Everyone and their dog has heard about the Octuplets and their mother. It has been all over the news for almost two months without any sign of dying down. It seems like every day there is a new story about her and her insanely large family that is on the cover of every magazine and the first story reporte on every news channel. I guess I have to ask why?
Giving birth to that many children at one time is an amazing thing that I think definitely deserves some media attention and a pat on the back. However, this woman already had six children and NO JOB. She was living with her mother, and was (and currently is) on welfare. If you already have six children, no job, and are living with your mother, what makes you think it is okay to have EIGHT more babies?
I personally feel very sad for these children. Obviously the mother was not thinking about how all of this would affect her children, and she is using all of this publicity, not to mention tax payers to dollars to support her gigantic family. She has also set up a donation website for anyone willing to help her out. My question is, where did she get money for in vitro fertilization? Obviously she didn’t get impregnated like this naturally . . . so where did the money for this come from in the first place?
The latest piece about the Octa-mom in the news has to do with her firing her group of nannies. Nannies, who were not being paid for their services of taking care of her children. What I find Ironic is this woman’s excuse for firing these volunteers is because she believed they were spying on her and leaking information about her babies and family to the press. Isn’t that what she wants though?
At this time, there are four out of the eight babies home from the hospital now. Doctors were only expecting seven babies instead of eight, and it took 46 surgeons to deliver the Octuplets.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Snow Snow Snow
Due to the weather today, I thought this week I would blog about the winter of 2008-2009.
Did anyone else notice how amazingly freezing it was last month? In North Dakota, the average high temperature during the month of February was 19.9 degrees, according to Bruce Dougherty, national weather observer, Lisbon. This is four degrees below the normal average for the month, which is 23.2 degrees. The overall average temperature for February was 11.7, which was only a couple degrees colder that the normal average temperature for the month, 13 degrees.
Not only was the temperature brutal the last few months, but it has been recorded that the total snowfall so far for 2009 has been 24.5 inches, and the total for the winter of 2008-2009 to 60.4 inches.This winter has had the most snowfall since the winter of 1996-1997.
Personally, I remember the blizzard of ’97 fondly. I was about eight years old, and the storm lasted forever . . . which meant that school was cancelled for quite some time. However, I also remember one of the Fargo News Stations travelling to elementary school a few weeks later to do a story on our school. Why? Because we all had to attend on a Saturday to make up for all the school we missed because of the storm.
My family lives in rural Sheldon, ND. The storm knocked out power at our house for over a week. The storm knocked out power and phone service for nearly every town and city in the Red River Valley. The storm also poured freezing rain and snow all throughout the Red River Valley.
The winter of 96-97 was followed by one of the worst springs in North Dakota history. Anyone who remembers that winter also remembers the flooding in North Dakota, especially in Grand Forks. After all the rain and snow piled into the already high river waters, the flooding that happened after was insane.
This leads people to believe that this spring could be similar because of all of the snowfall.
Right now I am waiting for classes to be cancelled, much like I did when I was eight years old. I get more annoyed with the weather now that I am old enough to drive and have a job I am responsible for. It will be interesting to see what the spring will be!
Did anyone else notice how amazingly freezing it was last month? In North Dakota, the average high temperature during the month of February was 19.9 degrees, according to Bruce Dougherty, national weather observer, Lisbon. This is four degrees below the normal average for the month, which is 23.2 degrees. The overall average temperature for February was 11.7, which was only a couple degrees colder that the normal average temperature for the month, 13 degrees.
Not only was the temperature brutal the last few months, but it has been recorded that the total snowfall so far for 2009 has been 24.5 inches, and the total for the winter of 2008-2009 to 60.4 inches.This winter has had the most snowfall since the winter of 1996-1997.
Personally, I remember the blizzard of ’97 fondly. I was about eight years old, and the storm lasted forever . . . which meant that school was cancelled for quite some time. However, I also remember one of the Fargo News Stations travelling to elementary school a few weeks later to do a story on our school. Why? Because we all had to attend on a Saturday to make up for all the school we missed because of the storm.
My family lives in rural Sheldon, ND. The storm knocked out power at our house for over a week. The storm knocked out power and phone service for nearly every town and city in the Red River Valley. The storm also poured freezing rain and snow all throughout the Red River Valley.
The winter of 96-97 was followed by one of the worst springs in North Dakota history. Anyone who remembers that winter also remembers the flooding in North Dakota, especially in Grand Forks. After all the rain and snow piled into the already high river waters, the flooding that happened after was insane.
This leads people to believe that this spring could be similar because of all of the snowfall.
Right now I am waiting for classes to be cancelled, much like I did when I was eight years old. I get more annoyed with the weather now that I am old enough to drive and have a job I am responsible for. It will be interesting to see what the spring will be!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
I'm Lovin It
This ridiculous story made my night. Earlier this week, Latreasa Goodman, age 27 made multiple angry calls to 911. It wasn’t because someone broke into her house, it wasn’t because she witnessed a crime, and it certainly wasn’t because she was in an accident of some kind. Then what sort of terrible incident would cause this woman to repeatedly call 911? The answer to this question is her local McDonald’s ran out of McNuggets. (Of course!)
(To hear her 911 calls, click here)
Goodman ordered a ten piece Chicken McNugget meal. The cashier soon told her that they had run out of McNuggets and she would not be offered a refund. The cashier suggested she choose something else off the menu of equal value to the McNuggets, and offered the restaurant's cheeseburger called the McDouble.This was not what Latreasa Goodman wanted to hear.
"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one, She's trying to force me to eat something off the menu and I don't want it," Goodman stated.
During her first call to 911 Goodman spoke to a female dispatcher who had a surprising amount of patience and listened to her complain. After Goodman was done, the dispatcher informed her that she was “sending someone” to the Mickey D’s. Apparently, “Help” did not come soon enough, and she called 911 back. The second dispatcher told her he was aware of her situation, and help had been sent and was on the way. Goodman made one final phone call to 911 after her fist two totaling THREE emergency phone calls to 911 about McNuggets. Wow.
Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge, but it doesn’t all end badly for Latreasa Goodman . . . A McDonald's spokesman said Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal. Hopefully that gift card covers a ten piece Chicken McNugget meal.
(To hear her 911 calls, click here)
Goodman ordered a ten piece Chicken McNugget meal. The cashier soon told her that they had run out of McNuggets and she would not be offered a refund. The cashier suggested she choose something else off the menu of equal value to the McNuggets, and offered the restaurant's cheeseburger called the McDouble.This was not what Latreasa Goodman wanted to hear.
"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one, She's trying to force me to eat something off the menu and I don't want it," Goodman stated.
During her first call to 911 Goodman spoke to a female dispatcher who had a surprising amount of patience and listened to her complain. After Goodman was done, the dispatcher informed her that she was “sending someone” to the Mickey D’s. Apparently, “Help” did not come soon enough, and she called 911 back. The second dispatcher told her he was aware of her situation, and help had been sent and was on the way. Goodman made one final phone call to 911 after her fist two totaling THREE emergency phone calls to 911 about McNuggets. Wow.
Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge, but it doesn’t all end badly for Latreasa Goodman . . . A McDonald's spokesman said Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal. Hopefully that gift card covers a ten piece Chicken McNugget meal.
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