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Green Room - Week 4, Day 04

Anyone who has spent any time in Idol knows that, over the course of 8 seasons, that I have changed the deadline a handful of times.

I like to consider every single case to have been an extraordinary circumstances. Usually they are bad.

This is a good one.

But it does mean that, having come up, that I need to shift the deadline for this topic back several hours: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/495977.html (I could move it UP, but that wouldn’t be fair IMO. So I move it back and give you more time, rather than suddenly having less.) It was at 8pm EST. I’m moving it to Midnight.

I apologize for the change of plans. It does give you more time to read ahead though! Which is always a good thing! Read, comment, and maybe mark down your favorite entries so that as soon as the poll goes up, you can vote for them!

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How was your weekend?
What "good surprises" have been coming your way?

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I'm great with anyone in my immediate family except my mom; my sister tires me out, but it's the good sort of tired you get after chasing someone eight years younger than you around all day. (Although maybe now that she's approaching adulthood, she'll need less keeping-up-with?)

I have two friends that I can hang out with as long as I want and not get tired. All of the others, I need me-time after so long with them. But the time I can spend with them before I need to be alone is longer the better I know them. :)

We don't have a lot of functions at work, and most of them are meetings with added pizza. I usually leave pretty soon after the meeting part is over. ;)

People tell me I'm "a little quiet and really sweet," and I find myself irritated with them because it's just that I let them have their way because I'm too tired to have an opinion. So generally I decline social invitations on the theory that they don't actually want me, they want someone who agrees with them.

I'm great with my immediate family though my nephew tires me out. But he's 8 and very likely an Aspie like me, so that explains that :)

You sound a lot like me. I've had very few friends in my life that hanging out or going to dinner didn't make ms need "me" time. My ex never could figure out that socializing a lot meant I needed alone time to chill and he often pushed me to my limits. His family never made me feel comfortable after 6 years together.

Our work functions consist of pretty fancy affairs. Wine, cocktails, the works. And it's just so exhausting because everyone in my department are pretty well off so I have nothing I can talk to them about. I need common ground to even squeak by... But I don't have a BMW nor have I ever shopped at the places they shop at.... So yeah.

I used to be a big partied and learned that I could socialize with anyone if I were drinking alcohol... So I did that a lot and was always ashamed of how open I was the next day :P

But now I don't really drink and just have to deal.

Eight-year-olds tire me out too. ;)

It's an introvert thing; we recharge our batteries through me-time. It's as important to have it as it is to get enough sleep or enough food.

I've found it to be difficult to date extroverts; there's a whole different point of view going on there, and it's sometimes hard to bridge the gap.

Wow. I think I prefer pizza.... Hmm. Do any of them have pets?

I don't drink either. And I try to avoid the anti-histamines that give me that overly-friendly effect. ;)

I've realized that's so true about "me" time. I used to be an extrovert of sorts, but something has changed since college. I'm happy, so it doesn't really concern me :)

My ex was the total opposite of me in every way. We were so fundamentally different... It was awful.

Yeah, I'd prefer pizza too. I love fancy food, but I hate the expected socializing that goes along with it. Last year, we had our department Christmas dinner at a really high end place in Newport Beach (the chain's other store is in Beverly Hills to give you an idea of what we are dealing with here). It's absurd. I'm not used to this lifestyle and have nothing in common with these people, even the girl that's my age. My direct boss has two pure bred Bengals, but that's it. No pets amongst them.

It makes an introvert like me terrified of company events. I lied to get out of the actual Christmas party. My boyfriend and I could have had a fancy seafood dinner and cocktails... But we chose to hang out with his friends instead.

Wow. Our Christmassy thing is cupcakes at the December store meeting. ;)

Bengals -- not the tigers? (I hope not, anyway.)

They make you go to the party? That's awful.

I'd take friends over seafood and cocktails any day. ^_^

Bengal the breed of cat, sorry ;)

I take laying around the apartment in my Pj's with my boyfriend over seafood and cocktails too. I might just be busy the night of our Christmas dinner at work on purpose (though they are suspecting the boyfriend is fake since they've yet to meet him... But they scare him too :P)

No, it's fine; I just didn't know it was a cat breed.

Lol! You could always have him drop by to pick you up or something, just so they know he's real....

We are sorta kinda long distance (by California standards at least... he lives 30 miles away but during rush hour, that's about an hour and a half or more away). So we don't ever see each other during the week. He has sent me flowers there before, so either I am really lame and send me flowers to myself from a fake boy... or he's real :D

That's rather long distance here, too; I checked a map, and that's the equivalent of driving from the northernmost town in our county, down to the county seat roughly in the center, and then turning and driving over to the airport in the next county over. Half that distance would be a long drive....

Your traffic is worse, though. It would only take me 45 minutes, even at rush hour.

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