My younger daughter made a shrimp broccoli pasta recipe she created.

The part that bothers me about this is, "Her husband told her she could invite 15 friends..." What's that about?

Don't worry about it!

This is a fascinating perspective. Thanks for sharing it!

Yes, I felt some foreshadowing would have been nice. I went back through the whole movie in my head to see if I'd missed something and all I came up with was the very beginning, when it told us that her mother's murder happened in 1991, and then said "ten years later." It was summer because they went to the beach, and then school must have started with Caroline's hair being cut off. Even if the caption had said "2001" instead of "ten years later" I may have clued in on - they're in NY, it's 2001, etc. I was upset because I *really* liked the movie up until that point and thought it was very well done, although I would have liked a little more about the girl, whose name I can't recall right now. What were the effects of watching her mother be murdered, other than eating dessert first?

I don't know that I would say it was integral. It was a device to kill his father. A random murder would have been just as inexplicable, a random car accident, etc. I suppose that people were more sympathetic to him because of the shared experience of 9/11. I wonder if I would like the book better - my dh and I both strongly disliked the movie though, so I wasn't inclined to read the book. I wonder if people in general feel this way about tragic events being used in fiction.

If so, what did you think of the end? I felt like it was gimmicky. I had really enjoyed the movie, right up until they panned back and I saw he was in the World Trade Center, and then they showed the date. I kind of felt like I'd been punched in the stomach. I also did not like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, so maybe I'm just being ultra-sensitive to stories who throw in 9/11 for what seem to me like not-very-good reasons.

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Stories from Spain/ Stories from Mexico bilingual books. Just cover the English.

Unfortunately, according to the book Bright-sided, Seligman has bought into "positive psychology" and now "positive social sciences" despite a lack of hard science.

Assuming dh is taking off one work week: Friday after work you and dh drive to special hotel. Stay until Sunday. Dh relaxes for a day or so. Then go back to Cincy with the kids and do the family fun stuff. It's only a couple hours away. That's no big deal!

6 weeks sounds like plenty of time to get that stuff done. Relax!

Hated ours. It was a Maytag Neptune lemon. Finally ditched it after multiple repairs and bought a cheap top loader.

I think you're making a mountain out of a monkey. ;-)

How timely. I'm reading a book called Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. Basically, The Secret is crap IMO.

I remember the nameTcherepnin very clearly, so I don't think so, but thank you!

I would recognize it if I heard it or saw the sheet music, but I have no idea if it's part of a longer work or opus number or anything like that. I'm thinking my next step might be going to a music library near me and paging through all his compositions that they have there. Thanks everyone!

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This was my favorite piece of piano music as a child. It's one page, very easy, something for a beginner. Unfortunately my mom threw away my old sheet music. I used to have it memorized but can't remember all of it now. I have done all sorts of internet searches but cannot find it. If you have a copy, could you possibly scan it and email it to me or copy it and mail it? I would be happy to pay for it! Thanks!

There is no way I'd pay $30 an hour under those conditions! I pay our Swedish tutor, who is fluent, with teaching experience, and working on a PhD in Scandinavian linguistics, $20 an hour.

I read a fabulous book on Sunday! It's called Every Day by David Levithan. Every day the main character wakes up in a new body and spends the day as that person. But what will happen when s/he falls in love with the girlfriend of a body he's in? I couldn't put it down!

Sarah sang that song all wrong! It's a bitter, wry song, not an angry psycho song. It was horrible, I thought. I never liked Judith - she's not my type and doesn't sing music I like. Amber did an awesome job with Skyfall and broke the Adele curse. My theory about Blake's team all getting through is that his fans are excited about his team being all country and are voting, a lot.

Duolingo might have Portuguese.

I was thinking about that the other day. In the eighties, fifties music was oldies. That is a 30 year difference. 2010-1980=30 So yes, I think they are justified in playing eighties music as oldies. Not that I like it, mind you.