Episode #1

[Jeff Schroeder]

Episode #1

Meet and Greet[/center]

Hello it's Jeff here and I'm ready to socialize my way to the top!

This round so far has been captivating to say the least. I checked my email and saw that I was casted for the game, so I came here and signed up. We then had to wait for everyone to sign up and make their account on the board. That took some time so I only could really talk with the people who left their AIM usernames on the board. Those people happen to be Holly and Chiara.

Then I come online today and it seems like everyone is on the board but still no one is on AIM, probably because we had no way to get ahold of each other at that point in time. Chelsbot finally posted the contact information on the board and I started my game socializing. I talked to quite a large number of the houseguest including: Alex, Chiara, Chima, Holly, James, Jase, Jordan, Libra, Lydia, Renny, Roddy and Russell. I have not seen Kevin be online much and when he is, he doesn't seem like he is that talkative. We all made a group chat and he came in and right when I came in five minutes later after it started he decided to leave and go to bed. I understand people need sleep but he is not making any connections which could hurt him later on in the game. I spoke with Libra for a few minutes, she was heading to bed and was tired. She just mentioned that everyone was nice. She doesn't seem that social to me which is fine because social players are the strongest in these games. You need to get rid of those people as quick as you can.

Monica seems like an eccentric oddball, she came into the chat that was titled "Meet and Greet" and then asked if it was an alliance chat? Everyone replied to the question with a no, and then she went on to ask who was in the chat. To me that was extremely suspicious and a dumbfound move on her part. I feel she knows some people that are in this game from previous ones and will share them a lot of information if you ever give her any. So I will not be giving her any information she can use against me.

The chats seemed to die down and the day before an alliance formed that was called the "Sex Kittens." That included: Chiara, Holly and myself. Today I really connected with Roddy so I knew I wanted to pull him into the alliance and since Holly was the only houseguest in our alliance that was logged online, I asked her what she thought of bringing people into the alliance and she agreed it would be a good idea. She mentioned bringing in Lydia which was fine with me because I have gotten along with Lydia and we loved chatting it up about movies. She's a keeper. Holly then told me I should invite one more, which it was already on my mind to do so. I invited Roddy and I had Holly start the chat incase something didn't work out I wouldn't be the one that the fingers would be pointed at.

The chat started and it started off slow and then we kind of gained momentum from there. Everyone agreed it'd be in our best interest to work together in the game and create this five person alliance which includes: Chiara, Holly, Lydia, Roddy and myself. This alliance is now called "The Sex Kittens and The Beefcakes." Holly came up with the Sex Kittens part and lovely Lydia came up with the Beefcake part. I like this alliance already it's really social and fun to get to know everyone in the game so far. We plan on coming in the chat every night so we're all on the same page, I just hope it works out in the end. I don't plan on betraying any of them anytime soon. Roddy out of all them is the closest one to me though, we feel everyone else in the game are putting on a facade and we kept it real with each other. I hope he's not playing on me or planning on it.

Roddy and I would like to feel out who are the social threats and then work on then getting them evicted from the game, because everyone will go after the competition threats sooner than later and won't worry about the social threats. They're also the only threats that could shatter our alliance. The social threats we're feeling might be best to get rid of are Alex and Renny. I hope this all works out, I will see how the challenge works out! The girls I think might throw it (Chiara, Holly, and Lydia) but I am more than 100% Roddy and I will try our hardest to win it. The good thing is you may become the Head of Household two times in a row so it's not as risky to win it.

In my next confessional I will post my thoughts on each player individually. I don't really know if this is what you are looking for in confessionals so could you please inform me if this is correct and if not instruct me on how to do them right?

[Jeff Schroeder]

Episode #1

Meet and Greet[/center]

So the Head of Household started last night and I was nervous, I was sure I wouldn't be able to make it. I ended up making it and talked to a few people wished people luck and started socializing. Lydia hopped online and I remembered that we were all going to start a chat (my alliance, the sex kittens and the beefcakes), Roddy was inviting so I waited to invite him. I didn't want to annoy him already, and he's closest to me I think.

Lydia come into the chat, then Roddy came right along. Lydia updated me that Holly said she was going to be in a college meeting so I was nervous but thought it was okay it'd still be us four working on the challenge together. Chiara came in and we updated her on the alliance and everything and I believe she felt good about it, she likes to typically put hearts in every sentence I think it's to make you like her. I'm weary on her but out of all the girls she's the easiest one I think to control. Holly then came on about five minutes before the Head of Household competition. I was pumped!

Roddy and I messaged each other and came up with the plan to ultimately try to make us become the Head of Household because the girls talked about nominating people we didn't know yet and we didn't like that at all. Roddy and I are here to play and I say Roddy a lot in here because I feel I can trust him, but I don't want to sound like I am going to follow him or anything because I'm not. I just need someone I can trust in the game. The competition was posted and I got right to work. I started ripping through the boards and once I got through a few I posted what I had so far in the chat but the girls still took forever to get through the boards. Ironic... most of them are blonde. Roddy helped here and there but I'd like to say most of the work done was done by myself.

Alex was going fast, I was nervous he was going to win or at least get immunity for the round because he was our target for having a strong social game. I started assembling the puzzle pieces every time I got into a new board once I reached the last board I placed the last puzzle pieces together and went straight to uploading it. It usually takes forever to upload a picture on tinypic.com, but it was fast this time so I sent it to Julie before anyone else in my alliance could securing I was most likely Head of Household... unless Alex won. I then posted the puzzle in my alliance chat and told them to hurry and send the puzzle worried Alex would get immunity because that could have been likely.

The results were then up and it was official I was the first Head of Household for the season and my alliance was safe, which didn't mean anything because they wouldn't have been nominated anyway but it was great because now I could nominate any person I felt like. It was then shown that we would be broken into Cliques like the real show, Big Brother 11 style. I was excited that my alliance was on the other cliques because that meant that I could possibly pick people who I was kind of hesitant with but still weren't threats to be on my team because they also couldn't nominate me. Holly stepped away from the computer to watch a few Television Shows, which held us up along time for the pick'em. I wasn't happy because I was tired and was feeling like heading to bed, I was already swamped with messages coming from everywhere. Everyone was sucking up and I couldn't handle messaging everyone at once so I just told everyone I needed to grab a bite to eat.

Holly was then back so I magically reappeared in the chat room and was ready for the pick'em. I picked the Army branch because it's the branch I probably know the most about, the other branches I don't really have much knowledge on not like it matter but I didn't want to pick something I wouldn't want to represent. I picked Russell to be on my team first because I like the guy and I think he would be decent on challenges, and if I picked someone I didn't like it would put me in a bad situation because I couldn't nominate them. It's better to play risky right now then conservative, with so many players lost without any connections I feel. Roddy picked Alex so I could nominate him and then would try and get Renny on his team so whoever survived couldn't nominate us as a duo, but that didn't work thanks to Chiara. I wanted Jordan as my last pick but someone stole her too so I settled with Crazy James. He seems somewhat active and I haven't got to know him much so who knows where he stands and it's not like he's a huge threat so it couldn't hurt me.

Overall the pick'em went great. I just need to make sure that Roddy or I win the Power of Veto so my nominees will stay intact and I lead Renny on telling her I felt so close to her so I hope all this information I put out on the line the first few days trying to make nice with everyone doesn't come back to bite me. I would rather Alex leave out of the two because it seems he has a lot of the girls liking him. I just told Kevin and Monica they were safe from eviction and wondered if they would return the favor if they ever won Head of Household and if they'd evict who I would like them to, they didn't seem to have any problems with that but they could be lying. For now, I feel great. Just got to hope that Power of Veto doesn't get in anybodies hands that I don't want having it. Also just thought I would put this here so I don't forget... Roddy mentioned past seasons having a secret board containing powers to me, so I should probably have a look out for that.