[Raph]

Week 1 - Hayden
What’s up America,

Life in the Big Brother house is CRAZY!! We have been here less than two weeks and the twists and turns just keep coming. By now, you all know of the Saboteur, and the life long friends who Im sure are trying to turn the house upside down. As far as the Saboteur goes, in the beginning the entire house was convinced it was Andrew. Now, opinions are starting to change. A few of us, including myself are thinking that Andrew is way too obvious of a choice. At this point we all know to expect the unexpected, and because all signs point to Andrew that might be an indication that he is not the Saboteur. My instincts have told me it might be Annie, and thats part of the reason why she is on the block, but its impossible to be certain. Hopefully in the coming week we’ll get some concrete evidence and be able to pin down the Saboteur.

The life long friend situation has created an uneasy feeling in the house!!! Just as I started to feel comfortable around the Brigade (my alliance) this twist was thrown at us. I feel like a life long friendship is bond that not even Big Brother can break. In this house trusting somebody could be the key to $500,000, and the life long friends have a huge advantage. I cant trust anybody. I feel like its me against the house, and i don’t think Im the only one who feels this way.

Of all the people in the house i get the worst vibes from Brittany. When she looks at me with her big cold eyes, I feel like the wheels in her head are spinning, and she will do ANYTHING for the money. We haven’t reached the first eviction ceremony so I am still trying the best i can to get to know some of the other houseguest.

Kristin and I have formed a sub alliance, and Im starting to trust her. She seems like an unbelievable girl, but she is so mysterious. Trusting her could be a bad thing, but maybe its the smartest thing I’ve done in the house so far. Overall this experience has been incredible, and I feel blessed just to be a part of BB!!! I want to say hi to all my family back home, i miss you, and i love you. Thanks Mom for sending some goodies. Until next time.

Hayden


Week 2 - Rachel
HEY HEY HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!! Vegas is in the HOUSE It’s Rachel and I have SUCH a crazy week for y’all filled with betrayal, paranoia, DRAMA, romance, passion, and lots of EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So for starters this week begins as a Cinderella story, so I’m on the block next to my MAN and we SAVE OUR SELVES, YAYA, send another girl packing and than WOW I WIN HOH!!!! CRAZY!!! So I was in shock talk about a week of a rollercoaster, I was a have nothing to HOH, then I got to start my rain! YAY, well obv. it was AMAZING to see pics of my fam, and my rottie pupster BenZ!

Then I got to spend the entire “evening” with a hottie named Brendon and Brenchael REALLY started to heat it up! I finally got my tequila which y’all KNOW is my FAV. and Bren and I took shots and have a super fun night of bonding and getting to know each other G-rated of course! I mean he must like me if he put up with my snorting hahahaha I’m SUCH a nerd! SO I WAS SUPER HAPPY TO BE HOH, I got to ensure that me and Brendon were safe for the week and even have a room to myself!

THAN FRIDAY CAME! We started the day like any other in the BIG BRO HIZZIE than it got gangsta up in here….. when it was time for the BIG BROTHER STICK EM UP! It was like an 80s rap video, me n my crew, my homies in da hizzie all had to compete for food for the week and the opportunity to become HAVES and have naughtys……. (YIKES!!!!) so I was the BLUE team and me n my crew fought a good fight we stuck up my boy Ragan but obv. we didn’t have what it took we were out FIRST BOOOOOOOOO! than it was a race to get out the orange or green team and the battle to win the comp. started! So the blues decided to team up with the orange team to take out the green team, after all it was only fair they were the ONLY team with no have naughtys from the week before! So what we felt like was going to last all day came to an end when brit started to slip down off the wall and outa her tape cocoon which was CRAAAAAAZY b.c I don’t think that we woulda ever taken her down! Unfortunately my man was on the green team so him enzo, brit and monet all became the naughtys for the week and the rest of the house became the Haves. Which sucked b.c that meant that Brendon had to sleep in a lawn chair and have NO food for the week, BUT after all he picked the green team hehe Oh and thanks AMERICA for helping my man live this week I think he ate enough fish sticks and fruit cake to last a normal person a year hehehehe now I know what to cook him for our anniversary this year

NOW ITS TIME FOR NOMS!!!!!!!!!!! (drum roll in my heart please…..) I hate this! but it is what it is and I gotta get Brenchael to the finals! so I nominate brittney and monet with monet being my target for the week, I mean lets be honest I gota ensure that me and brendon make it far and Monet would TOTALLY put us up so the girls gota goooooo!

Basically, Monet didn’t talk to me for days until I became HOH she won 10K and to top it off I wanna take out ANYONE that wants to separate me from my man!

More good news in our big brother world we find out ANNIEs the Saboteur YAAAAAAAAAAAAY! and we got the girl out week one, YAY for season 12! I’m not gona lie I’m SUPER happy Annie’s gone b.c she tried to throw me and Brendon under the bus in her last ditch effort before walking out the door. SO GOOD FOR THE HOUSE we have a little less to worry about at least we know that the sabs. gone now we just have to play the game.

SO POV execs are picked and I’m betting on my stocks that we have something fun coming! I get the chance to pick houseguests choice and in a big brother season 12 twist I pick ……. BRENDON ….. hahaha SHOCKER YAY I’m so excited I have Brendon fighting with me so that we can win this thing keep the noms the same and send monet packing. Brittney picks lane and monet picks enzo. So we head out to the comp. and we find ourselves on the big brother stock exchange we have to try to hold our briefcases for an hour with out going over an hour, all while we have money slapping us in the face blah…. I was totally counting on me and brendon but we should have planned our strategy better b.c than I think that we woulda won the POV and not brittney! that was lameeeeeeeeee…..and I started to freak out b.c I knew at that point that I would have to make yet another enemy, what a week2!

So now that POVs were over and obv. brits taken herself off the block I had to figure out what my next move was, I talked to a few people and tried to throw a few ideas around with brendon, and than brittney and monet proposed an idea to me which I thought might just work and keep us(brenchael) off their list. The plan I had thought out in my head was to put up Andrew, that was brittney and monet were happy, they could campaign and I could see how the house was going to split, I was also hoping that all their cards would be laid on the table to I could anticipate their next move…. Its really like were playing a game of chess here and I need to anticipate what move people want to make next, but of course I have to expect the unexpected!!!!! So I threw around andrews name and matts name thinking that if I didn’t use andrew I could use matt, welllllllllll I had to clear this all with brendon b4 I did anything I wanted him to know what was up, so I went to talk to him in the hammock and told him I thought I was going to make a decision that he wouldn’t like, See Brendon really likes Andrew and views him as a friend, an alli, and someone who will have our backs to the end, but I don’t really talk to andrew at all and I don’t know where he stands he seems to really love brendon but obv. who wouldn’t love brendon hehe sooooo brendon said he would respect my decision but we had to make sure we have the votes to keep andrew here, so we started asking our friends in the house esp. the ones we knew where they stood, than we asked matt and ragan……and all the **** hit the fan…… matt said HE WANTED TO VOLUNTEER TO GO UP AS A PAWN ~~~REALLY MATT REALLY NO ONE VOLUNTEERS TO GO UP AS A PAWN IN BIG BROTHER HISTORY, sorry stacy(matts wife) but your mans gone crazy! and even more matt wants to have it be anonymous so that he looks blind sided. So brendon thought this was a great plan, but me being the super sluth and I think from living in Vegas I’ve picked up skills and can read people got super suspicious…..why would matt want to be used as a pawn? and even more WHY would matt want to keep it anonymous?! And why would he want me to make it look like he was blind sided so I of course shared this with brendon, and we got in our first fight ;’( WORSE NIGHT EVER It felt like my heart was getting punched, when brendon left the room, I felt my self start to cry I had NO idea that I had such strong feelings about him and it really made me realize that since I found him I never want to let him go, I don’t want to be with out this man, and I just met him a short while ago, but we have soooooooo much going for us, we are like twins in our personalities, and Brendon’s by far the most amazing man I’ve met romantically, he can cook, he’s kind has a good heart compassionate, romantic, extremely attractive-handsome-looks like a model, and further more to seal the deal is a physicists who’s getting his PhD and can talk to me about science and other intellectual debates! WHO WOULDNT FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM!!!!!! were like two chemical bonds that are ionicaly bonded and I just want to be with him, further more we’re two science, sci-fi, geeks and that really gets me charged hehe I have a thing for nerds, and science geeks I just didn’t know I would meet one like Brendon so this fight was the WORST feeling ever, I found myself alone in the HOH room, with out my best friend, and I started to cry than thankfully Brendon came back up later and gave me a hug and promised me that we would never argue about the game again in that way and that were way to important to each other and this is special so I was happy again, he also said that b.c we can argue that it shows true emotions and feelings and that we have a real relationship and that it proved a lot to him also. Thank goodness I have brendon I am so thankful and lucky he’s here with me in this house and that I found him in general, I never expected to find Brendon and esp. on Big Brother, but he in a game where you have to EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED I should have known I wouldn’t ever know what to expect, hehe.

SO I wanted to put up andrew and after all I was the HOH and Brendon wants to put up matt, well I COULD anticipate all of matts moves and I saw what was coming so I tried to play games with him until the ceremony, than finally I did put up matt I wanted to go with what brendon thought would be the best, and it wasn’t worth it to risk us loosing Andrew, PLUS everyone that we have on our side wanted to do what was safe also. SO Matt goes up and true to form acted shocked!!!!!!!! WHATEVER BLAH PLAY YOUR CARDS MATT BUT THEY WILL BE FOUND OUT! So I guess he went around the house playing the pity feel bad for matt card, which is fine but that was all he needed to do he could have had a guaranteed week of being safe but NO NO NO matt had to stir it up—-which isn’t a shock b.c I called it before he even did it! I guess matt started talking to brittney and monet about how shocked he was how he wanted to get me and brendon outa the house how he wanted his revenge and how messed up it was that I “blind-sided” him PLEASE REALLY!!!!!!! You cant try to hustle the hustler–and not that I’m hustling people in the house but really its so obvious that I can see what you are doing, So basically game on homie!

So what matt didn’t count on is that I would talk to brittney, I think that people overlook the connection that brittney and I have b.c even if we dislike each others game I really like brittney a lot and I want to keep her a freineminie in the house I want to be able to always kinda get to know whats going on in her head also…..

So I found out about matts little lies and schemes, and trying to play the Ronnie card…. PLEASE MATT get a new strategy yours has been played! and I called a house meeting to let everyone know the truth where matt tried to call me and brendon bullies, and liars and everything else but myself and everyone saw matt squirming! oh and my man came to my defense ALOT this week in a few tifts THANK GOD I HAVE BRENDON he’s my night in shining armor and my prince basically the man of my dreams hehehe

So basically yall I hope that everyone saw the live feed and WATCH the episodes b.c OMG I had NOOOOOO idea that this house could get this crazy, and don’t worry Ill keep trying to figure out who’s doing what so that when the power shifts again I can keep me and brendon safe even though it feels like almost everyone wants to break us up! ! ! ! ! ! So I’m just gona have to keep fighting to keep me and my man here in the house and expecting the unexpected and of course WAYYYYY MORE DRAMA, PLOTTING, SCHEMES, and “REVENGE” haha I’m just happy to have brendon to keep me sane

I HOPE YALL KEEP READING OUR BLOGS KEEP UP WITH THE BB CAST B.C THIS HOUSE IS CCCCERRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYY AND as me and Enzo say…. ITS BOJANGLES THIS SEASON HEHEHEHE

AND keep watching for me and MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD, brendons lil romance b.c theres waaaaaay more coming and to watch b.c I’m totally falling for him hehe Oh yea and my besties in the house right now are Ragan and Kristin, So start watching b.c were going to be a force to reckon with and esp. with the possible attraction for HAYDEN AND KRISTIN OOOOOOOOAAAAOAOAOAH! hehehe keep your eyes on that one two America b.c they are super cute like me and Brendon and were all bffs!

I LOVE MY FAMILY I AM SO BLESSED TO HAVE THE MOST AMAZING PARENTS AND SISTER I LOVE MY NEPHEW and thanks mom for the head shot of you silly bear!—MY FRIENDS IN NC AND VEGAS–AND MY BIG SIS OH YEA AND OBV…. I LOVE VEGAS HEHEHEHE XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX RACHEL


Week 3 - Matt
Hello America! It's your favorite guilty pleasure...the one you hate to love...the "brains" of The Brigade...the diabolical super-genius...Matt!!!

Having the opportunity to write this blog to you all is actually one of the aspects of HoH that I've been looking forward to the most. Here I can tell you all my deepest darkest thoughts about all my fellow houseguests.

I should start by saying that I really do genuinely care for everyone in this house on a personal level. On a game level, however, it's anything-goes and no one's emotions are safe. But personally...I love them all. I'm quite confident that after getting home and watching this season, I will have lost the friendships of at least half of this house. But the remainder that choose to forgive my deplorable game-character and see me for what I truly am (the greatest Big Brother player in the history of the game...yeah, I said it), I will be close to for years to come.

As a crazy super-fan of the show myself, I've always found Big Brother to be not just an entertaining show on a surface level, but also a fascinating social experiment. Being a part of it all makes me realize this even more. Never in my normal life would I end up befriending a meat-head jock (who would have most certainly logged many hours kicking my ass in high school), nor in my normal life would a Vegas bikini cocktail waitress ever give me the time of day. This meshing of subcultures is extraordinarily awesome, and for that I am insanely grateful to even be allowed to have this experience.



Okay, okay - enough with the sappy love-fest. I know...you want the dirt.

So, as you are aware, my nominations did not exactly go as originally planned this week. Not to worry, America! The diabolical super-genius is fast at work rectifying the situation! It's great to watch Andrew go completely mental, and in hindsight I think this is all going to work out BETTER for me than if the plan to backdoor Brendan went through as it was originally supposed to. At this point in time I feel completely safe next week, and I think the house still thinks I'm a total nitwit. Perfect on all accounts!

One thing I'm finding odd being here is how excited people get at the prospect of making it to the jury house. I've been hearing this since Day 1 in the house, but even more so now that there's only one or two evictions left until that happens. I just don't get it. That seems like such a loser mindset to me. If I'm not going to win anyway, then I'd rather just be sent home early so that I can get back to my normal life. For me, once the jury house starts getting populated there's absolutely no options other than to win this game. There's no way I'm going to be happy "just going to the jury house"! What kind of dopey accomplishment is that?!? Who brags to their friends about being a loser??? My housemates boggle my mind sometimes.

Speaking of my family, I guess now is a good time to give my personal shout-outs. First off, to my wife Stacy...WOW! - what a helluva HoH basket!!! In case you missed all of the awesomeness at home, America - here's just some of what my wife hooked me up with:

1. Enough of my favorite candies to last me literally the entire season 2. A zombie squirrel. 3. Her actual blanket that she sleeps with at home, so it still smells like her. 4. A shot glass from our wedding. 5. A pirate skull-and-crossbones flag. 6. Sliders!

However, the greatest part of the package was the letter from home. Stacy - you couldn't have written a more perfect note! I honestly read it every day. Literally the only major weight hanging over my head since I've been here is if you were super pissed with the lie about your fake disease. Although I told you before I left that I'd do anything outside of infidelity to win this game, I was thoroughly concerned that you were disgusted with my game play, and I fully expected to have divorce papers waiting for me in my HoH basket. When I read that letter saying how proud of me you were and how supportive you are of the way I'm playing the game and being true to myself, it gave me a newfound energy and vigor to win this thing! I also love how, in the span of one or two sentences, you could both feed my ego and then shoot me down again with a little jab. It was both flattering and humbling, and that's exactly what I need to hear right now. Thank you SO much again...I love you dearly and cannot wait to get back home to see you!

I'd like to also say hello to mom and dad! As Stacy said - I've basically been myself (hand down the pants and all), so hopefully I haven't caused you too much shame or embarrassment in your personal lives. But, then again, you created this monster - heheh. I love and miss you both very much as well. Please keep taking care of the little lady for me. I'm wondering if this paragraph was a waste to type, since you usually need me to show you how to work your computer. I'm guessing you'll never see this. Either way, the sentiment is there.

That ends yet another sappy break. Back to some Big Brother entertainment for you super-fans...

Let's talk about The Brigade, shall we. I believe that 70% of this game is skill, 25% is luck, and the last 5% is fate. I don't have much luck in my day-to-day life, so I was banking on a 75% chance of being the odds-on favorite this season to win. Thankfully, that little 5% of fate got sprinkled on me Day 1 as I fell into The Brigade. I truly believe that there has never been a greater alliance in Big Brother history. As I type this, there's not a single person in the house that suspects us in the least of having a four-person alliance. The beauty of The Brigade is that we all have our little "side-alliances". So as long as the main four-person Brigade remains under-wraps, then if any Brigade member gets put on the block they will more than likely be put up with their side-alliance member and not against another one of the Brigade members. It really is a brilliant operation. Hopefully Hayden can keep his focus on The Brigade instead of Kristen. They're making themselves more and more suspicious by the day of being the "secret friends", so he needs to be careful of that. The Brigade needs to be all four of our number-one priorities, and I'm thinking that Hayden may be losing focus.

The side-alliances are a good segue into talking about my personal side-alliance, Ragan. Ragan is definitely one-of-a-kind. Stacy loves gay men, and before I left for the show she told me to be sure to make friends with "the gay guy" in the house. I told her I didn't want to because they typically just hang out with all girls so that is horrible strategy to get involved with. Well, it turns out that (much to the delight of my wife, I'm guessing) "the gay guy" has inadvertently become my absolute closest friend in the house. He's really the only person that I feel any guilt about in regards to the lie about Stacy or even the lies that involve The Brigade. I know that he thinks we'd have each other's backs through to the Final Two, so it's unfortunate that I have to play him the way that I am. I hope that he can watch the show and understand that I'm just being a great game player and that it's nothing personal. But any connection you see between Ragan and myself is entirely genuine, and I can't really say that about anyone else at this point in the game. I'm going to keep him here as long as I can without outing The Brigade because he's a friend that I want to make sure that I have outside of this house for a very long time. We'll see what happens!

In regards to lies, I should address the major one surrounding my game play. Allow the following few paragraphs to clear the air for the large number of people who undoubtedly think I will be burning a slow eternity in hell for the lie I'm telling about my wife. In case you're not in on it already, I've been spreading around the house that my wife has a degenerative bone disease called Melarheotosis (which I have probably...no, definitely...just misspelled). I've been telling people that I don't really ever watch Big Brother (haha), but that Stacy is a huge fan and has convinced me to go on the show in order to win money to get her the necessary surgery that she needs to save her leg from being amputated. Furthermore, this fictitious surgery is not covered by insurance and will cost insane amounts of money to fund...

...Look, America - to win big, you have to play big. The reason that this story is so believable is because no one would be sick enough to lie about something like this. No one until me, that is. But that's what makes it the perfect way to garnish the sympathy I need! I only need four jury votes to win the $500,000, and I've already had three people tell me in confidence that they would not only vote for me, but that (because of my wife's "condition") they would even suggest to the jury that I should get the money if they were in the Final Two up against me!!! Haha - brilliant!...

Even though Stacy has a clean bill of health, this disease is something real. I heard about it on TV a year or two ago on some medical program. The facts I've been spewing about it are half real (from my memory of the show) and half completely fabricated. Either way, if I win this half-million then I definitely have this disease to thank (in part) for my victory. That being said, if I win the $500,000 I will absolutely be making a sizable donation to the research foundation for Melarheotosis. That's not something I'm doing only in an effort to clear my conscience (although I'm sure it'll help), but more as just a genuine feeling of both gratitude and sympathy for anyone suffering from the condition.

See...I'm not so evil after all! ;-)

Well, everyone - time is winding down here. I hope this has been a little bit interesting for you. If you've made it this far, then words cannot even begin to express my amazement at the time you'd invest in me. It's insane to me to think that anyone would even slightly care what I have to say or think (especially when I've rambled this much). So, to all of you reading this far...THANK YOU! Your support and encouragement is unbelievable, and it gets me choked-up to even think about. If any of you see me out in public when this is over, please do not hesitate to stop by and say hello. Unless you don't like me and want to punch me in the face...then please just leave me alone.

America - I love you! Stacy - I love you more! A thousand thank-yous again to everybody. You are all amazing!

See you on the other side,
--Matt

[Raph]

All good reads. Hayden is short and to the point, Rachel sounds like she's crazy, and Matt's shows that he's a good guy, but he's really up for the game and the experience. You get to know the house-guests better when reading their blogs