Before I start I have a couple of things I wanted to mention, 1 for all my readers who know that my post go live at 7 AM I'm sorry this one is late, this weekend was busy but there is a post coming that will explain it I promise! Also I did a guest post this weekend on Paige from the Sticky Note Addicts page, you can read it here! Now back to our regular schedule post, a little late. LOL.
For all of you who live in New England you probably know about all the snow that we have been getting over the last week. Last week we had 2 snow days and of course I had to do multiple blog post about it. Today I wanted to share some of my favorite snow day activities.
1. Bake
2. TV Binge, I have been getting Hannah hooked on Teen Wolf!
As you all know I love me some Dylan O'Brien so the first time is always a must. LOL.
11. Play in the snow.
You can read about me and the merps playing in the snow here!
I hope all of your dealing with the snow are having fun, staying safe and warm. Also hour are you spending your snow days, let me know in the comments below.
As some of you probably know for about a month Mama J and I have been dog sitting a dog named Kizzy. If you haven't read my other of Adventures in Dog Sitting you can read them here and here. I have this post and another post planned for my Adventure in Dog Sitting series.
On Wednesday it was time to say goodbye to Kizzy and I was sad to see her go. One of my favorite things about dog sitting Kizzy was that two of us lived on such steady routine, which is so rare for me during the summer.
Kizzy as I've mentioned many times is rescue dog and we like to joke that she has the ability to love one person at a time and while she was here I was her favorite person. Which caused me to joke that I wish I could freeze her make her my dog when I grow up.
Her owner called me at about noon on Wednesday telling me that she as coming to pick her up and I spent my last hour with her gathering all her stuff up and cuddling on the couch. Before I said goodbye I gave her lots of hugs and kisses. And shed a few tears after she left.
Kizzy doesn't love taking pictures but I grabbed one final picture before she left. Please excuse both out appearances.
I have visited her since she left and she's happy to be home. Although we miss each other.
With America in charge of who the third nominee was and the houseguest clueless to that fact, ciaos is sure to ensue. If this is the first time you have come across my Big Brother recaps and want to see what I thought about the other weeks before reading this week you can by hitting the links: Week 1 (Season Premiere), Week two, week three, Week Four
***Spoiler Alert: I will be discussing events that have happened in any Big Brother up to and including the episode that was aired on July 25, 2013. I don't watch the live feeds so I will not be discussing anything that was not featured in the edit show!**
Competitions:
Much like last week the HOH competition was features on Thursday episode but I'm discussing it during this week's recap.
For this HOH competition America was able to influence the game. America had to vote which houseguest fit the description best, much like superlatives in high school yearbooks. Then all the eligible houseguest (everyone but Helen) were the questions having to guess which houseguest America thought best described the description. This HOH went to a tie breaker and in the end Judd came out victorious as the new HOH.
Judd after winning HOH
This week their was a have not competition that left me craving a summer treat.
The houseguest (with the exception of Judd) were split into 3 teams of 4. Two at time they had to run up to the Fro-yo dispenser and eat as much fro-yo as possible. When the horn sounded the houseguest would run and switch places with the other players. They would do this process twice so that each house guest tried both types of fro-yo. What were the times you might be asking. One was a traditional flavor and one was distgusting flavor anchovy and Habanero. The three teams were weighted before and after eating fro-yo and the team who lost the most amount of weight became the have nots of the week. The player who rocked this competition was Gina Marie who walked away with a food baby.
The final competition this week was the Power of Veto. This week it was played by Judd, McCrae, Helen, Elissa, Aaryn and Kaitlin. It was hosted by Andy.
This week each of players had to crawl through mud and find ballots, they would then run back to their voting booths and open ballot. Each ballot had a number on it, they then had to decide if they wanted to keep it or discarded. Whoever has the largest number of votes win. They could discard as many votes as they want but can only keep 4. Some of the higher votes came with punishments and the lower ones came with prizes. Helen got a score 29 votes and with 10 votes got an 8 PM crfew for two nights. Kaitlin got 24 votes but didn't get and prizes or punishments, McCrae got 20 votes, one of this ballots had a 0 on but he won $5000. Aaryn got 32 votes and much like Kaitlin didn't get an prizes or punishments. Judd got 38 votes, one his ballots were 18 and got 24 hours soloitary confidment. Elissa got 40 votes and has to set out for the next veto competition. Elissa won this power of Veto. This competition looks like so much fun!
Nominations and BBMVP:
This week was unpredictable with who Judd was going to nominate. Judd like every HOH was getting advice from everyone. Although the houseguest who was in Judd's ear the most was Amanda who wanted him to try and break up Spencer, Howard and Candice by putting up Howard. Judd stood pretty firm to his guns of wanting to evict and female with his original nominations being...
Aaryn
Kaitlin
Boy don't those nomination sound familiar?
When it comes time for MVP to get announced Elissa becomes really nervous because she doesn't who it is and believes that she is the target. Little does the house known, although some are supicious, that America is MVP. Apparently Elissa had a write to be scared because she became the third nominee.
After Elissa got nominated the house went crazy trying to figure out who is MVP. The biggest suspicion is that Elissa was MVP and nominated herself. If those rumor were true and MVP wasn't America and Elissa had been able to pull that off, hands down Elissa would be my player of the week.
With Elissa winning the MVP, America next player with the most number of votes took Elissa spot. The next nominee was....
Making the final 3 nominations Aaryn, Gina Marie and Kaitlin.
Alliances:
Howard and Spencer decide to start a new alliance along with Judd, Kaitlin and Gina Marie. They want this alliance to be the outsiders. They believe that they can over throw the "Power", of Elissa, Helen, Amanda and McCrae. I'll be honest my favorite part is for the first since Nick left, Gina Marie acted like she actually wanted to be there. But soon the new form alliance got stuck between a rock and hard place when two of their member were put on the block.
Showmances:
David and Aaryn
Gina Marie and Nick
Jeremy and Kaitlin
One more showmance bit the dust last week, but don't you worry another showmance started right up.
McCrae and Amanda
Still going strong and if the other house guests want any chance at winning they need to send at least one of them home, I'd guess Amanda because she's the bigger threat to the others.
Candice and Howard
These two seem to sincerely enjoy spending time with one another and do seem to like each other. During Diary Room discussion both admitted to seeing their showmance to be real and two really trust each other. But Candice is smart and Howard is strong making them a HUGE threat to break up.
Drama:
Once again Big Brother opened up with the disclaimer and probably will for the rest of the season, or at least until Aaryn and Gina Marie leave.
Something that was suppose to start out fun took a turn for the worse. Let me explain. This week was McCrae's birthday and the house guest came up with a surprise for him. But soon Elissa start throwing jabs at Amanda. Which might be one of your dumbest moves considering that Amanda and McCrae have helped kept Elissa safe in this game. Hopefully she can counteract mistakes.
Eviction:
Earlier this week Kaitlin was told that she was only a pawn and she had nothing to worry about. She even believed that her alliance would help keep her safe. After the final nominations were announced Aaryn started to hard core campigan and eventually made a deal with the house guests that if she won HOH next week her target would be Howard.
This week was unanimous vote so with 9 votes Kaitlin was the first female to leave the Big Brother house.
Unlike her boy toy Jeremy she only hugged Gina Marie goodbye (She was the only won who didn't have a hand in voting her out). When she was out with Julie she was gracious loser and talked about how she couldn't wait to see her house mates on finale night. By the time her exit interview was over I was sad to see her go.
My Player of the Week:
This week was hard to choice my player of the week. Not one single person made any big moves it was more of a group decision. I ended up debating between my 2 least favorite house guests and made who my descion my remembering my definition for what makes My Player of the Week, is someone made a move that helped their game. So, this weeks player of the week (I never thought this player would get it) is someone what worked their butt off to stay in the house and manage to sway the house full of people who hate them. This weeks player of the week is...
I want to start out by saying that in no way do I agree with what she has said. With that being said Aaryn did a great job sway the house and making it that she got to stay house.
One of my favorite parts of this weeks episode was when they let Judd out of solitary confinement. The house guest got all excited to see them again. It remind me of John and Kate Plus 8 when one of the kids would leave for a day, then come back and they would be happy to see them again because it was like part of them was missing. It was adorable.
What were your favorite part of this week? Who is your favorite player? Let me know in comments below.
Also as you can see I tweet through the episodes, you can follow me and see what I think during the episode. My twitter name is Judy_Judy94.
Last night was the second live eviction of the season and now its time to discuss this weeks eviction. You can read about other weeks by hitting the links: week 1, week 2
***Spoiler Alert: I will be discussing events that have happened in any Big Brother up to and including the episode that was aired on July 11, 2013. I don't watch the live feeds so I will not be discussing anything that was not featured in the edit show!*** Competitions:
Sunday night's episode started with the second HOH competitions of the season. This week they were paired up together in teams of 2. The first member of the team would fill a measuring cup (about 1/2 cup in size) with BBQ sauce, they would then they'd run across a slippery path to a hedge, on the other side is their partner. They then had to transfer the BBQ sauce into their partners cup who would then run two table that held two containers. If they decide to filled up the smaller one it would release two bigger measuring cups (about cup size) that would help them fill up the bigger jug. The first team to fill up big jug the would have to decide between the two of them who would be HOH for the week.
During the competitions Amanda starts sliding on her butt. After competition during her DR talk she explained why with the logic above.
During the whole competition Elissa/Andy and Jeremy/Aaryn were neck and neck. After releasing the bigger cups Judd's team caught up fast. But in the end Jeremy and Aaryn were the winners.
When asked who was going to be HOH Jeremy jumped right in saying it would be Aaryn. He had 2 (1 of which was well reasoned) reasons for making Aaryn HOH. His good reason was that he could be in Aaryn's ear and encourage her to nominate who he wanted with out getting blood on his hands.
Aaryn's first job as HOH was to choice how would be Have nots for the week. Before chosing she called out the whole house asking who voted David out. When no one admitted to it she made Elissa, Andy, Helen and Candice have nots. Elissa, Andy and Helen had been have nots last week.
The other competition this week was POV. The POV was played by Aaryn, Elissa, Helen, Amanda, Jeremy and Nick. It was hosted by Gina Marie. Before the competition began they got a guest message from former Big Brother Player, Britney Haynes telling them that she needs help setting up her nursery.
The house guest then preceded to the back yard where there were 6 over sized cribs with over sized mobiles in over the crib. Each of the players had to jump out over their cribs run across the backyard to a big toy chest and grab ten different sized stuff animals and run back to their crib. The challenge of this game was to get all the animals onto the mobile so that it will be balanced without any of the animals touching the ground. Throughout most of the competition Amanda was in the lead but she just couldn't get the animals to not touch the ground. Elissa had the most trouble balancing her mobile. In the end Jeremy won.
After winning Jeremy was not a a graceful winner and that probably will kill his social game.
Nominations and BBMVP:
Like every week the Aaryn had a lot voices in her ear about who she put up. Right after winning HOH Aaryn was told by multiply people to put up Helen and Elissa because nobody would vote Helen out. It also would be a good move on Aaryn's part because by putting Elissa and Helen up she has the potential of breaking up a duo.
Helen tired to make a deal with Aaryn by saying that they should form a secret alliance. That way towards the end of the season Helen would put up Aaryn's friends so that Aaryn could vote them out but still have friends in the jury house.
When the moving company had a mini meeting they convince Jeremy to try and convince Aaryn to put up Elissa and Amanda because Amanda is the only person that is in the way of the Moving Company having full control of the house. When Jeremy approaches Aaryn with this idea she tells her that Amanda was the Mastermind of David getting evicted.
Put in the end Aaryn didn't surprise anyone and nominated...
Elissa
and
Helen
Once again this week Elissa was chosen by America to be BBMVP. As soon as she found out she went and told Helen. They debated between putting up Jeremy or Kaitlin. If they chose Kaitlin they thought that she could win and then they could back door Jeremy because they believed that Jeremy was a bigger target. In the end Elissa thought the backdoor plan was too risky and in the end Elissa put up...
Although Jeremy won POV and was able to Veto himself and was no longer on the block. Since he was nominated by BBMVP, Elissa had to put up someone else. She again debated between two people. Originally she thought Kaitlin because she is close to Jeremy and if she couldn't get out Jeremy why not get out his closest allie. Her other opition was suggested to her by Candice who wanted to break up the moving company.
But in the end Elissa decided to put up...
Making it that Nick, Helen and Elissa are all up on the block. Normally I know who I want to go home but this week I don't want to see any of them go home.
Alliances:
On Sunday Nights episode Helen and Candice were the two that got the closest to figure out all the members of the moving company. After a few minutes of discussing the two of them were able to figure out every member of the moving with the exception of McCrae. But I'm not hundred percent sure but I think that McCrae isn't a huge member of this alliance as he was when he was HOH. I hope that McCrae picks up on this and drops the moving company soon because I really would like to see him win.
Prior to Elissa nominating Nick she tried to make a 2 week deal with Nick where she wouldn't nominate him for eviction as long as he threw this weeks POV competition. When Jeremy won POV Elissa approached Nick again to see if he would vote for her to stay. When asked Nick was very squirrelly and wouldn't give her a straight answer. What Nick should have done is lie and say that he was keeping her, even if in the end he voted her out, that would have saved him from the block.
Some tension was forming between the moving company when even before the POV replacement nominee was announced Jeremy went to every member of the Moving Company telling them if Kaitlin was put up and Elissa stayed he would know it was because a member of Moving Company voted Kaitlin out and he would no longer trust them. Those comments did not sit well with the Moving Company and it seems that a lot them may be realizing that Jeremy isn't as nice as they original believed.
During Thursday episode the edited part was filled with last minute scheming including some from the Moving Company. They realized that they really needed to get rid of Amanda to keep McCrae's loyalitiy leaving McCrae in a tough situation. McCrae had to chose between his showmance and his original alliance.
Showmances:
This season is seems that every single person has a showmance. The two biggest one featured so far are Jeremy and Kaitlin who are not hiding their feelings from anyone, making them a huge target because everyone wants to break up a showmance.
The other showmance that was shown this week is Nick and Gina Marie. Gina Marie is quickly falling for Nick. I can't blame her, I think if I was in the Big Brother House I would have a slight crush on Nick. Although in a Diary Room segment Nick said that his feelings for Gina Marie might not be completely honest. And that he loves the fact that not only his showmance, Gina Marie, likes him but so does Jessie.
Drama:
The big piece of drama this week is the horrible comments that Aaryn has been saying things. She has been making racist comments towards Asians and African Americans. She has also made homophobic comments. Aaryn is not the only one who has been caught making inappropriate comments. Both GinaMarie and Aaryn have made the comments. This isn't a way to win the game, if anything its going to make a target of themselves when the players who is affected by comments become HOH.
Julie Chen the host of Big Brother discussed the issue on her other show, The Talk. I think her and her co-hosts handle this issue very well. Especially when they discussed how when they leave the house they will have consequences to deal with.
On Thursday episode Big Brother showed just how bad Aaryn's comments are effecting the Big Brother House. When Amanda went to confront Aaryn about what she had been saying in a very mature way, Aaryn laughed it out like the idea that anyone would take her comments seriously was the biggest joke their was.
Eviction:
Elissa, Nick and Helen were all confident that they were staying, but in the houseguest had to vote and the vote came down to:
Helen: No one
Elissa: Jeremy, Kaitlin, Gina Marie and Howard
Nick: Andy, Judd, Spencer, Jessie, McCrae, Jessie and Candance
With a 0-4-7 vote for...
Nick to be the 2nd house guest evicted from the Big Brother House.
During his post eviction interview with Julie, Nick showed that he was a good player by being able to tell Julie who from the moving company switched their votes. He also sees what a dangerous player Spencer is in this season of Big Brother. I personally am sad to see him go, I think he did have potential to win the game if he had a better poker faces and had lied Elissa when tired to form alliances. My Player of the Week:
The Player of the Week is the person that I think played the best game this week. They are players who figure out alliances or bad bold power moves. This week I chose...
I chose Candice this week because she was the first player to figure out almost all the members of the Moving Company. She also picked up on how close Jeremy and Nick were, convincing Elissa as BBMVP to put Nick up.
That is it for this week Big Brother Recap. If you are a Big Brother fan what did you think of this week's Big Brother? What did you think about the Wine incident? Who is your favorite player? Let me know in the comments below.
Also as you can see I tweet through the episodes, you can follow me and see what I think during the episode. My twitter name is Judy_Judy94.
XOXO,
Em.
P.S. One of my favorite college bloggers Lizzy is in a fashion contest right now with Dasani Drops called Dasani Drops #FlavorFy Outfit. She had to design a summer outfit using the color of the Dasani Drops flavors. I think her outfit came out adorably and I encourage all of you to check out her post and consider voting for her!
I'm a little sore this morning! Why? Because last night I went to a Yoga class!
On Monday nights there is a Coffee House in town that hosts a Monday Night Yoga class. Its not widely advertised so its a nice small class. Last night their were only 6 students and an instructor. We found out about the class from a family friend who was goes. And we decide to start.
The group that is in that yoga class is such a nice group of ladies, 1 of who is the mother of kid that I graduated with. They were cracking jokes and laughing, which I don't know how they did that, if I tired to talk or laugh I lost my balanced.
Even though the AC was on we sweated hard and that felt amazing. I like when muscles are tingly and I'm super sweaty after I work out. That's how I know that my workout was a good one. When I got home I tweeted:
I really enjoyed the yoga class and I'm planning on going back every week until go back to school, which really is only 2 or 3 more classes considering I leave for vacation and then come back and then move in! I can't believe how fast summer is going!
What are your favorite ways to work out? Have you tired yoga? Did you like it? Let me know in the comment box below!
I hope everybody had a good weekend! This weekend I was reunited with my roommate Hannah!
Hannah hosted a small bonfire at her house last night ad I went. She had a few of her hometown friends and one of her friends from college who I'm starting to get know.
We made hot dogs on sticks. I personally am no a huge hot dog person so I just roasted a hot dog that someone else ended up eating. We also made s'more which I personally love. What I don't get is why all the sudden they're ending up in everything, milkshakes, candies, etc...
The fire was so pretty and warm and the night was beautiful. Like the weather was cool and but not freezing or too hot. It was perfect summer night weather.
The fire was beautiful. I had never been to a bonfire before and this as a great first bonfire and I hope to be going to more in the near future.
