Spicy Garlic Sriracha Shrimp

This is a SUPER-FAST and delicious recipe requiring a few simple ingredients.
My son and I made it tonight. We ate it with some French bread and it made a great meal!
Thanks to Laura's Best Recipes for this one!

Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'd give this 4 1/2 stars. I loved the characters and I'm sad it's over. But I felt like the end did not neatly end (I don't need happy endings but there are some loose ends). Good writing and very interesting setting and topic.

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Marbles

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This graphic autobiography outlines Ellen Forney's life being diagnosed as bipolar, and then figuring out how to get to a point where she's in balance with the help of meds. I think this would be a great book for someone recently diagnosed, or with someone who has someone in their life who is bipolar or struggling to figure out what's going on. The fact that Forney is an artist brings up issues of creativity and the disproportionate rates of mental conditions in artists--what's the tie-in there? Does creativity require a certain type of brain? Also good for anyone to be compassionate about mental health and the real struggle in our country to get/afford good mental health.

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Day 8 on the Carnival Breeze

Saturday, January 12, 2012  Sea Day

Last day on the cruise - morning of homework

Carnival Breeze stateroom 11235

After 11 hours of sound sleeping, I woke up.  Rodd was reading on our balcony and E started  homework. We had breakfast burritos at Blue Iguana--one last delicious time--then Rodd and I spent the morning at Serenity Deck.  Bloody Marys and Mojitos, sun, reading and snoozing. 

Then one last lunch at Guy's Burger Joint.

 

Then, time for some afternoon drinks on the Lido Deck.

 

We tried out some more trivia at the Ocean Plaza.


And that meant more cocktails.

Liquid Nightclub (in the daytime)

  Mid-afternoon, time for what the kids had been practicing for all week:  Camp Carnival Talent Show!

 
 E did a rap - he did great!

 

The little kids had prepared a group song for us. Adorable!

The big kids had practiced dancing for us.

 

 
 

 And then, a family dance:

 We were warmed up, so we went back to the Ocean Plaza and took a Thriller Dance Class, taught by Amy (aka 6-3), the assistant cruise director.

  

 

With the talent show, then dance class -- E was inspired! So we went to karaoke and he sang. He did a GREAT job.

 
At night, after packing up, we watched NFL at the Lido deck.