Well it’s been quite a week at BL!! I just got back from visiting my daughter and her family in Atlanta last weekend, but when I got home Tuesday, I hit the ground running!! Lots and lots of meetings with the staff…a 6 hour photo shoot on Thursday and then our first ever BL book club meeting on Thursday night. Friday night I came and took Kelly’s line dancing which was a blast and Saturday morning I sweat alongside 40 other bodies in Tanci’s awesome Turn Up class. And, as of this moment, I’m sitting in my office writing my antics, working the November schedule, sending out subbing reminders, all while running and taping 2 workshops. So much good stuff happening at BL!!
But, the one thing from this busy week that I wanted to take a moment to chat more with you about is our BL book club. We are calling it Body n’ Books! It was definitely one of the highs of my jam-packed week!! We have tossed around the idea of doing something like this in the past and many students have brought up the idea, but two of our students recently presented their vision and we decided to run with it!! I used to be an avid reader and absolutely love reading but just hadn’t made time in my schedule lately to sit down and read. There always seemed to be something else more pressing on my to do list. So for me, having a date that we were going to meet and discuss the book, was the motivation I needed to pick up reading again. I preach a lot about balance in our lives and I know that personally I tend to run hard and cram my schedule full of lots of good stuff but rarely just take time to chill. So adding time to read these books has turned out to be a much needed nudge for me to slow down and enjoy some me time.
The next book we are reading is called The Runaway Wife by Dee MacDonald and the next Book Club get together is Thursday, December 2nd But, I have to tell you a quick funny story about this book. I rarely order anything on Amazon. My husband Dave and my daughter Brie are both on the same Amazon account and do all the ordering. So when Brie saw that a book was purchased called The Runway Wife, she assumed that my husband had ordered it to get some advice on dealing with his wife who is never home and always running away!! Ha!! I thought that was hilarious. But in fact, I just started the book and chapter 1 IS actually about a woman about my age contemplating running away from her life to “find herself.” The description on the back of the book reads…”So Connie packs a bag, gets in her little green car and drives off…” Ok, so first of all Dave and family…no worries…I’m not going anywhere, but I think that the subject matter will make for some very interesting girl chatter and I look forward to finishing the book. I also look forward to meeting with everyone who decides to read it as well to discuss. I love the idea of this Book Club being a community within a community. I look forward to creating other little communities within our BL space as it provides us such an awesome opportunity to connect with one another at such a different level.
So…here’s the deets…
Read the book
Sign up for the book club ($5)
Show up between 630-7 pm on Thursday, December 2nd for social time
Book Club discussion is from 7-8 pm in the fitness room
BYOB
Cheese & Crackers provided
There you go…now just Ready, Set…READ!!
Hope to see you there!!
Andrea
