Hi everyone!

Tonight brings the finale of Big Brother 13. It wasn’t the most memorable season, but fans all over the U.S. must have liked it because ratings were up. The last week or two is always anticlimactic for me. Once you get down to three, nothing exciting is happening in the house and everyone seems to lose interest. I notice comments on here are trickles where it used to be a flood!

There doesn’t seem to be overwhelming support for any of the three final HG’s. I think it’s a shame that some of the really strong, serious players were eliminated so early this season. Looking back now, I am surprised that the final three would be Porsche, Adam and Rachel. I’m going to have to stick with Rachel. She is an amazing competitor. Once she put her mind to winning this game, there really wasn’t any stopping her. Hopefully, she will beat Porsche today so that she gets to decide who sits next to her.

I’ll be back after the show on the East coast to post my final blog for this season. If you want to stick with me and Snakebit Sal/Luv2ShootPics, follow us over to www.oursurvivorblog.com. We will have some interesting blog posts. I’m in contact with Gillian Larson from Survivor and will be attending a number of events with past Survivor contestants. I’ll try to get their opinions and thoughts about Survivor South Pacific.

If it is okay for me to email you, please post a comment with just the word YES and I will add you to my email list. Come back tonight after the finale! Bloggergal

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Thanks to everyone for the concern for me! You all are the best! Just to quickly update you. My son stayed in the dark until the power came back on sometime during the night. He hasn’t looked in the refrigerator yet to see if the food is spoiled or not. He had work early today. I plan on helping him get an emergency kit together this weekend. He moved right around the time my husband lost his job and I never thought about it. My other concern is family and friends who are (very) flooded in Northeastern PA. The river has crested, but it went up amazingly high. I talked to some of my immediate family and everyone is good with no flooding. I’m not sure how many relatives and friends have water in their homes and businesses. So that’s it from me. Below you will find Snakebit Sal’s (aka luv2shootpics) summary of last night’s show and also SPOILERS for what happened after the show. DON’T READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHO WON HOH LAST NIGHT!

Thanks so much SS/luv2shoot or whatever the heck your name is I appreciate your help. Let me know if you need to get even during Survivor! Bloggergal

It’s down to three people and one week to go!
After last night’s eviction, tonight’s POV completion is for an F3 slot and the power to remove the next jury member.
Adam seems to making his move late in the game and will be a F3 competitor. Adam gets his HOH key and they all go to check it out. I never saw so much bacon in my life. Gummy bacon and bacon stuffed toys. The dude is a real bacon freak.
Porsche made the first plea for help from Adam to remain in the game. She made a move to go to F2 and be an all newbie game. Rachel made her plea and then Jordan confronted Adam and in his non-committal way left Jordan hanging as to who he will nominate. She already has a feeling she will be going to be the next evictee.
Adam nominates Jordan and Porsche with Jordan as the supposed pawn. Adam said to the two nominees that they need to earn the veto if they want to remain in the game! All the DR conversations with the girls are basically the same, “I need to win to make F3”. Not only does it give that person an F3 spot but they get to decide who gets the third spot with the veto winner and Adam.
The veto competition is “The Jukebox Veto”. They must match events with evicted players. They all get off to a slow start but Porsche is stacking her blocks on the ground before she puts them up on the pole. Jordan is confused and slowing down. Porsche puts hers on the block and makes a mistake. She didn’t know how many were wrong and reworks her stack and wins the POV. Rachel cries because she lost and Jordan says “Oh well”. Rachel really has a breakdown believing she will be evicted. Jordan again comforts her.
Rachel talks to Porsche and makes her argument for staying. Porsche makes the comment about who to keep…Jordan, who she can beat in F3 comps or Rachel, who can compete and may not take her to the F2.
Porsche uses the veto to save herself and Rachel must go up. The mandatory speeches are made and then Porsche chooses Jordan for eviction. The wrong move in my opinion!
Jordan is so easy going and calm about the whole eviction. Jordan praised Rachel’s game and admitted that she helped to keep her in the game. She said they balanced each other out and maintained some sanity from Rachel. The goodbye messages from Adam and Rachel were heartfelt and nice to Jordan. Rachel said that she hopes they remain lifelong friends.
The Final HOH competition part 1 began in the Big Brother Mixer. They had to stand on a small pad and hang on to what were the mixer blades. They lowered them into the butter mix and sprayed them with icing. Adam started complaining of pain early and it spelled doom for his chances. He lasted about 25 minutes when the feeds cut out. When they returned about five minutes later he had dropped out. The girls still looked casual and in control. Again the feeds cut out, sheesh. Another five minutes later the feeds are back and Porsche is now struggling. The strain and pain are in her face. Porsche starts trying to communicate with Adam about the game if she drops. Porsche is worried about drowning and asks Adam to be sure he helps her when she drops. She is afraid to let go and fall into the butter batter. The feeds again cut-away. Porsche and Rachel have been up for almost 50 minutes. The feeds come back and it is evident that Porsche dropped and Rachel has won part 1 of the Final HOH competition.
Adam is complaining that his legs are killing him. The girls are sore but not complaining as much. They are looking for cold packs for their muscles.
Now we must wait for the next competition which will be between Adam and Porsche for the rite to compete against Rachel for the Final HOH!
Good night and have a good weekend.
Snakebit Sal(aka luv2shootpics) for BBBloggerGal

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With only a week to go, Big Brother is in fast forward mode. Tonight, but taped from yesterday, we saw the Veto Competition, Veto Ceremony and HOH competition. Tomorrow we will see the nominations, Veto Competition, Veto Ceremony and eviction. That will leave us with the final three who will compete next week for the $500,000.

The Veto Competition was with OTEV (that’s Veto spelled backwards). He’s the Big Brother God-Like Power of Veto Competitions. The HG’s had to know the answer to OTEV’s question and then find a pie plate with the correct HG answer on it. Mostly the HG’s knew the correct answer, but finding the correct pie plate wasn’t as easy. The last to return to OTEV with the answer was eliminated each round. First eliminated was Jordan. She is not having a good Big Brother season. Second out was Rachel. That’s unusual, but it all comes down to luck I suppose. Third eliminated was Kalia and yes, the tears flowed and flowed and flowed. The last question was between Adam and Porsche and Porsche chose the wrong answer. She was first back to OTEV, but she realized her answer was wrong and had to go back. Adam wins the POV. Has he been laying low all this time? Hmmm.

Not mentioned during the show, but very evident on the Live Feeds is that Adam was harassed by everyone in the house for the entire week. Jordan kept asking him if she could trust him. Kalia and Porsche wanted him to take one of them off the block. Kalia hounded Adam, reminding him of the Newbie deal, etc. In the end, Adam chose to remain true to Rachel and Jordan and did not use the Veto. I’m not sure if this was the right thing for him to do, but since I think Rachel should win, I was happy that he did it.

So the nominations remained the same and the hounding of Adam continued. Would he vote to keep Porche or Kalia? Jordan talked to Rachel and asked if she would mind if she voted to keep Kalia. She wanted to prove that she stayed true to the end. If you remember, Kalia had a deal with Jordan to never put her up and Jordan wanted to return the favor. Of course, Jordan did this knowing full well that Adam was voting to evict Kalia. The tie-breaker went to Rachel and Kalia was promptly evicted from the BB house. Kalia’s fate was sealed when the Fortune Teller began speaking. All HG’s felt that Kalia would be very hard to beat in a memorization-type competition.

As I said above, the HOH competition involved memory. For an entire night, the Fortune Teller would laugh and the HG’s would have to run in and listen to her newest fortune. She had a fortune for every house guest. It was very important to remember it word for word. Rachel, since she couldn’t play, slept through the night in the HOH room. The sleep deprivation adds to your stress when trying to remember the exact wording. Julie would read a statement and each HG had to decide if it was true or false. The statements were only off by a tiny word here or there if they were false. I have to admit, I couldn’t remember any of the fortunes correctly and I heard them a number of times! Adam once again pulled off a win and he’s the newest HOH. Two wins in a row. Once again, I have to ask…has Adam been hiding in the grass or is he just finally finding his mojo?

I remember a conversation that Adam had with Jordan. He told her if it came to this (him winning HOH/Veto), he would let her have the power to chose who would be evicted. In other words, if possible Jordan would be off the block and she could pick either Rachel or Porsche to be evicted. Of course, the Veto is anybody’s to win and it is THE most important competition so far. Besides Adam, this person is guaranteed a slot in the final three and also gets to pick that third HG. I’m convinced that Rachel will do everything in her power to get that VETO around her neck once more. If she doesn’t, there is a chance she won’t be in the final three. After all, would you want to be standing next to her when the votes are cast? I do think that Rachel has played the best game and does deserve to win Big Brother 13.

Before saying goodnight, I have to comment about Shelly’s arrival in the Jury House. Jeff is PO’d with her big time. I don’t like Shelly, never did, but I do think she played a good game and he needs to grow up. She played him and she played him well. He shouldn’t act like a big baby over it. I did love when Brendan clapped while watching Shelly be evicted though!

Tomorrow night will be very interesting. I can’t wait to see the final three, but I am sad that our Big Brother season is almost at a close. I guess Survivor will be everyone’s fall addiction. Good night…Bloggergal

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Tonight we saw the completion of the HOH competition. To quote Adam, “Rachel is like a robot”. She is a determined competitor and she pushed and pushed and won HOH. Adam came in a respectable second this time.

Immediately Kalia and Porsche ran to Rachel and promised her heaven and earth if she would just keep them safe. Rachel, rightfully, doesn’t know who to trust. At this point in the game, you really can’t trust anyone, but this seems like a “no brainer” to me. Kalia and Porsche have to be separated.

The Pandora’s Box segment was a lot of fun. As soon as Adam came into the house, you just knew eventually Tori Spelling would show up. Adam was so cute and happy to meet his star crush. Rachel did a great job with Jesse upstairs. She has some acting ability. Maybe that should be her career goal.

I wonder if Rachel spent any time thinking that this might be her chance to get rid of Jordan. Did I hear you gasp? Think about it. Last time Jordan went to the finals, she won. Is she the one you want to take to the finals? This is the difference between Rachel and Shelly though. Rachel, even if she thought about it, stayed loyal to Jordan and her alliance.

After much ado about nothing, Rachel does the predicted thing and nominates Kalia and Porsche for eviction. Everyone will have the chance to win POV and change the direction of the game once again. I bet you know what happens, but I’ll wait until Wednesday to talk about it.

Wednesday is a special eviction episode. See you then! Bloggergal

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Finally, Shelly is out of the Big Brother house! Thank goodness. I know she had her own style of playing, but I couldn’t take it another minute. Kalia voted to evict Adam, making the eviction 2 to evict Shelly and 1 to evict Adam. Jeff is going to be happy to see her walk in and even happier to voice his opinions to her. Should make for some good TV next week.

Don’t count that Fortune Teller out of the game yet! As I mentioned before, the live cameras have zeroed in on something on the table in the room with the FT. Could it be a coin to make her work? We shall see!

On the whole, Brendan, Danielle and Jeff acted like mature adults when the three realized they were all in the Jury House together. Danielle did gloat a bit over Kalia getting Jeff out, but Danielle does realize it was all her doing that made the three of them end up in Jury instead of in one of the winning chairs. Brendan looks better when he doesn’t shave (my opinion!). Jeff was really upset when he realized that he accidentally through the clown shoe out of his bin and it was sitting right next to him. If he had just glanced over, he would have won POV. Oh well, no crying over spilled shoes???

The HOH was a physical competition involving crawling, running and diving through icing-type muck to pick up donuts and return them to a pole. The HG that put the most donuts on in a certain length of time (12 or was it 13 minutes?) wins HOH. Everyone started out okay. Adam was actually almost keeping up with Rachel, but you just know after a handful of trips, he would get slower and slower. The same goes for Kalia. I’ve been watching the live feeds this week and Rachel, Jordan and Porsche work out the hardest–walking and running around and around the yard. Since Porsche can’t compete, that leaves Rachel and Jordan. I won’t say who won, but I bet you can guess! Check the comments–the spoilers are out.

I will say that I’m happy with the results of the HOH. Let’s see who gets nominated this week. We are getting down to the wire! Have a good weekend. Bloggergal

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Hey Big Brother Blog faithful! It is that time of the week again. The noms have been made, the veto has been played, the people on the blog have changed and now it is time to evict one of the Big Brother 13 house guests from the house.

This week due to the couple twist and Rachel winning veto…..Rachel and Jordan are safe! The part that makes it even more crazy is that…they will be able to VOTE OFF who they want since only Rachel, Jordan and Kalia will be voting! How is that for flipping the house!

So without any further ado…

Please cast your vote for Shelly or Adam. Who do you want to see evicted from the Big Brother 13 house!

Peace, BBBlogger

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I have to admit, I enjoyed watching Rachel win the POV. I know I say this every blog, but Adam was first off. He muttered to himself “embarrassed”, yep, I think you should be! Jordan was second off and her reaction to losing was a bit strange. She said she doesn’t like pain and after all this isn’t Survivor. Hmmm, but yet she wants to win? I lost a little respect for her with that statement. Shelly was the next to drop. She cannot win a competition and I don’t believe you should win Big Brother if you can’t win a competition. You hear me, Adam? Porsche dropped next, leaving Kalia and Rachel battling. You could see how strong Rachel is when she had her legs wrapped around Dummy Brendan. There was no way she was going to lose that one. Are you thinking this competition was made for Rachel? After the Pandora’s Box twist comes a competition made for Rachel. No, must be just coincidental–right? Hmmm….

Watching the Shelly/Jordan apologies (again–I saw them on live feeds) made me sick. She just keeps spouting garbage. If she had apologized to Jordan prior to the Veto, maybe, just maybe you could believe her, but she didn’t did she? Shelley waited until she was in trouble and then she went and did what she had to do. Hopefully, it doesn’t help her AT ALL.

At least now Shelly is saying the truth in the DR. She told Rachel and Jordan what she thought they wanted to hear and then admitted in the DR that she is doing everything she can to get to the final three. Shelly actually even swore on God that she was telling the truth. I don’t advise standing too close to her for a long, long time–you never know when lightning will strike.

I”m sure this is obvious, but, Rachel takes herself and Jordan off the block and since the only duo left is Shelly and Adam, they are the replacement nominees. The only three votes for eviction will be Rachel, Jordan and Kalia. This basically gives control of who will leave the house to Rachel and Jordan…let the butt kissing commence!

Big Brother mentioned a tease for tomorrow’s show about how things get heated in the Jury House when Brendan, Jeff and Danielle get together. I’m thinking the Live Feeds might be better to watch in the Jury House then in the Big Brother house. So, it’s almost time for the live eviction. I’ve been monitoring the live feeds and it looks like Shelly will get voted out, but never count your chickens before they hatch. I’ll be on pins and needles until I see Shelly walk out that door.

Good night all! Bloggergal

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I’m too lazy to read through the comments so I don’t know if this has been reported, but Shelly is up to her old tricks again. She had a “heart to heart” with Jordan and continued to lie, lie, lie. I actually had a hard time reading what she was saying! I do have to admit, she sure can play this game. She continues to move to whomever can get her further in the game. Hopefully, Jordan is smart enough to realize that she is continuing to “play” her. Of course, Shelly’s tears were flowing. She’s quite the actress. Here are some of the things Shelly told Jordan. These may not be exact words.

Shelly: I am not on their side at all. If there is something I can do, I’ll do it (referring to Kalia/Porsche).
Jordan: I don’t understand why you sided with Dani. Shelly: I never sided with Dani.

Jordan actually apologized to Shelly for her outburst! Shelly too apologizes to Jordan. Shelly kept bashing Rachel in an attempt to separate Jordan from her.

I know I wrote a ranting blog about Shelly and I don’t take back what I said, but I do have a very negative view of people who are taking a game like Big Brother and attempting to assert it into real life. Through Twitter and Matt Hoffman and Ragan Fox, I have read some horrible comments about how people are attacking Shelly and her family in the “real” world. Not on this site–thank goodness! Things like that are totally uncalled for! One comment has even been sent to the FBI, that’s how serious of a threat it was.

If Shelly makes it through this next week, I will be unhappy, but totally in awe of her. She is playing one heck of a Big Brother game. I think I said this before. I think so many people dislike her not because she is playing the game so well, but that she doesn’t admit she is playing the game when she is in the DR. If she lied to everyone and then went in to the DR and said “Yep, I’m lying to everyone. Aren’t the other HG’s real suckers?” Then you could at least understand her a little better.

Another topic that is flying around the Internet is whether Rachel is pregnant. That really isn’t any of our business, but wait, is it? Is there any chance that Rachel has planted that in all the HG’s heads so that if she does make it to the final two, she might have a slight advantage? Something to think about!

Have a good Sunday. I hope everyone in the East gets to dry off very soon and the West gets a break from this paralyzing heat. See you all tonight. Bloggergal

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