, that has been a work in progress since the late 1800's! It is being privately funded, so they don't kknow when or if it will ever be done! We spent some time on our own, and saw some very cool street perfomers. Richard was going to take a helicopter tour, but there wasn't enough people signed up, so it was canceled. =(
We are back out to sea tommrow!

Day 4?

2006-08-11T12:51:00.000-05:00

Today we arrived in Florance! (well, about 1.5 hours from Florance!!) We had to get up at 5:45 so we would have time to get ready and eat breakfast. The bus ride was LONG. We we stopped for a rest room break, it was RAINING! Nancy bought an umbrella - but she did end up needing it. We had a nice walking tour of Florance - and a nice lunch in what I (Nancy) think use to be a castle. We had a few "rowdy" folks in the crowd, so they made the trip in the bus kind of fun. After that we headed off to Pisa - we didn't have time to climb the leaning tower (would I have wanted to anyway?!?!) But it was nice to walk around. We are pushing off soon, then it will be time to EAT! =)
Day at sea for us tommorow!

Day 4

2006-08-10T13:02:00.000-05:00

Today we had a few things we wanted to do in the AM before the boat docked. I stopped into the Crafts, while Richard went back to the room to get something for the art show. He was suppose to find me, but ended up in the wrong area! (I was in the "panio bar", he was in the room with panio, but no bar!) But, we did manage to find each other in time for lunch. We took a bus tour of Montaco, which is very small, into parts of France - including Nice. We made one small stop along the way at a little town with shopping area. We did NOT go to the Casino in Monte Carlo however. 10 Euro to get in, plus a dress code! Too swanky for us!
we took a swim in the pool and hot tub tonight. now off to dinner then a show.

Day 3

2006-08-09T06:01:00.000-05:00

We had breakfast in our hotel - it was included in our price - very nice. Then we took the hotel shuttle (also included in the price which was great because we met someone that said it was about 55 Euro to the airport) We then got on the bus to the cruise ship. It is now 1pm. We got here about 12noon or so and had some lunch. We checked out the spa - Nancy is going to get some sort of treatment of course. Here we are at the internet cafe now! Off to our room soon!

Day 2

2006-08-09T05:54:00.000-05:00

Day two in Rome. We took a double decker bus tour - one of the kind that you can get on and off everywhere. We got off at the Fountain of Trevi - saw that, got some Gelato - then went to the spanish steps. Nancys said "I think we should go to that main street" then we saw a hand made sign pointing down a different road, so we followed that. That was the last sign for that! So we wondered around a bit. Then Richard said "let's go this way", Nancy said "I don't think so", but we went anyway - Richard should have listened to Nancy!!!! =) On the way back from the Spanish Steps, we went the same way we came (Minus Richards extra turn) we were just about back to where the bus was, we noticed, that if we had gone to the main street in the first place, we would have been right to the steps! (sigh) Oh well, we had fun anyway!
We went to the Colosium (sp?!?) and we were hoodwinked by a tour guide, to pay "a little extra" to get a great tour and avoid the que (line) - plus he said there were no tours inside, and no "sinage" explaning things. Well, we did it. The tour guide went to two spots, and blah, blah, blah - the whole time! It ended up we COULD get tours inside - for much less than what we paid, AND there were signs! We went back to the guy that signed us up to complain, in the hopes of getting some sort of refund, but no such luck (Although Nancy did feel much better that she at least TRIED!!!)
We had a little rain today - and some thunder and storm clouds.
We saw some other things as well (but I am actually writing this on day 3, so I forget just what it was now!!) =)

1st day of honeymoon

2006-08-07T04:08:00.000-05:00

we are in rome!! horay! our hotel is right across the street from the sistine chapel. the we have been to the vatican, and seen the popes tombs and had some gelato aka ice cream!! off to the hotel for a rest

mr. & mrs. whipple

The BIG day!!!

2006-08-05T11:26:00.000-05:00

In less than 2 hours I will be getting MARRIED!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cookiegal

I am a NURSE!!!

2006-07-29T20:36:00.000-05:00

HI!! I have passed my nursing boards, so now I am a NURSE!! I was so worried that I didn't pass my test, but I did!!! =)

BUBBLES!!!

2006-07-19T09:15:00.000-05:00

I have this thing, where I like to blow bubbles out my window at red lights. I think it is a fun way to spend the time waiting. Sometimes I get werid looks (Like the guy last night that was making the "crazy" hand gesture) Sometimes, people don't even seem to noice. But, most of the time people smile at me!
Last night I was at a red light, and I almost didn't do it because I was right across from a woman - and sometimes I don't like to make eye contact, but I decided what the heck, so I did. She said to me "My boyfriend just broke up with me, but that makes me really Happy!"
WOW! Who knew that bubbles could have such and effect on people!

Contains Peanuts

2006-05-16T06:28:00.000-05:00

here is something I wouldn't have known unless I actually read the label - my jar of peanutbutter, actually CONTAINS peanuts!! Good to know!!

So President Bush, is going to be sending the National Guard to help protect the borders - well, then, I guess he has to bring them home from Iraq first, becausae that is where he has been sending them all!

2006-03-19T22:00:00.000-05:00

Here is that picture I promised you!!! of me and Max!

I was going to add one of just him, but I am having trouble yet again!

pitter patter of little feet...

2006-03-19T09:56:00.000-05:00

Hello! no, I am NOT pregnant! I am talking about my cat MAX!
The other night he was all over my head in bed, so at one point in the night I put him out of the bedroom and shut the door. he wasn't too happy about that, he kept trying to get in!
Then, last night I was getting ready for bed, and he heard me move the door to close it and he came RUNNING down the hall to make sure he could make it in on time! He is such a cute kitty!

I will post a picture of him. I am having trouble with it right now though....

Have a happy day!

Long time no chat!!!

2006-03-12T19:13:00.000-05:00

Sorry it has been so long since I last wrote!! I actually tried to write a bit ago, but the blog wasn't working well, so I couldn't post!!
I have been BUSY lately!! I am back full swing in school - only 5 more weeks for this semester, then 8 weeks, then GRADUATION!!!! WOW!!!
How exciting will that be!?!??!

Wedding plans are coming right along. Richard got his tux this weekend. he is going to look SO HANDSOME!!!!

I had some deep thoughts to write that I was thinking about while sitting in church tonight,but now I can't think of them! Oh well!!
Okay - that is all for now - short and sweet, but I will try to get back on a roll!

The Cookiegal

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

2005-11-03T10:33:00.000-05:00

What? You mean it ISN'T almost Christmas??? You wouldn't know that by going to the store these days! I went into Walmart to check out the clearance on Halloween things, and at the end of the Isle they had CHRISTMAS candy out! The decorations are out already too! Can't we just have one holiday at a time? I think there should be a law that says we can't have Christmas things up until the day after Thanksgiving!

I saved the Ballons!

2005-10-30T17:52:00.000-05:00

I was at a Halloween Parade today. I was standing eating fried dough with Richard when all of the sudden this BIG bunch of giant ballons came flying at me!! I managed to reach up and grab the strings before they flew far, far away! Everyone around me gave me a round of applause, and someone even said to "take a bow" which of course I did!
The man at the cart said I could pick one from the whole bunch, so I picked a giant Blue Care Bear!!!

snow!!

2005-10-30T17:50:00.000-05:00

can you believe I took this picture on October 29th in Eastern Massachusetts!?!?!

BIG raise!

2005-10-28T17:39:00.000-05:00

I got a 2% raise today - which equals out to $.22 or $5.28 a week (I only work part time) WOW!! What am I going to do with all that money!?!??!

I have to start making more money.....

I am ENGAGED!!

2005-10-11T19:56:00.000-05:00

I got engaged last night!!!
He was so sweet about it.
He surprised me by being here when I came home from work, with dinner and dessert.
Then, he had me close my eyes. He said "now, I got you a BIGGER ring than what we picked out, and a few more carrots" I opened my eyes, and there was a GIANT ballon RING that said "marry me nancy" and a bag of CARROTS on the table! He is so funny!

The Ring I got is really pretty, and it is the diamond that was in my grandmothers ring.

He also had M&M's printed up with "Marry me Nancy" and "Love Richard" on them! Check this out: http://shop.mms.com/customized/printing/step1.asp

Extreme Makeover - HOME EDITION!!

2005-10-07T19:57:00.000-05:00

Well, I had a touch of fame today! They are filming one of my favorite shows not to far from me in Medfield Mass. http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/index.html I didn't get a picture WITH Ty Pennington, but I got pretty close! My cheap digital camera thought just didn't take them fast enough for a great picture - and he moved pretty quick, plus lots of folks were trying to see him too!
I hear the show will air on December 11th.

This is Ty! Isn't he cute!?!?
This is me and Michael - he is cute too!
I don't know this guys name - but I took his picture anyway! He said he was the LEAD construction guy!! What a guy to help this family!

This is Constance - she didn't have time to stop and chat though!

Friday...

2005-09-23T08:52:00.000-05:00

Well, all my food in my house in gone (from the cabinets)....I have washed all the containers that had food in them, and now we are on to the dishes and other containers. I have a LOT of containers!!

Stayed up late watching ER - WHY I don't know - I have my TIVO - which I highly recommend getting one. ER wasn't that good - I am getting bored with it in fact...

Okay - off to school.

PLP

more on bugs....

2005-09-21T21:15:00.000-05:00

well, my mom, aunt and sister all say I should throw out all of my food and start fresh to keep the bugs from growing....it is so sad! It is such a waste of food! But, I know they are right.......it is still depressing anyway!

PLP

BUGS!!!

2005-09-21T09:49:00.000-05:00

The other day my boyfriend said to me "hey look, two little catipillers" they were these little white bugs on my table. I figured we brought them in the house by accident when we brought something in from outside. A few days later, I found another one. No big deal. Today however, I happened to look UP in my kitchen and they were ALL OVER the ceiling! URGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! I then looked in to where I keep my bird seed, and they were in there, well, now they were flying bugs! I should have known better! A few years back, we had a bug problem at my parents house, and it all started from the BIRD SEED!! Luckily though, they haven't gotten to where any people food is (just cat food, and I didn't notice any in that bag) and I keep all my people food locked up good in Tupperware anyway. I thought I got them all, but they keep appearing - but only one or two at a time now....Hopefully I will be able to stop them. I did take the bird seed outside however! ICK! The cabinet they were in has little holes in the walls to put pegs in to hold the shelf - they were actually making their homes in those pegs!! I sprayed some windex in their - hopefully that will put a stop to them!!! Ick, Ick, ICK!

Brain Injury....

2005-09-17T08:28:00.000-05:00

I don't know how I got thinking about this topic last night as I was trying to sleep, but I was.

I have spent some time working with Brain Injured Adults. Usually when I tell people this, they say things like "wow! That must be tough". Really though it isn't - at least now with the people I work with. Some of them have what is called an acquired Brain Injury. That is they suffered a stroke or a lack of oxygen to the brain for some reason. Other have traumatic Brain Injury. They were in an accident of some sort - many of them were just minding their own business when they were hit by a drunk driver who has changed their lives forever. Here is a link to a site that one of the people I have worked with in the past has.

http://georgie8ma.tripod.com/

He is a pretty funny guy and a great artist!

Unbelievable...

2005-09-16T21:08:00.000-05:00

i came across this web site the other night when I was searching for information on heart transplants for people with Downs Syndrome.

BE WARNED!! The stories are heart breaking, but not for the family, but for the poor baby who was never given a chance!! http://www.aheartbreakingchoice.com

It is UNBELIEVABLE that they can do this because the family can't "deal" with their special child. When I first read this story, I went right to the end, and thought the baby had been still born. But NO - she murdered it! Yes, I am calling it that - the baby was 9 MONTHS along!! HELLO!!?!?

http://www.aheartbreakingchoice.com/kansas2.html

she had this to say:

We met and discussed all of the options from surgery, adoption, to comfort care to termination. However, because I was 34 weeks and 5 days pregnant, no termination could be done within our state.
so - they go off to Kansas
Then...
Adoption: How could we do that and always wonder Âdid our child make it? Was our child well-cared for?Â
So, rather than give it a CHANCE to be well cared for , just kill it??

Surgery: Facing a heart transplant or three-open heart surgeries with a transplant down the road. Yet with a child with Down syndrome, how would this be a quality of life? Life is hard enough for them.

hmm...lots of people have surgery - clearly she has NEVER met a person with Down's. I have and I don't think their life is any harder than the average "normal" person.

We considered the effects on our family and our three-year-old. Comfort care: We could not get a straight answer that our wishes would be abided by.

What say do you want to have? You want to kill it anyway!

Termination: How could we, this far along? But this option was the only choice in which we would have a say.

Hey - you want a say? I think all your other choices you had a say!

We watch an introduction video had some group discussion with the doctor and his associate. They explained the reason they do what they do: everybody needs a little help.

Yes - it is good to have help when you are going to perform a murder - then you don't have to take all the blame.

2:10 p.m. April 6, 2005 our son, Joseph, came and went in an instant, taking with him a lifetime of hopes and dreams we had for him. He was born silently and not suffering from his broke heart and abdomen with complications of Down syndrome. We can only describe our feelings as being peaceful, knowing that love was all our baby ever knew.

He wasn't BORN at all! He was MURDERED before he had a chance to live! And "Love was all our baby ever knew" - I don't know about that, how much LOVE is it to not even be given a CHANCE to live!

Okay...enough on this topic now....Please PRAY for thesfamilieses and children and all the future children that might have such a terrible fate as them!

PLP

Bad mom....

2005-09-16T20:53:00.000-05:00

I am watch Dr. Phil -I use to not like him, but now I do.

He has this BAD MOM on right now. Her daughter has a Disease that makes her skin have bloches on it and she has gained 50 pounds in a year - she is only 7. The mother has ADMIT that she doesn't like her daugher as much as her other daugher because of how she looks! She says that "she could lose the weight if she just tried" (the mom LETS her overeat! the girl is only 7!!) The poor thing! I wish I could take her into my home and give her love! Fortunetly, she lives with her DAD and not this BAD MOM!

Radio talk shows....

2005-09-13T21:19:00.000-05:00

I like to listen to talk shows while I drive alone....Then I can yell at my radio and have conversations with myself about what I would say if I was the host.

Tonight on the Laura Ingram show, they were talking about the "race card" in regards to how slow the help was to the hurricane victims. One person pointed something interesting out. He stated that with Hurricane Andrew hit in 1991, it took 5 days to get any real help there. And that the area hit really hard was a "white" neighborhood. Hmmm....so what do you think about that?

hungry after lunch...

2005-09-13T15:57:00.000-05:00

so I just ate a Lean Cusine Pizza -not too bad - not that great, but not too bad - it has 6 Weight Watchers Points in it. But now I am STILL HUNGRY! What is up with that!?!??!?!?!

Today my cousin Sue came over to help me ORGANIZE. She is a professional organizer - just starting out - if you need help, let me know and I will get you her number.

We worked on my craft room today. I can actually SEE MY FLOOR! It is amazing! now I can get back to my crafting, although I think I am going to get a new table for that. The one I have is just to small.

Okay - off to pick up my mom!

PLP

up late...

2005-09-12T23:51:00.000-05:00

why do I stay up late even when I am TIRED?!?!? It is only 9:47pm, but I have to get up at about 7AM tommrow so I can drive my mom to a computer class at 8:15am! Aren't I a nice daughter? Her car in in the shop.
I just changed my shifts at work, I am going to work every monday 7am-7:30pm and every other weekend also 12.5 hours! Am I crazy or what?!? no, I am just in school.

I am nursing school part time - not sure if I will get in full time or not, somedays not even sure if I WANT to be full time or not! But I have a little bit of time left to decide that yet.

I put Wife Swap on my tivo so I will watch it later. BOTH mom's seemed a bit CRAZY! The other mom (not the OCD mom with the butter) let her kinds run WILD, because "She wasn't allowed to do anything" when she was a kid. HELLO!?!? Have you ever heard of BOUNDRIES! It will be intresting to see what happens.

I have to take my trash out yet - such a chore!

all for now.

PLP

first time....

2005-09-12T22:00:00.000-05:00

hi there - first time blogging...I have so much to say and thought I would do it here, rather than babble on to my family, friends and strangers I meet on the street...
I just finished my 3rd 12hour (well, really 12.5 hour) shift at work (that is 3 days in a ROW) I am BEAT!! I think I shall now go to my couch and watch Wife Swap......Why?!? Why not - it can be funny at time!
Oh my - a mom that makes her kids butter her bread the "Right way?!?!!?!" Hmmm...can we say OCD big time!!!!

PLP
(peace, love and PEZ)