Florida's first people.....

Ok, I have a serious problem here.. I am actually shaking as I write this. I called the Nana and had to hang up the phone because I realized I was WAY to upset to talk about it......

So, what Has me so enraged????? Take a look at the banner on the boat, it says "Hispanics Discovered Florida".. Ponder this thought, how can you "discover" a place that is already populated by a thriving culture? Many tribes of Indigenous people who had lived for centuries CONTENT in their culture, but of course the arrival of the "European" explorers would bring changes that would irreparably damage their lives! Diseases brought by these strangers decimated the unsuspecting Natives, the banner doesn't say that.... DOES IT, Nope....

We have taken just about everything possible from the Native Americans, and now we are writing them off? Erasing them from history, to sell some car plates, I DO NOT THINK SO.

I, am protesting this completely! IT FUCKING WRONG, every bit of it. Hispanics did come here, no denying it, look around, you can't. BUT YOU WERE NOT HERE FIRST, and if you did discover FLORIDA, why are we speaking English as a primary language?

Tomorrow is "D" day

So, some of you know, and other's do not. My niece Alexandra has been quiet ill. We know some of the problem, but not the underlying cause(s).

She has been on (and off) some medications for the last 4 weeks. What the Dr. was thinking is that we know what is going on, but lets try the least evasion, most common cure for that problem FIRST and then get into the other, more evasive shit.

Well, tomorrow she goes in to tell him that the medication has not work, and therefore I have labeled tomorrow as "D" day. Solely because we don't know what happens next, and I have to admit I am going crazy wondering what is going to happen next. My mind is racing in all kinds of directions, and then I think :

1. I am not the patient, nor the parent for Christ's sake...

2. GET OFF THE INTERNET and stop drying to investigate the "causes"

3. Are you making it worse by constantly asking "how was the test today..."

4. SHE IS ONLY 15

Then, I calm myself down, and say that I have all the confidence in Lexi's (nickname) Dr. He is the CHIEF pediatric Nephrologist in the area, so other than Dr. House he is the man we want on our team.

I will learn something by 2-ish, so I will be sitting by the phone and I will let all my dedicated readers (all 2 of you) know as soon as I do.

Also, please try thinking that "positive postulates can work miracles" because we really need one!

the GREEN MONSTER

So, my daughter is a self proclaimed tree hugger. Yes, at four years old, and NO it doesn't come from me. For example I am told on a regular basis the following rules per my daughter.

1. do not pollute, EVER (not even gum, MOM)
2. do not smoke it kills mother earth and your lungs
3. Do not flush when you pee, only poop (if its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down)
4. When brushing your teeth you do not need to run the water, MOM!
5. Turn off all the lights when not using them, MOM
6. Pick up all the trash (not just ours) at the beach

Gee, i think that's pretty much it, but I am sure I am missing something. Oh yeah, duh Recycle!

I actually love the idea that at her age she is very aware of her environment, immediate and global. However, when we are in public and she is yelling at the lady outside the store for smoking, I have to politely remind her that some people just do not care as much as she does, and although I think what she is doing is wonderful, some might find it a bit intrusive.

So, we are working on a fine medium so we are all happy and living peacefully together (cue in some 60's hippies music).....

Going Ghetto!

So, I spent the day with my friend and her kids, helping her move into her lovely new house! Then, I get home only to find that I have nothing in the fridge........After a search and discovery mission, I manage to find the following ingredients.


1 can organic diced tomatoes
1 pint organic mushrooms
1/2 bag baby spinach (organic)
fresh garlic ( i some how always manage to have this in the fridge)
1 box lasagna noodles
red pepper flakes


you see where this is going.... I manage to make a very tasty, edible meal from this, however it was totally ghetto. I took the lasagna noodles and broke them down to pieces like you would be making a Mosaic tile masterpiece, No two pieces the same.

I think that I will name this dish, Mosaic Madness....

My Lil Chef Nicolette helped out a lot. She said she needs more spinach for her Karate lessons tomorrow night. She is so funny to watch in class. They have the kids doing push ups, and all kinds of things, so she is running around the house everyday practicing. I will post some pictures when I sneak my camera in the studio.

Ciao for now,

Chef Claudette & Lil Chef Nicolette

Sundays=REST

Today= woke up, cleaned closet, ate sushi, cleaned kitchen, made dinner, now bath and bed. I hope that tomorrow deems more productive for anyone who actually reads my less than stellar blog.

Man vs Woman-Equal or not....

I think that its a fair question, but I think that the answer is very subjective... There are many factors in that equation. (High-school Calculus nightmare's come to mind....)

If, I were asked about my life, and would Nick and I be considered equal I would say "No" we are not equal because I feel Physically he works harder than I do, but I do more in other area's of the life.. So one can argue the point that realistically we will never be equal. The trick however is to be a "whole" together.

Is it possible, well I don't know. I know the notion sounds wonderful, that we all can except each others strengths and weaknesses, but human nature isn't as compassionate. We as a human race are more of search and destroyers than planners and builders. So, all this less than physically equal girl can do is wait and see what happens next.

SUMMER Colds Suck

How is it even possible to get one? Well, my mom had "the sniffles" the other day, but insisted that she wasn't sick........ I am going to try to paint a picture of how she looked when we saw her the other day.... HER NOSE was as red as these words, but still insisted that she wasn't sick.


Here's the nana, relaxing at the park, she didnt want to walk the boardwalk, because she wanted to save that prime bench location, not that she was too sick to go.... I LOVE U NANA!!!

I don't care much anyways, we are hardly sick with colds in this family. So a sniffle now and then is ok. But I have a whole host of ailments, the most annoying is that I can not eat meat...... I know its better that way, better for my body, especially since my dad had colon cancer and I am at a higher risk of getting it........ but my GOD, a filet cooked perfectly is HEAVEN..... So, I guess for now, i will have to rely on my fond memories of me and my meat.... OMG, that sounds gross, but I am not going to edit it because it was how I was feeling at the moment, and I am not going to be one of those people who have to make sense all the fucking time.

Summer is here...... Let the madness begin

So, here it is. Children are out of school for the FIRST official day, and what do I do? Go to all the places that ALL these children with pent up energy go..... But I am not complaining because of course, I have the most well behaved child on earth.

We first go to the library because it is Thursday and it is story day. I, expecting a zillions children was ever so disappointed when (again, this is the first day of "no school"), My brilliant, eager to learn child was the only one there. NO SHIT... We had to wait for 15 minutes for 2 other children that weren't even there for story time to start. But it was fantastic.... My daughter (Nicolette) some time ago, (she is 4, so it cant be all that long ago) decided that she is going to be both an animal and a human doctor. So, with this in mind of course we had to find books on the Human body etc.

I, excited at the notion that My daughter was going to be a DR., was soon taken back to reality when my daughter began to say " mom, is this the boy's JOHNSON?" yeah, at that point i thought, does she really want to be a doctor or is she that clever that she knows this book would have that picture.... OH, by the way, it wasn't a Johnson, and there is no naked pictures, she, as I have mentioned is brilliant and has found a way to PUNK me....

So, after this we grabbed a pick-a-nic (as my mom "the Nana"* calls it) at SUBWAY and went to the water sprinkler park at Jensen beach. However, this time there were all those crazy kids that I thought would be there, and to be honest only one child out of a zillion were annoying to both myself and the Nana.

Later that evening while Nicolette and I sat and had dinner, she said that today was the BEST day, and then started with her unusual questions ( i have to list a few because again at 4 who asks these questions).

1. So mom, What is it like to be a grown up
2. What was it like to have me in your belly
3. When Am I going to have babies

Then, as soon as these "grown up" conversations start they end with her putting on her favorite blue high heel shoes and pretending to be singing on "American Igol" (no spelling error she says it that way)

Now, we are getting ready for bed, and she is picking out her bedtime tea. Bedtime tea! Does anyone else thing that I am living in a some what Twilight Zone?

Other people's blogs

I will promise you this, if you post a comment on my blog I will post it. Even if it is a negative one, I will put it on for everyone to see. Why am I telling you this? well, someone that I know, has a post and I said something that apparently hit home, because of course it was NOT POSTED.

I don't get people like that...whats the point? I guess some subjects are off limits... UHHH then why do you post them?