When I first saw the preview for this movie, I really didn’t think I wanted to see it. I thought, maybe I’ll rent it. There has been a buzz about this movie in the mist of females and so along with Carla and Ashley (and it wasn’t even a Sunday!) I went and saw 13 Going On 30. It was such a cute movie. Ive tired so hard to get myself away from chick flicks, but come on, some are just great. Does help a lot that there was a cute boy who’s the sweetest thing and takes photos for a living! (In the movie of course. And as Brandon reminded me, movie is the key word.)

Did the movie make me want someone? Of course it did, what chick flick doesn’t? I didn’t want just anyone, she got to be *spoiler if you haven’t seen the movie and want to* with her childhood sweetheart. I thought about my highschool sweetheart when walking out of the movies (besides Mark Ruffalo…the cute guy in the movie) wondering if I hadn’t broken up with him where we’d be now. I wasn’t sad thinking about it, regretting anything I did, I just wondered. That’s how I compare my personal life to the movie. Now, I don’t mean I wish my life would be like the movie, I know that’s not healthy at all. I just always want to try and apply something. I did, and it was just memories of old friends, old loves, and old dreams.

As much as Jennifer Garner has some man qualities (come on, when she discovers she has boobs, that is this just strange) she did a very great job being at 13 year old in a 30 year old body. Took me back to my Jr High days. I didn’t have a guy for a best friend, but there was a guy I had a crush on for all of Jr High. Mike Jankowiak. That some last name for someone who cant spell to learn how to spell, let me tell you. But I probably will forever remember that kids last night. I haven’t talked to him in ages ether… last I talked to him was a phone call from Germany I think last he was in the Army. Anyways, the movie… I wasn’t a teenager in the 80s but I did live through them. The soundtrack to the movie is all very familiar from my childhood. I remember seeing my older friends dressing just like they did in the movies. I even remember wearing some of the things they did (I’m proud to say though I have never worn blue eye shadow). I didn’t see any slap on wrist bands though, where were those in the movie? I was in two different parts of my life watching the movie. The part of the 80s I remember (I was under the age of 10 in the 80s) and my Jr High days. Popular or biggest geek in the school, we all felt the same things in Jr High, just in different degrees.

“My high school dreams are gone
My childhood sweets are gone
Life is a day that doesn’t last for long.”
~Jon Foreman, Gone