I'm so out of the loop it isn't even funny. At first I wanted nothing to do with sims just because. Their lives are far too happy. I wish I could log onto my computer and instantly be hired for one of three great jobs. Anyway, I got back to my simming and was going to post my update in April (or was it March?) when what should happen but my computer died an unnatural death. I have now been computerless for weeks. I've been reduced to snatching a few minutes here and there on someone else's computer or at the library.
The bad news is that I lost a crap ton of CC I was working on (a skintone set (and I was so very nearly happy with it!), clothing, paintings, furniture) as well as my update. However, I do have my external hard drive so not all is lost. I still have my sims. I'll have a lot of catching up to do to get them to where they were but I'm sort of looking forward to it. I don't know what else I have on the external so I'm really not sure what else I've lost, although I do know I've nothing whatever of my lines, prints, croquis, or any of the projects I had been working on to round out my portfolio. That was a blow.
The happy news is that I'm getting a new computer out of this! Bless tax returns, for they are good. I'll probably post about it once I have it. My fingers are crossed that it will get here by Friday of this week. If it doesn't get here by then there is a distinct possibly I will go out of my mind with anticipation and that doesn't sound like an overly favorable scenario. So yay Friday!
- Mood:
cold
I've been all over God's green earth (or God's somewhat more depressing dingy white-ish grey and brown earth, depending on where you are) visiting a ton of friends that I've not seen in forever. Some of that was because it's so easy to get caught up being busy and some of it is because I'm the world's most anti-social social butterfly. Whatever the reasons, I've had such a great time catching up with everyone again and just having fun! (And, hey, I still spent less in gas than what I would have if I'd been going to work. I won't be missing the near two hour daily commute.) Things have been pretty fantastic all around, even if I haven't sent out any resumes like I should have. My bad.
I haven't been in the mood to read anything sim-related, nor have I been home long enough to do so. Same goes for my legacy, despite the next update being 99.9% of the way done. But, I've got all social gallivanting out of my system and, anyway, I've no means to leave the house because I loaned my car to my sister, so I've suspicions that will all change and rather soon too.
- Music:No Rain - Blind Melon
I lost my job today.
They said it's an indefinite lay off, but as there was no timetable mentioned and I had to clear out my desk, I'm having trouble buying that. I was upset about it at first, but I'm getting used to the idea. My finances are not quite in a happy enough state that I'm fully cool with this, but it could be worse. And, really, it's times like these that I am quite happy I don't have anyone depending on me. If I can't get another job and can't pay all my bills and decide to wander the streets as a baglady, well, that's a new and interesting challenge, isn't it? In the meantime, I get to sleep in, which is awesome. I'll be able to collect unemployment as I finally get serious about my internship search, which is also pretty spiffy. I can work on developing healthier eating habits again and take better care of myself. I'll have time to sim and read to my heart's content.
Yeah, I think I'm going to go with a positive outlook on this one.
How's everybody else doing today?
- Music:As Lovers Go - Dashboard Confessional
I've been playing around with making my own skin defaults for some time now and it occurred to me it might have something to do with that. But no amount of switching defaults in or out would change it. What's more, no other YA S3 males displayed the same issue. Eventually it dawned on me to make a clone sim and use simsurgery. Worked like a charm. Alas, poor E Clone will be annihilated in my next townie purge. Toodles, E, hardly knew you.
The Ephraim problem ate up a huge chunk of my playing time. I'm hoping that possibly Thursday or Friday I'll be able to finish things up. It depends how good I am at avoiding phone calls and thus avoiding making social commitments. Do you ever just get the urge to chuck your phone down a really deep well? Or, better yet, I remember one year when I went polar bearing, one of my friends accidentally dropped her cell phone into Lake Michigan. I'd find a watery grave like that for the dratted thing if only it wasn't so hard to function without one.
I'm a member of the Irrational Cell/Mobile Hatred club. Also, I whine a lot.
In completely unrelated news, my Valentine's was pretty damn good, as these things go. I listened to a CD Phedre made for me (theme: loneliness... we celebrate V-day in fine style) and gathered together a group of single friends to try to conquer half the world as well as bits of the moon in a few games of Risk 2210. I didn't win any of the games, but I maintain this is because Franklin hexed my dice. It's really the only logical explanation.
- Mood:
cheerful - Music:Haiku - Tally Hall
So what do you do when you have three days of unexpected free time?
( Sim, of course! )
- Mood:
awake - Music:Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
( Meme )
I finally played my game last night for the first time since about Thanksgiving. That's forever ago. I've fired it up to take pictures (mostly in CAS) or to play around with my neighborhood setup but I haven't actually played any houses. I was really kind of dreading it because I couldn't remember exactly what was happening on each lot and I knew I was going to have to do a lot of plant deleting (forgot to delete ceilings before installing AL). Nothing exciting happened, but I had a lot of fun. I don't think I'm going to rush to get my next chapter out. I want to enjoy it more. My recap is done and I'll probably upload that some time in the next few days but that's not the same thing.
I've also been working on creating a new legacy house. I love it so far. It's been a bit chaotic though because I keep fixing things up and then realizing I want this chair in a different color or I want artwork that'll look nice in this room and I exit the game to work on those things. Then I fire it back up for two minutes, see something else, and exit again.
Here's the part where I have a question. I'm clearly missing something. How do you recolor cc? Wizards of SimPE only has game objects and I also didn't see any custom objects when I tried Object Workshop. I'm at a complete loss here. It's probably something really obvious but I don't know what.
- Mood: tired
- Music:Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
Update at rubybluerecolor! Don't worry, this is the only time I'll post about such things here as well. It's just in case anyone would be interested but missed the link the first time around.
I haven't much time to write anything as I still have a ton of things to do before we leave for Indiana tomorrow (where the wedding will take place), but I wanted to share some pictures quick. The dress was officially finished three and a half hours ago. Behold:
.And just for the fun of it:
Thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes! I'll probably post about it (and Christmas) later.
My computer blew up. Actually, that's probably a lie because it makes it sound exciting and it very much wasn't. I'd have been more impressed if there were sparks or maybe a rotten smell or something like that. Anyway, my life has more or less revolved around Diana's dress for the last several weeks and I loaned my sister a veritable fortune to help keep her family afloat, so I've had neither the time nor the money to do much of anything about it. It's just sitting in the corner of my room quietly dreaming about its former glory days. Poor thing.
To be fair, it's always been in the corner of my room so it isn't like it's been demoted or anything. It isn't Pluto, after all.
I'll probably be able to get it looked at sometime in the new year and then I'll be able to resume both my normal internet and sims related activities. I truly am sorry for worrying people.
In the meantime, my dears, I do have something of a Christmas present for you all. If you want to think of it that way. Which I do. Because it makes me feel less bad about showing pictures and promising to upload and then not sharing for months. Right. rubybluerecolor I briefly considered ehrubyblue or ihrubyblue to continue the trend (ohrubyblue and ahrubyblue) but ultimately decided that perhaps something descriptive would be more helpful.
- Mood: chipper
- Music:I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas - Gayla Peevey
I've been in love with making recolors the last few days. It's something that comes and goes. This time it started with just a few tweaks on some newly downloaded makeup and kind of exploded into clothing from there. Some of them have minor issues that I didn't notice until after I took pictures, but I'm still pretty pleased on the whole.
- Music:Lisa Loeb - Look Me In The Eye
Oh, and as long as I'm on a related topic - I have no idea why I use theatre vs. theater. I've always done so. If it massively bugs (given that I don't use British spellings for much anything else), I'll work on it.
The theatre stuff sort of freaks me out. I initially had more ideas about it than I knew what do with and that was wonderful. Unfortunately, every single one of those ideas is no longer viable. I keep trying to think of this in a positive light. It means I have lots to play around with. But my new general aversion toward the whole idea makes this a bit difficult. See, when I first thought about it I was excited because while my legacy pulls primarily from fairy tales and nursery rhymes and such, I think it all fits under the general label of oral tradition. Anyway, at the time I didn't know that so many of my readers are in involved in theatre. I feel like such a hack. At any moment I'm going to stumble headlong into a gooey pit of self-inflicted embarrassment. Ignorance, my old friend, we meet again.
Oh, I wanted to offer an explanation on my last legacy chapter title. The first part comes from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan: "To die will be an awfully big adventure." The second is from Arthur Quiller-Couch's advice: "Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it--wholeheartedly--and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings."
I will get to replies soon. I'm so terrible lately; I used up all my outgoing points just updating. I think I need to find a way to encourage those up.
- Music:Newsies Soundtrack - King Of New York
Much sighing. I'm going to call the company to find out if they're slow when it comes to the concept of white white in general or if it's just the one fabric. Or if they get their kicks misleading people. Or if there was some kind of mix-up. (I'm really hoping it's that last one.) Whatever the case, I'm not going to get stuck with hundreds of dollars of 'so not white my father could see it wasn't white'.
The good thing is the fabric itself is gorgeous. The beading is scrumptious and exactly what we wanted. It's just the color isn't so much.
- Music:Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack
- Mood: ditzy
- Music:Blues Traveler - Hook
I managed to play my sims twice this week (or will if I manage tonight) so that's major progress! I'm soooo close to an update. But I'd feel a little funny posting a new chapter when I'm still so far behind on others so I'm thinking I might sit on it for a little bit. After two months what's a little longer?
For sure I thought I was going to have Chivalry permaplat by this time but it hasn't happened yet. I don't even know what number lover out of twenty he's on. I wasn't in the mood to take sims downtown so the last time I played I focused more on the adults. I think Galahad is permaplat three times over now.
I'm having lots of fun with Theda in college. She's almost through her freshman year and that's when I plan to add the rest. I feel like whenever I'm in the middle of playing the college years I'd give anything to be at the marriage or baby or kid stage, but then when I get back to it I'm so relieved not to be playing that stuff. Anyway, I'm looking forward to sending the rest of the generation.
- Music:Chuck Berry - Maybellene
Today was my nephew Connor's fifth birthday and I just got home from his party. Now I finally (finally!) have time to sit down and read some legacies and I'm in the mood to do so and of course the exchange is down. Naturally.
I suppose if the universe is going to conspire against you that's a fairly tame way for it to go, but it's still annoying.
So, instead of just leaving it at whining, I give you my thoughts on "famous" legacies. This week's simsecret isn't likely to produce the amount of talk about famous legacies as last weeks did but it's sort of been on my mind. The word gets tossed around all the time on the forums. It's all relative and nobody's actually famous in the grand scheme of things but you wouldn't know it to read some of that. Famous authors of famous legacies with their famous sims and famous, famous, famous, blah, blah, blah. What I want to know is this - Do you get a gold plaque when you become a famous legacy writer? Sort of like the hobby plaques in FT? Because I think that's the least the Famous Legacy Board could do for their members to make sure they are aware they're famous. Otherwise how is anyone going to know?
- Music:Little Women Soundtrack - Orchard House
Alert the press, I think I've finally decided to maybe possibly commit to a new set of skintone defaults. I know, your heart just skipped a beat so staggering is the boldness of that assertion. Mine certainly did.
Seriously, I'm thinking about switching them out when I'm finished with my next chapter. I'd do it sooner but I think that would be unhappily jarring. And I'm not entirely 100% certain. Help?
( Behold my inability to properly assign camera angles! )
Thoughts? Even if all you're thinking is that I'm blind and seriously lacking in judgment. That's helpful in it's own way. Or if you really don't care at all but are thinking of something else you could share that too. I'm hardcore wanting an orange right about now. That's my random thought.
- Mood: hungry
- Music:Violent Femmes - Blister In the Sun
I've kind of come to a wall with my Locks. I've played through a whole generation and a half of my ISBI family (welcome Sappho, Bhaskara, and Zellig Brighton!) and put together four chapters of that and yet have only managed maybe 30 useable pictures for my next legacy update. Not good. I've already trashed a lot of what I'd written and started over once and I don't particularly want to do it again. Add to that, I've shot the main plotty scene and deaths have happened so there's no real way to go back. But I'm just not happy with any of it. I don't know what to do other than mentally shove it under the bed. A part of me is hoping that writing this here will spark something for me. One can hope.
The mix channel I've been listening to recently has been playing a lot of John Mayer's Say. I always hear the line "Say what you need to say" x 8 as "It's totally insane" x 8. I finally looked it up because it was, quite fittingly, driving me a little insane.
My new contacts and glasses were in yesterday so I picked them up. I'm seriously lamenting that I didn't have someone come with me when I picked the frames. Made me think of News Item by Dorothy Parker (as quoted in the title) though so there's some win in it.
In the meantime, my second eldest brother (the one who lives in China) proposed to his girlfriend this weekend. I'm so excited for them both! She asked if I could make her wedding gown and I said it's a possiblity. I'd love to do it but I don't know... she sent pictures of what she has in mind and I'm perfectly capable of doing what she wants. The problem is that it's a little hard to do fittings when you're half a world away.
They asked my eldest nephew if he would be the ring bearer or if he was too old for that sort of thing. Jacob sort of shrugged and told them he wasn't. He didn't seem very excited about the prospect so I pulled him aside and told him that if ever I get married he'll probably be too old to be ring bearer and he doesn't have to be. The kid's face immediately crumbled and I wondered what just happened. Then he brightened as a new thought occurred to him, "I can be your best man though, right?" The cute, I tell you, nearly killed me.
I judge that I only have about three more days until all the packing is out of my wound. That's exciting to me. It's itchy as all hell but I suppose that's a good sign. I'll be so happy when this is over and when I'm no longer on the antibiotics. I'm a total moron when I'm on antibiotics. I had to go the store five times before I bought the right tape (Here's a hint, the one that says 'gentle paper tape' is probably going to be the most gentle) and I bought the wrong gauze dressing pad things twice. My bathroom cabinet is now stocked with all kinds of bandaging materials. Lol, hopefully they'll never need to be used.
- Music:Toto - Africa
I will totally stop rambling all idiotically now.
I didn't mean to unexpectedly fall off the face of the earth, honest. I had some internet connectivity issues and then a computer virus of mass unhappiness. And then! Oh then, joy of joys, I found myself dealing with some sort of infected something or other on my sternum. I didn't go to see a doctor for six days and only did because at that point it was so sore as to make the movement involved in breathing hurt. There was lancing and general pain and now I sit with a small hole in my chest packed with gauze. That's the general overview. I'll spare y'all the details.
In the meantime I haven't even touched my sims. I haven't much read any legacies either so now I'm even worse than ridiculously far behind on some of my favorites. It makes me feel like such a wretch. I'm thinking I'm going to take this weekend and just go nuts reading and getting myself back up to speed. That would be fun.
- Music:They Might Be Giants - Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul
- Mood: restless
- Music:Jay and the Americans - Come A Little Bit Closer
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