::comes up for air::
May. 22nd, 2006 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosebeeI'm alive. I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated!
Work's still insanely busy. I miss my boss and if we knew when she'd be able to come back I'd be counting down the days.
Since work's so stressful I've just been coming home each evening and crashing on the computer. Lately I've been severly addicted & doing almost nothing but playing Sims2! :D
I take breaks (reluctantly) for important life activities like eating, using the restroom, and ensuring HTB & I have a supply of clean clothing.
So I'd been playing mainly just these same 2 or 3 families. When the eldest child grew up & moved out I'd play that family. But it's still the same 2 or 3 family trees. And I'm a total sucker for the parents when they spin up a want to "have a baby" or "have 10 children". So I have a few VERY large families. This is now causing me a problem trying to match up these children to give myself more couples/families.
I actually had to make a list and match up all the kids. But then I realized I was matching up the same 3 different families. So in the interest of a little genetic variety I've introduced a few more families.
And I had my first alien abduction outside of Strangetown! And because I'm a sucker for those have a baby wants, the mom had want to have a baby, and I knew from experience that her want would not be satisfied when the dad popped out an alien baby. So I had the two of them Try For Baby, and it was successful! Now I have 2 pregnant people puking in toilets! I just hope neither the human pregnancy nor the alien pregnancy turn out to be twins! Then I'll really be in deep trouble!
I've got a sim version of me & HTB. (yes, I'm sappy & pathetic, but I amuse myself). We're still both teens living with our respective families.
Of my 3 main family trees, 2 of the current households have a set of twins! I had to not play one family when I got the 2nd set because I want to marry the twins off to one another (the 1 set was identical girls, the 2nd set was identical boys). Now both sets are teens, but I haven't been able to get them to meet each other! The only other thing I can think of is to make at least one twin from each family have the same job, then they might meet. But so far I've been waiting for a twin from the other set to walk by the house when I'm playing the other.
I'm really curious to see if the children of the married off sets of twins will look the same or not!
Of the new families I created to add a little genetic variety to my town, I made my first Romance sim, Julianna! So far I've just been playing knowledge, fortune & family sims. I had her fall in love & Try For Baby with a neighbor sim, except her husband found out and got made at her. Then Julianna got pregnant and I managed to repair the relationship with her husband. When the baby was born I figured out that while little Sean has Julianna's husband's last name, his mom's husband doesn't recognize Sean as being a family member. The guy Julianna had the affiar with (Adrian) does recognize Sean as his son. Adrian came over autonomously to see Sean the day after he was born. Then he got a bad memory over Julianna cheating on him! Well duh!
More on RL. HTB & I have decided to take a class at the local community college together this summer, "Social Ballroom Dancing for Couples". It's on Saturday nights so it'll be easy to get to. I'm looking forward to it. Not that we're planning on having a big formal reception, but it's one of those things that HTB & I have both been wanting to learn how to do. :)
And now that my lunch is almost over I should try and see if the rain's going to let up enough for me to go for a walk.
Work's still insanely busy. I miss my boss and if we knew when she'd be able to come back I'd be counting down the days.
Since work's so stressful I've just been coming home each evening and crashing on the computer. Lately I've been severly addicted & doing almost nothing but playing Sims2! :D
I take breaks (reluctantly) for important life activities like eating, using the restroom, and ensuring HTB & I have a supply of clean clothing.
So I'd been playing mainly just these same 2 or 3 families. When the eldest child grew up & moved out I'd play that family. But it's still the same 2 or 3 family trees. And I'm a total sucker for the parents when they spin up a want to "have a baby" or "have 10 children". So I have a few VERY large families. This is now causing me a problem trying to match up these children to give myself more couples/families.
I actually had to make a list and match up all the kids. But then I realized I was matching up the same 3 different families. So in the interest of a little genetic variety I've introduced a few more families.
And I had my first alien abduction outside of Strangetown! And because I'm a sucker for those have a baby wants, the mom had want to have a baby, and I knew from experience that her want would not be satisfied when the dad popped out an alien baby. So I had the two of them Try For Baby, and it was successful! Now I have 2 pregnant people puking in toilets! I just hope neither the human pregnancy nor the alien pregnancy turn out to be twins! Then I'll really be in deep trouble!
I've got a sim version of me & HTB. (yes, I'm sappy & pathetic, but I amuse myself). We're still both teens living with our respective families.
Of my 3 main family trees, 2 of the current households have a set of twins! I had to not play one family when I got the 2nd set because I want to marry the twins off to one another (the 1 set was identical girls, the 2nd set was identical boys). Now both sets are teens, but I haven't been able to get them to meet each other! The only other thing I can think of is to make at least one twin from each family have the same job, then they might meet. But so far I've been waiting for a twin from the other set to walk by the house when I'm playing the other.
I'm really curious to see if the children of the married off sets of twins will look the same or not!
Of the new families I created to add a little genetic variety to my town, I made my first Romance sim, Julianna! So far I've just been playing knowledge, fortune & family sims. I had her fall in love & Try For Baby with a neighbor sim, except her husband found out and got made at her. Then Julianna got pregnant and I managed to repair the relationship with her husband. When the baby was born I figured out that while little Sean has Julianna's husband's last name, his mom's husband doesn't recognize Sean as being a family member. The guy Julianna had the affiar with (Adrian) does recognize Sean as his son. Adrian came over autonomously to see Sean the day after he was born. Then he got a bad memory over Julianna cheating on him! Well duh!
More on RL. HTB & I have decided to take a class at the local community college together this summer, "Social Ballroom Dancing for Couples". It's on Saturday nights so it'll be easy to get to. I'm looking forward to it. Not that we're planning on having a big formal reception, but it's one of those things that HTB & I have both been wanting to learn how to do. :)
And now that my lunch is almost over I should try and see if the rain's going to let up enough for me to go for a walk.
