2021 and the Projects to Come

 Happy New Year!

I am very excited that it is the new year, and I am sure that most every one else is too. I know that I am one of the rare people that is a little sad to see 2020 go, it was not a terrible year for me, but I am excited for this year because of all the wonderful things I have planned. 

I will still be doing the on going projects that I don't really have a set way of getting through quickly. Those would be The List, Tom Hanks Hustle, No Place Like Movies at Home, and the Best Picture Challenge. However, most of those are when the next one is available. So, those will not be taking up all of my time. However, this year I am doing three new challenges. I am very excited to be doing them because one of them is something I have wanted to do for a very very long time. 

The first one is going to be about Friends. In sticking with my whole Wizard of Theme, as I have done with most of my projects, this one is called "You're the Best Friends Anybody Ever Had". This theme is inspired by Toto. The Loyal Best Friend of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. I have been working for the last six months on how I am going to pull all of this off. I have researched, and I have driven myself mad trying to get this project to come together. So, here is how... kinda. A few months back I asked my 8 Best Friends for a list of the 12 traits they looks for in a best friend. I took all of the lists and combined them into a great big list of the 12 most requested traits. I have assigned each trait to a month and I will be sending them gift that represent these words to them through the whole year. The other thing I have done is picked a picture out with them and put it on a puzzle that has 12 pieces and I will be sending them a piece every month and they will have the full puzzle at the end of the year. They don't know that yet, that is unless they read my blog. I have already sent them a letter kind of explaining what they will expect. Also, when I update about the month I am doing I will pick one of them and wright about who they are and how much I love them! I also had each of them pick out their favorite movies about friendships. So, I am going to watch those movies and I picked out 4 myself that I love that I am going to write about too! 

The second project is going to be Family. Looking In My Own Backyard. I picked this cause it comes from the quote in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy find she can get home with the Ruby Slippers. She says "if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard". I picked that quote cause the whole movies is about finding out what is really important and where you will find it. It telling everyone that family is more important that anything in the world. So, I am looking in my "backyard" as a family tree and finding out who came before me. The theme is courtesy of Auntie Em and Uncle Henry. I have wanted to research my family tree for a number of years and this year I am finally going to do it. I really wanted to be go on Ancestry and take a DNA test and just dive in. I am really excited because my Grandma as sent some of the stuff to my mom and Dad has a wealth of Knowledge on his side. So, I picked out 12 movies about families that I am going to watch and I am going to write about the interesting people I come across in my family tree.

The third project of the year is a plot twist theme and it will be called "Up Inside the Cyclone". Where is there a plot twist in The Wizard of Oz? Well, it's the cyclone. Now I know that not really a plot twist but it was for Dorothy and her family. It totally through her world into a tail spin for a little while then. So, the question then becomes how to plan for a plot twist for yourself? Here is how. The same 8 wonderful people that I am doing by Best Friend Project for I picked to help me with this. What I am doing is assigning them each a month were they get to pick 3 things to make me do. However, I don't get to know what they are going to make me do and I don't know what days of the month they are going to do it on. So, all I am going to going to be watching a movie that has a plot twist in it and wait for the torment to begin. However there are 4 months were no one is assigned. So, I ended up doing is telling all of them that they get a bonus day or one of the other month. So, four months two people get one day. I will be documenting this either by pictures or by video. 

I have to say I am very interested in seeing how this year turns out and I am excited to see what's to come. I already know it's going to be a great year!