Sleep deprivation is awful, MM. My sympathies. Hope things improve for you soon. Yes, come back soon. Baci to you too.
We know a few people, Sputnik, but DH just says, "well, our standards are higher". Thanks for the reassurance. That's what I tell myself. And I know that these early years pass so quickly. I'll be wanting them back, probably, in years to come...
franca - I didn't mean to imply that you shouldn't love the place; rather that, if it's overpriced, no-one will be willing to pay, so they can whistle for their overpriced asking price, but not get it, IYSWIM.
I couldn't sleep last night - brewing over DH's stubbornness - so I was reading Freakonomics, which I had resisted buying for ages, since it looked like popularising crap, etc., but finally I could no longer resist... Anyway. My snobby self was right. Everything I read made me think, "I could totally have figured this out for myself if I'd given it a moment's thought". Don't you hate that? The only thing the book gives me is the figures, percentages, etc. Sigh.
Oh, I finally bought Sophie's Choice, so I will read that asap, and we can discuss it. I'm a bit scared though, as am so hormonal still (e.g. cannot let myself think about those poor people and how terrified they must have been on that Brazil-France flight, etc.). I fear SC will traumatise me.