Well I feel like I've finally stepped it up in this game a bit by winning this challenge. I was an idiot a few challenges back; this could have been my second idol clue. I should have just taken the Amanda puzzle. Anyway, what's done is done and I need to pray that I can find an idol. I know that I'm late to the search party so we'll see how that goes.

My goal for this round is to vote out Jay. With a swap looming at any time, I can't risk the pregame rumors surrounding Jay being true. He's not exactly dependable or strong, so I think it'd just be better to get rid of him now. I'd hate to send out Angie, someone I can see myself possibly working with down the road, only to get screwed by some pregame.

Overall, I'm feeling pretty good about the game right now. I think I'm playing a solid UTR game and I'd like to stay there and build relationships with people as I get onto tribes with them, for the most part.

Well I guess all that winning was really unnecessary, but I guess it's nice to have a start on the idol. I'm sure someone will find it before me, but that's okay!

I'm more upset than anything that I didn't get to get rid of Jay. I feel like I'm going to be very vulnerable on any kind of new tribe. I definitely plan on being social once we swap. Things are going to be tough going forward without Shontayla. She was a good meat shield.

So I certainly don't have a lot of connections on this new tribe. In an attempt to just be safe, and not really make any big moves yet, I told Dave I'd vote with him. I know that he and Jenn are together, and he seems like a pretty proactive player. I am still biding my time, and I think I'd rather just be a part of Dave's 5some than try and make a big game move. There's still a full cast of people left, so no sense in over-playing now.

I am pretty good with idol clues, so I'm hoping that getting two clues for my path will allow me to guess the idol. I do want to try and win immunity but their tribe seems really active. I'll be online as much as possible, but admittedly that may not be a ton. We'll see how it goes!

I feel badly that I'm never writing in here but there's literally nothing to write about. I just kind of do the challenges and when tribal comes around, the vote has never been hard. Dave told me that we're solid and that I can trust him, but I don't know what he'd do if we lost. I can't imagine he would actually vote for me over some others, but you never know. I am definitely going to be playing the game when the time comes, it just hasn't yet.

Pretty cool that I'm in the final 17 though!