okay, who has Natalie Portman's telephone number?

So, some mornings, I decide that it's absolutely pertinent that I decide which actress would play the part in the adaptation of my book... the book I should really be working on instead of browsing Google images of actresses to play a part in a story that's not finished yet. :\

Since I spent far more time on this than I should have, I figured I should at least share. 

I mean, really! You see it, right?

So I figure we'll just write up a petition or something? Send it to her manager or something? Is that how it works? lol!

I should probably finish and publish the book first too, you know, so they have something to write a script from. ;)

CAW: work on Shadow Woods Metropark

I've finally started placing trees for my forest area. I've got a good amount down in my main Metropark area, but OMG, it's going to take me five years to place as many as I need. 

Picspam progress report:

Picnic area overlook. 

unsubstantial post is unsubstantial

This is not for a story or anything, I had a picture in my head that I wanted to illustrate, which involved a bed, and before I knew it, I had a whole bedroom, lol!

Mildly NSFW under the cut...

an update...

Well if it wasn't bad enough that I'm up to my ears in my writing work and have so little Simming time already - then the laptop I play TS3 on just pretty much exploded. Right out of the blue. No fun. I had recently finished my LH world too, and was having a ton of fun moving all my families in. I like to hope it wasn't my new LH world that blew up my whole computer. I mean, can that even happen?

Regardless, that laptop is toast. I can't install TS3 on Dinosaur PC, and even though by now I've bought myself a new cheapie laptop for my writing (which oddly has higher specs than the last laptop - you know, new technology 'n stuff) but I don't want any TS3 stuff on it. If not the game itself, I fear it was probably all the CC websites I went to on it that picked up whatever it was that killed it.

Paranoid maybe, but I've decided that having my writing stuff and my gaming stuff all on the same computer is probably a very bad idea. And I'm sticking to that.

I do actually have a couple updates I finished in TS3, though in the order they need to go, there were still a few unfinished too. Though I could - and think that I might - just top off the unfinished ones with TS2 so that I'll have something to post. Which means in the coming months, you might be seeing some updates from both, lol! Will that be weird? Probably. But it won't be until May or June that I'll be able to purchase (hopefully) a new PC to run TS3 on again.

I miss it so much! I was in the middle of doing some really cool stuff with it too. :(

April and May are going to be filled with lots of work and travel for me, which is going to be FUN and exciting! But which also means little or no Simming. Until then, I'll be hopefully posting the last Phoenix family story piece, and the couple little mini-updates I have lying around, and then by mid-May or June, I'll have some real Simming time again! And hopefully, a new gaming computer to play on! :D

So that's my plan then. Hope everyone is doing well! :)

your promises are no good, you say...

So for the first three weeks I've been back from vacation, my brain has been a cesspool of unholy mush. And now that my brain appears to be rising from the dead, I really need to take advantage of that and get some work done on the book... before my head start to fester in the blistering-hot sun again. (Sorry, hubby's had me watching too many rotten horror movies lately, lol!)

But I am allllllllmost done with Summer's profile, so I'll put up her mosaic as a little treat, since you've all been waiting so patiently! :)

(click for large size)

1. name: Summer
2. grew up: the best she knew how
3. favorite food: ice cream
4. favorite color: pink and black
5. favorite weather: bonfire nights
6. favorite drink: whatever, she's not picky
7. currently reading: song lyrics
8. most important job: big sister
9. if he/she had one wish: to rewind
10. thing he/she loves most in the world: the moments in between
11. one word to describe her: misguided
12. something else: collateral damage

an afternoon at Grandma Cindy's house

Lily with Grandma Cindy (Justin's mom). I don't get to show much of Justin's parents around here. And she's actually the grandmother that Lily sees most, since Lily stays with either her or Stephanie while Justin is working. (Oh, the ridiculously meticulous story details I must share, lol!)

I'm sorry I keep pushing this damn update back, again and again. I did actually start decorating for it a little today, which is what this spam is about. I think this was the only room I needed to do more with, so next time I get my game started up, I should be able to start taking pics. We'll see.