Titanic – Book Journey

Good morning and HAPPY THURSDAY!!!! (Yes, I have had coffee, why do you ask?)

There is a big event coming up that I have yet to really talk about here but have wanted to. It is the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, April 15, 1912.

Remember when they came out with the movie with Leonardo and Kate? Well I have a story…

Sheila, don’t you have a story for EVERYTHING?

No… No I don’t for instance… I have no stories about frogs. Oh… wait, that’s not true… I do, and it’s a sad one…

Ok…. ummmm…. Unicorns! I have no stories about unicorns. 😛 See? Not everything has a story…

BUT – this one does.

So it’s 1997, I think. I am working at Wal-Mart (yes, yes,…. I was that cool!) and my friends were talking about going to the movie Titanic. AND no way was I going to see a movie about a ship that sank a long time ago. And I am pretty sure I said so in so many words.

NOPE. Not gonna happen.

But, as seems to happen to me often, the chatter, the discussion around the movie, the excitement, peaked my interest and I went with Hubby one night and …

LOVED IT. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Seriously, from the moment she is being lowered off the ship in the life boat and jumps back on the ship, I had to go to the bathroom sooooooo bad but refused to miss a moment. (I may have injured my bladder during that movie, just saying!) AND I had cried so much I actually left the theater with a headache.

I went on to see the movie another 5 times in the theater. And yes I know, it is over 3 hours long and yes, I know I probably should not tell people how many times I went to it. But, its out there now, and I know that over 18 hours of my life in the 90’s was spent in a small town movie theater watching Titanic. 😯 I kept going, because I became an evangelist for the movie (oh you know the type….. talking it up, persuading you to go, offering to go with you even….) I brought people to the theater. I sat with groups as small as 3, and as large as 12 (*waves to co-workers and assistant manager who said she would NEVER waste her time on the movie… and then did. With me. :razz:)

At that point I became obsessed with knowing more about Titanic. I read books (don’t, be shocked… occasionally I do read), I watched movies, and I found my way a few years later to the Titanic exhibit when it was in Florida – which was amazing and heartbreaking all together.

Now that you have the back story – here is modern day, today in fact…. now in fact… and here is what is happening that I know about.

My friend Reagan (if you have not met her you must, she is a hoot), is having a challenge:

Stop over and check it out. It’s completely doable and you may learn something about Titanic in the process.

AND

Kelly At The Written Word and I have been conversing about her upcoming Titanic week and we are working out a thing… details to come, but in the meantime here is the link to what she has going on:

Titanic 3D hits the theaters tomorrow, April 6th. I am not excited about the 3D part… in fact, I think that might just irritate me a bit just because of the subject matter and while it is a fictitious movie, it is based on actual events. However, after watching the trailer this morning and tearing up… I will be going to see Titanic in the theater again because it still affects me so much I am surprised. I guess I could then count that as 7 times I seen it in the theater….