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Bon Voyage
Apr. 20th, 2008 03:51 pmThis week was a long one, for it was mostly an emotional roller-coaster to me.
I don't know... I'm quite stressed at the moment due to work and personal issues (regarding the health of a very close relative). I'm working hard to suppress my depressive tendencies, but it's being harder than other times. I often feel like crying with no apparent reason and I hate it. I guess I'll get over this sooner or later. I've always managed to do so one way or another, and I've learned there's no point in moping around instead of doing at least something to make things better. Therefore, I've spent the last two days creating an inventory of my text books and fixing up my résumé. I'm opening my office in two months, so there's a lot to do.
Sure, I've also spent a couple hours playing around with my sims. As I said a few days ago, I finally installed Bon Voyage. In the process I lost my Strangetown for the SECOND time, dammit! But it wasn't BV's fault, though. I was so distracted backing up all my files that I copied a clean template of Strangetown over my "custom" Strangetown (over the back up to boot!) and it replaced all its files and screwed up the names of my sims and personalities beyond repair.
So, I was forced to start over for the second time in less than a month. But hey! I'm already an expert in this stuff and this time I was careful and also re-installed the Specter and Beaker families. I also added Cosmo and Beau's graves, Tank, Buzz and, of course, Helena's odd family, so I can say that my neighborhood is finally complete. With BV, I was also able to download a lot of neat community lots from MTS2, and created a new downtown near the sea to make use of the new features of this EP.
The only downsides of my stupid mistake were that I lost both Poof Broke and my "lovely" house for good! Fortunately, I've just downloaded Orike's Country Suburban lot and so far I've been able to play with my Brokes in there without trouble. It's a very nice lot for large families, especially one with double heirs like mine. Although I guess I'll have to download the bunk beds pretty soon.
Anyway, it is good that I had to start over with my Brokes (and their pics) yet again, because I wasn't really happy with the way I was setting up the first scenes for update 5.1. Due to all the aging issues I dealt with in the past, I re-created Wanda and Puck as elders, so there's gonna be a time-skip of at least a year to explain the sudden aging. The way I had originally written it was a bit too... abrupt for my taste.
So, I decided to instead follow Tim and Marsha's first months of marriage, just after they ran away from Strangetown. And because I also wanted to try out some of Bon Voyage's new features, I decided they'd spend those months in Twikki Island.
I got a bit photo-crazy as usual, so I'm afraid I ended up with more pictures than I'd need for something that's just gonna work as the "prologue" of the update. So, I decided to post some of them here, at least the ones that amused me the most ^^.
There are mild spoilers for the Broke Legacy ahead (plus one that's actually a well-known fact about for Strangetown), so you've been warned ^^.
( Tim and Marsha's Honeymoon: 12 pics )
And that’s all for now.
Thanks for reading! :)
I don't know... I'm quite stressed at the moment due to work and personal issues (regarding the health of a very close relative). I'm working hard to suppress my depressive tendencies, but it's being harder than other times. I often feel like crying with no apparent reason and I hate it. I guess I'll get over this sooner or later. I've always managed to do so one way or another, and I've learned there's no point in moping around instead of doing at least something to make things better. Therefore, I've spent the last two days creating an inventory of my text books and fixing up my résumé. I'm opening my office in two months, so there's a lot to do.
Sure, I've also spent a couple hours playing around with my sims. As I said a few days ago, I finally installed Bon Voyage. In the process I lost my Strangetown for the SECOND time, dammit! But it wasn't BV's fault, though. I was so distracted backing up all my files that I copied a clean template of Strangetown over my "custom" Strangetown (over the back up to boot!) and it replaced all its files and screwed up the names of my sims and personalities beyond repair.
So, I was forced to start over for the second time in less than a month. But hey! I'm already an expert in this stuff and this time I was careful and also re-installed the Specter and Beaker families. I also added Cosmo and Beau's graves, Tank, Buzz and, of course, Helena's odd family, so I can say that my neighborhood is finally complete. With BV, I was also able to download a lot of neat community lots from MTS2, and created a new downtown near the sea to make use of the new features of this EP.
The only downsides of my stupid mistake were that I lost both Poof Broke and my "lovely" house for good! Fortunately, I've just downloaded Orike's Country Suburban lot and so far I've been able to play with my Brokes in there without trouble. It's a very nice lot for large families, especially one with double heirs like mine. Although I guess I'll have to download the bunk beds pretty soon.
Anyway, it is good that I had to start over with my Brokes (and their pics) yet again, because I wasn't really happy with the way I was setting up the first scenes for update 5.1. Due to all the aging issues I dealt with in the past, I re-created Wanda and Puck as elders, so there's gonna be a time-skip of at least a year to explain the sudden aging. The way I had originally written it was a bit too... abrupt for my taste.
So, I decided to instead follow Tim and Marsha's first months of marriage, just after they ran away from Strangetown. And because I also wanted to try out some of Bon Voyage's new features, I decided they'd spend those months in Twikki Island.
I got a bit photo-crazy as usual, so I'm afraid I ended up with more pictures than I'd need for something that's just gonna work as the "prologue" of the update. So, I decided to post some of them here, at least the ones that amused me the most ^^.
There are mild spoilers for the Broke Legacy ahead (plus one that's actually a well-known fact about for Strangetown), so you've been warned ^^.
( Tim and Marsha's Honeymoon: 12 pics )
And that’s all for now.
Thanks for reading! :)