Someone Special - Part 2 (Out Now)

As the story section is still muddled, I thought I would post the link to Part 2 of my story, Someone Special, if you were interested in checking it out. The link is http://www.thesimsresource.com/stories/details/id/17178  :-) Hope you enjoy!

Poll Results

Thank you to everyone who participated in my recent poll. It was interesting to see which of my stories were favoured more than the others though a majority of voters couldn't choose! :-) I'm glad to see that either way, my stories have been enjoyed and that's all I could ask for. The results are as follows:

Someone Special - Part 1 (Out now)

Hi all,

As everyone is probably aware, the story section is a little muddled. My new story, Someone Special, is out now and if you need the link, it's here - http://www.thesimsresource.com/stories/details/title/Someone%20Special%20-%20Part%201/category/sims3-romance/id/17145/

My Wedding

We have set a date! Chris (my partner) and I have decided to get married on 01 September 2012 which is very exciting. I mean, it's still over 2 years away but we have to save up for it and there's lots to organise, of course. Fingers crossed the world doesn't end that year as it's rumoured to, haha. I'd like to make it down the aisle first! ;-)

We chose the 01 of September because it will be the first day of Spring, it's the first day of my birthday month and it was also my beautiful little dogs brithday when he was still alive. And the 1st just so happens to fall on a Saturday...perfect!

My New Story

I just wanted to share with you all a sneak peek of my new in-the-works story. It's called Someone Special as you can see by the cover below. The first part should be out probably nearing the end of next week. Anyway, I hope everyone will enjoy it!

Oh my...

Not feeling so well today, haha. Self inflicted though, so there's no use complaining. I had one too many Christmas drinks last night with my family but at least I was with good company. Hopefully I'll be feeling better soon and I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas as well!

Avatar

Wow. What more can I say?

I went to see the new movie, Avatar, last night and let me tell you, it did not disappoint. The effects were incredible, the idea was original and, although it went for around three hours, it was completely entertaining. Now, I'm not a big sci-fi fan at all but you don't have to be to see this. It's got a wonderful storyline with a bit of romance and it definitely gets your imagination working, but the effects just make it that something else. It's also got our own Aussie as the starring role, Sam Worthington, and he did a wonderful job. James Cameron was the director of Avatar so we shouldn't have expected anything less than extraordinary. His last film was the highest grossing film of all time, Titanic (need I say more?).

I recommed everyone go and see it, even if it's just to see what all the buzz is about! :-D

Sims 3 Problems

I am uninstalling TS3 once again :-/ Not permamently, mind you, but it's still frustrating. This will be the second time within the last month due to problems I've been experiencing. Just before I installed WA for the first time, the game started taking a LONG time to load and even when playing, it was frustratingly slow. Before that, it had been perfectly fine. So I thought it might be the amount of cc I had and I went through all of it and deleted what I could do without. Nothing changed.

I couldn't bear playing it in that state so I uninstalled everything and started from scratch (though I saved all my cc, of course! ;-)). After installing the game (not WA) and all my cc back on again, it had worked fine. But then - duh duh duh - I updated the game! Not a smart idea but at least I know now what was making my game go weird. It wasn't taking ages to load this time but strange things were happening. It was with the update 1.7. something and I have read there have been many problems with it.

The problems I experienced were:

*Food would spoil very quickly (which was incredibly annoying - leftovers are very handy ;-))

*The school bus would no longer come for my sim children (resulting in a bit of exercise for them - which they hated!)

*Some of my sims ages were going backwards (wouldn't some of us like that!?), and

*One of my families became unplayable :-(

There may have been more problems but that was enough for me to decide to start again - this time without updates - as time consuming as it is...

Well...anyway, I've shared with you my frustrations now so I'll be on my way :-) Oh, and if you've experienced similar problems, please feel free to vent below :-D

Christmas Festivities Begin :-D

Well, christmas festivities have begun for me, haha. I've spent a good half of today having some drinks while continuing to work on the next installment of My Own.... It was quite relaxing and suprisingly I finished wiriting Part VI, though tomorrow I will go over it to make sure it all makes sense ;-) Then I'll work on the screenshots.

I hope you all are having a great lead up to Christmas, though I also hope it is a bit cooler where you are! It's so hot here and I really wish I lived in a cooler climate. My mum is French and I can't believe she likes the climate here more than over there. She should have been born here, and I in France! :-D

Results from Learning to Love Character Poll

I thought it was about time to change my poll, because I have had the favourite Learning to Love character one up for so long. And it's been finished for a few weeks now! Thanks everyone for a great response, and here are the results.

Nick                  22.95%

Adriana             55.74%

Zak                    4.92%

Jonas                13.11%

Someone else    21.31%

Well, Adriana was a clear favourite, hogging 55% of the votes! Zak obviously wasn't the most liked, but then he didn't play a huge role. It's great to know which characters are favourites or not, anyway :-)

I've now got a new poll up to see which of my stories, so far, is your favourite. Ciao for now!