Up Inside the Cyclone: January

 Well, looks like I am starting the year off as usual.... late. 

Before we get to the craziness that happened this month lets talk about the movie that I watched in coordination with this month. The Illusionist. 

 

This movie is about a young man who finds he joy in life by performing magic. However, in the process he finds that love of his life. She is a duchess, and is not of such a high rank. They meet as children and then are separated. When he finds success in his career his love comes back to him. However, she can't be his love for long for she is engaged. the man she is to wed is a bitter and angry man that wants to rule with an iron fist. In a plot to get her away from him things go sideways. This leads to death, arrests, murder, and a whole slue of other things. Does is all seem as it appears though?

I have to say that I am not an Edward Norton fan. The only thing that I have liked him in was Birdman but that's it. So, finding out he is the star of this movie I wasn't expecting to enjoy it much. However, there is always a saving grace. The co-star of this film is Paul Giamatti. I always remember him most from Big Fat Liar. but everything I have ever seen him in has been wonderful. He made the movie. He made joyous to watch, and interesting to watch, and rally make it feel like it was on the edge of the seat. When Mr. Norton's acting fails to get you involved the movie Mr. Giamatti makes Mr. Norton more intriguing. The plot twist at the end is not the biggest and most impressive twist in movie history but it's really a enjoyable movie to watch. 

Now for my Plot Twists

Nikki Day was my first.. twister I guess you can call it. She is the one that wanted to do this and she wanted to go first. She got what she wanted! There are two people that I am really scared of having control of my life for a little bit. She was one of them, but it ended up not being nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be.

The first one on her list started off like this...

When I went to look online of where this was it made no sense. I knew the area, Nikki and I have gone to this little shopping center before, but The added was to an empty store.... I thought she was going to have me murdered!

Here is what happened.

I didn't get any picture of us painting said pottery, but this was the end result a week later after everything was glazed and what not.

Plot twist two was revealed after this picture was taken! 

Nikki wanted me to make a vision board. I have never really been big into these. Nothing wrong with them but not really my thing. Nikki gave me everything I needed to make one and I did. 

Nikki has not seen it in person yet. However, she will soon.

The last one....... Nikki got a little bit of help from the other person that scares.. Jeannie! Jeannie is someone you should be scared of when you are giving them control. Nikki came over for a game night that we had planned at the end of the month. When had people come in from all over the state of Tennessee to come to game night. It was so much fun! We had kids running around and grown up dying a laughter. We had good food and played the best board game ever, Chameleon! However, Nikki used this opportunity to cash in her last twist. I had to do the Cupid Shuffle in front of everyone. Thankfully, not by myself, but I had to. 

Please note I am not a dancer.... be kind when judging!

As you can see we had a lot of fun! 

So, thank you Nikki for keeping life interesting for a month!