There was this book i read with this lady who would help parents with their kids who misbehaved.

I think it was a series or at least it was more than one book with lot's of different stories.

I remember a couple of stries...

One with this boy who wouldn't eat much and the lady gave his mother a set of plates. every day his mom would give him a plate of food on a plate and each day she gave him a smaller plate (and fork, spoon, knife, and cup too) eventually the boy grew so weak from not eating that his mother gave him a full plate of food normal size and he ate it all, curing him of his lack of appetite.

Another story was of a girl who wouldn't take a bath.
the lady gave her mom a packet of seeds and when the girl got so dirty her mother planted seeds on her but allowed her to not bathe if she chose. Ebventually she grew into a garden and agreed to take a bath.

Can any one help me out?

New Year's Day for me tends to arrive in two-week radius of the Vernal Equinox. Yet at times it seems like I'm starting empty-handed, picking up the broken pieces after a crash. Big changes, big moves happen to me around the beginning of springtime. Yet to use the modern calendar, the events encased within the twelve months can be as ecclectic as that strange, seemingly random group of people that makes up yours and my respective families. New Year on the 1st of January is more like a new, blank writing book, or a fresh snowfall blanketing yesterday's filthy footprints and decayed leaves.

In that regards, I began the calendar year of 2009 running about a house party completely naked. Just like in 2004.

I was still in Portland, living as a sort of live-in-maid to a vapid California princess. Things came to a head one Firday night in January while I was terribly sick and couldn't work anymore for the eveing. An argument followed, including the Things Said That Can't Be Taken Back. Luckily, I wasn't kicked out that very evening, and had a chance to get my stuff together. I had very little money, yet had the forsight to stow away the "Seattle Fund", $50 in an envelope which afforded me the Greyhound ticket up to Seattle, plus a bit of "walking-around money".

My little adventure in Seattle could be a lengthy post in itself, but I'll spare you having to skim across even more writing until later. Still, it's weird looking back at 2009 and remembering the two months spent there: sleeping beside the Ship Canal near an otter's nest, living in those tent cities, living in a coffee roaster, walking around the Fremont neighborhood with its 1990's-era public art before dawn, the colorful Gasworks Park, Pike Palce Market. Spring came early. One day in the first week of March, I was sitting on the green grass near Olympic Sculpture Garden in a short-sleeved shirt, the yellow West Coast sun lightly toasting my arms.

Then I was back in Portland, in my friend's downtown apartment for a week. A silver Amtrak train sped me more than halfway across the country in 36 hours, and I was in Minneapolis again. And winter had returned to me. Spring came very late, midway through April.

Nothing dictated my year more than the lull in the economy. Day after day, I got up and asked for job applications, but only one out of a hundred places actually had one on hand. I was incredibly lucky that I didn't become homeless. It wouldn't be until July that I'd get low-paying, exploititive day labor at a processed-food-plant hell.

Had a nice but fairly uneventful summer, going on several bicycle camping trips throughout the warm months.

Then, work dropped off very suddenly, and I was practically at square one. The days were getting shorter and colder, and once again homelessness threatened me.

I was at the brink of near-insanity with being broke, bored, and the constant chance of losing my home. Then I got a pretty good job, and a new friend, Corinne, at just the right time.

Had I written this account in detail, it'd be several pages long. And this has been a comparatively eventless year for me. But that's how my life is, and how it hopefully will be.

Kid's book, I read it in the late 80s, early 90s, but it seemed older than that. Paperback, thin?

Featured a large family that moved to another, larger house in the same town. It is NOT Ten Kids, No Pets - although this family also had theme naming (all the kids were named after plants... I believe there was a boy Dogwood or something equally embarrassing) and also had some sort of "hiding a pet cat" subplot. At one point somebody may have gone through a coal chute? Or I may be adding that in from another book.

I remember reading a book in 7th grade about a girl who is in the car with her dad at the beginning, when all of a sudden something happens to him and he dies. Somewhere along the lines, she gets picked up or something and ends up in Italy living with two(?) elderly italians who speak NO english. She later learns the word, "come" in Italian because the elderly woman had said it so often when she wanted her there.

The book had involved an olive tree, or so I believe.

Sorry for the lack of details, but the title or author would be great to know.
Thanks !!

When I was little I read a book that I believe was a short novel, one for about 7-9 year olds. It featured two dogs, one was scruffy. The other was really prissy and was called Katie, they would put a raincoat and shoes on her when it was raining. I think she may have been a yorkshire terrier. I think that they came from two different families that had combined through marriage.

Any ideas what it was?

If anyone watches TCM (Turner Classic Movies channel), what are the shorts between films called? For example, I am currently watching a short produced most likely in the 50s/60s about the history of San Francisco. I have also seen other ones such as the making of a movie in the 1920s and a girl walking around Hollywood in the 50s/60s, showing off the hot spots. Are there names for these shorts? I would love to find more, but am unsure exactly what search term to use!

Also, I heard a song on the radio earlier today. It was on an alternative station and I am betting the song was new. The singer was male and the music reminded me a little bit of Yellowcard. The lyrics I remember are "we are the face/you are the face" and "hopeless and senseless." I have tried checking the radio's website, but the playlist is down.

A couple days ago I heard a song on a radio station that mostly plays music that isn't super famous... The song seemed fairly upbeat and one of the lines I remember was something like "Look what your man has done to the world, look what the world has done to your man"

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I really liked the song but I didn't catch the artist or title.

EDIT: Found, thanks to bppubjr. =)

looking for the name of a band or singer that covers "forever young"
it's a girl with a really melodic voice.
i googled, couldn't find anything :(

The other day, my dad was talking about a friend who has an iPod Touch, and how he'd downloaded an app that allows him to use his iPod as a phone. I tried looking for it in the app store, but I've not been able to find it. I know it's not Skype, since he said the service was free. The name is something along the lines of "Knock". Know what it could be?

I caught a tiny bit of this music video when I was in a restaurant in Mexico a few days ago. It was on Telehit which I guess is like the MTV (when it used to play actualfax music videos) for Spanish music. The bit of the song I heard was in English and it was sung by a female. It was sort of electronic/trance-y, iirc. The video was sort of weird. There was a guy in this very odd white costume. He had a cape and was wearing some sort of a mask (at first I thought he was in a chicken costume) that covered his entire face and head. (I don't think he was wearing a shirt.) And he was walking around this field (?) with very green, sort of tall grass. There were also shots of an Asian girl in a pink/magenta dress walking around in a forest.

That's about all I saw of the video. I know it's very vague but I hope someone can help me identify this music video. It seemed kind of cool and I remember liking what little I heard of the song.

Thanks in advance!

What's that website where I think you start off with a page about farms, and you try to type in as many things having to do with farms then when you complete enough you can move onto another page about religion and baseball and bands and stuff?

ETA: It's in a web format.

This is very vague but we read a poem in high school English class about a boy and a girl who are young and in love on a picnic or something about sunshine and flowers. It ends with the relationship ending and they grow apart or die or something. It was written by a man and I'm pretty sure it was American.

We read another poem about a woman who is grieving the death of her husband I think. I want to say the woman is Romanian or something like that. I think the poem centers around an article of clothing like a scarf or a body part.

Probably about 3 years ago, I met someone once and we had a conversation about psychology. He had this book and it had a lot of small quiz's in it. You would answer small questions and it would then tell you something about yourself.. I would love to find a book like this, and also find out what its called.

EXAMPLE "If you saw an ex or one night stand you would a. b. or c. I picked wave and say hello" It then told me something like "You arent embarrassed to confront people whether they are your life time friend or a one night fling, you will always say hello" We didnt talk about it to much but it was always listed in questions of situations.
Does anyone know anything about this book or type of characterizing?
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1.)  My sister swears that there was a pop/R&B song that came out fairly recently (?), perhaps done by a girl-group.  The song was sung to the tune of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."  She thinks the group may have been similar in sound to Destiny's Child, but she isn't sure.  This sounds vaguely familiar to me as well, but we've both searched and found nothing concrete.  Any ideas?


2.)  Does anyone know the original source for the following gif:





Many thank yous.