UPDATE
Hello to all my little Simian friends out there. The time has finally come where I have replaced my old broken laptop with a brand new wonderfully fast desktop computer. Can it still be called a desktop when I have the keyboard on my lap and the mouse beside me on the sofa? Hm, things to ponder...
Anyway, we got a puppy earlier this month, her name is Taffy. Taffy decided that to help me make the transition from using my old laptop to getting a new desktop that much easier, she'd chew through the power cord on my laptop, effectively ending it's usability. My laptop's battery is fried and can not hold a charge, I've already been through three broken chargers, I get the blue screen of death at least once a week, it's slow as all hell now, and lastly and most damning is that the keyboard has no right arrow key.
So, yesterday I went to get my new machine. It's an HP desktop with an AMD Athlon quad core 3.10ghz processor, 6 gigs of ram, 1tb hard drive. The graphics card in it is onboard, but can be easily upgraded and I probably will upgrade it to a graphics card that we have lying around here. I just need to get a monitor for it because right now I have stolen my husbands monitor and I don't think that he's too happy about it.
So, I have the base game and Ambitions installed, and am about to install Late Night, then I just have to focus on moving all my CC, saves, and screenshots over to this computer. Yay!
I have also decided to not put the complete chapters for my legacy on the Sims 3 website. I'll put the first few pages up as a preview, then link to the full chapter in my blog. I don't want to deal with the storymaker anymore, nor do I want to have to copy everything over to my blog after making it on the Sims 3 website. I just don't have the time anymore, not with a 8 month old running around trying to eat my coffee table. Plus, I won't feel so much pressure to get so much done in such a short amount of time.
In the meantime, while I wait for everything to install and copy, I've been working on a new banner for this blog (like it?), and working on creating a new blog for my brand new story, titled "Big Dreams Alphabetcy".
Here is the first paragraph from the intro chapter:
"This is the tale of Zoe Dynasty, a small town girl with big dreams. She wasn't always Zoe Dynasty, she used to be Anne McDonald, and she used to live way out in the country on a little farm. She would work day and night on that farm to make her ailing Pa happy. Her father, affectionately refered to as Old McDonald, loved his farm but was getting too old to work on it like he used to. Old McDonald didn't have a wife or other children to help him out, so it was all left to Anne. Anne's mother went on a 'vacation' when she was still a young child. In truth, she was admitted to the crazy house, after being driven there from having to listen to animal noises day in and day out. Still to this day she sits in her room repeating over and over, "here a oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink oink" and so on and so forth with different animal sounds."
Anyway, we got a puppy earlier this month, her name is Taffy. Taffy decided that to help me make the transition from using my old laptop to getting a new desktop that much easier, she'd chew through the power cord on my laptop, effectively ending it's usability. My laptop's battery is fried and can not hold a charge, I've already been through three broken chargers, I get the blue screen of death at least once a week, it's slow as all hell now, and lastly and most damning is that the keyboard has no right arrow key.
So, yesterday I went to get my new machine. It's an HP desktop with an AMD Athlon quad core 3.10ghz processor, 6 gigs of ram, 1tb hard drive. The graphics card in it is onboard, but can be easily upgraded and I probably will upgrade it to a graphics card that we have lying around here. I just need to get a monitor for it because right now I have stolen my husbands monitor and I don't think that he's too happy about it.
So, I have the base game and Ambitions installed, and am about to install Late Night, then I just have to focus on moving all my CC, saves, and screenshots over to this computer. Yay!
I have also decided to not put the complete chapters for my legacy on the Sims 3 website. I'll put the first few pages up as a preview, then link to the full chapter in my blog. I don't want to deal with the storymaker anymore, nor do I want to have to copy everything over to my blog after making it on the Sims 3 website. I just don't have the time anymore, not with a 8 month old running around trying to eat my coffee table. Plus, I won't feel so much pressure to get so much done in such a short amount of time.
In the meantime, while I wait for everything to install and copy, I've been working on a new banner for this blog (like it?), and working on creating a new blog for my brand new story, titled "Big Dreams Alphabetcy".
Here is the first paragraph from the intro chapter:
"This is the tale of Zoe Dynasty, a small town girl with big dreams. She wasn't always Zoe Dynasty, she used to be Anne McDonald, and she used to live way out in the country on a little farm. She would work day and night on that farm to make her ailing Pa happy. Her father, affectionately refered to as Old McDonald, loved his farm but was getting too old to work on it like he used to. Old McDonald didn't have a wife or other children to help him out, so it was all left to Anne. Anne's mother went on a 'vacation' when she was still a young child. In truth, she was admitted to the crazy house, after being driven there from having to listen to animal noises day in and day out. Still to this day she sits in her room repeating over and over, "here a oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink oink" and so on and so forth with different animal sounds."