Houses.......my old friend. We meet again. They were reallyyyy difficult to manage in my season but I ended up doing alright with it then. My HoH of each new house was consistently the worst person for me, but I ended up sneaking by and avoided being nominated so I'm praying it works out here too. All Star games are a much different level though so I doubt I have such luck this time
My house is...interesting. There's a pretty big group of friends here (astro 2.0 anyone?) so that's a pretty big element in this house right now. For those who don't know, the group is myself, Shilpa, Zach, Casey, and Candice. BUT DON'T FRET HOUSECALLERS! It won't be a snooze fest and we won't all ride into the sunset holding hands together. There are cracks in this group game wise and I'm constantly keeping my eyes out for greener pastures
...with that said! Right now my closest ally here is Zach by a mile. We've got BrainStorm going on right now and it's working out well so far. Our conversations have been really fun/amusing and beneficial to me which is all I can ask for. We seem to be trusting each other easily enough at this point but I have no doubt he has some reservations about me. He'll be looking for a backup (unless I'm his backup) and so will I. Not gonna put all of my eggs in the BrainStorm basket but so far it's working out
I gotta continue to feel Shilpa out. We had a brief conversation the other day about how we actually wanna work together in this and work towards trusting each other (we pretty much never work with each other in games). It's possible though because I see our agendas lining up for this early portion of the game. I gotta have a few more game-heavy conversations with her first
Candice and Casey are in a similar boat for me right now. I like both of them but I gotta work harder on the transition from outside the game friends into inside the game allies. Casey specifically wanted a F2 with me early on but our game conversations have been lacking so far. There's no way he views our conversations to be the convos between a F2, so I really have to work on that
ANYWHO HoH. I gave some really shitty answers and might've won otherwise. I have no idea what I was thinking saying a female was the most attractive, that was stupid of me. I WAS LIKE THE ONLY ONE!
Nicole one which...isn't bad. Not the best, not the worst. Luckily I had a few conversations with her before she won which is apparently more than...most of this house can say? I guess a few had never spoken to her which is beautiful news to me
Unfortunately she's insanely difficult to talk to. When she's present she's fun enough but DAMN! She takes ages to respond. I'll see her little AIM pencil start to wiggle and my heart fills with joy and excitement and then it stops typing and I want to die
But she did manage to muster out a record long 5 line message to me and said I was safe and didn't have to worry. PHEW! Sounds great to me. I know she told this to several people though...Ika, Shilpa, Zach, Rachelle, Candice maybe? So uhhh..I dunno who the replacement is gonna be if there is one
She says the noms are gonna be Chris and Casey. A perfect world for me would be Rachelle leaving I think, but that's not a huge deal. I'm working on my relationship with her so there's room for it to grow into something strong if she stays which I'm pretty positive she will. Right now she's just kinda awkward though and we don't entirely mesh yet
If those are the noms, I'd prefer Chris to leave. I know him outside the game fairly well, but I'm not sure him being in does much of anything for my game right now. Casey staying has more benefits for me so I'll likely end up trying to make that happen if these are the first/final noms. I feel bad for Casey too, he seemingly doesn't know he's going up yet from what I've heard. The button is to blame for that really, definitely can't let a nom get a whiff of anything with the button twist still around. ROUGH! Who knows though, Casey could've had some great talks with Nicole tonight after I left and things could be swinging a different way. Not gonna feel secure until the final nominees are posted
I'll be trying hard for Veto for sure, I don't plan on throwing a single comp or holding back. Winning has some great benefits too. I told Nicole I'd go hard for it and keep her initial noms the same if I won, which would go a long way I think. No HoH wants someone fucking up their noms this early
There's a lot more intricate relationships and other little details and events that went down but none of that is too important right now. Things are looking okay for me right now and I'm having fun so things are good on my end. Definitely not getting comfortable though, gonna keep my eyes and ears open while I work on my individual relationships a lot more tomorrow. OKAY TY FOR READING BYE
UGHHH I'm so mad. I had to start the entire Veto over when I had about 5 people left. Somehow I got taken to a proboards screen in my work post that said like, DRAG FILES TO SHARE. When I clicked to go back everything I had done so far was gone. Same thing happened to me when I typed up that big long confessional the other night and had to start it all over. No way I won that
Anyone know how to even get to that screen? Something I'm doing is somehow taking me there