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OMG … at last … David and I made it home, safe and sound, and after far too many headaches things seem to be back to normal with the site. To be honest, I don’t even have the strength to recount all the horrors that we went thru over the past couple of days … as if our travel nightmare wasn’t bad enough, the technical difficulties with the site almost did me in. Without over-exaggerating at all, the entire site was almost lost … but, thankfully, David managed to sort everything out and get the site back in working order. I cannot even tell you what I would do without out him. He is my hero and I love him so much.

As things begin to level-off and settle back into normalcy, I am trying to get back into my regular routine. I was happy to find this little surprise in the mail today:

This small Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Legos set may not look like much but its arrival cheered me up a bit and has brightened my day a bit. Jake Gyllenhaal looks really cute as a little Lego man … how could I not be cheered up.

As happy as I am that things are normalizing for me, I still have much sadness back home to contend with. A very good friend of mine lost his father suddenly and without warning due to a heart attack. His family and all of my friends back home are still reeling from the loss. As a result, I will be flying back home to Detroit this coming weekend to attend a memorial event with my friends and loved ones. This death has really affected me and it’s hard to focus on fun and frivolity when my dear friends are suffering but I’m trying to just stay on track, do what I do and soldier on.

I have to say it again, THANK YOU all so much for your ceaseless messages of support. Your kind messages and well-wishes have been so helpful … you have no idea. I’m sending all my love to y’all today … and always. From the bottom of my heart, love to you ALL!!

I’m not sure how I missed this last week but Pink reader Jay pointed me in the direction of a cute People magazine snippet about Jake Gyllenhaal and his new action/adventure film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It turns out that the folks at Lego will be releasing little dudes in conjunction with the film’s release … here is what Jakey poo will look like as Prince Dastan as a Lego character:

Dozens of celebrities have been immortalized with wax replicas at Madame Tussauds, but how many people can boast a Lego miniature action figure? Well, Jake Gyllenhaal for one. In honor of Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Lego is releasing a set – including a mini-Jake figurine! – next year. The film will hit theaters May 28, 2010.

OMG … this is cute as hell. Little Lego Jake is about as cute as real life fleshy Jake is hot. This is absolutely a must own for me. Now that Reese Witherspoon has got her meat hooks into real Jake, I guess the rest of us will have to content ourselves with little Lego Jake … just make sure y’all play nice with him, tho … no naughty biz, ya hear?

[Source, thanks Jay]

President-elect Barack Obama is mere hours away from being sworn in as our nation’s 44th President and while we count down the hours (nay, minutes) until he takes the oath of office, let’s take a gander at a new exhibit on display at Legoland in San Diego, CA that depicts the Obama Inauguration comprised entirely of Lego bricks:

Lego master craftsmen have been putting the finishing touches to a model White House, motorcade, and even queues to the porta-loos, as excitement surrounding the upcoming 56th inauguration of a US president reaches fever pitch. Obama will be sworn in as the 44th American president and first African-American president in Washington on Tuesday. But those who simply cannot wait can already see what the theme park describes as a “pre-enactment”. Visitors to the California attraction can see Mr Obama and his whole family constructed out of the multi-coloured Danish bricks. Crowds of mini Lego people surround the construction, with onlookers including outgoing George W. Bush and Hillary and Bill Clinton. Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia are also depicted, standing proudly behind the president-elect as he takes the presidential oath of office on the steps of the Capitol. More than one thousand mini figures have been created out of thousands of Lego bricks. Other mini-figures depicting ceremony participants include Oprah Winfrey and Aretha Franklin. Legoland is the latest attraction trying to capitalise on the enthusiasm surrounding the event.

Amazing! It’s almost as impressive as the real thing, which will take place in just a few short hours from now. I understand the real Inauguration will reportedly come with a price tag upwards of $100+ million … I don’t think that this Legoland exhibit cost that much to create. Click HERE to see an entire gallery of photos of all the different scenes depicted in this fairly elaborate Lego display.

There is a lot of exciting political stuff going on today and I deffo plan to take a short break from blogging so that I can watch some of the history being made today. I, like most of the country, am very much looking forward to pausing for a short while today to watch as Barack Obama gets sworn in as our new president. It won’t be long now.

[Source, thanks Michele]

Lego Building Blocks is celebrating the 30th anniversary of their minifigures this year and in celebration, Lego has come up with a few cute little celebrity incarnations of their famous little Lego people. Normally yellow, these celebrity Lego people are flesh-toned and, in my estimation, are pretty damn good representations of the celebrities they portray … here are the Lego versions of Vicki B. & David Beckham, Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and the twins Vivienne Marcheline & Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt:

Lego, the Danish plastic toy firm is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the minifigure. It has launched a website with videos and photos and is encouraging enthusiasts to enter a movie making contest to show their own interpretation of the minifigures’ adventures. The minifigure started off in 1978 as a largely featureless yellow figure but has since evolved to include realistic characteristics including skin colour and facial hair. The plastics toy firm has also produced ‘famous’ minifigure versions of characters from the big screen such as Spiderman, Darth Vader and Indiana Jones. Last month Lego announced that its half year profits have more than doubled, partly due to the success of its classic and movie/celebrity contracts.

I’m a BIG Legos fan from way back in the day. Nothing would give me more pleasure than building a model out of Legos and then smashing that model onto the tiled floor of our basement so that it would break into hundreds of pieces. Unfortch, I would smash the models so hard that some of the Lego blocks would break and my mom stopped buying them for me … but it was fun while it lasted. I think it’s awesome that Legos is having this much fun with the 30th anniversary of their minifigures. I know there are some Lego fans out there who prolly appreciate this as well, yes? So cute! My fave is the Becks one ;)

[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]

These pics are way too cool to not post … the Hong Kong Lego User Group decided to pay homage to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China by creating a model of the Olympic Stadium (the Bird’s Nest), the Aquatics Center (the Water Cube) and the Olympic Village using about 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 Lego people characters … check out their stunning creation:

As if their creations weren’t impressive enough, all of the model recreations were fashioned in under 100 hours. Now, I dunno how many folks worked on these models but it strikes me as pretty astounding that such a feat could be put together so quickly. Head on over to the HKLUG‘s official website to check out some more of their amazing work.

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