Blair told me I needed to update...(featuring some Generations picspam)

xD  Sorry kids, I haven't posted in a while.  Just figured no one wanted to see my picspam.   Not much else to talk about really.  Got some furniture, moved the house around.  I guess I could show my spiffy new office.  Luckily it's no longer in the Ninja Turtle green room.

Yay for having a geek hubby who saw my need and suggested dual monitors... and the fact that I would rather have a huge computer monitor for our one year anniversary than jewelry xD.  Yes we are meant to be. To the left you will see our bookcases featuring old nursing school books and Brads old RBG books xD.  TO the right you will see my shelves loaded full of beads.  This is where all the simming/beading action is happening xD.

What else can I bore you with?  My comps seem to be winding down and some are either over or were cancelled or whatever.. I won't last much longer in Masquerade, so I've actually been able to play just for the fun of it.  I'll admit, I think Generations makes that fun again.  It also makes playing different age groups tolerable to play.... which was a problem I had with the game before.  Here's some picspam from the family I've been playing:

This hottie here is Sun's sim Aedan which you can find in her studio, however I've kinda spiffed up his coloring and gave him some of the hair I actually liked from Generations.  His name is Aedan.

This is Toni, Aedan's wife.  I've decided this round I'm going to do things in game I don't normally do... break from the usual.  So she is a sculptor.  It's been pretty fun and if I keep at it she can make some killer moolah.  It also helps to hold on to the pieces a lil bit and let them appreciate before selling.

This is their first daughter Audrey.  I had a blast with her as a teen.  She got to go to prom, and even though it was a rabbithole kind of thing, I kept getting popups of things that were happening.  She got a new boyfriend, she actually made prom queen, and then asked to dance with her crush and was rejected.  When she came home she had a pretty nifty looking picture from prom in her inventory along with a crown:

That little gross looking thing was a little favor she brought back from a field trip to the restaurant.... yeah it looks like rotting food.  Idk what that's about, but isn't the prom pic awesome?

Also, check out these nifty little things that pop up when you're telling ghost stories.... not to mention the cool flashlight:

This lovely teen is Charlotte, the second born in this family and I just ADORE her.  She's so unique looking and already has kind of a personality.  She was my first teen with mood swings and tormented the household constantly with pranks, even though she had the "good" trait:

Graduation pic of Charlotte:

Audrey in labor:

(yah that was an eventful day)

Oh, almost forgot to introduce you to their younger brother Brian:

Yes, the pillow fighting facial expressions are hilarious.


Okay, sorry if you are tired of the picspam, but Kelle made me a special simmeh for Charlotte to make babeh's with, and here he is.... his name is Benjamin, and they are awesome together:

I'm not going to write a story or anything with them, but I really like them :D  Esp since they have genetics from two close friends' sims!!  Soo this family's gonna be pretty special to me!

House plans

Coming to a decision today.  Hubby and I have been looking at some houses for sale, and one thing that we both have kind of realized is that we need to put a lot of work into this one.  Honestly I'm realizing I'm on here way too much anyway and I just need to start focusing on keeping up my home and my body.  We're either going to buy a new house and will need to clean this one up or we will stay here a while longer which will also involve us making an attempt to rearrange things in order not to feel so.. cramped.  (I am also sorta begining to think about starting a family.)  Why am I saying this?  Like I said I really need to cut back on my time here.  I'm not dropping anything, but I think I'm going to finish my assignments for this issue of Sensation and then resign.  I'll finish my comps, and I will still start Canvas, but other than what I'm finishing out, I'm only going to be a contestant in one comp at a time so I can focus on other things.  (My home, beading, my husband, and maybe getting fit.)  I love you guys to death, so just wanted to say don't take it personally if I'm not around *quite* as much.

Relocation possibility

There is a small possibility that the hubby and I may be moving to NC toward the end of this year.  I'm really trying to get my hopes up, and I know I'm assuming that this is just going to be a fix-all to all of my problems.  (Really though I have my reasons..)

First of all I know someone who has worked in a hospital in the area and they did three 12 hour shifts there.  I've been wanting that for like.. ever.  Four days off a week?  Sign me up!  Also looking around at real estate it seems we might more bang for our buck there as much.  Why?  Despite the fact that no one wants to live here necessarily, decent flat land is hard to come by in these parts.  There just doesn't seem to be much for sale here in our price range anyway.

I'm also excited about living in a city or near one anyway.  It would be something totally new for me to actually be in a place with *gasp* public transportation and such things like that.  And exploring google maps street view has us loving the place as well.   As soon as I get some time off of work we're going to take a drive down there and check it out :D

Anyway, sorry about the RL stuffs.. just WAY excited.  It's not a definite, and maybe it's not going to be as cool as I think if it is, but I'm kind of feeling like if we get settled there and have a house with room for a nursery lol I might be more inclined to start a family *gasp!*