This weeks inspiration is Nicole from The Sweet Life of Semper Fi. She is a super-newlywed! She married her Marine on October 9th. She is a pre-nursing student, loves to bake and has a super cute kitty named Charlie. Head over to her blog to read all about her beautiful wedding!
Nicole's movie recommendation was Brothers. I know most of us have seen this movie and those who haven't, don't want to. It's one of those movies.
I saw Brothers when it was in theaters. The trailers made it look like such a good movie. But when I saw it in theaters, I left disappointed. The trailers were so misleading! Did it remind anyone else of a Lifetime movie? Even the way the music sounded was like a Lifetime movie! However, like most movies...I had to give it another chance.
Brothers is a war-drama. The movie is actually based on a Danish film, which was inspired by Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. Sam is married to his high school sweetheart and about to be deployed for the fourth time. Tommy, his brother, is released from jail right before Sam deploys. Sam's helicopter crashes, his family grieves, and Tommy and Grace are starting to get friendly...just in time for Sam to be rescued.
There is an awkward scene at the dinner table. And a scene where Sam asks Tommy if he's f*cking his wife. What a random question, since there was nothing happening to make Sam believe that. Especially since Sam knew Grace didn't even like his criminal brother!
This movie could have been better...but then again, it could have been worse. And Jake Gyllenhaal? Any movie with him is an A+!
Nicole's book recommendation was The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Have you noticed that most of the book recommendations are also movies....? There's only a few that haven't been made into a movie, but I figure it's just a matter of time. The Lovely Bones is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches her family from heaven as they try to move on. Her father suspects a suspect, her mother is sinning left and right, and life eventually goes on.
I'll be honest, I didn't read the whole book. It's 370 pages, I got to page 270 and decided I was beyond bored with it. I wanted so badly to like it, I've heard awesome thing about it....but it was s-l-o-w. I feel like the same things are repeated over and over again.
The only thing I did like about it was how she talks about "heaven." And how it's full of everything you want it to be full of. She has a gazebo and lots of dogs. My heaven would have ice cream, dogs and a swing set. What would your heaven have?
Now for my favorite part, the part that gets me in the kitchen....food! Nicole loves lasagna, so she had me in the kitchen making it for dinner. I made pepperoni lasagna roll-ups. They are super easy to make! And if you only have a few lasagna noodles, this is the perfect recipe. You can find the recipe here. This time I didn't use Swiss cheese, I had some Gruyere hanging around so I threw that in!
Thank you so much Nicole for the recommendations! I hope everyone is getting some good movie, book and recipe ideas!
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