I love a clean house. I just don’t love doing the cleaning. However, as I always tell my daughter – you cannot only do the fun things in life. You have to do a whole lot of un-fun stuff if you want to live in a clean house. And, yes – we want to live […]

I wanted to be here near DC for the 4th of July, but this year my daughter’s father has her for that particular holiday. So, I made plans to fly back to Florida on the 2nd. Two days afte3r I made the flight reservations, my ex offered to let me stay out of town through […]

Things are still bad for pretty much everyone who owns a home in Florida. The insurance companies were allowed to get so out of control with their price increases that most people were priced out of their budgets. On top of that, almost all of the large insurance companies started cherry picking, which means that […]

It’s 80 degrees with 40% humidity and a slight breeze. As you might guess, I am not in Florida right now. We just don;t get that kind of weather this time of year in sunny Florida. I’m in West Virginia, right along the shores of the Shendandoan Rover. In fact, when I look up […]

Not a good day. Today, that is. Today was just not a good day overall. I had to get an MRI and found out I am claustrophobic. I had no idea. I had to interact with my ex-husband face to face, and that is never pleasant. Lots of little things went wrong, but the biggest […]

I let myself feel pressure over things that I really ought to overlook. Back when I was putting out the applications for schools for my daughter, there was one charter school I decided not to apply to, because I had heard one negative comment about the school.
Well, my daughter did not make the lottery […]

When I moved this county of Florida, one car insurance agent told me rates here are second only to Manhattan when comes to their sheer expense. I believe it.
It’s not just people in Florida who are looking for ways to trim their monthly budgets. Pretty much everyone I know is shopping around for better rates […]

There are many things I think any household must have. For one, I think every home should have an old toothbrush in with the cleaning supplies. A kitchen or bathroom sink is never really clean until you have gotten in there and scrubbed in the crevices with a toothbrush.
What I want to talk about today, […]