Summer Plans

Hi Ladies!

Happy Spring! I'm pulling together plans for Book Club over the summer.  Plans have been MIA lately because I've spent every spare minute outside soaking up the sun...and I'm guessing you have too. =) 

Same Kind of Different As Me was lost in translation from winter to spring, so we'll just toss it in with our next meeting. Apologies! (We're waiting for "Water for Elephants" to hit the $3.50 theatre...we'll try to set a come-if-you-can date when that happens.)

Buckle up.  I'm about to make some big decisions.

Since summer is right around the corner, we're going to stretch out our meetings to once every other(ish) month. We'll meet June 22 and August 17 over the summer.  Random?  Yes. But I'm thinking if I throw a couple dates out there, we might be able to pull it off. And these two avoid summer holidays and split up the summer. It gives us lots of time to read in between vacations and trips to the beach and the ice cream shop.  In August we'll decide if we want to stick with the every other month routine or if we want to jump back on the once a month wagon.

As far as book selections go, there are lots of possibilities posted in the previous post (here) and in the comments.  Check them out and vote for your top three picks via comment or Facebook message by THIS FRIDAY, May 20. I'll take the top two picks and let you know what books we're reading this summer.  Please vote! Or, look out, I'm going to fly solo and pick, and I can't promise I won't just set up Twilight as one of the options because I love a good corny re-read for the beach.  ;)

Talk to me. =)

Book Club Combo: Dinner and a Movie Night

Paging the Book Club:

I need some input this week.  Let me know if you're coming, and what your vote is for the options below so I'm not left stranded alone at the movie theatre with nothing but highly caloric popcorn to comfort me.

I've looked up showtimes for Wednesday night, and the schedule isn't exactly working in our favor if we're sticking with our normal Book Club timing... so there's a few ways we can play this.  Give a holler and let me know what works for you.

The movie is at 6:30 and is two hours long, so we're looking at an 8:30ish end time. The only other movie time was after 8 and good night nurse, that would mean a post 11:oo bedtime and I'm just not sure I have it in me.  If you're game, let me know.  But I'm running with the 6:oo plan...

Option 1: Pull an early meeting and do dinner at T.R. at 5:oo then go see the movie.

Option 2: Slam a PB&J at home with the kids, then meet at the theatre between 6:15ish-6:30 and go out for dessert or coffee afterwards at TR or Coldstone or... [insert good post-movie restaurant here].

Option 3: Meet at Coldstone for ice cream at 5:45 (who says we can't just eat dessert for dinner?) and see the 6:30 movie.

Option 4: Meet at Jimmy Johns at 5:45 for a not-so-gourmet but still delicious and conveniently faster dinner then go see the 6:30 movie.

What I'm trying to say is...I don't think we'll have time for dinner at TR and still make the movie if we meet at our normal time around 6, and I'm tossing a bunch of ideas out there because I'm not sure when hubbies or babysitters will be available to watch the littles and we might need to fly by the seat of our pants this month and switch it up a little bit. =)  Let me know what works for you, and we'll nail down a plan in the next 24 hours.

Heads-Up: movie tickets are going to cost your first born child's college education, so plan accordingly. $9.50 unless you have an old college ID laying around or you have a grey wig and can get in as a senior. =)

Also...bring some book recommendations for May and June!  We'll pick our next two books Wednesday night!

All this willy-nilly planning for this month is going to give me a stomach ulcer.  I promise next month we'll have a solid plan long before the week of Book Club.  My sanity depends on it.

Shout out to *Pam* who will be spending next week in Florida!  Am I the only one wondering why she didn't invite the Book Club ladies to join her?!?! =)

Hope you all had a Happy Easter!

April Book Club!

Hi Ladies!

I'm so sorry its taken me so long to pull together a plan for April...I've been scrambling to get my house up on the market, to throw my baby boy a birthday party, and to find a venue for our April Book Club.

I'm happy to report all have come to pass, and we have a plan for April!

 (image found at amazon.com)

We're reading Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, and we're going to combine our April Book Club with a showing of Water for Elephants!  Wahoo!  You can thank Trudy for that genius idea!

If you aren't excited about the movie, check this out....and get excited!

If you haven't started the book yet, fear not!  It is a quick read once you get started from what I remember- and the book itself isn't too long. =)

On April 27, we'll meet for an early dinner out at Twisted Rooster, where we'll eat, drink, and merrily discuss Same Kind of Different as Me,  then we'll head over to the theater to catch the show.

I'll be back with details regarding times in a week when they have the showtime schedule posted since the movie doesn't open until April 22. ...I picked Twisted Rooster because its near the theater, and I'm currently obsessed with their fish and chips- but if you've got a hankerin' for something else close to Celebration,  give a shout out in the comments and we'll hit it up instead!