Green Room - Week 7 - Day 7

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I'd bet 10 thousand dollars of Mitt Romney's money that you haven't finished your reading and voting for this week yet. But there's some good news - you have until Monday evening to do so! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/506043.html So there is still time!

Which means there is also still time for you to mention anyone who might not be doing as well as you think they should be doing! Or, some of your favorites for the week, even if they are doing OK.

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How was your weekend? What would you bet 10 thousand dollars that you did, and would do again?!?

Comments

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

First?

[mymisguided.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Lucky you. =D

[mymisguided.livejournal.com]

First? =D?

[mymisguided.livejournal.com]

Second, still not bad. Although I nearly fell off my chair when I refreshed and saw a new, comment-less Green Room. xD

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

I can find many good uses for ten grand of somebody else's money,...none of which will involve betting. However, as I am not in congress, spending other people's money is not in the cards for me...

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

OK, now that I've established my position ;P

I'll take $10 000 of Mitt Romney's money anyday. I'd like to bet that Newt Gingrich will go the way of the other frontrunners, at some point. Or maybe that's just what I hope will happen...

Aaaanyway. Not as if I have any say over the matter.

You're absolutely right, I've not finished reading, but I'm nearly done. I've managed to comment on more than last week, which is a PLUS.

Can I just give a bit of a shout out for basric, hexkitten and qa because they're easy to miss this week with their links being at the bottom instead of in the poll itself.

This weekend was super, because I got to catch up with my parents and my sister and her family, and my children got to play with their cousins, which they LOVED. It was great, and I needed the happy :)

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

Or maybe that's just what I hope will happen... From your keyboard to the powers that be.

[rt-sparrow.livejournal.com]

Pay up. I finished last night. :)

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

I finished Friday. :)

My weekend was pretty good. Tomorrow looks like it'll be good as well. :D

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

Much art was made this weekend, as a friend was kind enough to take the kidlet. More to go, but things look good. \o/

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Yay, that's awesome! Good job :)

[wookiewife.livejournal.com]

Laziest weekend ever. I would take that $10,000 and buy a spin on the Do-Over Machine so that I could enjoy it all over again (and okay, do some reading).

Out of curiosity, does anyone here know how long sugar cookie dough keeps in the fridge? Wrapped in plastic wrap, of course. Tightly. Just wondering. Not that I have any in my fridge. Nope. Certainly not from LAST weekend.

[rt-sparrow.livejournal.com]

Kizzy probably knows.

I know you can freeze it.

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

My weekend was aggravating. All told, I worked almost five hours more than I was scheduled this weekend.

I guess I can't complain about the extra pay, seeing as hours have generally been cut lately, but I do wish they'd get it together and get the schedule done appropriately to begin with.

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I hate it when hours get changed at the last minute.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Whew! Not a bit; I don't even have my Tribe finished, although I'm working on it.

I wouldn't bet any money on this happening again ever, but I spent Friday running around doing house stuff (something like thirteen to fourteen hours of house stuff; got up at eight AM, finally got home around 10:30PM), nearly fell off my chair trying to read so gave up and went to bed, finally got a little reading on Saturday but again nearly fell out of the chair falling asleep, and this morning managed to read half my Tribe before I had to leave for work.

I'm reading between laundry, dinner, and dishes tonight, but I'm fading fast. Perhaps more before work tomorrow?

I apologize in advance to anyone I miss.

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Wow, you sound busy! I think we'll forgive you if you can't get to everyone!

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

http://basric.livejournal.com/215335.html 1
http://noodledays.livejournal.com/131571.html 1


http://ellakite.livejournal.com/307743.html 2

http://users.livejournal.com/_messy/9177.html 3
http://ecosopher.livejournal.com/119385.html 3
http://themadwritings.livejournal.com/40742.html 3
http://tigrkittn.livejournal.com/167424.html 3


http://marjory.livejournal.com/354708.html 4
http://mirrorfortress.livejournal.com/12083.html 4
http://queencallipygos.livejournal.com/688253.html 4
http://ryl.livejournal.com/809765.html 4

http://yasonablack.livejournal.com/187055.html 5

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

I only have one tribe finished; and anyway, I never have time to read it all. So I do it this way: every so many weeks I mark all the writers I have not read that week on my spreadsheet (with some bg color) and make sure to read everyone at least once in 4 weeks or so.

[malruniel11.livejournal.com]

So when will Mitt Romney be sending me my check? I could really use it!

My weekend has been HELL. I've been working my rear end off (out by 7:30am and back well after midnight each day), and our heat has been not working, though they've come out to fix it twice, it's still not working, so this is night #3 in an apt below 50 degrees.

To add insult to injury, my door knob broke some time yesterday and so I came home and was unable to get into my bedroom. The same bedroom that contains all my blankets and warm clothes and medications and heating pad. And the house was 52 degrees and dropping. Emergency maintenance guy took 2 hours to call back (left message at 1 and 1:30, he called back at 3), and he talked me through breaking in with a butter knife. At which point I notice marking on the door and jam that tell me it's been done before.

Thankfully the motor on the furnace will be replaced Monday morning, along with my door knob. Still, I'm heating my room with tea lights and sleeping in double layers of flannel pjs and cotton pjs and 5 layers of fleece blankets topped by a super thin poly-blend quilt.

Oh, and the space heaters aren't working, I was half an hour late to work yesterday because I was up so late trying to get the furnace and three space heaters to work and set my alarm for the wrong 12 hours, and my exam was moved up an hour tomorrow, so I had to give up some of my work hours tomorrow.

Stress meter maxed out on Friday and has kept blowing its top all weekend.

/end rant

[rt-sparrow.livejournal.com]

Hey, Green Room folks,

Does anyone have an above-remedial level of experience using Audacity?

I need to figure something out and I'm sure it's not hard I'm just not getting it.

Thanks.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Audacity? What's that?

So I guess my answer is no... Though I'd like to think I know everything :p

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Just a quick "hello" before bed. java_fiend and I baked cookies tonight and stated up way too late being dorks. I beat him twice at Jeopardy on the Wii. We are such nerds.

I have one more tribe left to read and vote in, I'll do my best to finish it up tomorrow but no promises... Work will be nuts this week. I wish Java and I had more video game time instead of icky work stuff :/

Though I'm just happy I got my boy for an extra night :)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Hey, I too stayed up way too late being a dork and baking cookies for the Christmas Cookie Exchange at work today... after having sat on my tuchas in the car all day yesterday. Whee!

I got to bed at 3:00 am, and woke up around 8:00 am. I'm bushed!

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Once again, most of my favorites are doing okay out there. But there is on of the entries that I thought was pretty good that is lagging in the votes.

So, I will encourage anyone who hasn't voted, yet, to look at...http://irishrosedkm.livejournal.com/265272.html

My weekend definitely wasn't the $10,000 success I had been hoping for, because the weather was not cooperating with us. Cold and windy and rainy days took the fun out of our outdoor activities.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

That's one I thought should be doing better too! I second this comment!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how they are doing, but here's some of my favorites this week:

(I'm getting ready for bed so this must be quick, I'll list more tomorrow if I get the chance).


http://rabid1st.livejournal.com/339995.html

http://notodette.livejournal.com/592997.html

http://nodressrehersal.livejournal.com/63575.html

http://lynxypoo.livejournal.com/148697.html

There's more I'll try to list out tomorrow if I can!

[lynxypoo.livejournal.com]

aww thanks! That makes me all warm and fuzzy inside!

[muchtooarrogant.livejournal.com]

Well, good luck on the gainfully employed bit!

Glad the visit from Mom was NOT everything you thought it'd be. :)

Dan

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have managed to read everything and vote. There are a few benefits to being unemployed. ;)

I had a wonderful weekend. Saturday was the annual Southern Culture on the Skids holiday concert. The spousebeast proved how truly comitted he is (or needs to be) by watching me get up on stage and dance with the band's hot, red haired bass player (think Kate Pierson-esque), a 6' 4" drag queen who bears a stunning resemblance to Wynonna Judd, and one of his supervisors from work...and didn't immediately ask for a divorce. Sunday involved a carb orgy at Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe and a visit from my favorite bad influence to drink really good eggnog and watch The Muppets.

If you have a local dairy, I cannot recommend seeking it out highly enough. The milk we've been getting is the best I've ever had, and their eggnog is AMAZING. Plus, it's kind of cool to get your milk in glass bottles. But maybe I'm just a wierdo that way. :)

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I think I'd love to get my milk from a local dairy like that. When when I lived in a small, Missouri town where I could buy meat from a local butcher, veggies from a local farmers market and bread from a bread store, I didn't have a local dairy to try. Interesting.

Now I'm not sure any of that's possible out here.

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

I'll never get through all the entries for this week. Maybe I should just vote for everyone. lol.

I'd bet that I studied and will definitely do so again.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Good Morning GR! I'm sitting here with coffee and a chocolate chip muffin from Dunkin Donuts trying to fortify myself for returning to work in just under two hours. I'm only working three days this week because I still have vacation time to use up. I'm not sure if I like all this free time off :cue scary music:

I honestly don't know if I'll finish reading. I've read everything except the the last two tribes, so I'm anticipating a monster reading session over dinner!

I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies yesterday. My soul demanded them.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I'm having a very hard time reconciling the fact that the weekend is over and I must go back into that mess called work :/

One week and I leave for my week and a half "vacation". My office is going to die without me, I'm afraid :P

[nodressrehersal.livejournal.com]

I'll take that bet. *Yay! I win!* Tell Mitt to just wire it to my paypal account, if you'd be so kind.

If only, eh?

As a professional organizer, I'm under all kinds of pressure to be, well, organized at all times. This holiday season, I'm buckling a bit under the pressure now that the added layer of life called "LJ Idol" has entered the picture!

So, my mantra is "Breathe, nodressrehersal. It'll all get done, it'll all be fine. Breathe." Feel free to use it (insert your own name if you must, but I certainly wouldn't mind the extra reminders for me to breathe. Just sayin'...)

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be organized some of the time. Eek.

I need that mantra, but sadly I doubt my jon wants me to breathe. It takes too much time that I should be working. Seriously, it feels like that some weeks.

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

Had a sucky weekend, Carrie received bad news about her job status late Friday afternoon (FYI we are working from home today since we typically work in downtown Oakland and right now, people are marching and SWAT's been called out), she was informed that she will not get extended beyond this year, but the other two contractors will be (according to boss - it's only because their project got funded/extended and there's no funded project to put Carrie on)

I dunno them not keeping her is due to politics or really due to funding, I know that there were other managers rooting for her, but I dunno if her boss likes her personally...and he may not have championed for her, which could have been a factor...(the other managers did though)

Just tired of coming back to same company every two years to the same floor (not always same group but sometimes) cause this company's dysfunctional hiring or non-hiring practices.

Otherwise...the weekend was so-so...the stuff above overshadowed everything else

[faerie-spark.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish I could read everyone, but sadly I can't. :(

But I do have to give a shout-out to queencallipygos

She wrote a fabulous (funny and insightful)entry (tribe 4) and hasn't gotten nearly enough attention.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

No bet. I've got 4 tribes completed (two li'l uns and two big uns) if memory serves (and it often doesn't, sometimes it just helps itself) and a start on another.

I'd bet $10k that the hubby and I drove from central KY to central FL in one sitting on Thursday, and drove back in one sitting yesterday. AND I'll bet that we are doing it again two weeks from now, although thankfully for a longer stay in Orlando (a full week, as opposed to 3.5 days). We got home around 1:15 AM this morning, and stayed up until 3:00 AM so I could bake cookies for this morning's Christmas Cookie Swap at work, and also so we could watch the finale for The Amazing Race.

Needless to say, both my brain and my tuchas are exhausted!

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

Had a somewhat depressing weekend. Drove all over to find Chanukah decorations and found NOTHING. It's not like I live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. I live on LI. Jewish people are all over the place. What the fuck, dollar stores?! Will have to try again this weekend. At least I have my Menorah.

Meanwhile, housemates decorated for Christmas. It was my first time ever going out to buy a tree (let alone decorate one). It was... an experience. I was kinda hoping that Christmas music would be playing while we were decorating, but there was no music. So, it just felt like a chore. I was trying to find clear ornaments so that I could make Chanukah ornaments for myself, but the closest I got to clear ornaments was ALREADY DECORATED clear ornaments. How helpful. -_-

::sigh:: Sorry I'm a Ranty McRant pants this morning. If one more person tells me there's a War on Christmas, I'm going to rub their noses in it!

~*::Meow::*~

[rt-sparrow.livejournal.com]

Try looking at a craft store like Michael's or JoAnn's for the clear ornaments.

Or, hey, Amazon has them. (http://www.amazon.com/140mm-Plastic-Acrylic-Fillable-Ornament/dp/B002YGB0M0/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1323706769&sr=1-1)