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strangetomato said: Happy Birthday! 🙂

fuzzyspork said: Happy Birthday! She’s the perfect candidate for a Good Genes challenge! 😀

taylors-simblr said: Happy Birthday!!

holleyberry said: Happy Belated Birthday!

Thank you soo much!!!

Yup. It was especially funny since I tried to show my bf how to play the game (I may or may not have burned Gallagher Newson to death) and he was like: “Um… is that supposed to happen?”

Sandy and Andrea rekindling their old friendship

didilysims said: That’s sweet. 🙂

So frikkin’ cute!!!

Timmy ignoring the noises upstairs…

didilysims said: Oh Timmy. 🙂

He’s walked in on them a couple of times now… He knows better than to go looking for them.

Püppi/Pupsi the mannequin

didilysims said: Ha ha, that’s excellent!

She freaked me out, but since them, I’ve noticed that the game likes to use a recently “used” Sim to act as the clothing mannequin. It’s weird.

A college for Middleground

holleyberry said: Townie teens as dormies is an awesome idea!

Yeah, they’re awesome (and they feel much more familiar than the default dormies or newly generated ones). Too bad there are only 8 of them. Because Timothy has already fallen for one. I may have to extract the teen NPCs.

Middleground orphanage

holleyberry said: I love Orlando. Hes a cutie.I played him as a spouse once until he and my sim died of old age.

Aw, how sweet! My Orlando is more of a deeply troubled troublemaker right now, but I’m curious how he’ll evolve.

5 Things Meme

I was tagged by @holleyberry . Thank you!

5 things you’ll find in my bag:

A huge wallet (style over functionality in that case- still love it to bits)

Tissues

A marble (?) ( I don’t know how that got in there- I don’t even own marbles.)

A grocery store receipt from October. Bought some orange juice and minced meat. Nothing else.

Another grocery store receipt. This one’s from August. Really need to clean out my purse more often.

5 things you’ll find in my room:

The handmade, bright green-blue-pink quilt my mother made me some years ago. Love it to bits, even though she’s now kind of ashamed of it (she’s gotten so much better over the last three years, it’s amazing).

Way too many empty water bottles. I’m lazy. And I drink a lot.

A dirty pile of clothes the big dog usually sleeps on.

Lots and lots of gifts. Spent two hours today gift wrapping. I’m the primary gift wrapper this year (but I’m not very good at it).

“Buckingham Corgi”– bought him at the Buckingham Palace gift shop two years ago. He’s sitting in the forest of empty water bottles, judging me…

5 things that make me happy:

My dogs

My boyfriend

Working headphones– it’s really hard to find a working pair in this household

Christmas!

My upcoming vacation with my family and boyfriend- even though I could throttle my family right now- the joys of Christmas preparations ^^

5 things I’m currently into:

Christmas! I’m all about that holiday, preparing food, decorations and gifts!

Animal Crossing New Leaf– yup, still addicted

Learning about midwives and the process of giving birth- this one needs some explaining so I don’t look like a serial killer! I’ve always been interested in the topic, but never considered becoming one (I’m extremely squeamish). My oldest friend- who is currently in training to become one- has given me some literature on the topic. It’s so interesting (even though I’m surer than ever that I don’t want to be one)!

Makeup– after feeling like shit for the entirety of the semester (health issues), I’ve recently started to do makeup again. It’s fun!

I’m still pretty into names. Blame it on the historian inside of me, but there’s something about learning about names and the history behind them that’s really speaking to me. ~~Too bad I won’t be able to write my bachelor’s thesis about that…~~

5 things on my to-do list:

Clean the entire house

Prepare my 3+ college presentations and learn for the exams

Pack for my vacation

Watch Parks and Recreation Season 7

Relax!

Somehow this turned into a freaking novel. Sorry about that! As always, I’m gonna tag people out of my activity page… @davidmont , @cindysimblr , @moocha-muses , @eulaliasims and @wickedjr89 . No pressure, though.

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On Joe learning couple counselling

davidmont said: OMG witchery! 👁👁

I sense character development in the near future…

Ivy splitting her head open thanks to the freaking diving board

didilysims said: 😀

She is such a dork and I love her!

Weird congratulations

didilysims said: What a weird thing to congratulate, whether it was 20 years ago or this morning. Ah, mean Sims!

This is just… weird. But hey, when Sims still feel like gossiping about Christy breaking up with Joe (she’s been happily married for like 15 sim days now)… just weird.

Engagements!

didilysims said: Yay!

I really love those ‘Surprise Engagement’ animations and tend to over-do it with them. Everyone proposes at tables in my game.

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Sorry for the delay, guys, I got addicted to Animal Crossing again, and then I got a cold thanks to my cousins’ grandmother, who insisted on doing all the kitchen work while sick. Anyway…

Swan’s fateful date

davidmont said: Rude™

Well, not everyone is into smooches on their first date ever. XD

Decorating woes

davidmont said: LOL

Seriously, for having such a limited “inventory” in contrast to Sims, I’m soo much better at decorating in Happy Home Designer. Don’t know why. Maybe IT IS because of the limited items…

The train set

eulaliasims said: I never noticed how much detail the train set has! The houses on it are really cute. 😮

It is! I’ve always had a soft spot for it (if only it wouldn’t take up so much damn space…)

littleblondesim said: I adore this map, too! I also once had a thought of recreating it. I’d love to see a take on it. 🙂

*sigh* If only I was good at creating terrains in SimCity 4…

katatty-main said: i never thought about recreating this map! it’s super cute.

It’s adorable, isn’t it. The amount of detail in this…

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~~Aonda~~ Andrea vs the dog

davidmont said: THIS ROUND!!!

Of course! You think I’d give up that easily?

didilysims said: Hey at least it’s a different spot. Baby steps!

Once Andrea has enough money, I’ll plunk down a drive way, right there. Where will you dig then, dog, huh?

The Burglar

didilysims said: A sure sign of wealth!

I guess he can count himself lucky, then?

300 post limit

greenfooddog said: Yes! It’s like ‘You’ve reached your post limit for today!’ How dare you limit the artistic process, Tumblr!?!

I mean, is there a technical reason for it?

davidmont said: Yes, on plus there is a Video limit of 100Mb or 5mins and a Max gif size of 2Mb LOL. I wish I could have more stuff on queue. But drafts it’s limit less, I’ve got more than 1000 posts there 🌝

Ah, did not know this! Thanks! (If you could see all the junk in my drafts queue… XD

didilysims said: Wow, congratulations! 😛

Thank you, thank you.

The Breakup

didilysims said: Ooh, I’ve sometimes wondered what would happen to couples whose turn-on/off-related skills changed. Thanks for satiating my curiosity! 😀

Sometimes, if I really like the couple and they are still head over heels into each other, I let them change their turn-ons. Let’s pretend it’s couple counselling. But if they don’t, I break them up/divorce them. It adds a little bit of drama to my gameplay.

didilysims said: Also I really like Andrea’s new outfit. 🙂

Thanks. Took me a long time to find it, but when I did, I knew that it would fit her just perfectly.

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The internet died! And then it came back again after I completely reset everything. This is getting ridiculous…

(Naming traditions in 15/16th c Germany)

eulaliasims said: Oh, so neat! Those remind me a bit of some Puritan names, albeit less wordy. It’s interesting to see how names change in response to cultural shifts. And Ludgera is kind of absurd, but also sounds strangely charming for some reason?

Yes, they are similar in idea. It does sound kind of absurd, but I’ve heard worse (somewhat unrelated, but have you ever had “Jason” screamed at you in a heavy Southern German accent? Now THAT’S the stuff of nightmares (’Tschäisooon’)). It is still used, but very rarely. I believe it might be more popular as a religious name for nuns (the holy Liudger is pretty popular in my region).

To cull or not to cull. That is the question

davidmont said: I think so yes! LOL that’d be easier but not. You might feel better cleaning. Because if you don’t do it and start over then you might download one of these again. And at the end you’d not do anything.

holleyberry said: I agree you should delete these instead of starting over.

I’m still torn. I deleted roughly 320 hairstyles from my folder, which brings it down to 240 (yes, I’m THAT determined). But on the other hand, there’s currently a completely NEW folder sitting on my hard drive in which I downloaded only the “essentials”, replaced all my leftover V1 Poppet hairstyles with V2 ones and, in the process, threw keoni-chans default replacements into the mix in order to a) fill in the gaps (missing V2 versions, hairstyles I couldn’t find) and b) to bring down the size of my folder (I’m not sure how I feel about that, as I actually like to use the Maxis hairs at times (for example, to emphasise the makeovers as I did in Strangetown)). Sigh, this is a hard decision.

alienpod said: i wish i had your discipline D:

I spent 2 hours in front of the PC before I screamed “Screw it!” about halfway to the male hair section (about ¼ of the female hair section) and closed the game… so, yeah. I’m close to insanity.

Anyway, I think I’ll spend the evening (well night), combing through my “Old Hair” folder and replacing all the V1 hairstyles with V2 ones. That’s probably a compromise I’d be able to live with.