Audra Jennings

Yesterday, for Paige's birthday, we went to the movie that she has been waiting for since before Pixar even knew they were going to make it. ;) Monsters University As Paige calls it, "the prequel to my favorite movie ever!" I'm to blame. I've blogged about that before .  Ever wonder how Mike and Sully became best friends? How does one train to become a master scarer? Well, that's what the story was about. I really enjoyed it, but like Paige said, you can't really compare it to the first one because it's just different. It's true.  I loved little Mike so very much. Sully was kind of a jerk though. You need to go see. You just need to go see it. However, I will say that some of the previews/teases I saw beforehand weren't actually in the movie. 

Happy birthday to my favorite 12 year old in the whole wide world! Thank you Paigey for letting Peyton and I go with you to "the prequel of my favorite move of all time!" It would have been nice if the ID cards had been turned the right way so that you could get your picture made in them the right way. Even though I told Paige I wasn't going to get her gift until we went on vacation so that she could pick something out, after seeing the movie I ordered her a little something. Because she is a nut case. I told her I was going to get her one if I found one.... Archie the Scare Pig. It's the one part of the movie that scared me. At first, I thought he was a goat. I'm still not so sure he isn't part goat. Don't you want an Archie the Scare Pig?

When Paige was about a year and a half old, I moved back in with my parents for about 6 months. At the time, I lived in a 'hood. Every time my friend Sammy came over to my house, the cops would be making a visit when he left. He used to tell me, "I used to live in the 'hood, so I can tell you you're living in it." One night, I came home to find the police looking for gun shells in my front yard. The final straw came when my presumably drugged out neighbor came over one night to tell me that her side of the duplex had been broken into during broad daylight (on Halloween). Whatever the circumstances may have actually been, I decided that was enough. All that really doesn't have anything to with the point of my story other than to explain why I was living with my parents. I felt a need to justify that since I was in my mid-twenties at the time. Anyway, during that time, little Paigey was over at my parents quite a bit while her mom was in night school class...