tell me tomorrow's gonna be peaches and cream

mstrobel — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:21:22 GMT

I had a housemate a couple of years ago who was a real piece of work. I'd been living with three others for a couple of months before she decided to move in as well, and what seemed like an okay enough idea on paper ended up breaking up our happy little family.

Two of the others announced that they were moving out about ten days after she moved in. Coincidence? Hardly. I should have been less oblivious and followed their lead, but I stayed put... not realising, in my naïveté, that her goal was to push all but one of us out so she and her partner could have what had once been our house to themselves.

I put up with quite a few months of bullying, which doesn't need to be talked about here. What you need to hear is the fabulous story that took place AFTER I had moved out.

Note the key word: after. As in, once I was no longer in the house, no longer with a key, long gone.

It was about five days after I had left that she decided to tell someone that I had - wait for it - tried to poison her! I'm not sure how I'm meant to have accomplished this; I must have snuck back in an open window or something while no one was home - remember that part where I'd moved out almost a week ago and left behind my key? I have no idea where I'm meant to have gotten this poison from either; the days of picking up some arsenic at the grocery store are a little behind us. But that crazy story somehow lost me a few people who I've since realised were never actually friends in the first place.

I can't make sense of it - if you were going to make up a story about someone in order to try and poison (haha see what I did there!) people against them, wouldn't you make up something a little more, well, believable? Like say I'd stolen $20 or broken an expensive vase?

(Although I'm glad she did choose something more ludicrous because then clearly no one with a grain of sense would believe the tale so I have nothing to worry about really.)

And the timing of it all! She was so cowardly that she couldn't make up the story while I was still there, she had to make sure I was gone so she'd never have to face me again. Maybe she knew she wouldn't have been able to keep up the lie if I'd been there in person?

Who knows, really. The one thing I'm really curious about though is if everyone else was in on it too and it's all a big joke to them - or if she kept the fact that she'd made it all up to herself and didn't let anyone in on the lie.

I'd like to think it's the former, but then many of the people I used to know are as malicious as they are dim-witted, so really either way is likely.

mstrobel — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:18:19 GMT

I'm ~~being bullied into~~ signing up for LJ Idol ;)

Week 7 not-nothing list of recs

mstrobel — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:56:00 GMT

Another quick read, alas! Work Christmas party tomorrow means I won't be home until late, and lucky me I'm rostered on for breakfast the next morning. Bah, humbug! I almost skipped reading this week but I'm so glad I didn't do that because there is so much awesome out there. This is just a small selection, as usual...

alleyalligator's entry
blythe025's entry
drjeff's entry
jem0000000's entry
karmasoup's entry
ketsudan's entry
*milk_and_glass's entry (I feel I have to give this one a special shout-out ♥)
mymisguided's entry
pixiebelle's entry
queencallipygos's entry
reallyginnyf's entry
shimmerdream's entry
whipchick's entry
wolfden's entry
zeitgeistic's entry

And you know what? I really liked my own story as well :)

Happy reading!

Week 6 yummy list of recs

mstrobel — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:03:42 GMT

This week's topic served to make me really hungry ;) Luckily I completed my reading tonight just after having finished our rogan josh #2 - used up the rest of the sauce with some peppers, onion and spinach. Oooh it was lush. Again, just a small selection of my favourites, in alphabetical order.

adpaz's entry
alycewilson's entry
annaonthemoon's entry
bewize's entry
blythe025's entry
caile's entry
cemetaria's entry
____hejira's entry
honeybeewriter's entry
iamthesea's entry
istaar's entry
java_fiend's entry
liret's entry
myrna_bird's entry
notodette's entry
phoenixsansfyr's entry
porn_this_way's entry
rabid1st's entry
shimmerdream's entry
sneakishfrog's entry
tigrkittn's entry
whipchick's entry

Week 5 quickie list of recs

mstrobel — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:10:57 GMT

I just had about three hours in which to read EVERYTHING from this week, so I didn't get to leave comments on as many as I'd have liked. Not going to skip the recs list though, since I've been so good at keeping up with posting them!

bakerlooline's entry
belgatherial's entry
dslartoo's entry
hosticle_fifer's entry
i_love_freddie's entry
kehlen_crow's entry
ktdid525's entry
malinaldarose's entry
malruniel11's entry
minnesattva's entry
tamaraland's entry
vaguelyclear's entry

Week 4 hasty list of recs

mstrobel — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:53:29 GMT

I know this week's list is rather long - but "the more the merrier", right?! I enjoyed so many entries this week that it was difficult to not just list every single one that I voted for!

agirlnamedluna's entry
alephz's entry
alycewilson's entry
belgatherial's entry
blythe025's entry
cacophonesque's entry
cheshire23's entry
crimsonplum's entry
daoming's entry
greenfernway's entry
hexkitten's entry
hosticle_fifer's entry
iamthesea's entry
majesticzaichik's entry
malruniel11's entry
_messy's entry
monkeysugarmama's entry
myrna_bird's entry
porn_this_way's entry (and its comments!)
queencallipygos's entry
shadowwolf13's entry
snarkerdoodle's entry
whirlgig's entry
zeitgeistic's entry

Week 3 list of recs

mstrobel — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:06:51 GMT

Again, only in alphabetical order. Not all of my favourites, not all that I voted for - just a handful that I'd like to share! There aren't as many this week (gee, I wonder why :P) so you should go give all the rest a read too.

agirlnamedluna's entry
alephz's entry
alycewilson's entry
blythe025's entry
diagenou's entry
duckspeakeasy's entry
edith_jones's entry
malinaldarose's entry
purple_drake's entry
ravenofdreams's entry
theafaye's entry
vaudy's entry

Week 2 better-late-than-never list of recs

mstrobel — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:34:25 GMT

Some of my (many) favourites from this week...

alephz's entry
alleyalligator's entry
belgatherial's entry
cemetaria's entry
i_id's entry
mac_arthur_park's entry
majesticzaichik's entry
malinaldarose's entry
_messy's entry
milk_and_glass's entry
my_bear_skin's entry
n3m3sis42's entry
ryl's entry
sarcasmoqueen's entry
team_jessie's entry
yuniebaby's entry

Happy reading!

Week 1 mammoth list of recs

mstrobel — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:10:43 GMT

So this season I've decided to try and keep up with making weekly rec lists of my favourite entries. Watch me stall on this in about week three ;) These are certainly not all of the entries that I've voted for - not even half that number! Just ones that particularly stood out to me, personally, for various reasons. There are some vets in the list, but I've tried to keep more to highlighting the 'newbies' since, well, they're new and a lot of people don't know who they are yet!

The only order these are in is alphabetical order. (Unless I screwed up somewhere.)

blythe025's entry
cemetaria's entry
draconic_rogue's entry
dslartoo's entry
freakinfrackin's entry
iamthesea's entry
idol_sileri's entry
istaar's entry
jazmcrfan's entry
jem0000000's entry
kittyfaelis's entry
liret's entry
maerhys's entry
malruniel11's entry
mezzominty's entry
myownmuggle's entry
porn_this_way's entry
sarcasmoqueen's entry
sikander7's entry
sneakishfrog's entry
sweeny_todd's entry

and then there were three

mstrobel — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:38:32 GMT

A multi-season veteran.
A foreigner.
And a guy.

Three entries isn't too much to read, right? So if you have the time and haven't yet... :D
Then click a box, or two, or three. ♥

View Poll: LJ Idol, Season Seven, Week Thirty-Two/Finale

So. I'm back. Ish.

mstrobel — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:32:34 GMT

You guys suck for making me do this.

Your Good Deed For the Day!

mstrobel — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:26:37 GMT

It's nice to give pregnant ladies things they need. Like seats. And votes! :D

Yep, in case I am being too subtle, there is a poll going on and I'm afraid its insane closeness is going to send my champion, comedychick, into premature labour ;) I think her entry is pretty damn awesome so if you haven't read it yet, do go check it out! And while you're at it, there's only a handful of other entries to read this week. My socks were personally knocked off quite fabulously by intrepia's intersection with teaberryblue :D

(Hey, can I at least get points for trying?)

Some Idol entries that I really liked this week

mstrobel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:55:39 GMT

I feel really nervous doing this! I don't want to upset anyone by not including them, which is really why I haven't done this before. I've read so many awesome things this week. But here are six of my favorites. I'd have to read everything over again to say whether they're my actual top six or just six of the top ten or twenty that stood out the most. (Plus I still haven't quite finished reading - I've probably still got a fifth of the entries to go.)

http://twystedpixie.livejournal.com/642692.html
http://users.livejournal.com/_mysticalelf/2466.html
http://stormkitty.livejournal.com/794994.html
http://dawny-darko.livejournal.com/119451.html
http://apisanthrop.livejournal.com/28645.html
http://beloved-tree.livejournal.com/348226.html

Give them a read if you haven't yet.

LJ Idol

mstrobel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:45:13 GMT

Hi! I'm going to enter LJ idol this year. You can find it at therealljidol. Wish me luck!