Book the 19th: Flipped

Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen, is a quick, fun read. Here's the cover blurb:

The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran.

And from the second grade to the seventh, that's how it was. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort."

But in the eighth grade, their views of the world -- and each other -- turn upside down. Hey says: "I'd spent so many years avoiding Juli Baker that I'd never really looked at her, but now I couldn't stop." And she says: "I felt a cold, hard knot tighten in my heart. I was through with Bryce Loski."

Is there hope for happiness in junior high?

Have you flipped?

I mention this book specifically (when I've not mentioned a lot of the other books on my 30 Books in 09 list) is because it's being made into a movie. And the movie is being filmed here in my area.

The movie, directed by Rob Reiner (how COOL is that!?), is being set in the late 50s and early 60s.

And who owns a 1961 Chevy Impala?

S, that's who.

And guess who gets to take his 1961 Chevy Impala to the set on Monday and Tuesday so it can be one of the "extras"?

S, that's who.

And guess who is taking some time off work to go watch a movie being made?

Me.

That's who.

My Busy Weekend

It's 2 p.m. on Monday and I am still exhausted from this past weekend.

Day by day, in bullets:

Friday, June 19, A Father's Day Celebration:

• 8:30 - out the door to spend the day with my parents
• 9:00 - arrive at Mom & Dad's. Eat yummy mom-fixed breakfast.
• 9:30 - head out to the Boyscout Rummage Sale
• 10:15 - spend money on lovely goodies (there is a Thrifty Thursday post in my future)
• 10:30 - break from thrift shopping for Dad's chiro appointment.
• 10:45 - back on the road to find yard/garage sales
• 11:30 - Church rummage sale!
• 11:50 - spend some more money (another Thrifty Thursday post - 10 cent Vogue patterns!)
• 12:15 - back to my folks house. Mom needs a nap, Dad got called to fix a friend's mower.
• 12:30 - head out to hit the Boyscout Rummage Sale solo and find more yard sales. (Find yet MORE Thrifty Thursday fodder.)
• 2:30 - find a great yard sale with a vintage blender.
• 3:00 - head to the local A&W for lunch and a free root beer float (yum)
• 3:45 - slip into a food coma and laze about at Mom & Dad's for about an hour.
• 5:00 - head to my brother & sister-in law's house.
• 6:30 - head to the mall to meet my best bud, K.
• 7:45 - leave mall, head towards home but first...
• 8:30 - stop and cover an appointment for S who got called away for a drain emergency.
• 9:10 - walk through front door.

Saturday, June 20, Motor Muster

• 9:00 a.m. - leave for Motor Muster at Greenfield Village. (We took an old car. Pics later. Maybe.)
  
• 10 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. - walk around Greenfield village and look at all the old cars, soak up the sun, and pray for a reduction in humidity.
  
• 8:30 - shopping for Dad's Father's Day present and lunch fixin's for Sunday.
• 10:00 - head to I and R's for a beverage.
• 10:30 - head off to Mom & Dad's. Again.
• 11:40 - head to one of the local elementary schools for my 12 to 1 a.m. Relay For Life walk.
  

Sunday, June 21, Relay for Life and Motor Muster

• 12 to 1 a.m. - Relay for Life walk. (4 miles, baby!)
• 1:50 a.m. - fall into bed, exhausted.
• 8:30 a.m. - wake up, prepare cooler with lunch fixin's, get dressed, hop in car, and...
• 10:15 - arrive at Motor Muster.
• 5:00 - leave Motor Muster.
• 6:00 to 8:00 - nap
• 8:05 to 8:50 - walk dogs
• 9:15 - pour wine
  
• 9:30 - watch "how to bind off" video on youtube so I can start another practice knitting piece.
• 11:00 - go to bed.

I slept so soundly last night that I slept right through my alarm and was a few minutes late for work.

Oops.

V

Do you all remember V from the '80s?

I do. I was 10 when it was released in May of 1983 and it was my first exposure to SciFi (I was a bit too young to partake in the Star Wars craze). I loved it.

It's being remade.



I will be watching it.

Oh, yes.

I will be watching.