Week 3 - Diary Room

[heather]

7/3/2015

It's only the third freaking round!  So why does it feel like we've been playing this game for months now?  Last week especially, was just beyond exhausting.  



The pack mentality in this game is really starting to annoy the heck out of me too.  From people trying to interfere in evictions outside of their own houses, to the collective groans heard around the world when Heaven and Ryan once again saved themselves from the block, I'm just over it.

I know logically too that none of this should really bother me.  After all, players like Heaven, Ryan and Sofia being such huge targets really only serves to benefit me and my position here. I think that what it all comes down to is that I really just adore Ryan.  Of course, my soft spot for him could be clouding my judgment on some things, but I'm legitimately frustrated.  For the second season now, nobody is giving him a chance.  He deserves a chance!  Ryan is honestly a wonderful person.  He's charming, intelligent and a straight-shooter, and I for one genuinely want to work with him in this game.  He's a beast at comps, sure, but he's not some unstoppable machine.  I know from experience that he can be beaten, I've done it myself, not once but twice.

There are so many different ways to measure strength in the Big Brother Rise & Fall House anyway.  I for one am not intimidated by working with strong players.  I am a strong player.  If all of the big names in this series systematically take one another out, then there's gonna be a pretty lackluster group of housemates that make it to the endgame.  Don't get me wrong, I'm all for playing intelligently and making moves at the correct times, but I'm not gonna sit here and sip this 'us against them, lynch mob' Kool-Aid that so many other people are currently chugging down.  Especially when I prefer many of the so called targets to the people that are targeting them.

[heather]

7/3/2015

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My patience is seriously being tested in this game.  Brian is nice but most of the time I just can't!


_{Brian and me (left) usually.}

[heather]

7/4/2015

After all of the chaos this afternoon, I feel like I landed in a really good spot this week! I'm easily one of the safest people in House 2 right now. While my relationship with Heaven isn't as great as I'd like for it to be, she has plenty of better options to choose from when it comes to targets, and then with Hayley, I feel about as rock solid as a girl can get with her. She and I really bonded over losing Brittany, and from a game perspective, that couldn't have come at a better time for me.

This is Hayley's first HOH win ever in the series too! Knowing how happy she must be (or will be rather) seriously warms my heart! Hayley is a really great girl, and the fact that she was almost the first person evicted from the game is just gross.

Based on what I'm hearing, Heaven's nominees are likely gonna be Christine and Ika, and Hayley's will probably be Ash and Brian. Ash and Christine are the targets on each side with Keith as the backup in case of a Veto upset (hopefully it doesn't come to that though since I need Keith here!) Between Ash and Stine, Stine is my girl, so I really hope that she and Ika can win the Battle of the Block and save themselves.

The word through the grapevine is that Ash wants to throw the competition anyway. I'm not sure why he thinks that's a good idea... apparently he wants to convince Hayley to backdoor Heaven.

_Umm...

Did he even bother to glance at Season 6 lol?  Hayley is a savvy player and I'm sure that she'd be down to make a big move like this, but not against Heaven, not right now.

[heather]

7/5/2015



Most of House 2 is erupting in chaos right now and that's absolutely perfect in my book, because I'm not a part of any of it!


_{Let's eavesdrop on the housemates!}

Meanwhile in the backyard...

_{"So many ants mhm..."}

_{"Sick bro... yo Big Brother, can we get some Raid up in here?"}

[heather]

House 2 Assessment

Wow he really flew off the handle this round!  Unlike some, I do understand what Ash was trying to accomplish by throwing the Battle of the Block.  His odds of being safe post-Veto would have been much higher than Christine's are now (since Heaven is now guaranteed to play in the competition.)  

Ash definitely isn't stupid, he just lacks any sort of tact and he goes about executing things in a completely reckless way.  He told Keith that he'd rather go out swinging right now than be a 'floater' lol.  I guess that Ash didn't get the memo that you can play assertively and not be a complete asshole.

The bright side of him being saved by Brian's upset win is that he's now a huge target for quite a few people going forward.

Good for Brian for winning that competition all by himself!  I think that he surprised a lot of people and even though his gloating is already annoying the heck out of me (Lord grant me patience with this one,) he has every right to be proud.

Poor Christine is a nervous wreck this week and who can really blame her?  When she realized that she and Ika had lost the comp, I think that she felt really defeated.  In my heart I really want Christine to stay but I have to be so careful.  Zach is already trying to force my hand and get me to evict her.  The best case scenario for my game is honestly Ash or Christine winning the Veto and taking Christine off of the block.  Keith would likely be Heaven's replacement nominee and unlike Stine, I think that he'd stay over Ika.

Hayley is amazing.  She was seriously so cute when she found out that she won HOH.  It's sad that she got dethroned because unlike Heaven, this might have been Hayley's only chance to enjoy the perks of being in power but at least she got to experience the title!

One of the things that I love most about Hayley is that she's an independent thinker.  So many people in this house seem to fold easily to the majority or the will of others, but Hayley, she does what she wants.

I think that she's being genuine with me.  I hope so, because I honestly do like Heaven, she's an amazing player and a complete sweetheart and I have a lot of respect for her.  Apparently she's getting a lot of intel from a source or sources about who wants her gone, and as far as I know, my name has not been thrown out to her as one of the culprits.

Ika really is a star.  If she goes this week (fat chance,) then things are going to be considerably more dull around here.  I really think that she's a lovely lady and while she might not be the strongest competitor or player, she tries her heart out and that's what really counts.

After the little stunt that I pulled last round, going against Zach's wishes, it's a miracle that neither of Keith or I are on the block.  My biggest fear is that Heaven or Zach will use the Veto on Ika if they win it, and then Heaven will put up Keith.  I don't like being strong-armed into doing things, but if they want to 100% secure my vote to evict Christine, then putting up Keith is what they'll do.

Memphis is my buddy.  I seriously love him so much.  Today at #SummerCamp the two of us are making crafts, swimming, and then camping out overnight in the Have-Not Room.  I adore Memphis and I think that the two of us are an amazing team.  We're doing a really great job of staying out of the spotlight for now!

I love Zach outside of the house, but in the context of this game he is an apex predator.  When I'm talking to him, I feel like everything that I say is being analyzed and filed away.  Not only is he a triple threat and the single most well connected person in this whole cast, but he is also calculating, ruthless and vengeful to the extreme.  If he feels crossed or threatened by you in any way, then it's safe to say that your days here are probably numbered.  Shilpa wants to make a move on him ASAP, and while I'm not opposed to striking should the opportunity present itself, the ramifications of it all backfiring would be disastrous.

[heather]

7/7/2015

  _{Nick reacting to shit Brian says.  This GIF is everything right now.}  

[heather]

7/8/2015



I think that it felt like a forgone conclusion to most people that Heaven would win the Veto this round, Ika would come off the block and Christine would be evicted... but nope!  It just goes to show you how unpredictable this game can be!  I honestly love it.  Christine going home would not have been good for my game.

Earlier in the week, Zach started spreading a rumor about a Season 9 alliance, and he told me that one of Ash, Christine or Ika had to be the next to go.  When he said that though, I doubt that he ever banked on Ika being the only one of those three left nominated.  It was just so unlikely but now that it's happened, I fully intend on holding Zach to his word.  Ika is dangerous!  She's such a tempting player for everyone to want to drag along but I took notes during Season 9, and history isn't repeating itself; not on my watch.



Not wanting to take any chances and knowing how tempted Zach might have been to change things up on me, the minute that Keith went up as the replacement, I went right to work securing votes.  I knew that Hayley didn't need much convincing.  The two of us had already been plotting on ways to keep Christine and ax Ika if the Veto wasn't used.  Christine was an easy sell too actually and she brought Ash so that was that (so much for that Season 9 alliance right?)  Four votes evicts someone this week and we had four!

Brian and Ika both inadvertently confirmed to me later on that Zach was indeed feeling people out to see if a Keith eviction was possible, but I guess that he realized pretty quickly that it was not.  I got Memphis (OMG I LOVE HIM, I need to do an update soon about our OTP) and Zach secured without too much of a fuss and I'm honestly feeling pretty good about this vote.  Naturally Brian is still about two steps behind on everything.  He still wants to evict Keith because I guess his new strategy is to do the exact opposite of what Ash is doing.  I'm pretty sure that he'll come around though once he realizes that keeping Ika is a lost cause.