I’ve mentioned this before, but in case you’re new and/or don’t have all my personal details memorized: my parents are in the processing of moving to NC, and are cleaning out their MD home to sell. This means digging through 20+ years of detritus, including the absolutely horrifying trash heap that is my childhood bedroom. Part of this is...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Digs Up Vintage Figment Merch
What is it with my parents and hiding amazing vintage Walt Disney World souvenir banks from me?! Back in the end of May there was a pretty serious series of rainstorms in my area, which brought flooding with it. My parents, in their place in NC at the time, were concerned about the state of the basement in their...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Shops At Disney Springs & Tries Blaze Pizza
Since I spent most of this WDW trip in a conference, I won’t be doing a traditional trip report, but I definitely still have a lot of stuff to tell you about that will be loosely collected under the July 2018 trip keyword. Read on! When formulating my plan for a conference trip to WDW, I knew I wanted to...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Earns Her Minnie Ears
Since I spent most of this WDW trip in a conference, I won’t be doing a traditional trip report, but I definitely still have a lot of stuff to tell you about that will be loosely collected under the July 2018 trip keyword. Read on! I don’t usually put post-WDW trip haul posts – not because I don’t think...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Gets By With A Little Help From Her WDW Friends
From the moment I laid eyes on it, I knew the limited edition Epcot Food & Wine Festival ears needed to be mine. Only one problem: I’m not going to the festival this year. No problem, though! Lately Disney’s been putting 95% of parks merchandise on the Shop Disney Parks app. There isn’t much that can’t be had through the...
Continue readingIn Which There Was Blood On The Saddle
So there I am, minding my own business at my parents’ house. Am I there because in the morning my dad is going to drive me to the airport so I can go to Walt Disney World? I don’t remember. Probably. Statistically likely. Anyway, I come out of the bathroom next to the computer room and: there it is....
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Gets An AMAZING Disney Present
Hey, how’s your memory? Because I need you to remember some stuff. Specifically: Remember when Pat got me the BEST running present EVER? Remember when I traipsed around Walt Disney World on an increasingly mad and maddening search for a Mr. Toad baseball cap that ultimately proved fruitless and I was super bummed about it? WELL. Strap in, kids,...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Shows Off Her Disney Mug Collection
I’ve seen quite a few posts out there about Disney mug collections. I do not have nearly as vast or as varied a cabinet as many, but I’m taking a shot anyway. Prepare for a trip down memory lane, bottoming out in a mid-2000s Disney Store. In my college and grad school years I worked at a Medieval Times...
Continue readingPhotographic Memory: The Inappropriate Puppets of Dinoland U.S.A.
JENN: Photographic Memory time! Did you see the pics I want to use? MOON: Ah, yes. The dinosaur puppets! JENN: Here we have Moon helpfully modeling dinosaur puppets from the big gift shop in Dinoland U.S.A. – I believe it’s called Chester and Hester’s Souvenirs of Extinction or something like that? These pictures are from December 2008, so the details for me are...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn is a Poor Disney Archivist
What you are about to see may hurt you a little. You may feel betrayed. You may wonder how I could possibly let this happen. I DIDN’T KNOW, OKAY? I DIDN’T KNOW. It was the last time my family went to Walt Disney World, 1998. I was a mere twelve years of age. Disney’s Animal Kingdom had yet to...
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