Green Room - Week 10 - Day 11

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

It's the final day of the Week 10 poll: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/743480.html

Who is going to survive to fight another week???!!!???

Who is going to come back into the game at the end of it???

(Other than ellakite, who should NOT have been eliminated this week, and has been given an Executive Bye. My apologies for that, and thank you for emailing me about it.)

There is still a little more time to give some love over in the Killing Floor: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/743022.html So head on over there if you have the time!

Until then though, what did you LOVE about your weekend?

and of course, what have you enjoyed this week that needs more love in the polls???

Comments

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Or frist?


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG husband-birthday weekend. He is hungover and I'm wiped out. But funtimes!

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

Is it tacky to say, "Me! I need more love in the polls!"? Aw well, tacky or not, I do need more love. I don't want to go home this week, guys! Don't you want to read more awesome stories about queer magicians and drag queens and Southern belles? Because I want to write them for you!

In other news, I've decided to use the next three days off to draft out a longer short story for Glimmer Train's Fiction Open, which is due at the end of the month. I have no idea what I'm going to be writing about, but...

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm....I agree, you need more love in the polls. And how does that work exactly? You've received some great comments on your wonderful little piece of writing....I don't know. The voting is mysterious, isn't it?

Perhaps...there isn't enough of a connection between the piece and the prompt?

[eska818.livejournal.com]

I had a decent weekend - my mom has been feeling well enough lately, and we actually went out shopping for several hours. We haven't done that in years! Even when we did Christmas shopping last year, she would get tired after about thirty minutes and I had to have her sit while I went around doing things I needed to do. She actually wandered around the entire mall with me, and even tried clothes on for herself. It felt really nice. ^.^

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

I went to see the new x-men film, it was good. I was sceptical of the ending though, unless there was a little extra manipulation from Professor X, I don't see it turning out that way after all that just happened.

[eska818.livejournal.com]

I'd really like to see this, I've been hearing a lot of good things.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

We saw "A Million Ways to Die in the West" at the 9:00 am breakfast showing at our local Movie Tavern theater. It was a fun movie, great cast - basically this generations version of "Blazing Saddles" or "Rustler's Rhapsody". Seth MacFarlane was wonderful in it, IMO. He's got charisma out the wazoo, LOL. (Well, okay - Neil Patrick Harris had stuff coming out the wazoo too, but it was NOT charm!!)

I actually put a rec list up in my journal! It isn't exhaustive, but they are entries that I especially enjoyed for whatever reason (I will admit to being a bit whimsical) and many of them could use more love in the polls. A few that I remember especially enjoying, due to putting an asterisk on my spreadsheet: beeker121, dakotawitch, fodschwazzle, kickthehobbit, ryl, shimmerdream, and yachiru.

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you, again!

I will definitely second fodschwazzle, as well—his stuff has been consistently great. :)

[ryl.livejournal.com]

I took an aimless trip to Tennessee yesterday. It's been too long since I've been able to take long pointless trips without worrying about what's going to break off my car next, but after giving various mechanics all my money I trust my car again.

Honestly, it wasn't that long of a trip. Only an hour, but I finally went to TN!

[xshibumix.livejournal.com]

oh so jealous! We just got back from Tennessee...tho it's about 13 hours from us! I wish I were still there!!

[xshibumix.livejournal.com]

Had a glorious weekend of nothing doing! Those are the best kinds of weekends to me :) had dinner with some friends and family on Saturday, took a random little road trip on Sunday and happened upon some Peacocks..but other than that...lots of Wolfenstein LOL Can it still be the weekend please?

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Check the poll and see who needs it -- the great thing about the bouncing immunities is being able to try to send it somewhere where it'll be useful. :)

Thanks, Gary.

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

I was going to make a flippant, self-effacing comment... But I really do appreciate you clearing up the matter of my status. I have also had my own issues with agita and confusion this past week, so I'm willing to accept that what happened was an honest mistake.

And please let me say for the record that I'm very glad that I'm still in LJI.

Thanks again.

Re: Thanks, Gary.

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

I'm super glad you're still here!

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of this weekend was the wedding that happened in a neighbor's backyard. I'm in a small apartment complex so from our balcony we could look through the trees and see part of the ceremony. It was fun to sneakily share in someone's happy day. Not quite so much fun to share, their wedding bad who had a little trouble staying on key, but oh well.

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

That's really sweet! My stepdad told me once that whenever he got sad, he used to drive around and find a wedding to crash. Just the ceremony, though - he'd sit in the back and listen to people share love and commitment, and it always made him feel better.

[beldar.livejournal.com]

What I loved about my weekend was getting to see Joel Hodgeson share the stage with Paul & Storm at Indy PopCon. I have rarely laughed so hard. Also at the con, met the guy who plays Hodor -- he had a of other words to say, it turns out. =)

EDIT: As for more love in the polls, definitely check out the_dark_snack, the subject matter will be familiar to those who read her back in Season 3, this adds a bit more to the story.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

You got to meet Joel??? That's great!!

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I thought the whole point was that ellakite had an unused bye, so he wasn't a bye-out. Are you saying you've given him another "executive" bye, leaving him with an additional unused bye?

My spreadsheet has not completely given up yet on trying to keep up with wtf is going on.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

He wasn't. However, because of that thread I decided "they must be right" and declared him gone.

If I make an error and someone sticks around on the poll for a week longer, that really doesn't impact anyone. It's minor.

If I make an error and ELIMINATE SOMEONE FROM THE GAME, I announced it, it happened - that's a major thing. I'm making it up to him by calling this week an "executive bye", which means he still has one.

[reckless-blues.livejournal.com]

This weekend was sort of depressing. I'm taking summer classes soon - this class is really competitive and pretty much everybody on a medical path at my school needs it, so it runs through the summer - so that'll cheer me up. I'm the type who really needs to keep busy.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it. But yeah, totally understand the need for that sort of stimulating busyness.

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

My 16-month-old slept till EIGHT on Saturday morning and I am STILL excited about it!

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

The weekend started out fabulous (the Olivia Records "We Aren't Dead Yet" tour) and ended up going to shit in an epic way.

Ah, the joys of being from a small town. My sister still lives there, so when she decides to do something stupid on a grand scale, I find out on Facebook. Over and over and over again. *sigh* Not from my mom. Fucking Facebook.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

:stumbles bleary-eyed into the GR:

Weekend? Oh...yeah, weekend, I think?

Neighborhood block party Friday night to Saturday night. Almost ran over a deer on the highway on my way to work Sunday morning (I'm fine physically but still spooked as hell, the Jeep is fine). Met up with some friends in RI yesterday after work. Due to a couple of unforeseen incidents and a really really REALLY long wait for dinner, we didn't get home until almost midnight. And yeah, I had to be up three hours later for work :p

I want to take a nap but I also want to mow the lawn.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I took my first trip through the Everglades and Miami.

Had a fantastic time!

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I'm super surprised you hadn't been before! The Everglades are neat, aren't they? :)

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

What I loved about my weekend was Portland. Ohhhh Portland. Admittedly, I didn't see much of it - I spent basically all day yesterday in Powell's, and acquired far too many books (nonsense. One can never have too many books), before heading back to Seattle via train. I'm still gallivanting around on vacation here in the Pacific Northwest and loving it. It's been kind of weird to be so absent from Idol and my online life in general and specific this last little while. I think I needed the vacation, though. It's doing me some good.

I hope everyone else is doing well. <3

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

I've been to Portland once, and if I ever go back I'm bringing an empty suitcase with me to fill with books from Powells.

Yay for a good and relaxing vacation.

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

weekend?
Love?
Was long and full of cleaning stuff.
So a very tipical end of week.
and begining of week
and middle of week.
Only two more days left till children are out of school.
Great, now how will I keep track of the days?
beyound that peoples are welcome to read my home game entry if they have time after voting.
Or not, its a touch depresing.

[teenagewitch.livejournal.com]

I have 16 days until my kids get out and then there are 75 until they go back. I agree with you that its hard to not have that schedule.

[teenagewitch.livejournal.com]

Weekend...well mine was very quiet. My husband took my son on a father-son camping trip on Friday night, didn't sleep well. We went to sleep at 10:30 on a Saturday. Sunday was grocery shopping and the never ending laundry fun. I am excited because I get to join in on the idol fun:)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

The weekend was over too soon! As always. :(

For those needing more love, maldinarose in Tribe Redemption, fodschwazzle, reckless_blues (long story but so worth it) and yachiru (amazing, chilling, bleakly vivid story) in Tribe One should all be doing better!

Weekend was bad, sorry to say.

[favoritebean.livejournal.com]

My tortoise is pretty sick. I'm worried she's not going to make it. Between that and the workload of this week, I'm feeling pretty blue.


Still reading entries, sorry I'm not commenting. Best of luck, everyone.

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

Day 5 of a headache, and tomorrow I am supposed to go to my colleague's funeral. I'm not sure I'll make it, but we'll see. If not, I'll be at the doctor's trying to get rid of this thing.
I did love that I was at my mom's with my daughter this weekend, did me a lot of good to be at the sea :) except for the headache, of course.

Hope everyone is doing well, I've been pretty much a hermit due to this :(

[aimercat.livejournal.com]

i'll tell you what I didn't like about this weekend...misbehaving sports fans. dear lord, if you go out to watch a game have the decency to be a mature adult about splitting your check or even simply PAYING your check for that matter. And don't get so sloppy that the establishment has to cut you off, dear lord, it's a sports bar, not a fraternity house.

i loved the wonderful brunch my boyfriend cooked for me on Sunday while I watched baseball though.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I've seen people get so pissed off with the outcome of the game that they decide to hold the staff responsible.

Which is craziness.

(Unless of course of the wait staff has a voodoo doll in the kitchen, in which case, it's altogether likely that anyone being a jerk to them is going to have their team lose! ;) )