Life on Florida’s West Coast

Spring Cleaning in Florida

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I think since our seasons are so different here in Florida, we do a lot of things differently than the rest of you up there in the great white north. Take, for example, Spring Cleaning.

It’s only January, but our strawberry crops are already in. So, it is starting to feel a little bit like spring down here. We put in some tomato plants last week and I have noticed the grass is getting greener. So, that makes me feel like throwing open the sashes, putting up the garage door, and cleaning the dickens out of this place. It is time to wash windows and take down curtains. It’s time to air the rugs and shampoo the upholstery. I also want to get rid of a lot of the clutter in the garage and go on over to my storage unit and see if I can thin out my boxes.

I have some friends who are already working on their back yard for the season. They are putting in pavers and making a raised patio out near the back garden. They bought a new boat for the summer and are working with a local charity on a boat donation for their old boat. If we could just grow bulb flowers down here, I could see them hip high in tulips and daffodils by now.

In case you were wondering about the charity my friends picked to give their boat to, it is Carangel.com. They use the money from vehicle donations to make the coolest videos for kids, and they give those videos away at no charge.We love their Donkey Ollie cartoons.

Of Course She Has Mental Issues

In a practice that has now become part of the social norm in the United States, Britney Spears is commanding headlines right alongside the Florida primary elections and the current state of our national economy. It’s a silly society that we live in and there comes a point where you just toss up your hands and agree to begrudgingly join them, since you can certainly not beat them. Of course, I have no idea who “they” are.

So, the big news is that Britney Spears’ friend Sam Lutfi contacted Barbara Walters to tell the pseudo-reporter that Britney has mental issues, is seeing a psychiatrist, and things are quite treatable.

For lack of a better response: well, duh!

Spears has two very small sons and she currently has no access to them whatsoever. Of course she is having mood swings, trouble sleeping, and questioning her own mental health. Take a mom’s kids away from her and she will absolutely go bonkers. I don’t care how good or bad of a mother someone is in practice, they still have a bond to their children that is strong enough to make you nuts when you are apart from your child.

Just the alternating long weekends that my daughter is with her dad are enough to bring me down emotionally. I loathe being away from Gigi. If the courts were to actually rule that I was not allowed to live with her or even visit her, I would also be seeing a psychiatrist – that’s for sure.