Good morning! It’s a gorgeous Fall (yeah, I said the “F” word) morning here and as I sit and sip at my coffee enjoying watching the dogs play I have an underlying buzz that things are about to take off…
and this is going to be fun. 😀
This morning I just posted out to my book club and a group of friends reminding them that this next Thursday is the kick off to our Meryl Streep Movie Club. This is where we have decided to (those who want to anyway) to watch a Meryl Streep movie a month – randomly picked and our first one will be The Deer Hunter. This movie was Meryl’s second movie released in 1978 and the trailer is super cheesy but I bet our gathering is fun. I am going to open this up as an online club as well so those who wish to follow along and join in the discussion that I will post monthly may do so. I will probably put that post up tomorrow afternoon….
Last night I stayed up late and emailed everyone who has signed up to participate in the Banned Book Week event I am hosting here and I assigned everyone their post dates and confirmed what they are doing. This is going to be a lot of fun – there are over 50 blogs signed up to participate with banned book posts, giveaways, etc… it’s not to late to sign up if you want to join in the fun.
As I am enjoying a quiet morning I know that soon I need to continue working on the book room, clean off my deck in anticipation for next weekends family gathering here, finish laundry, start cleaning up the garage, run to town for a few things I need to pick up, mail out some invites this afternoon, and maybe – maybe take a little bike ride.
Tomorrow I run in the Mud run in Bloomington Minnesota and I am a tad apprehensive. I have been so busy lately that I have not done any form of exercise in the last two weeks and this… must change. My goal is to get in 7 hours of work outs a week – some days longer than an hour to have a day or two off but I need to get in some better habits.
Reading wise, I have not picked up a book all week and once again thank goodness for audio. I am sailing along listening to PREP for banned book week, and just picked up The Chocolate War from the library, also for banned book week. Over this weekend I will finish Defending Jacob which has been very good, and Back Seat Saints.
So thats what is happening around here. I am finally going to finish writing my post for this months book club book that rated the all time low in 11 years of the Bookies. That post, will go up today 🙂
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I’m really looking forward to all the exciting events coming up….it will be my first time participating in Banned Books Week. I’m also thrilled to join in another Bloggiesta.
Can’t wait to see your finished book room.
I am so glad you are participating Laurel! It will be a crazy weekend for me with the family thing on Saturday I am not sure how much Bloggiesta I will get in 😉
I’m with you on being thankful for audios right now! I remember when The Deer Hunter was at the theater but didn’t realize Meryl Streep was in it.
I just watched the poor quality trailer this morning…. I think we will have fun and it will be cool to see Meryl is such an earlier role.
I have a vague memory of seeing The Deer Hunter, but I honestly don’t remember who was in it or what it was about.
Hope you have fun in the Mud Run!
Thanks Beth – I do too. Todays weather isn’t too bad, I hope tomorrow is the same. The last mud run we did was really warm but cold mud does not appeal to me 😉
I have to get out my Meryl Street Movie Club ARC and start reading…
YES! That book totally inspired me. I had not realized how many movies she had been in.
I love that you are doing a Meryl Streep Movie Club and I’d love to participate online – but The Deer Hunter??? whoa! You know that’s a pretty violent movie, right?
I did not know that – but if we are going to do them all… *sigh* this one is included. I think we may more chat during this one than watch…. 😉
I didn’t mean that to discourage you from the movie, but maybe as a gentle warning! And it has been a long time since I’ve seen it, so maybe it won’t be as violent as some of the things we see today. Anyway, I’m going to jump in with ya’ll and take the plunge to watch it! 🙂 Sounds like fun and I do love some of her other movies!
Nah we are watching it because it is on the list… its just a bummer we are starting with such a heavy one… oh well, we will be able to chalk it off the list 😀
7 hours??!!?? o.O
LOL… I had to read my post again to see what I was talking about. 😀 7 hours working out isnt bad – today I biked for 2 hours and 40 minutes… tomorrow I do a mud run which will be about 1 1/2 to 2 hours… that’s over 4 hours in for the week… 😀
I just have a hard time imagining ever exercising (regularly, at least) for more than an hour in a day. The events, like the mud run, seem like exceptions to me, but even then, you do them so often, they really aren’t. Wow.
I so wish I was going to be available for Banned Book Week! I’ll have to catch up on everyone’s posts when I get back to the states.
The Meryl Streep Movie Club sounds like tons of fun 🙂 I totally plan on participating in that one.
Glad you will be on for the movie club!
Thanks so much for staying up late and taking the time to organize Banned Book Week!
I’ve been listening to more audios too. I haven’t seen many of Meryl Streep’s early movies. I hope you enjoy them!
Not really; I am recovering from a cold this weekend so I can go to work next week without having to miss any days (I took off Tuesday as I was not feeling well).