My boss has approved my vacation request. Just 14 more days and I'll have 10 days of work-free bliss. That includes weekends btw. What will I spend all that time doing? Sleeping. Cleaning. Simming. Decapitating. LOL Of course I'll sim. I have some closets to clean out first but simming is definitely on the menu, creating and playing. The decapitating part would be Dragon Age. I don't play much now because it's basically over, but I still get the need to kill stuff so I play in spurts to get my fix.

Now I play the waiting game for the next decent RPG to come out, which will be in March next year as Dragon Age 2 and Final Fantasy XIV are slated for release. I haven't played a Final Fantasy since FFX. Uh, yeah, that's why ffx is after macgirl in my user name. Still my all time fav game. I haven't had a twinge of interest in a Final Fantasy game since. I've watched other people play them, read reviews, visited forums, etc. but nah, not interested. FFX was special. I do that with games. I could've never heard of it and I'll walk into a store or see it online and there will be this... this... PING inside me. The ping that means this one's for me. It's a weird sensation. As quick as lightning but the tingly feeling doesn't leave until I get the game. Then it turns into a minor obsession. Honestly, this last ping cycle had lots of dead space until the next one. Final Fantasy X... until... Dragon Age: Origins. Count the years. That is about how infrequently a game that really, really clicks with me comes around. Sims is kind of a hobby to my hobby and I got the ping for it too oh so long ago. It fills in the gaps between the really good stuff. Like snacks. I do play a lot of games but it's the RPGs that I'll replay for months, even years. I don't know if I'll get the ping yet for DA2 or FFXIV but we'll see come next year. But the tingly feeling is there when I watch trailers. That can totally be shattered though if a game company changes something too much between release and trailers. Sometimes they completely botch it and lose me before it's released. Xenosaga had me until Xenosaga 2. Wow, was that a let down. Huge botch job. Way to go Namco. The third game sort of redeemed the series but still fell short. Allen finally got his time in the spotlight so I'm happy. Sad when your favorite character from an RPG is a non-playable character. LOL Come to think of it though, it's like that with Dragon Age. You never play as Fergus or Teagan. They kind of tied. At least in FFX I got to play as Auron. Oh well, enough about my sad little video game life.

I went through my floorplans again and found a few more I'd like to do for smaller lots. The weekend is upon us and I hope to get some building in. It is most odd. I've mentioned this before, but if I play Dragon Age for a blood fix, even briefly, I want to build more. How does that figure? Um... spurting blood and dying gurgles are great fun but I'd rather be building? Weird. Just plain weird. But hey, whatever works, right? I think the next few lots will be sans pink. I've had enough. It will have it's day again but maybe just in a teen girl's room or some other utterly needless frilly zone.

I have considered uploading some sims to share. I make really nice sims. They make good babies and kill ugly genes. It's RAID for sims. But I dunno if anyone would want them. I think I've decided to make a website for my Sims 3 adventures and maybe I'll put some pictures and bios for all my sims. Some are just filler sims. Potential mates since so many of the existing ones aren't salvageable. And some are extra actors to just add some life to the hood. My sims can be pretty quirky too. I don't make everyone perfect. I don't do celeb sims. I have no interest in sims of real world people. I used to play sims of my friends because they wanted me to but it usually ended badly. Well, don't give me control of your lives then. Occasionally I'll make a character from a video game but most of my sims are completely original, out of my head, things.

I fiddled with the pattern tool thing again. I think I might be able to do it. Does anyone else find this tool clumsy and awkward? I guess I'm just used to Adobe software. There are a couple patterns I can think of off the top of my head that I would like to do. I'd use Photoshop but it's on my Mac and I play on my PC and I just don't want to deal with the back and forth of files. I already do that for my lot photos. And once you're used to Adobe stuff, you never go back.

Sorry for the long, drawn out post. Plenty of randomness in there for you people that love randomness. Perhaps you will see something new from me next week. Keep your eyes peeled.