Jen Gems: Robin Hood Marries The Princess Bride, "Get Help," & Rainbow Llama Balloons!

Raise your hand if you never thought the best commercial ever would come from WALMART, of all places.

::slowly raises hand::

If you don't believe me (about the best commercial part, I mean), just watch this:

I'm also loving how they clearly paid top-dollar to have some genius film production place make this, then uploaded it to Youtube with the most understated title of all time: "Grocery Pickup - Famous Cars." Like whoever uploaded this had no idea what was happening, and so had to ask Kate, the office's resident geek, who spent 10 minutes excitedly explaining every single reference, but she overwhelmed the poor guy so badly that his only take-away was "famous cars." Boom. There 'tis.

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I'm sure I've mentioned Riker Creatures here before, but her latest creation is especially squee-worthy:

Snuggle mode, ACTIVATE.

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It's been ages since I featured a good geek wedding, so please tell me you've seen the marriage of Robin Hood & the Princess Bride (PUN INTENDED) over on Offbeat Bride. Somehow Kaitlyn & Blaise managed to be magical, elegant, and drop-dead hilarious all at the same time, so I am in awe.

::swoon::

Every wedding should have a kick line.

 Lanterns instead of flowers! And they're all wearing elf ears! I hope they came down the aisle singing like in LoTR. Hit the link up there to see the rest; so many pretties! And from the photos I'm pretty sure the bride & groom did the dance from the movie, yesss.

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Over on the RPF's Facebook page, group member Zachariah convinced Tom Hiddleston to do "Get Help," and IT IS GLORIOUS:

I love it when celebs play along. Also now I need to watch Thor: Ragnorak for the 10th or 11th time.

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If you're like me and STILL haven't gotten a new wall calendar for 2019, I just noticed ThinkGeek has a few left at 75% off, including this beauty:

This Week In Pics: Singing Celestina, Failing Diets, & Buh-Bye, Gingerbread House

This year I thought I'd go back (way, way back) to posting some fun(?) life updates with all my favorite phone photos from the week. Mostly because I'm too disorganized to fit all this stuff in separate posts. ::shameless grin::

Starting with the highlight: I got to see my favorite show at Universal three more times!

 Celestina Warbeck and the Bashees put on "Nothing Like A Holiday Spell" for Christmas, and I am obnoxiously in love with it. (Here's my favorite song.)

The crowds were intense - even worse than the week between Christmas and New Year's! - but I gotta say, all the extra people made watching the show more fun. So much hooting and hollering and singing along - you could tell the performers were eating it up.

 

 Check out the "snow" in all these sunbeams, so pretty:

 And one more beauty shot from around Diagon Alley:

I've been playing with a new photo app called Pixaloop, check this out: