Green Room - Week 18 - Day 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good afternoon, and welcome to the last day anyone gets to sleep for the rest of the week!

After this will just be a long series of tossing and turning, dreading the moment when true Doom will fall!

To get to that point though, we have the usual links to make sure people have:

The new topic link (due this evening) http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/541963.html
the Work Room to help people out with that: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/542273.html

and the last, but not sub-optimal: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/541915.html where we will see who is coming into the devastation of the main competition and who will be joining us in the Home Game!

Comments

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Yay, first!

I should have cheked LJ, then got my lunch. ;)

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

I plan on getting some sleep over the next couple of days as I have 2 days off! Woohoo!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

Third?

I slept only 4 hours today (thaaaaanks, brain), so I'm definitely under-prepared for the Doom. Then again, can you ever be truly prepared for the Doom?

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

You'll never be prepared for the Doom. Just when you think you know what to expect, Gary shows a new level of evil.

*cowers in the corner*

[cosmolinguist]

Would be just the time for it, when we've all had to write about each other.

[cosmolinguist]

Very good use of "sub-optimal." ;)

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[caile.livejournal.com]

I've been reading a lot of comics about Doctor Doom lately, every time the word Doom appears in an LJ-Idol post I can't help imagining it's about him. This is problematic. (the "taste of Doom in your mouth..." one especially.)

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

That was his trustiest pickup line when he was single!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

DST is already eating my brain! Aaah! I almost got to work on time, except for being an hour late, LOL. It *would* have been on time if we hadn't put the clocks ahead an hour.

Of course, getting to bed at 4:00 AM might have been part of the issue... nah....

I have written and posted my entry, and feel like a very lucky girl because TWO idolists were inspired by me - one by my Awesome Icons, and another because she's been on my Flist for years, and we're FINALLY going to get to meet in person this May!! W00t! *is loved*

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I was so happy to see someone wrote about me (more my username and romance with Java. It's such a cute story though, so that made me happy!) Someone else contacted me. I haven't been looking at the posts, but I knew alien_infinity wrote about you. She's an awesome girl :)

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

I was prescient enough to ask for a late start at work today, which helped, but not together enough to ration my pain meds correctly, so it's about 40 here in NW Oregon and I'm crampy and crabby.

That sounds like a knock-off cartoon on a low-rent TV network... Crampy and Crabby!

Love you all. Big, warm piles of it. <3

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're crampy and crabby! Hope you get to feeling better soon! :)

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

I didn't sleep well last night. I demand a sleep refund!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, I woke up on time today and was able to get my daughter on the school bus with time to spare. I may be exhausted by tonight though, particularly because I'm feeling ready for a nap and it's only 2 pm now.

So much to do this week!!! I'm not sure I can handle the impending doom.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

We got sleep before this?

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

This was my exact question :D

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

Which sort of doom is it? Is it the kind of doom that inspires a DOOM SONG? I think I can handle that kind of doom.

~doom doom dooooom, do do do doom~

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

I already had my run-in with DST yesterday, and it was bad. Actually, I had a whole list of minor ills yesterday that would have been easy to deal with individually, but conspired together to leave me completely drained.

But today! I went for a walk. I am hoping to make a habit of it (and maybe try to get out the door for the walk before noon, in future). I have decided that I'm not going to worry about time or distance or pace, I'm just going to walk to enjoy walking. When I walk For Exercise, and I feel the need to Try to Improve everyday, I unfailingly end up getting shin splints, and I quit within a few weeks.

But I have no problem walking at a leisurely pace, so if I just stick to that, I should stick to the walking, right? And slower walking is better than no walking.

And now I must finish my entry. And maybe take a shower.

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

I approve of Walking to Enjoying Walking rather than Walking to Improve Yourself Via Capital-E Exercise. :)

(way too many capitalized words in that sentence!)

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

I have had major writer's block. I'm going to power through it this evening after work. I have 350 or so words now, and maybe I can add a paragraph or two while I'm home for lunch if Oreo lets me. (I hate late lunches because in the morning the cats are all just lying around on the couches having their morning rest-y times, but in the afternoon they're all "Food? Food?", so yeah.)

I'm not too worried about the Doom. While it would be nice to not be voted out in my first week, if it happens it does and I can focus on my new Sims story.

It's a good thing I'm also in the Eastern timezone. :)

I love you all. Thank you for letting me be a part of this, and make friends and stuff. You guys rock! :)

Now to try to get caught up a bit on answering comments on my latest post, and then after I eat maybe see if I can get a paragraph or two for the entry.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

My cat was all "Food? Food?" during lunch today too.

*hugs* Good luck with the writing!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Sleep? I already find that to be a foreign concept during the week.

I guess it's a good thing that Java and I slept so much yesterday. We woke up around 8:30, but we chatted in bed and ended up dozing some more. We eventually got up at 11. And we had breakfast closer to 1 pm. Lazy Sunday's are nice :)

My weekend with him was great, as usual. I know I feel more refreshed and less crappy... Though a week of work ahead without any dentist appointments to keep me out is a bit daunting ;)

My piece will be posted this evening. I had so much fun with it. The idea hit me at the last minute and I giggled as I wrote it, the characters really called to me. It was so much fun :)

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Yay for the entry! Looking forward to it. (I saw your beta post, but you already had two people and I was still struggling my way through writing mine, so I assumed you were okay.)

[wookiewife.livejournal.com]

I dreamed that I got my entry done and posted last night before I went to bed. Imagine my horror when I just now realized that oh, no, that really was just a dream and I still have no entry. And I'm way behind on my work.

I have priorities, guys, so invoicing will have to wait.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Lol at your priorities!

Good luck with your entry! I just got mine linked in.

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

I haven't caught up on my sleep yet. I was up late last night clearing a plumbing problem. At least it's fixed now...

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

Had one of those at the beginning of the week last week, and then the plumber FIXED EVERYTHING FOR FREE. It was like a dream, for real. Two hundred dollars worth of work, and because of how the landlord had screwed up everything there, he didn't want the work "associated" with him, he said. My gain. Free plumbing. It was astounding.

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

Working from home today, so I'm actually able to stop in! \o/

I had a chocolate chip cookie dough filled chocolate cupcake for lunch just a bit ago. I should probably eat something better than that, shouldn't I? But it was sooooo good, and I don't feel like making anything. *forages GR looking for something more nutritional*

Yeah, DST was already weird yesterday. My brain was like, daylight at 7PM? What is happening?

Hmmm. So it sounds like it's a Gatekeeper week? My soul is ready. Whatever happens, if I go out this week, I go out proud of what I wrote.

Best of luck to those who are still working on their entries! :)

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Oooo. Personally, that sounds like a very good lunch. Not particularly good for you, but good nonetheless!

*hugs* Mine's in! But we've only got a little over fifty entries in the topic thread....

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

I think I am probably taking the weirdest route with my inspiration, though maybe that is a good thing. Probably the longest too, though that might be less good. Still, could easily have made it twice the length.

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

There's got to be a happy medium between you and I. I did about 5 paragraphs and that seems to be my limit. I write like a blog post, for everything, and sometimes it works and sometimes NOT.

[emploding.livejournal.com]

I hate waiting. Idol is teaching me all sorts of patience lol

[teenagewitch.livejournal.com]

True doom occurred with the popularity of really bad reality shows and the fact that I get to join the home game again. I did love writing for SCI so I hoping my muse stays around for a while.
Other than that, I slept well. I am in a sleep cycle right now, ask me in 3 weeks when I have hit insomnia and I want to shoot whatever is keeping me awake.

Late Commenter League: After Work Edition

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

:thud:

I have to be at work before the crack of dawn tomorrow morning. They're waxing the floor or something, so everything -- tables, fixtures, what-have-you -- is being shoved into my area. Whee!

The up side? Since tomorrow was supposed to be my day off, I'm only working half the day...and then I can be here!

Re: Late Commenter League: After Work Edition

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Wow. But at least you'll have all the furniture?

"What do you mean, that was your potted plant? I thought this lovely one was mine all along. I'm sure you had that ugly thing in the corner there...."

Yay for half-days!

[snarkerdoodle.livejournal.com]

Just posted my entry, which at a couple hours in advance of the deadline, is pretty much my earliest all season, lol. I actually had it written this morning, but for some reason didn't post it then, and then almost crossed 'post entry' off my list prematurely because 'of course I did that this morning when I finished it!'... lol. It would be just like me to self-terminate out of the contest over something like that.

Hope everyone's having a good day, and for those still polishing up their entry before posting, I wave my pom-poms of encouragement at you. ::waves::

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Congrats!