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I don't know. At least I finished something--that's enough to give me a sense of achievement. I really, really need to break the habit of coming up with a last line then trying to work up to it. This time anyway I got there and realized it didn't work after all, so I scrapped it for something that, well, isn't much better. Title: What Would You Say Series: ToA Length: 1335 words Request: "what if" Genre: Romance Pairing: Guy/Natalia Summary: It's not a proposal, but what if it were? You know, it's so very clear that this is yet another excuse to throw them in bed together, and really, I should just write porn. Tags: abyss, abyss fic, drabble requests, fanfic
Current Mood:  determined
Current Music: lucky--jason mraz and colbie caillat
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Got an email from Mom, and she and the Great Dane are actually coming HERE next weekend. Can someone help me up off the floor? I told Mom on the phone last weekend that I'm sick of it always being put on us to travel. I didn't want to lay a guilt-trip, but she's done it enough to me over the last 35 years. And it worked, so there's that. I won't make a habit of it, though, and I hope she at least conveyed that to my dad and sisters, that it's completely unfair to expect us to go up there EVERY time. My dad's kinda lost the plot, though. Even D says so. The last couple of years, my dad has just gotten really weird about... everything. He and Mom took a three-week cross-country car trip with my grandma and uncle last month, and Mom said Dad hardly wanted to do anything but drink and gamble. They were supposed to be taking this trip FOR my grandma, and then... she hardly got to see what she wanted, which makes me sad. She should have gone with us on our big trip. We know how to travel. Current Mood:  shocked
Current Music: policy of truth--depeche mode
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 Obviously these two would have adorable little blond children, and so their Sims do, but...  I'm really curious what their Sim children are going to look like. Why did I hook up AschSim and TomoyoSim? Well, TomoyoSim was, curiously, way into LukeSim, who was already married (but we all know Sims are whores and that doesn't stop them), and so I pushed her in AschSim's direction because, well, IDENTICAL. Accept no substitutes, Tomoyo! Go for the Original Recipe. And it worked like... faster than I've hooked up any Sims ever, I think. Man, were they easy to get together. It seems odd on the surface, but I think in a way it makes a weird kind of sense. I may be close to getting Sim'd out, though. I've been playing a lot this past week. Maybe I'll let it sit a while and finally do some writing instead. Tags: sims
Current Mood:  amused
Current Music: a strange kind of love--peter murphy
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So, Sims 3. I've finally had time to just sit down and play for a few hours. I have a couple of minor quibbles with it. The fact that a household no longer stays in stasis when you switch to another household takes getting used to. But sometimes if a Sim is doing something, they'll get stuck that way, and if your active Sim calls or invites them over, they won't talk or come over. You have to switch back to the other household and make them stop. I guess this is a bug? Or else I'm doing something wrong. Like, NataliaSim was stuck working at her computer, GuySim was stuck at a chess table in the park, and TouyaSim was stuck looking through the telescope. On the plus side, when I made TouyaSim the active Sim again, all that time he'd been stuck at the telescope meant he'd maxed out the Logic skill. Which is good for his job. And I'm having trouble getting romances going. GuySim and NataliaSim got on like a house afire, but no one else can seem to get beyond friendship no matter how much flirting and hugging and woohooing. I guess I have to keep after it. I think it would be hilarious to hook up TouyaSim and AniseSim. Good things? The personality traits. I love them. I love how you can get some specific activities with certain traits. AniseSim is Frugal, so she clips coupons. FujitakaSim is a Bookworm, so he joined a book club. TouyaSim is a Computer Whiz, so he can troll message boards (and gets a Moodlet Boost from it!). And one thing I love is the writing skill. LukeSim is a novelist/journalist, and you actually get to title the books and articles, plus get copies of them for your bookshelf and the library so other Sims can read them. He wanted to write a SciFi novel, so I called it I, Replica. It flopped big time, so he got bitter and wrote a trashy bodice ripper called Common Princess, Noble Servant (and I made AschSim read it). Then he got over it and went back to SciFi with The Outer Lands, which was well-received. But I think my favorite part was when he went rummaging through his neighbors' trash for dirt for his articles, and he found a copy of I, Replica. Then TouyaSim, who's a cop, was also digging through the trash for evidence, and he found like three copies of I, Replica. So he gave one to FujitakaSim and one to SakuraSim. The opportunities are great, too. It seems much easier to get promoted than before, because for Sims like AschSim who's a Loner, he doesn't need to have X number of friends/relationships to get promoted. He's already gotten to like Level 8 of the Medicine track. And actually being able to go from place to place, to visit other Sims houses, go to the public pool or library or shops without having to sit through a loading screen is nice. It makes a much more fluid and interactive neighborhood that way. Going to other Sims' houses with the active Sim is one of the biggest improvements, I think. I keep telling D, if he'll stop building and decorating his massive house and actually play the game, he'll like some of these new details. Of course, I have to stop playing long enough for him to have the disc. Tags: sims
Current Mood:  impressed
Current Music: the office on hulu
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They got our new floor finished in just two days. Two long, full days, but still. It looks so great that, like with the kitchen, the rest of the house looks shabby in comparison, but that's the last of the major work we're doing for now. So I didn't get to Target until 7 last night to pick up Sims 3, and I've barely played it because D's already run off with my disc to play on his computer. Well, we've been working all day trying to get our house back in order (and there's still lots more to do), so he deserves a break to play for a bit. I just got a few Sims made before I had to quit, and D complained that they really didn't look right, but I told him I'm more concerned about getting the personalities right than the looks. It's his dream game to sit and spend hours tweaking hair and facial features and building/decorating houses, and I just want to get to the playing part. He never actually gets to the playing with the Sims. That's not the fun part to him. D did say I did a good job with LukeSim and AschSim, but that was easy because you just make one and then click "make replica twin". The personality features are really cool. You have a big list of traits and get to choose five for each Sim. Poor LukeSim. His traits are Childish, Coward, Hot-headed, Slob, and Lucky. I love you, Luke, but tell me most of that isn't true. AschSim is likewise Hot-headed, Daredevil, Perfectionist, Loner, and No Sense of Humor. "No Sense of Humor" is crucial. GuySim is Athletic, Brave, Handy, Romantic, and Friendly. Could I be a bigger Guy fangirl? "Friendly" was a toss-up choice because I really wanted something like "charming", but the closest choices were "Friendly" and "Flirty", and his interactions are more from a friendly place than a flirty place, I think. NataliaSim was hard. I ended up going with Good, Family-oriented, Charismatic, Ambitious, and Snob. I didn't really want "Snob" but I needed something to kind of represent that bratty side we first see, which is more overruled by her "Good" compassionate caring side as we get to know her. Her goal is to be "Leader of the Free World", by the way. AniseSim is Excitable, Flirty (see the difference?), Natural Cook, Frugal, and Kleptomaniac. "Frugal" was the closest to "money-loving", and "Kleptomaniac" was as close as I could come to "sneaky". Yeah, it's a stretch. TearSim is Good, Loner, Workaholic, Neat, and Light Sleeper. I don't know why "Light Sleeper". I guess I wanted someone to be. If I ever get my disc back from D, I'll do a little actual playing, then get to making my CCSims and BuffySims. I've gotten so used to having them that it wouldn't feel like I was doing it right if I didn't have them. Plus, crossover pairing potential! Tags: sims
Current Mood:  busy
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I'm going to try to get to Target tonight after the installers leave and pick up Sims 3, but for the past few days I've been playing 2 a little. I hadn't played 2 in months, and I kinda missed it. I was flipping through the Freetime manual and realized there were new career tracks I'd never explored. So I made GuySim an architect and AniseSim a fortune-seeking spy, of course. She married SyaoranSim for his money. It had been so long I forgot I'd never found anyone for SyaoranSim to marry, poor kid. I named their son Florian, and anyone named Florian Li is going to grow up getting the crap beat out of him on the playground. AniseSim was also abducted by aliens. I've had this game forever and that's the first time I've ever had that happen. She didn't look too thrilled about it when she got back, but no alien baby popped out, so I guess it's all good. I wanted GuySim to have the tinkering hobby, but he ended up with a house full of broken shit and had to call the repairman. He's gotten better at it, though. He and NataliaSim fixed up a classic car together. She did most of the work, actually. I think he just painted it--blue to match her dress. She really, really likes cooking. She came up with that on her own. The little dialogue box popped up saying like "I'm so glad I tried that cooking activity!" Okay, then. Rock on, Your Highness. They have three kids, MarySim, AnnabelSim, and CecilSim, all perfectly blond and blue-eyed. They're creating their own little master race! I'd also forgotten that I'd married off NegiSim and ChiyoSim. Best crossover pairing ever! When I start all over with Sims 3, I have no idea who's going to get paired up where. Since you can tweak the personalities so much more, it's going to be interesting to see where the chemistry is. Tags: sims
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: you're a god--vertical horizon
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Last week we went to Home Depot for two reasons: to buy a new range, and to order new flooring for our living room/hallway. The range was to be delivered last Thursday, didn't come until Friday, and then didn't work, so they had to take it back and order a new one. They brought the new one Wednesday, and it had a huge ding in the side. They plugged it in and it worked, so we kept it because we didn't want to spend the rest of our days waiting to receive a series of busted stoves. We do get a $75 damage refund, and the ding doesn't show because it's up against the cabinets, but still. The flooring is the more obnoxious situation. Last Wednesday we made our order and the woman told us she'd call us Friday to let us know when it could be delivered and installed. The installation is done by a sub-contractor, so all of that has to be coordinated, plus the flooring has to sit in our house for three days to acclimate before it can be installed. We also have some furniture we're planning to donate to Salvation Army and want to get it out of the house and out of the way before the installation starts. Anyway, she didn't call us last Friday, so D called her back two days ago to find out what's going on. She said the materials are all in but she hasn't been able to set anything up with the installers yet, so she said she would check and call him back that afternoon. It's now Friday morning and we still haven't heard when our flooring is going to be installed. We're again in perpetual limbo and unable to make any plans because we don't know when we'll need to be home for this delivery and installation. Salvation Army is coming tomorrow to pick up our donation, so at least that will be taken care of. I don't know. We were really, really happy with the installation guys when they did our kitchen floor, and since we've requested the same people, maybe they're just busy. But they could tell us that, you know? Even if they're busy, they should know when they'll be free to do our job, and we could do what we need to do in the meantime. We need this floor done so we can buy new furniture, and then I think we'll be done with the home "improvement" stuff for the time being. We want our lives back. D says as soon as this is done we're going to get out of town for a couple days, maybe go down to the Gulf. Sounds good to me. So, anyway, an hour after I wrote this, the delivery guy called for directions to our house. D called the store to ask "WTF" and kept getting put through to voicemail, and finally he called and said, "Look, I need to talk to an actual person because I've left three voicemails in the past two days that no one's returned, the delivery truck is on its way here and I have no confirmed installation date". It turns out the scheduling woman has been out sick all week (again, something you could have told us) but they're "90% sure" they can start installation next week.
Which means there's a 10% chance--more, really--that these 22 boxes are going to be sitting in my living room indefinitely.Current Mood:  aggravated
Current Music: save yourself--jonny lang
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