Green Room - Week 27 - Day 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good morning Idol.

One bit of housekeeping: I moved the deadline: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/566865.html back one hour until 9pm EDT. Why? To mess with you. Or maybe because I didn't get to take my Mom out last night, and tonight was when she was free. But mostly to mess with your heads! ;)

How was your weekend?

Mine featured the funeral for my girlfriend's co-worker. Which was both awkward and inspiring.

The awkward parts were because I had never met her, so it felt kind of weird being surrounded by people who obviously knew her quite well. There were also only a couple people from work, so this was family and close friends... so I was the odd person out in a group that was the odd group out!
It was also weird how the minister kept talking about how it would only be a "brief season" of mourning. I know, it's supposed to give people light, that it's not going to be bad forever... but the way he kept repeating it struck me as "Um, it's OK if someone deals with mourning and grief in their own way, and on their own time table. You don't need to be dictating it to them".

The inspiring part was when her best friend unexpectedly got up to speak. Apparently, the family didn't know it was going to happen. She talked about the real person that she lost - the good points, the bad, and how it all worked into someone that was such an essential part of her life. I think that's something for people to aspire to become, to have someone else feel that way about us.

Obviously, my own funeral will be attended by mass celebrations - which will detonate the explosives I have placed around the planet, plunging whatever is left of the world into a new Dark Age, and taking most of the populace with me! :D

Comments

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

First?

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Not that I really have anything other than 'first' to say.

Ho hum!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Happy First!

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

FIRST!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Thief! Thief!!! I challenge the validity of this alleged "frist"!!!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Good job with the starving child niche! I'm not even sure what niche I get to claim after this week... you'll see what I mean if I ever make myself do my edits and send it to you.

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

I had a pretty nice weekend! It's my second Mother's Day as a mother, and I spent it with my husband and kid. Mike (husband) made me waffles and mimosa, and Max, well, he did toddler things, but he was really fun all weekend. And sat at the table the whole time without getting antsy when we went to a Mexican restaurant last night.

We didn't take my mom out because... ugh, long story. Families are hard.

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

It is my 14th.
My son gave me magnets he made and an ink pin he put a daisy (fake) on. As he is not so coordinated being mentally handy capped and autistic (like 14 going on 6) it was very special. My girls gave me purchased items. I gave me a skin for my kindle --its a black hole devouring a star.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I said Happy Mother's Day to my mom, and she asked me if I had allergies. I do not know if 1. she meant, "Are you having a flare-up right now?" or 2. she was trying to be conversational (this is not a thing that we do well) or 3. she is having memory issues again.

Anyway. Have gotten her a giant card, a stuffed doggy, some inspirational cards-in-a-holder-thingy (I dunno, but it looked like something she'd like), and mints. And a bracelet. And I think something else? I dunno.

[unmowngrass.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty sweet :) Good daughter.

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

Man! I hope you can get it fixed? Will your husband be back before the next deadline?

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

Yay, your funeral plans work right into mine.
I shall be buried with all my role playing stuff dressed in a full larp costume and an elaborate scroll accounting all my achievements accumulating in my ascention to the highest rank of game master so that when future archaeologists dig me up they can spend centuries arguing over the spiritual significance of the d10 over the d20 and if one could be substituted for the other in the intricate rituals of the "gamer" as members of this arcane religion are called. If you instagate Armageddon and plunge the world into centuries of darkness and caose then my final April fools prank is garented to work.
It will be the greatest prank ever pulled on the world!

I have a poll on my lj concerning a theory of someone (not me) I find amusing

Were is the home game thread?
I linked my home game entry to the work room because there is no thread to tie it to.
Which reminds me I have to get my Pvc square put together and get some quilting done. As I do not have a decent long arm I have to quilt by hand and the top is all soft because its velvet - my third made from velvet.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

I'm at work so can't say much but YAAAAAY for the deadline move! Thank you so much! I got hit with the ulcer pain last night and couldn't sleep or write or do anything but be sad and hurt, so if the pain does not come back today that extra hour should really help me with finishing my entry in a timely manner and getting it in without hurrying it.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sorry that the pain flared up a bit last night. I really hope it goes away and leaves you be. *HUGS*

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

Gah, got too many deadlines, finally got the LJI one in today, yes, I did that one before my anthology one. Feel flattered Gary...

Also, wrote something I had never written before thanks to whipchick: Romance.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew the deadline was moved last night :P

Poor Java and I stayed up until almost 1 am because when the deadline is at 8 pm EST, I'm still at work and have no other choice but to hurry and get it up on Sunday. But move it back an hour like this and I can finish up on Monday after work! I'm struggling to get out of bed and if I wasn't against tweaking after I post, I'd edit some more because I always like to go over it with less tired eyes. Oh well. I really need to get to bed early tonight to avoid another exhausting week!

I have to blame the Survivor finale for some of my lack of sleep. No writing or editing got done during that. Though I had more done at that time than usual, the finale still kept us up later than we should have stayed up.

Weekend was awesome. I'm now struggling to get ready for work and starting to run late from sleeping in later than I should have. Oops.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* It was a wonderful weekend, honey. I'm sorry we were up so late. But I personally think it's a fantastic piece... a lot of fun and very sweet.

I hope Trollface isn't terrible to you today. *HUGS*

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

My weekend was a flurry of baking and cleaning and working and trying to stay awake while my aunt and uncle and cousins were here for Mother's Day. I am looking forward to my day off tomorrow, because I am tired.

I didn't write a Home Game entry, due to time, though I had an idea for it that I still want to pursue eventually. I guess it's a good thing I got voted out when I did, because having new caretaker duties while my grandmother stays here has really eaten into my writing time. I still never went back to finish the one I started last week.

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

I managed to hook my laptop up to the wired internet, with the over-the-web help of porn_this_way. I found the Ethernet cable hooked to the desktop that came with my room (yeah, it came with a computer) and DIDN'T destroy anything (yet) while plugging it into my laptop. I thought that was pretty cool.

My funeral will involve people wearing pink (as that's my favorite color) and lots of cupcakes. And sparkles. And shiny things. And no wearing all-black. I forbid it; people will wear FUN colors when I die, dammit! :P

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

What if I wanted to come dressed as a sparkly pink cupcake? Would that be allowed?

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

I, too, had an idea which just didn't want to come out right. Actually, in my case, it didn't want to come out at all. I got about two sentences in before another of my ideas was all "write meeeeeeeeee!"

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Good Morning Idolers!

I really should be finishing up my piece for the week but I'm sort of loafing at the moment. I'm pretty well done and it just needs one more small scene and some tweaking so I'll be able to power through it well enough, I'm sure.

Watched the Survivor finale with pixie117 last night and that was fun. We had a wonderful and mellow weekend that involved making these really awesome Frankenstein brownies... a layer of cookie dough topped with a Reese's PB cut and then brownie batter... baked to super yummy goodness. I have one for my lunch today and I'm seriously looking forward to it. :-)

Also... had an absolutely bizarre and disturbing Idol-themed dream last night. Like seriously weird. It involved gunfire, chaos and even death! I woke up just going WTF? I can take a guess as to the meaning and symbolism but wow... my brain is something of a disturbing place sometimes.

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

my brain is something of a disturbing place sometimes.

Based on the stories you write for Idol, I never would have guessed that! :P

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Is anybody available for last-minute betaing? My usual beta is offline for a bit, and I don't know if she'll be back tonight or not....

It's a western, six pages so far and probably one more coming, although I'm very close to done now. So serious trimming help would be great, although just having someone read over it is good too.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Greetings from the Late Commenter Edition! We spent most of yesterday in the car, driving the rest of the way home (after spending the night in Oklahoma). Over our 10-day-long road trip we traveled approximately 4500 miles, saw tons of "Roadside America" attractions (well, maybe a few dozen) including a huge pistachio nut, a 35-foot tall fork, a 50,000 year old meteor crater, a 30-foot tall neon cactus, and a long pedestrial footbridge decorated to look like a rattlesnake. My parsseltongue is rusty, but it was truly awesome! =)

Anyway, we got almost 4 of the Harry Dresden audiobooks listened to on our road trip, and had a grand time, despite getting too little sleep last night, as we didn't get home until 1:30 in the morning, which means I got to sleep around 2:30. Whee!

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Today I've been helping a friend by editing her final paper for her Master's degree. :)

As far as funerals go, I don't want one. I'd rather the people who love me get together somewhere with good food and frosty adult beverages, telling stories and laughing a lot.

if people try to stand around somber and snuffle while listening to recorded organ music I will swoop through and make my displeasure known.

[jacq22.livejournal.com]

That happened, well almost, a funeral we went to of a very strong woman. At the moment the casket went a huge wind blew through the church and nearly took everything off then walls. It was amazing.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Thank you sooo much for extending the deadline, Gary! I got this idea and spent most of the day working on an online photo montage for it. Then, when I finally had time to write, I had to serve dinner to my baby and I. By the time I was finished, I had only 5 minutes to spare before the 8 p.m. deadline and was panicked I wouldn't make it. Imagine my relief to find out you'd moved it to 9 p.m. If I could give you a big hug right now, I would!

[jacq22.livejournal.com]

Whew that was close for you, didn't notice the deadline had been moved.

Funerals; Best recently was a 'live wake' where the person expected to die before her next birthday. So she had her funeral party first. She is still with us,and in my writers group fortnightly!! Best party ever. Hope she is around for the next birthday in November.

For mine I want colour and music, no hymns, no dirges, just Bridge over Troubled water, Fields of Gold then some heavy rock to see them out of the church. I mean ACDC or Pink Floyd or Santana..... and then I want the party to start, a fitting end would be an auction of my paintings, and the money to go to animal rescue. Well that's plan 'a'...

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Mother's Day was lovely! We went for a brief picnic and hike along the parkway, and saw the Hunger Games (yay!!!)

However, between that and seeing The Raven with my husband on Saturday night, my son's costume somehow did not get finished. Found sandals and a bedsheet, though, so the wings and toga await!

[jacq22.livejournal.com]

Your Mother's day sounded perfect.