I'm gonna keep it short and sweet and not try to ramble. Short thoughts, short Monica!

I feel very confident about this upcoming vote. I hate feeling this confident. I am so suspicious of it. But I just can not imagine a reality in which I actually get voted out right now. Kind of like how no matter what, I could not imagine a reality in which President Romney was a thing that happened. #TOPICALREFERENCE.

out. which is whatever. I keep forgetting he is on our tribe and then he'll pop in and apologize for being M.I.A.

The question is really how do we formalize the alliances.

We have -- we have all been hinting at this since day one. do we need to make it super formal? Do we want to? Yve has kind of cracked, which is hilarious but also unsettling. So apologetic about everything! Katie/Austen seem to want to make an inner 3 so maybe making a 4 might be confusing.

And then -- do we include him on an alliance? Me and Austin were thinking about that. You just never know when a swap happens and you need him.

Also I'm going full speed ahead with and our alliance. #NOREGRETS. CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH

Also I have recently started talking to and i luv her. But she showed Austin the mask! I want the mask! me me me. I want the masks more than I want the idol. also Kim showed Katie a mask, I think. These two tribes have gotten very incestuous while Sangria is off doing whatever. I need to reach out to someone there but I also don't care.

Ok jk I just IMed and for the fuck of it. Vytas started our conversation by insulting Drake, which I find very insulting.

YOU AND THE SIX RASIED ME RIGHT. Has anyone listened to the new album yet? Please?

oh god Stephen finally IMed me for the first time in a week. "You up, Monica?" Idk if I should just avoid him or not. how high school of me. He just gave me such an easy out!

Anyway, let's talk about Drake.

I love how you used "incestuous" in a confessional.

Shawna @ 3/3/2015 23:39

I love how you used "incestuous" in a confessional.

I love how you are always here supporting me.

I went to Astoria this weekend! It was all so gorgeous. Why is Oregon so beautiful?

Because it is! Are you drinking wine?

Yes I am! Why do you ask?

LOOK AT DRAKE AND HIS MOM



HOW CUTE IS THAT. I don't even really particularly enjoy his music, I just love him.

Monica Culpepper @ 4/3/2015 2:48

Yes I am! Why do you ask?

Just checking. :)

Alright offered to give me his mask if gets voted out. which makes me be all like, "Well then I should make sure he gets voted out" because I'm super greedy... buuuut...

He seems a lot more rational and I actually appreciate him campaigning unlike Jonny. Plus he'd be forever loyal.

Let's see if he can pull this off. He has already fed my ego and that goes a long way with :monica:.

Shawna @ 4/3/2015 3:39

I love how you used "incestuous" in a confessional.

You would

I appreciated Stephen actually hustling. I am kind of upset because he was so quick to offer me his masks. And I want his masks! But I think I can actually use him and talk with him unlike FairPlay. FairPlay is a complete unknown and while he is always there at challenges, I am not sure he is crucial.

But on the other hand, it has been pointed out that it is possibly a bad thing that Stephen was able to scheme his way to save himself while Jonny has been silent. What my tribemates do not know is that I basically fed Stephen all his campaign points. So I think Stephen is CAMP MONICA. and that is good by MONICA.

Thank you! god bless!

Alright so I am feeling incredibly #blessed about how everything went down. I think it was very good timing tbh. This past vote revealed how tangled and clingy old Marehemu was as a tribe. It was getting a little tiresome and was bound to get messy if we had to pick off each other.

And would luck have it! I reached out to 4 new people yesterday and 3 of them ended up on my tribe! The other one on my tribe is Erik who I have talked to since day one. Also they all seem like excitable and crazy and fun people. Marehemu was a bit of a kumbaya drag.



1. -- been talking to since day one. He is a high schooler which weirds me out but also is hilarious. He is very hunky dory sometimes which might make it hard to scheme with. But I trust him, he is very genuine.
2. -- I love her vibe. We get along really well. We also have a lot in common. I don't think I trust her yet tho.
3. -- He was fun to talk to but seems kind of reckless.
4. -- She casually drinks vodka which weirds me out.

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Yve Rojas Within 5 minutes Rory had asked me "you hot" and complained that the ORG community and where he lives has "too many gays"

This may surprise you, but I am a SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR. I literally minored in gender studies. I know Survivor is not a game in which moralizing should be approved over strategizing. But this is gross unnecessary behavior of someone I considered an ally. So conflicted, so Monica.

This is another picture of Drake with his mom:



These are gifs from Drake's CANADIAN Bar Mitzvah:

I am somewhat nervous if we lose tomorrow. I think I am, by default, the swing vote as the only person on our tribe without a former tribe mate. As I said earlier, I am not that nervous about the people. I have spoken to Erik since day one, and Kim/Vytas extensively for this week.

I just feel weird being in the middle of it all. It's lying on me, what if I make the wrong decision? Also further than that, it isn't unusual in Survivor for a swing vote to just be voted out themselves, see Christy and Sarah Cagayan.

I am like 90% leaning toward siding with Erik & Kim because I like them more and know them more. Erik and I had decided to work together since day one if we ever met up again. So it would be nice to reward that. The only issue would be keeping Ymar intact with 6 members. They have both told me they don't really align with Caryn, BRob, or Rory. Which I can believe, but could also believe to be a LIE that would BACKFIRE.

It is also possible that one of the old Sangoma has an idol given that they lost two members. Kim wants me to lie and vote with Vytas/Sue so they don't use their idol. But I kind of doubt that they found enough masks to make that happen. They were the only two out of us 5 not to find a single password in that challenge.

Ideally this would be ...



My Survivor game wish list:

Make a 'best of Ymar and Marehemu alliance' of the three tightest pairs:



But given that I don't know Kelley at all and Kim kind of freaks me out by being too smart. I would vanquish them by utilizing the good relationships that I have been fostering with the Ymar outsiders:



If that does not work, or if they get eliminated, then I could easily rely on the ol' Mareheamu outsiders:



And then none for these Gretchen Weiners, bye!



Oh wow I should not consider 5 people irrelevant, oops! I should maybe work on that.