Green Room - Week 10 - Day 1

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good morning and welcome back to the game!

Yes, I'll go ahead and confirm the obvious that the new topic will be out later today!

I haven't had a "break" in the game before, so I'm hoping that people convince me that it's a good idea by all coming back!*G*

So how was everyone's extended weekend? How are you planning on getting by this week?*G*

Comments

[heykatie.livejournal.com]

Woo first! :) My first first! YAY!

I didn't get much of an extended weekend, as I had to go in on Friday, but I did leave at 1 PM, so I got two days and four hours off. ;)

I is tired. Is it can be weekend yet?

In other news, after 4 months apart, I get to see my husband in 29 days!!! YAY!

[ahavah]

Congrats on your first-squared!

[ahavah]

Again?

Damn.

Well, I personally really appreciated the break. I mean to write a post, but then I got in a funk for Thanksgiving, then preoccupied with NaNo. I think the moment of non-pressure from at least one direction was just what the doctor ordered.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

It's Monday. Bah.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Monday's are only bad if you have somewhere to be. Me.. I have to be up for someone else, but other than the television schedule changing, the day is mostly the same.

But I remember what Mondays were like... so I have empathy for those who still hate them.

Sorry... can we do anything to help?

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I'm here before work and with only a few comments in? Awesomesauce!

I feel a little guilty about not writing for the "free" week, but I decided since I was so busy and I didn't have to use a bye, I may as well take advantage and skip it. I knew writing about what I was "thankful" over in such a crazy hard year was going to be weird and difficult.

I had a fabulous weekend despite the rain and did take advantage of Friday. I did go into work for appearance sakes, but "sneaked out" at 11:30. Had great adventures.

Anyone else do any trespassing? I did. 'Twas fun.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Where did you trespass?

Mornin'

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

*ahnold-voice*

"I'll be bahck."

---

Yes, I am feeling better. Thank you, everyone for the *hugs* and such.

My weekend was restful, after all. This week will be spent (can we all guess) packing!

14 days and counting until we close on our new house. Then the real fun of moving begins. I will try to talk about something OTHER than that for the next couple of weeks, I promise.

Re: Mornin'

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

I will try to talk about something OTHER than that for the next couple of weeks, I promise.
That's what I said when I had Sigrid, and look what happened hahahahaha

But no, glad you're feeling better :) Good luck packing and closing and all that!

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

Welcome back? You mean people actually left? I've been sitting here waiting for some action, MAN!
Silly Thanksgiving or what have you ;)

It's ... Monday. We've gone grocery shopping, little one is sleeping (and has been for an hour!!!), I'm looking over a translation in Dutch someone else screwed up a little when she did the lay-out and this is the final proof so I'll have to go in, just what I needed, and hope to have the English one done by tomorrow. Busy! Make it an easy topic, in other words ;)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

You mean people actually left? I've been sitting here waiting for some action, MAN!

Ditto!

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I was kinda hoping you'd give us the topic early, since we had the time off and I need a fix missed the game.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same! :)

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Family wasn't too tough to handle, even if I did mess up two out of the seven dishes I was making. Mashed potatoes just aren't my specialty, and the asparagus got overdone because my timing was thrown off by the turkey cooking MUCH faster than I expected.

Still, the turkey that I put in a brine overnight was a hit, despite worries from family who had never had it done that way. The mashed sweet potatoes/yams were a huge hit, and the rest at least got a passable mark. I'm content with that outcome.

I don't know if we'll be hosting Thanksgiving again next year, but if so I'll be ready. I'll have a recipe for mashed potatoes!

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Next year I plan to cook a large dinner (in my new house) for lots of family (who will come to my new house) and I will need a turkey recipe (to cook in my new kitchen).

Will you share?

[kajel.livejournal.com]

My weekend was lovely. We did very little. Spent the evening Thursday with friends, went home, didn't emerge again until Sunday!

My poor Drake (Schnauzer) seems to have an ear infection. He kept me up all night scratching at it....must call vet today.

This week I plan on getting by with as little effort as possible!

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Poor thing.

Your week sounds heavenly!

[thepheenixeyri.livejournal.com]

by going out shopping. :d For Christmas gifts and other things.

The phoenix proke several comp rules last night and had coffee over by her comp. She thought she had her leak proof coffee cup sealed...

But not so much. So now the keyboard on her laptop is "royally fucked."

... Um... :d I actually thought it was going to be worse; when I first fired up the laptop it wasn't doing shit. Wouldn't turn on, wouldn't do *anything*. Needless to say I was not pleased; my nano is on there and I hadn't yet had a chance to back it all up to lj and the hard drive. I did get it to fire later on that day and managed to save the stuff I wanted to. I'm going in today to have the Geek Squad take a look at it among other things. I have a few other questions for them as well, and I'm hoping that it'll be productive. :d

Needless to say I was whigging out just a bit yesterday (not now; on a dexktop which I can't totally use at the moment because it doesn't have a full running version of office 03 and I don't want 07) and I think it showed in a phone convo I was having with someone.

Oh and due to these issues I did *not* get to turn in my word count for nano, so according to the site I am not a winner this year. In other ways, though I feel like I am. I managed to get a substantial amount of words written around a crazy batshit insane November, I reached 30K which was my actual goal for the month, so I'm proud of me.

the Phoenix

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I believe you are a winner if you reach YOUR goal.

And I am proud of you too!

Unofficial Stats

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Would anyone else who is collecting statistics please confirm these for me?

Summary Stats		
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55	28%	Veteran Players
138	72%	New Players
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193	100%	Starting Players
		
as of: 12/1/2008 8:01:12		
		
23	24%	Of Vets out
74	76%	Of New out
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97	100%	Total Players Out
		
23	42%	Players Out - Vet
74	54%	Players Out - New
---------------------------------
97	50%	Original Players Out
		
32	58%	Players Left - Vet
64	46%	Players Left - New
---------------------------------
96	50%	Original Players Left

Re: Unofficial Stats

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

*shocked at the numbers if those are correct!*

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

*obviously not first*...

Ugh...been away from the office for a week -- so umm...it'll take me a while to go through all of the emails and figure out where are all of the technicians are - etc.

Plus I'm hoping for good job news soon...

*nice weekend though*

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I will keep good thoughts in my head for you on the job front.

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Morning...
extended weekend was nice and much needed but sadly had to come back on Saturday rather then Sunday. I guess in the end it was o.k. coming back early as we got snow and that would not have been fun to drive in for 3 hours.

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

Well, it's the first day of deer season here. All of the schools are still on vacation. And I, the Wok, am going to clean and do laundry.

I did finally get the tree put up yesterday. It looks fabulous. (John's mad at me; I put the regular red, green, and white balls on the tree instead of the homemade funky ornaments. I just wanted a tree where it didn't look like a pollock threw up. *g*)

I may also make more cookies today. And since I didn't get to do it last week... French toast and bacon for dinner. YAY!!!

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, it is so hard to be back at work. Someone kill me!

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

p.s. The cinnabon coffee from Dunkin Donuts is helping me though. :)

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

ZOMG THE STEELERS BEAT THE PATS YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!11!!1!!!!!!!1!!!

You can now all return to your scheduled Green Room. :^p

[tryslora]

:P

Man, I really need a Pats icon.

Because I'm still a Pats girl even when they suck.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

A great weekend here - low-key festivity, a much cleaner house (it's remarkable what one does when company is anticipated!), delicious food, nice relaxing family time. A win all around!

Today, my daughter is off to school, husband is off to work, and son has kindergarten this afternoon. I'll be getting the kitchen back in order (I kept up so well all weekend and yesterday I took the day off!) and going to my music lesson at noon. I didn't practice much this week, but what are ya gonna do....

I really enjoyed writing my giving thanks post. What's on tap for this week?

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

I'm debating on making a Christmas icon to use for the Christmas season. Maybe a tree, a gingerbread cookie, or something... *goes off to ponder*

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

Yay, I has new icon!

[tryslora]

Morning. Yep. It is. *tired*

I liked the break. I kinda disappeared from LJ almost entirely this weekend except for catching up on book and movie reviews (and thus, my LJ is utterly boring right now).

I dreamed this morning that we already had a topic, something about New Beginnings, and I was writing an entry because I was almost too late, but I was writing it for this journal as me instead of in Pels' journal for them. I woke up wondering if I'd missed something.

I am spending this morning being a flake and writing up a Christmas list of CDs I want. The sad part is, I'm not including everything and it is still very VERY long, even after the complete blitz I've been on buying music lately.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

Thanksgiving dinner was... not quite a disaster but not good. Enjoyed spending time with our friends for a few hours, and spent the rest of the weekend trying to cajole husband out of the holiday funk that always hits him this time of year. Was unsuccessful. Will have depressed husband for the next four or five weeks, unless he gets a job in that time. Job would help.

Glad to hear so many of you had great family time- that's nice :)

[oberonia.livejournal.com]

I didn't really get an extended weekend, but it was relatively ok.

My dogs got into a fight and Boston gave Sherwood a new scratch across his nose. And I accidentally stabbed myself in the eye this morning, so now everything is blurry and haloed.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Stabbed yourself in the eye - are you going to be ok?!?!?

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

*sets out breakfast of champions*

~Cream cheese and raspberry danishes
~Apple fritters
~Cinnamon rolls
~Bagels and muffins
~Donuts
~Cookies
~Coffee, cocoa, tea, and juices

ETA: Forgot the icon! haha

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

*yoink*

Mmmm breakfast.

[brightflashes.livejournal.com]

Morning all! I hope that everyone is having a good Monday. My day is just starting. Not certain how I'm going to spend it. Looking forward to the new topic. :)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

The break from reading tons of entries was nice - thanks!

I plan on getting by this week the same way as I get by all of my other weeks: do my work, sneak online at work whenever feasible, eat lunch & read a book, go home and get online, eat dinner, watch tv, and go to bed far too late!

Oh, and somewhere in there get the new and much-anticipated Idol topic, then write it up, post it, and wait and wait and read and read and read and wait, and hopefully survive another week.

Rinse, lather, repeat... hopefully I'll make the Top 25 this time!

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

Good morning! Here I am at work. I've had to put out one fire and hopefully it's over but one never knows. It's the first of the month so all of my reports are due. Lovely! haha. My 10 o'clock appointment cancelled so I'm a happy woman! Hope everyone had a good weekend and has a good day!

[brightflashes.livejournal.com]

Wait... you've had to put out ONE fire and you might need to put out more? You have one interesting job. : P