Sleep or Sims?

An age old question.......well maybe not really old, but it's pretty important anyway.
I had planned to do my entry for Beech Modeling last night, and get it in a day early. Unfortunatly my plans don't seem to go as planned these days, and an old friend of my husbands ended up joining the other game I play fairly regulary (League of Legends) and we offered to play a few games with him. A few games turned into 5, and before I knew it, it was already 2am.

Sleep or Sims?

I thought, screw it, I'm going to watch some old Amazing Race (hubby downloaded every season) and work on my picture for a few hours. I scrapped two sets, kept moving things around and changing poses so much that suddenly it was 5am. I was going to stop and sleep, I even mentioned on the compeitions thread that my entry would be in late on the evening of the due date (today).
However my ipod was dead, so I needed to charge that in order to sleep (I listen to rain). An hour passed the ipod was fully charged.

Sleep or Sims?

I have nothing I really have to do today....except maybe walk the dogs so I decided to finish. 7am and I'm finally done. Only problem with staying up all night to do a picture is that my tired eyes don't nessesarily see any errors....so I hope there aren't any.

Beech Modeling
Midnight Romantic Swim with that special someone

So Far...

I managed to install Generations without any problems, took about 30mins to actually update my game though, since I never have and never will do automatic updates so I have quite a few patches to install when it comes time for me to add an expansion or stuff pack.

I have noticed I've been getting Error 12 on my legacy game more often, this was before I installed Generations as well as after. So I think I might have to research and try out the fixes and workarounds, it's not usually a hassle, I don't mind replaying a lost day. It usually happens when I try to save after changing too much, buying and selling, building, editing any sim in CAS along with everything that happens in the regular day. I'm kinda worried about my new project because of it, since I think I read somewhere that the bigger the house and the more stuff you have, the more likely you are to encounter an Error 12 message. However I have been planning to build a totally new house for this legacy family which includes double the amount of space they currently have, three stories and a basement (their current house is one level).

I couldn't put a treehouse on the Neverends current lot, kept telling me it was on a slope for some strange reason (the ground was totally flat). However I added all of the other new playground items.

On the first day the nerdier of the three girls (Dakota) woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and started having a mood swing, much to my surprise. She rolled some interesting wishes, including skipping school, being mean to her mother and getting into a fight with another sim, all of which I fulfilled. She also, of her own accord, booby trapped the shower after getting dressed, resulting in this.....

Her father was not a happy chappy. The other two girls are excited about prom, both are looking for dates. Moon the hippy sister, might be a lesbian, which is fantastic will be the first gay sim in this legacy family. She has her eye on a pretty townie from her class called Stephanie Rowe, but shes a bit of a social butterfly always inviting new girls home so who knows who she will end up with.
I think after her tempter tantrums and trouble making Summer and Shayne might send Dakota to boarding school to straighten her out a bit, I'm leaning towards the Snobby Prep School.

So far it's pretty fun, all the new interactions and things for the younger family members to get into make playing them more exciting....I'm finding I tend to let Summer and Shayne do their own thing on free will even more now.

DEMONS Assignment 1

So it's not like, super fantastic or anything, but I'm quite proud that my overall idea came together. I wanted to do something straight forward for the first assignment which is just a regular old origins theme, but using some tools I've only just started using (the Pen Tool, and Gaussian Blur).

I'm also going to be submitting the story part of the competition like a diary kept by the demon herself, so the story unfolds from her perspective alone. Without further ado, here is the first assignment for DEMONS.

Date: 10th August 2731
Codename: Static

I wish I could tell you where I come from. However I don't remember. The first thing I was aware of was a bright overbearing light, green in color. It pierced through my closed eyelids traveling beyond my eye-socket, I can feel the remnants of it in my brain still. I was aware of feeling weightless, but not in control of all my limbs.

When I finally opened my eyes, I could barely see, like I was looking through my eyes for the very first time. I watched as green lights the same color as my surroundings finished applying flesh, or at least I assumed it was flesh at the time, to a grid of my arms and feet.

I don't remember what I am, or who I am but someone has given me a new body, bald and sexless but made from light and energy. I feel connected to my surroundings, a part of an interesting new synthetic ecosystem.

I cannot leave this small space so I have no choice but to wait. Wait for my summoner to show themselves.

Generations

Yeap I'm late to the party, I always am, I like to wait and see if theres any bugs, and ask people how good an expansion is, whether it met their expectations etc before I get it. I waited till I could get a deal on Ambitions, never bought WA (though I might now depending on how much it is online), but both Late Night and Generations I bought just a month or so after they were released.

Working on my entry for DEMONS right now, I want to get that in before I start the long process of backing all my save files and sim files, removing my CC folder and updating my game so I can install the expansion, just in case something bad happens which puts my game out of action for a few days. I'm intending on doing some editing I've never done before (no hair editing yet) but it's not going to be super in depth as it's only the first round and non elimination....don't want to show all my cards just yet, or bust my ass hehe

I'm tossing up the idea of starting another legacy file, this time in Sunset Valley, using another naming strategy. I haven't decided whether I can be bother actually doing a story with this one or not, but I love seeing how the genetics turn out in this game, so I would love to work with a couple of diverse legacy games at once.

Exotic Beach Holiday

Well things got in the way of the sims picture plan. Family friends came over to play Kaiser, which apparently is a common Canadian card game which took up one whole night. Didn't play like anything I've really played before so it took me ages to pick up on what was going on. Then last night we had dinner at the Saskatoon Inn which is really fancy, it was my father in laws birthday supper.
I did finish up my entry for Beech Modeling last night however, was glad to get it in because we were having internet problems all day yesterday, some issue on the ISP's end.

I tried out some of Evie's ''How to Fake Quality in GIMP'' Tutorial and added some shading to Laleina's skin, and smoothed out her skin and hair. Will go a bit further in the next picture I think, when I have a bit more time to play around. Tonight and tomorrow I'll be working on my entry for DEMONS, I have an idea in my head, it will take a lot of editing to pull off and I haven't started yet, so lets hope all goes well.

3 Shells Advertisment

It's not anywhere near the best advertisement I've made, but I haven't done them for a while, it's good enough for the first assignment, tonnes of room for improvement hehe. Kinda did it based on an advertisement I did for Flux for the Sharma Day Spa.

Proud of myself for having in it before the deadline too for once hehe. Next up tomorrow is my entry for Beech Modeling, so far I'm on track yay!

Slack

Yeap, busy again. Summer in Canada this year is actually really nice. I'm normally not a hot weather person, I much prefer rain or snow, but the humidity here is low and other than a shit tonne of mosquitoes it's actually really nice to be outside in. Though I have still to develop any type of tan, I believe my skin to be untannable I am perma white.

I have planned out the next three days to include one simming picture a day though, one for each of the competitions I'm in, so there will be sim flavored updates soon. Feels a bit sad scheduling my sims time, feels like when I had to schedule WoW back in the day due to raiding...but I'm also trying to get back into all the sims sites and blogs I have been missing....mainly hanging around Cstyles again, and getting more involved in Simagination as well as Unbound of course, and catch up with some folks I haven't talked to in a while and meet some of the new crowd.

I've unpacked my camera and tablet so there shall be new new stuff in the works.....and hopefully maybe even some pose creation experimentation....guess you all have to wish for rain in my region so I have an excuse to not walk the dogs/mow the law/work in the garden/go shopping etc etc lol