Green Room - Week 23 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

When I logged on this morning there was a clown on my home page.

Was the clown on *your* home page too or was he just stalking me?

Should I expect him to next show up on another site, and then another, until he eventually just reaches out of the screen and kills me????

If it isn't a viral killer clown set out on our personal destruction - what was LJ thinking putting that up there??? Probably trying to scare people into buying an anti-clown gift!! ;)

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So, what has you spooked today? What has you delighted? What is the cheese on your crackers?

And most of all - have you submitted your entry yet: The topic thread: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/330871.html
The Home Game thread: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/331761.html

Have you *read* the entries that have been submitted thus far??? Are any of them that cheese? :)

Comments

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

I must have missed the clown. I was too busy looking at the views of Spain and North Africa from the rock of Gibralter this morning :)

Also, I never EVER want to come home, which might not be a problem since the flights are so screwed up right now!

ETA: This is the first time I've been first! Now I know why it pays to be several time zones ahead of most constestants :)

[stormkitty.livejournal.com]

Yay first! And your trip sounds fabulous!

[stormkitty.livejournal.com]

I did not see a clown. But then again, I stay logged in on my computer. :) And no, I refuse to go check.

What spooked me today was thinking my 2nd alarm had already gone off (late night last night, decided to sleep in) so I jumped up and started going through my morning routine, trying to figure out why my dad wasn't back yet from next door. When I got back to my room I realized it was because I woke up 10 minutes after my first alarm and 30 minutes before my second alarm. Yeah. Up now.

I've been reading, but I know I need to catch up. I may do that while I finish waking up before I get to work.

And I think I might have found the cheese on my cracker. Thus why I'm running on about 5 hours of sleep. Went out last night so I could see him before I leave for my trip on Friday. :)

[quoting-mungo.livejournal.com]

I baked bread this morning. It tasted great, and I'm so glad I'll once again have home-baked bread in my freezer. (I'm cheap, so I hate taking the expensive storebought bread out of the freezer and eating it.)

Going to use the rest of my yeast to make cinnamon rolls later this week, I think.


-Alexandra

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yummy! I've been making my own bread for the past few months too. So much cheaper, never mind being able to control what goes into it!

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Umm... what is your home page? >.>

Yesterday I started a fire! :D I'm proud of myself because it ran hot and took hours to stop smoking. :) Good start for the season. I'll have to poke it again tomorrow because it's supposed to shower on Sunday and Monday and I want to try and keep the wood hot. We can only burn in my city on Tuesday and Thursday (but they're trying to ban it altogether, pfft).

Today! I go to the store, buy a tiller and get my yard all situated with fertilizer. It's supposed to shower later in the day. I don't mind tilling and fertilizing in the rain, but it needs to be done today so I can get the grass seed down by Saturday for the rain showers to make it take hold.

Other than that, living as cheaply as possible. My unemployment check never came... I'll wait until Friday and if it still doesn't come, I'll call the help hotline on Monday and make sure everything's in order. Every paperwork I've gotten to date has just been reiterating that everything's in order, but you never know...

Oh, and sometime today I have to conglomerate a list of all the gear I need off ICC25 as part of my 2 week try-out in the new guild I just joined.

Bah.

Happy Hump Day Everyone. :)
~Sammy-Joe

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I have to be at work in roughly an hour, so I thought I'd pop in and at least wave :waves:

Yesterday I cleaned up the front and side yards -- pulled weeds, dug out dandelions, de-thatched the hostas. I hate that the front yard is mostly shade because nothing grows there except daffodils, the two azaela bushes, and the rhododendron. For some reason I now want to pretty it up!

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Umm... Clown? I'm glad I missed it. Creeeeeepy.

Right now my boss is singing loudly and off-key and it's HORRIFIC. She does this every morning and it's awful. While I generally don't mind working for her, this is one thing I will not miss at all when I finally move.

I've got to go conduct a training seminar in a short while. I'd rather just stay here and do my regular work, but c'est la vie.

I got my entry posted this morning before I left my house, so I'm happy about that. Now I guess I can do some reading... well, not *now* because *now* I have to do other stuff. But, soon.

[pricelessone.livejournal.com]

The fact that my friend, Kayla, is finally back Stateside has me delighted!

gratefuladdict and cacophonesque have both put up strong entries this week! Nice work, ladies.

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much!

And hooray for friends being back!

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

The cheese on my crackers is literally cheese. Tesco's mild white cheddar -- it was on special, I bought it, and now I can never buy anything else ever again. It's amazing! And it's just Tesco brand! Who'd have thought?!

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy!:)

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

I have read nothing yet!

But I did manage to get mine in last night. It's about my cousin's dog of all things.

Also, it is snowing heavily over here now. OH swedish April weather.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I almost wanted to write about my dog. She's HUGE and tends to stand over any dog that she meets. Thus, making them the underdog. But I couldn't get a whole entry out of that pun.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I have my entry all formatted as far as graphics go. I still need to post it, though! It's my longest entry so far by about a full page of comic. I haven't written the transcript yet but that is going to happen today at work! Thank goodness for slow days.

It took me like five minutes to find the clown after you posted about it, Gary.

ETA and wooo! My entry is done.

Also, emo_snal did an entry, but I don't see it posted in the entry thread. I know he's at sea so his internet access is shoddy and I wanted to check in about what to do about that if he doesn't get it posted to the entry post on time.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

If you want to link it to the thread for him that would be acceptable. :)

(just as long as only one person does it)

What has me delighted...

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

I was reading a book and am struck over and over by this part of it:

"I normally reach for a poem called "The Unclaimed," by Nikky Finney, a young African-American woman who evokes the spirit of all the women in her past "whose names do not ripple in neon lights or whose distinctiveness has yet to be embedded on printed paper." These women, the poet tells us, were never allowed time to pamper themselves in front of mirrors or even time to cry. They were women who sang over stovetops and washtubs; scribbled poems on bits of paper and dinner napkins-- women who acted out the drama of their lives unsung and forgotten. And so she concludes:

for all that you were
for all that you always wanted to be
each time i sign my name
know that it is for a thousand like you
who could not hold a pen
but who instead held me
and rocked me gently
to the creative rhythms
i now live by"

From "For the Love of Books" an essay by Gloria Naylor in the book "The Writing Life"

Re: What has me delighted...

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that's so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing!

[viagra.livejournal.com]

I have not read anyone's entries, except for kittymichaels' and onda_bianca's. I am a bad one.

It's finals week, though, so I can be forgiven. Of course, my final that was supposed to be tomorrow was pushed back to Tuesday. Like, double-you tee eff. I just want to get it done with!

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

I have a final on Friday:(

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I think I've read one or two entries by accident, 'cause they were on my Flist (which I'm sadly behind on right now).

Hubby and I went to see a stage production of Mary Poppins last night up in Cincinnati. It was REALLY good - there were a few new songs, and the woman who played Mary (who had also played Mary Poppins in a London production) was superb. The sets were also very cool, and at the end Mary actually "flew" (via wire of course) out over the audience, from center stage up to one of the back corner box seats!!

On the negative side, my car tried to eat me (or maybe hug me) last night, when the power seat fucked up and wouldn't stop moving forward!! I almost couldn't get out, my fat legs were squeezed so hard against the dash! My right knee feels slightly bruised, but that's about it. Fortunately, I succeeded in moving the seat back, or else I wouldn't have been able to drive it today. *phew*

Oh - and Happy Administrative Professional's Day, guys and gals!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I like how you call it "by accident." That is how I am, too. I sort of see some of my friends' posts on the way through, but I wait to do my "official" reading when the list goes up.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Want to know the creepiest thing that happened to me so far today? I just st down to read the Green Room and eating cheese and cracker and you asked "What is the cheese on your crackers". Now that is weird.

And last night, I was talking to a friend on the phone when he asked to tell him something random. I told him I was once attacked by a baboon and he thought I was screwing with him because his random story also happens to involve being attacked by a baboon. Crazy world, isn't it?

I need to get my entry done seriously. Real life has really been hard on me. Let's hope today is different than the rest of the week.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

So what is the cheese on your crackers?

[crimsonplum.livejournal.com]

I need to go to the store and buy cheese and crackers. That sounds delightful.

OK, folks, if you need proof that someone, somewhere is having more of a bad day than you - here's a direct quote from an e-mail trail I saw this morning:

"Sorry I did not get back to you yesterday but Beelzebub and the four horsemen of the apocalypse paid us a visit, and everything else went out the window."

May the fleas of a thousand camels infect the Horsemen, so that they may not visit your door!

Or, you know, have a good day, everyone.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'd have thought everything else went into a handbasket!

I'm sure the writer's intentions were good, though. ;)

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

I am feeling better today because my manager told me to go home and take a nap last night. And so I had an evening to myself, yay!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* Glad you're feeling better. Rest is a good thing for you. :-)

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

I saw the scary clown!! The Writer's Block prompts will never be the same. *shudders*

The cheese on my crackers is Laura Chenel goat cheese with dill. I, uh, ate a whole 5 oz. package of it myself last night. :D

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm.... goat cheese.

We owned two goats when I was a kid living in Los Gatos. We were right smack in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. I guess mom was way out ahead of the whole "urban farming" movement.

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

Day Two of vacation! Sandi's on her way to her second interview for a HUGE promotion, so send good vibes. Looks like the next best thing to a sure thing, but you know how those things go.

Me, I'm thinking of picking up my long-neglected guitar and hurting my fingertips. :) That, and writing a real entry.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Good luck to her! I will keep the appropriate digits crossed!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Clown? Hmmmmmm... methinks you should have taken the advice floating around Woodstock and stayed away from the brown acid, Gary!

It has been a hellishly busy last couple of days! It's good in that it's job security. It's bad in that it's... hellishly busy. But I've missed this joint!

What has me spooked? That I won't finish my entry in time.

What has me delighted? A dark cherry mocha frapuccino.

What is the cheese on my cracker? Swiss, thanks.

Hope everybody is having a fantastic day!!!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I think everyone in Idol has missed you too. I know I have :)

Sorry it's been so busy for you though. And you better get that entry finished on time! Perhaps I should stop texting you so you can work, eh?

[callistahogan.livejournal.com]

I really need to get down to the grind and write my entry. Thankfully I came up with an idea.

I am still hung up on last night's Glee, though, so I'm going to wait about half an hour, think over my idea, before trying to write it. Because right now my brain is completely engrossed in the awesomeness of the Madonna episode.

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

Time to start trolling the middle school, girls! :)

[notbatman.livejournal.com]

I'm spooked by how much editing and re-working my entry has demanded, this week. It's not usually this difficult for me to get things the way I like them.

That said, I'm delighted by the subject matter itself, so maybe I just have to hope that it comes through.

The "cheese" came from between my toes, though, so I really suggest putting that cracker down. I thought it would be funny, I never imagined someone would try and eat one.

[beldar.livejournal.com]

CANDY-COLORED CLOWN!
CANDY-COLORED CLOWN!

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Hats. For Clowns. La la la la la la. (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/b3ta/hats.swf)

Also, some great home game entries this week.

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

Entry posted, and there is a bonus voice post! If I were more technically minded I could probably get the voice post in the same entry with the words, but this'll have to do.

[connie]

If you want to have the voice post and the words in the same entry, make sure you copy the words into the voice post entry instead of the voice post into the entry where the words are. If you erase the original entry the voice post was posted in, it will make it stop working.

[onda-bianca.livejournal.com]

We were tripping in the fields today in second grade. (We went to the aquarium.)

What had me spooked? The fact that I shaved one leg and not the other.

What has me delighted? Your mom.

Cheese on my crackers? No, but there was cheese on my pizza. ;)

Home game entry was submitted...sort of. If I were still around, I'd probably have written about warts.

I was up to date on reading as of last night. Obviously, I still have some reading to do. :)

[notbatman.livejournal.com]

Hooray for gratuitous "Your mom" jokes!