The Wheelhouse - Week 16 - 3
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therealljidolI just posted the polls - therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1213323.html but I wanted to say a few things, and what is a Wheelhouse (or Green Room for that matter) without it being a place where I can just say things... and hopefully you will say things too, and there will be actual comments and conversations!!)
These polls are going to take us down to the Top 5. Which, if anyone remembers back when we started, which was literally a different life ago, is when the Wheel stops spinning.
That means that last twist was the final one. :( There are SO MANY fun twists still on that board! Ones that would not fit in a regular Idol season. (Including Gary's Choice. Where I literally would be a one person Gatekeeper. Yeah, I wasn't looking forward to that one. But you can't tell me that it wouldn't have people on edge knowing it was coming!!! :D)
But all things come to an end, and it appears we have reached that point. I mentioned in the poll post that we were headed to the Finale, and that's what will be coming over the next couple of weeks. So if you still have any gas in your tank, now is the time to rev those engines, or whatever analogy works in this scenario!
I'm going to use the Wheel to determine the prompt, but that's more likely than not going to be it. Unless of course the Wheel somehow compels me to show up in the Finale itself. Which, I haven't asked it how it feels about that... but that might be a question that needs to be asked. :)
I ALMOST asked it if it changed its mind about the Top 5. But that seemed like leading the witness. :D
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How am I? Depends on the day. But since you are hypothetically asking today, I'm OK. Feeling stressed with the holidays and totally unprepared for the trip I'm taking this weekend. (Going to the Holiday Hangout music festival in Little Rock. This is the last of the big events that I decided to stay living here to make sure I would be able to attend. The good? I'm attending. The bad? I'll be broke when I'm there. :D But at least I'll be there and can figure something out. That's more than I've been able to do any other year when I've wanted to go. I'll finally be able to cross that off my bucket list (as well as one of my favorite bands is playing, who I've never seen before. So that's TWO items I can cross off my bucket list!)
I've basically been living life to distract myself and that has to shift in the next few months to moving out mode. Which I'm not looking forward to, but that's why I've been trying to have fun now, before I can't do anything crazy for quite some time!!
(The plus side of that is that I said that I can't do stuff like this for "quite some time", which implies that I'm thinking of "quite some time" in the future. Which is a HUGE step forward from where I was even a couple months ago. So yeah, trying to figure out money to do this stuff, but clearly it's helped a LOT with my mental state.)
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Speaking of money - I've been considering making Idol merch available for the 20th anniversary . Maybe another shirt. I don't know how many people remember when I did that years ago. Note: I didn't actually buy one myself. Because I needed that money! :D So if you were one of the people who bought one, you own a piece of Idol history that I don't!!
Not sure what kinds of things people might be interested in. Or if anyone would be interested in anything at all. Maybe it's best to not do anything like that... unless you really want an Idol coffee mug. :D
That was just feeling like the right time for it - if it's going to happen at all. Although honestly, I had a passing thought today that maybe someone wanted Wheel of Chaos merch. Somehow I doubt that though. :D Unless of course it's your own Wheel to make your life decisions for you!
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I was asked if people still needed to send in their selection for who will receive antidote now that the Killers are gone. I think the only response I can officially give to that is "If you really want to you can send in votes for antidote for as long as you want to!" :D
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How are YOU doing?
These polls are going to take us down to the Top 5. Which, if anyone remembers back when we started, which was literally a different life ago, is when the Wheel stops spinning.
That means that last twist was the final one. :( There are SO MANY fun twists still on that board! Ones that would not fit in a regular Idol season. (Including Gary's Choice. Where I literally would be a one person Gatekeeper. Yeah, I wasn't looking forward to that one. But you can't tell me that it wouldn't have people on edge knowing it was coming!!! :D)
But all things come to an end, and it appears we have reached that point. I mentioned in the poll post that we were headed to the Finale, and that's what will be coming over the next couple of weeks. So if you still have any gas in your tank, now is the time to rev those engines, or whatever analogy works in this scenario!
I'm going to use the Wheel to determine the prompt, but that's more likely than not going to be it. Unless of course the Wheel somehow compels me to show up in the Finale itself. Which, I haven't asked it how it feels about that... but that might be a question that needs to be asked. :)
I ALMOST asked it if it changed its mind about the Top 5. But that seemed like leading the witness. :D
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How am I? Depends on the day. But since you are hypothetically asking today, I'm OK. Feeling stressed with the holidays and totally unprepared for the trip I'm taking this weekend. (Going to the Holiday Hangout music festival in Little Rock. This is the last of the big events that I decided to stay living here to make sure I would be able to attend. The good? I'm attending. The bad? I'll be broke when I'm there. :D But at least I'll be there and can figure something out. That's more than I've been able to do any other year when I've wanted to go. I'll finally be able to cross that off my bucket list (as well as one of my favorite bands is playing, who I've never seen before. So that's TWO items I can cross off my bucket list!)
I've basically been living life to distract myself and that has to shift in the next few months to moving out mode. Which I'm not looking forward to, but that's why I've been trying to have fun now, before I can't do anything crazy for quite some time!!
(The plus side of that is that I said that I can't do stuff like this for "quite some time", which implies that I'm thinking of "quite some time" in the future. Which is a HUGE step forward from where I was even a couple months ago. So yeah, trying to figure out money to do this stuff, but clearly it's helped a LOT with my mental state.)
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Speaking of money - I've been considering making Idol merch available for the 20th anniversary . Maybe another shirt. I don't know how many people remember when I did that years ago. Note: I didn't actually buy one myself. Because I needed that money! :D So if you were one of the people who bought one, you own a piece of Idol history that I don't!!
Not sure what kinds of things people might be interested in. Or if anyone would be interested in anything at all. Maybe it's best to not do anything like that... unless you really want an Idol coffee mug. :D
That was just feeling like the right time for it - if it's going to happen at all. Although honestly, I had a passing thought today that maybe someone wanted Wheel of Chaos merch. Somehow I doubt that though. :D Unless of course it's your own Wheel to make your life decisions for you!
***
I was asked if people still needed to send in their selection for who will receive antidote now that the Killers are gone. I think the only response I can officially give to that is "If you really want to you can send in votes for antidote for as long as you want to!" :D
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How are YOU doing?
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