Green Room - Week 18 - Day 1

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Today is a sad day.

We're still waiting for 1 of 9 Gatekeeper votes, but in a way it doesn't matter how they end up voting. Because losing 14 contestants today is going to *hurt*. All kidding aside, I can't think of one contestant that I would seriously be "ok" with losing at this point. Losing 14? Yeah, that's going to be rough.

So I do want to take a moment to congratulate everyone for making it this far.

You've all done a terrific job and let's try to enjoy the rest of the day that we *know* that we have together before the biggest cut of the season takes place and we have our TOP 40.

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So, other than that - how are you doing today?

Comments

[scienter.livejournal.com]

Morning! I guess it looks like I will spend the day refreshing this post.

Good luck to everyone!

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I'm really torn because I can't spend the day refreshing this post. I have to deliver two tests, and I'm so behind on my work I went in yesterday for free, and am going in early today (supposed to be a late day for me).

I'm torn because If I check here and find out I'm gone, that'll be a major distraction and if I spend the day checking waiting on the last 3 gatekeepers, that will be distracting, and I just can't not get this work done.

Meh! Headed to work now.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Peppy intro there, Gary.

How about this?

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good morning.

DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM FOR ALL OF YOU!!!

By the end of the day, 14 of you will be joining that great Home Game!

***

See, it's just not remotely appropriate for the seriousness of the day. Today has me bummed. I want to be all doom and gloom more doom, but I'm just not looking forward to this announcement at all.

[ahavah]

Can't wait to learn the results!

How else am I doing? Nervous and worried. We've been having some health issues with our youngest. She has an appointment with a specialist tomorrow, and I have to leave here soon to see if it's at all possible to get her approved for Medicaid. Keep your fingers crossed, please. I hear specialists can get expensive. We really just want her to be okay and not even need it.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Good luck.

I will keep you in my thoughts.

[thenodrin.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing great this morning. I'm trying to decide if I'm well enough to go to work or sick enough to call in. I suspect it is somewhere in the middle.

Theno

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

Call in!

You deserve it.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to this week. Finding out whether or not I made it to the next round will be nice, and we just took on a new foster puppy; a 7-week pit bull puppy. My two dogs aren't sure what to make of her yet because she's so small.

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

Awwwww... puppies!

[skimmed-miilk.livejournal.com]

I'm so damn nervous about this...not having any happy thoughts!

Other than that...I'm shattered today. And I left my coffee at home, so have had to resort to crappy campus caffine. Yich...

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

Why do I get dizzy every time I eat a banana, Internets? Is this some weird property of bananas, that they mess with my 248,778 medications in much the same way that I can't take calcium supplements because EVERYBODY BUT ME knew that calcium binds to and eliminates anticonvulsants?

Once I get done worrying about that, then I can be all like F5 F5 F5.

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

Have fun!

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

GOOD Morning (I am bound and determined that it be one).

The forecast is for snow showers this morning, light snow this evening, and potential winter storm tomorrow (ice and snow).

Blech.

I am nervous for everyone else, but I have made my peace with this being the end of the road for me. I read all the entries in one shot over the weekend and with so much talent in the competition, I just feel... out of my league. This is not me quitting or asking for lots of reassurance. This is just me being realistic.

Errands galore today included a much needed doctor's appointment.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

You don't know that. You honestly don't.

:smooch:

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Today's upside is my music lesson :-)

Today's downside is dealing with a recurring pain issue :-( Not only a bummer physically, but an emotional downer as well.

Right now, it's COLD - ONE degree - but sunny, and I am having coffee while my son watches Pokemon. Breakfast is imminent. The house is warm. So things could be lots worse.

I'd be fibbing if I said I wasn't anxious about the voting results!! *more quivering*

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, 1 degree? We're at 5 up here. Woo!

Or should I say BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR???

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

Good morning...it's back to bloody raintime in California...

Carrie's Birthday weekend came and went - it was alright - pretty mellow overall - but that's because we weren't completely 100% back to normal from the food poisoning the weekend before.

I'm just hoping to get through the week..like always.

*waves to everyone*

[quoting-mungo.livejournal.com]

I'm actually having the best day in a while, I think. My alarm did some odd thing where it decided not to be set this morning despite I could swear I set it some time last night, but aside from that I'm not in as much pain as I've been, I'm (sort of) managing to follow my physical therapist's instructions, and I'm not dead yet. All of them good.

Then again being kind of peppy today could just be the fact I just finished another chapter of one of my stories and it involves lots of nasty things happening to the main character. Abusing fictional people always puts me in a good mood.


-Alexandra

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Morning...
It's back to being sub zero here again:(
Luckily it's my late day so hopefully it will warm up slightly before I need to head out.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

I still have no heat.

On the plus side, this makes me glad to be at work, where there is heat.

*eyes 35 degree weather outside*

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

The way I am feeling right now I think I need to make an appointment with you. :)

[oberonia.livejournal.com]

Not only will today be sad...it will just get HARDER from here on out. Seriously, with all the joy of making it another round, it leaves an icky feeling of losing more friends to The Vote at the end of the week.

*hugs everyone*

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I think we need a group hug!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I'm doing okay. I've been so poll deprived that I made two sorta random polls to amuse myself:

Itza Poll (http://roina-arwen.livejournal.com/1298459.html) and the BACON! (http://roina-arwen.livejournal.com/1299120.html) poll.

Go, answer, and amuse yourselves before the heads start to roll...

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I had the BEST weekend!!! London was great, "Wicked" amazing and the NKOTB concert absolutely FANTASTIC!!! My inner 12-year old hasn't stopped jumping up and down yet. Awesome!

And today I just discovered that Jeff Dunham is touring Denmark in April, and we got tickets on the 7th row - it just doesn't get any better than that!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I would kill to see Jeff Dunham. He played here last summer, and a couple of people from work were lucky to get tickets. I tried not to be envious ;)

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

Good morning everyone. I am really really nervous for the results. I just want to wish everyone the best of luck.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

The Biggest Cut or the Biggest Cut so far?

It's cold here again. Guess it is because it is winter but we are below what we usually are this time of year.

EDIT OH and Xin nian yu kua. It is the Year of the Earth Ox.

I wish you all Gong Hay Fat Choi!

Think of it as a shiny re-set button for those resolutions that have fallen by the wayside

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

haha good question!

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

*peeks head in door*

Today at work is INSANE!! No Green Room time for me! There are eight people in our office and five were MIA till a minute ago, when the boss (who is mad at me, so I wish she were still missing) turned up, so now we're only down four... GAH!

See you all tonight on the Results thread- I've gotta get working :( *waves*

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

Today is sad. Sigh. Ug.

[brightflashes.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to knowing who the top 40 are and to find out who the gatekeepers are (if they're going to be revealed). If I make it, I make it. If I don't, I've done a fantastic job (for myself at least) so far and I know I've proven some things to myself and learned some things. Handling the idea of other people leaving is what worries me.

You know that cold I had last week? Why is it coming back? I think it mutated, Greg and Anya caught it, and then gave it back to me this weekend. It's worse now than it ever was last week. My throat feels like it's on fire and is really itchy.

13 minutes before I can call my doctor and ask him if I can take some extra cold medicine that is famed to interact with my blood pressure...

Here's hoping! : )

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

i'm excited as well, regardless of whether i made it through, i just want to know!

[mermaidkween.livejournal.com]

I think about it thusly: Why am I even here? Fame and fortune? Nah. I'm only here because I wanted someone to give me something to write, instead of the other way around. (Newspaper editor, handing out the storiesis boring, blah, blah...)

So I definitely have not failed!

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

There are some people I see worrying about the results, and I am just sitting here smiling because I know they have SO much talent, I would be shocked if they didn't make the top 40.

[mermaidkween.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[monkeysugarmama.livejournal.com]

This "Month of Doom" for me has been chock full of doom, with doom sprinkles and extra doom on the side for good measure. All you can eat doom!! Doom open 24 hours!

I am nervous to find out the results today, but I'd also rather KNOW my fate than have to wait! (That was kinda Johnnie Cochran, lol)

I had a crazy dream last night - here's the circumstances that I think it came from...

After this divorce mess Saturday, last night I was feeling really scared and like I needed a big hug, like to the point I considered going and telling my husband I was wrong, please just snuggle me!!

I fought the urge, but it was tough. My closest friends are at least an hour away, my mom is 10 hours...usually the Internet makes it no big deal, but when you need someone to literally squeeze the panic out of you, that's not real helpful.

Anyway, how's this for a dream rife with psychological undertones...

I was traveling in some foreign country with my husband and a large group of friends and acquaintances. The place we were staying was attacked by terrorists and we were trying to escape as a group but people kept getting captured, killed.

The few of us that were left - maybe ten? - finally made it to an air duct we could slip out of and get outside, but the terrorists were right behind us and it looked like just three of us would make it through before we were caught.

My husband was not one of the three - just me, my best friend and a girl I know from college. They were like "Come on!!" and I looked through the vent, could practically smell the fresh air outside, and said "I can't do it - I can't go!" and stayed behind with my husband.

Here's the kicker. They put us in a holding cell and as I sat there on the bench, watching my domineering husband, I knew I didn't go because I loved him deeply or wouldn't want to live without him.

I allowed myself to be captured because I was scared of facing whatever was out there without his "help." I was willing to take my chances with terrorists out of fear of grabbing the freedom that was just in front of me.

I am not going to be that person.

I woke up this morning feeling both really shaken and hugely determined.

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*