Green Room - Week 8 - Day 1

[clauderainsrm]

 If there is one lesson from this mini season (so far), it's that "sometimes life happens" and we need to make the best of it. 

It's not disappointing to anyone else. Or, if it is, clearly they need to reassess their own priorities.  ;) 

It can still be a bummer... suck... be annoying if you are the one directly experiencing it. Or were just hoping for more.  I certainly know that people were hoping for more out of ME this time around. I definitely was.  But I hope that what you are getting is still enjoyable. 

That's kind of like every other aspect of life. There are a lot of things completely out of your control.... there are one or two things that are, as difficult as it is to believe, out of MY control.... (for now).  But we find a way to make the best of it. 

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Last night's results are up https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1115656.html
and so is the new prompt https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1115986.html

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What are YOU doing to help yourself get by these days? 

Comments

[adoptedwriter]

Gary,
I know your job situation is chaos on an “easy” day right now. No judgement from me. Life happens. Shit happens. Good things happen. It’s out of our control and like the last prompt and as you say, we do what we can with what we have when and where. Idol has always been enjoyable and part of my self-care (even when we were surviving on an island! Ha!)

[alycewilson]

I agree with this post, and I know why you posted it. The contestant who worried about disappointing people is not only a former teammate but has become a friend. She is the sweetest person in the world and often comes up with thoughtful, creative pieces that surprise and delight me. But as I told her, everybody has off weeks, and I never see anyone, as a writer, as reduced to their worst week. I think that's what I like about this season. Too often, I'll have a strong season and then, due to a weak idea, which I typically agree with the voters is not my best work, I get eliminated. This time, I have a choice in how I go out. If I don't have the time to write, I can just take a strike, or I can do what I've been trying to do, and do my best, in that moment, every week. Then, it will take three weeks of less-than-stellar writing -- or three weeks of writing that's less stellar than my competition -- to be eliminated. It's hard to say at this point, because it always sucks to be eliminated, but I imagine when it happens, it will feel a little bit more fair than it has sometimes seemed in the past. Just because I'll know it's the consequence of a downward trend, and that it's my time.

[gunwithoutmusic]

I'll be honest, I'm having a tough time getting by these days. There's nothing dire going on, but work has been extremely chaotic for the last month or so (and will not let up until AT LEAST July), and home life has been stressful, as well, as we rapidly approach the six-month mark of my father-in-law living with us.

The thing is that he's not impossible to live with or anything, and he (for the most part) minds his own business and stuff, but I just don't get any alone time and I feel like my house is not my own, like that feeling of having company over and not knowing what to do with yourself because you can't just relax like you do when you're home alone, but just always. It's hard when you can't point to any particular behavior and have to just say, "Your existence stresses me out!" because it seems unreasonable.

[dadi]

I am grateful that Idol is continuing, and that there are no twists and turns so far :)
And very probably I have just jinxed myself ;)

[roina_arwen]

Hubby and I had a nice vacation, but alas we both got Covid along with it (fortunately neither of us tested positive until we got home - we both had negative tests on 5/12, positive for me on the 14th and for him today.) He’s been sicker than I have - like the flu; mine is more a cough and bad cold symptoms, but getting better.

On the plus side, I’m able to work from home this week, and just using some sick leave here and there depending on how I’m feeling.

This is one of those weird topics that I've finally located my “in” on, so it’s just a matter of seeing how it pans out. I agree with the other comments that I like the 3 Strikes format and am definitely having fun with Idol this season. Thank you for continuing to do all you do, Gary! We appreciate you!

[mollywheezy]

This is my first time in LJ Idol, and it has been a very good experience so far, especially making new friends and receiving so many thoughtful comments. Dadi talked me into participating, which was a big step for me, since it's the first time I've made real life writing public. I have been finding it helpful in dealing with my grief over my dad's death, even though my husband often finds me staring at my Chromebook crying. Thankfully after almost 26 years of marriage, he's used to me. ;)

[aggienaut]

This week's prompt is... a song lyric? Google search only brought me a link to something on spotify?

Also I feel strongly it should be ""You are >s>an a opossum living in the trashcan of my heart" since the o is silent.

[erulissedances]

I'm not doing anything special - I work out either on the treadmill or in the swimming pool six days a week, I meditate first thing in the morning every day, and I work - hard - at a variety of things since I own my own business and my success depends on my efforts. Same old/same old - LOL.

I'm a newbie - never participated before. I was talked into it by Bloedeswan (not sure if I spelled it right - sorry!), and I'm really happy I dove in. I'm enjoying the three-strikes format but more than that, I love writing to a challenge. The problem I have is producing quality work each time because sometimes the words sing, other times it's dragging them backwards through a comb. Still, it's a lot of fun and I'm here for as long as I can manage it.

- Erulisse (one L)