Archive for the ‘Notes from the Simmer’ Category

BellaOHOT Chapter 29

Friday, July 30th, 2010


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BellaOHOT Chapter 25

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

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BellaOHOT Chapter 24

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

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Oh, Thank Goodness!

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

I was afraid I was going to have to uninstall-reinstall my Sims 3 game., but it turned out that I didn’t.  Thank goodness!

I was getting the strangest error on my Launcher (which I only use for Store Content and Updates) and couldn’t update the game.  An hour of futzing and reinalling the EA DownLoad Manager, though, I have it fixed!  Whee!

And now, back to your regularly scheduled game play!

HIATUS: Bella On Her Own Terms

Monday, April 19th, 2010

I hate that word – Hiatus.

I know what you’re thinking… if it’s gone, it’s gone and most Simmer’s who go on hiatus with a Legacy just move on to something new. And Deb hasn’t played since March.

Well, true, but that’s because in March, I had my birthday, my daughter’s birthday, my parents coming to visit, everyone (my daughter, my husband, my son and then myself) getting a bit of a nasty bug, and … the need to finish my AU Big Bang story before the dead line… and I did no Simming at all from March 7th til last night.

However, I also failed to notice the site – Sims 3 Legacy – where I was originally hosting Bella on Her Own Terms (with my site and LJ as back ups), decided to take a vacation. That is to say, I get a 403 Error when I visit the site.

I can still get into the ADMIN, but it’s useless if I can’t publish anything from it and have people see it.

For now, the pictures are still showing and that’s good. But what it is means is I’m going to edit every post (I know… UGH) and change every picture.

(And here, folks who were complaining that I don’t use enough pictures in my Legacy posts – because EVERY legacy post needs 100+ pictures all the time – now you know why. Deb is not as insane as she sometimes looks. Or acts… or… well, you know… yeah. Because if I did do the whole 100+Picture thing, there would be no way in hell I was editing those to fix it and Bella’s legacy would definitely be gone like the wind.)

However, it’s gonna take a while, because there were still over 20 posts and I have a life off my computer right now… one that mostly revolves around potty training my toddler and taking my daughter to soccer practice, but you know… a life.

So… there you have it. March was hell, the place where I was hosting the legacy is gone, and RL wins the award for best time consumer ever.

Wishful Living with Mavie

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Simmers Note: A friend of mine is testing out a challenge she’d eventually like to unleash on the world.  It’s called “Wishful Living” and the idea is to complete every Lifetime Wish, while “seeing” as much of the neighborhood as possible.  (Tentative test rules are here.  They may change as testing progresses.)

So this is Mavie Souhaitent.  Her name is a scrambling of “souhaitent de ma vie” which is French for “my life’s wish.”  It’s pronounced “Soo-wet-ay” but the hicks in Riverview, where Mavie suddenly finds herself on fine morning pronounce it “Soo-hay-tent.”

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BellaOHOT Chapter 3

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

They say that time stands still for no one. It is constantly flowing around us, moving and changing like a river. And though we are only mere stones in the river of time, we are changed right along with it. Slowly we are worn away, our layers peeled back to reveal something different, our edges polished smoothed with the experiences life gives us.

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I was bringing Cassandra home from a monthly “well baby” examination at the doctor’s office when I saw Mortimer walking along the sidewalk. My heart leaped into my throat at the thought of seeing him again. How easy it would be to ask the cabbie to stop the car and let us out. I could talk to him… show him Cassandra. Explain …
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BellaOHOT – Legacy Begins

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Well, with the end of the Prologues and Chapter 1, the “legacy” portion of this story begins.

I’ve got a new chapter to write up, but before I do, I thought I would share Bella’s stats as a YA and lay down a few ground rules for this legacy.

The stats…

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AwesomeMod

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

So, AwesomeMOD needs updating and MATY appears to be offline? But you can still update, if you want to. (more…)

Missing Barnsworth Images

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

I mentioned this before, but I accidentally deleted pictures from the Sims 3 Launcher last month, and so the last couple of updates have been picture-light and story-heavy. Not a big deal, right?

Except that when I uploaded the new pictures in Picasa?  It overwrote my old ones because they had the same names.  I just now discovered it.

I’ve gone back and deleted the pictures from the posts most effected, so those are now 90% story and no picture.  I’m sorry about the inconvenience.

Effected posts are Chapter 1.0 and Chapter 1.1