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Round 6: July 2012 (Summer)

Cheng is 72, Ping is 71, Jun is 52, Jia-Li is 50, Mei is 18, Xia is 16 and An Hu is 9

(Darren Stevens is 17, Tony Mendez is 16)

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A little announcement

Hi all! I just have a little announcement about my blog. I'm not shutting down but I'm thinking of making a change in how I do all this. I really like the idea of blogging, sharing what's going on in my hood, and having some actual documentation of everything going on. And I see all of the wonderful bloggers out there who have such interesting hoods that are rich in history and have ongoing storylines. But I've been struggling getting there.

Blogging the way I have been, which is pretty similar to how all the blogs I follow have been doing it (which inspired me to start my own blog) just isn't going to work for me anymore. And I'm feeling pressured... not by any of you... more internally pressured to get updates done. I want my hood to progress dammit and, I said before, with my schedule and lack of creative writing skills, it'll take me 30 real-life years to age my sims 30 sim-years. I mean, really, Alicia was pregnant with her twins for 7 real life months. And at the rate I'm going, they won't become toddlers until probably this Christmas. And the Hu update that I'm STILL not done with yet... (I was halfway done but then I got the blue screen of death and lost everything), I've had most of those pictures taken since January. JANUARY! It's April... :-( *sigh*

So, I thought of this today... I can usually get a good 1-3 hours of simming time in a few nights a week and get a decent amount of pics from those. I'm going to start posting them instead of waiting until I "finish" the play session. What does that mean? Each households will have multiple updates spread over a couple of weeks, but they'll all be linked the same way (with next/last update links) and should be short, sweet and easy to follow. That way, I'll have more updates, I can keep moving things along in my hood without being "held up" by my permanent writer's block, and you all get something to read from me more than once a month. They'll be like journal entries or something... yea. ;-)

Sound like it'll work? Well, I hope so cuz that's what I'm going to be doing lol. So, hopefully after I rewrite the entire Hu update again, I'll get started with the mini updates. I already have some stuff to post for the Stevens.

Lot Tour & Download: Bear Lake Campground

Tour & Download: Bear Lake Campground

I showed a little peek of my campground a few days ago at N99 and got some requests for a tour; so here it is!

(for those of you at N99, this is a copy/paste from that thread)

Come Round Soon (A Prologue)

Round 6: Prologue
 Narrated by Isabella Thomas

I received a call from my sister Rosanna, yesterday that caught me off guard. I haven't heard from her in a little while so I was both happy and a little concerned.

Round 5 Summary

Feels like forever ago but here's a summary of what went down in Round 5:

Births: Ava Nicole and Shae Ashley Bryant
Deaths: n/a
Engagements: Keisha Robinson and Ryan Baker
Marriages: n/a
Break-ups: n/a
Graduations: n/a
New Residents: n/a

Total Population (playables): 37 (22 Female, 15 Male)

Babies: 2
Toddlers: 0
Children: 3
Teens: 4
Adults: 24
Elders: 4

Take it All

Round 5: June 2012 (Summer)

Alicia Stevens and Kyle Bryant are 20, Ava and Shae are 4 months

(Edna is 68, Jeanette is 51, Dana and Darren are 17)

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Narrated by Kyle

Short break

Hi all! I just wanted to fill everyone in on what's going on in my real life. We just recently (last weekend) moved into a new place and have been busy trying to get our house to look more like a home. There are boxes everywhere and it's hard to function when you don't know where anything is lol.

I'm also working a second job temporarily which completely kills my evenings. And with the holidays on the horizon, I'll be busy with that then too. This RL stuff is really cutting into my simming time and I'm not liking it one bit!

So what does that mean? That means that I won't be around as much and certainly won't have much time for simming. Alicia, Kyle and the twins' update is the last one of the round and I tried to get that done before RL took over. No luck. I'll have that up as soon as I can get it written. All pics are already taken.

So I hope you all will stick around until my life calms down. Happy Simming and Happy Holidays!