docnerd

So I managed to go 3 weeks in the Asylum with a grand total of 2 fires.  And last night, I had 2 fires in under 2 days.  Guys!  When there are fires, SimNerd has to STOP SKILLING, call the fire department, try to put out the flames herself, and then run to the shower, and then pee, and then drink more espresso, and then pee again, and then eat something, AND CANNOT SKILL.

There were casualties.  Oh yes, there were casualties.  Aspirational and otherwise.

ahrubyblue

Do you know what's a real blow to a girly girl?  Telling her she produces too much of a male hormone.  Seriously.  I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.  Other interesting names include Hyperandrogenic Chronic Anovulation, Functional Ovarian Hyperandrogenism, and Stein-Levanthal Syndrome.  Fantastic, no?

I'm not sure how worried I should be about this.  I need some sort of handy scale.  Like a one to five seriousness scale.  1---|------ 5 you are here.  On the one hand, this is the leading cause of infertility in women and the most common female endocrine disorder so it seems it isn't all that rare.  On the other, experiencing both hirsutism and hair thinnning at the same time is a trifle disturbing (as if the hirsutism wasn't wretched enough on it's own) and is only an outward expression of the fuckedupedness going on inside.  Little wonder I've been depressed.  I'm moments away from becoming a sideshow bearded lady.

The actual cause is unknown and it's incurable but treatable.  There's something in there about mad hormone imbalance, confused ovaries, cysts and insulin and all sorts of fun things like that.  My doctor was especially worried about endometrial cancer because of my nearly absent menses.  By especially worried I mean I got a lecture and a half.  Hey, every time I've gone to see a Violator about it they tell me I'm fine.  I was tired of shelling out money to hear the same thing over and over.  Anyway, this myth about a woman getting her period once a month always sounded a little crazy to me.  Who needs that?  Well, about half the population, as it turns out.  My bad.

Yes, I make light of this.  I make light of everything.  In truth, I'm really thankful to finally have some answers.  I've been trying to figure some of this out for the last eight or so years.

So, that's one of the things I've been dealing with lately.  There's been lots more going on with me besides.  Dad's surgery went quite well and he's recovering nicely.  His brace came off last week.  So no worries there.  I've been working on my portfolio and while I haven't made a whole lot of progress I do have the creativity flowing and I've had several good ideas.  I've been sewing a great deal and totally didn't realize how much I missed it.  And I've been having a grand time with pattern making.  I adore pattern making!  I've also been spending a lot of time with family.  Lots of badminton, volleyball, baseball games, movies, and board and card games.  My brother is visiting for a few months from China and we only get to see him every few years.  It's rare that all seven of us can be in the same room at the same time mainly because of that.  I've also been working a ton of overtime on account of the company I work for was bought by an Indian company several months back and they've been firing a lot of people.  Eighteen people "chose to take their severance package" yesterday alone.  I'm trying to keep my head down and make as much as I can in the meantime.

I've received a few guestbook signings that express readers' dissatisfaction with my apparent lack of effort and dedication to my legacy.  Only not in so many words.  Donkeys.  I have to play to have an update and I need more time to play.  I'm thinking these people need to look into doing something with the spacetime continuum to appease me or else it's quite possible I shall have to make the very same accusations.  Clearly they are not putting in enough effort and that makes them heinously hypocritical.

I'm really ridiculously susceptible to guilt trips.  In all honesty I really do feel bad about it.  And I feel bad about not keeping up with the legacies that I read too.  But then I think about it more and that feels really silly because I highly doubt anyone is holding their breath for my comments.  You know, it's like... well, I don't know what it's like.  But I have a sneaky suspicion that I'm the only one who cares so that means I'm okay.  I haven't the faintest clue if that made sense at all...

As I said, I still haven't played my legacy sims.  I've played my ISBI sims instead because it takes considerably less time and I don't have to worry about documenting it in the same way.  Generations go by soooo much faster with the Brightons and there's lots less pressure.  Eventually I might post about them but for now I'm still on my boolprop and lj hiatus.  Seriously, tearing myself away from both was not an easy thing to do.  I can't even lurk much at all because the temptation to get sucked into it is far too strong.  But there are several career and life related goals that I promised myself I would reach before I returned.  

writeraissa

• Legacy Household: Grace, Lee, Andrew Bigfoot, Borusa, Spandrell, Gertie, Ching Shih
• The Laboratory: Coxinga, Shere Khan
• House o' Cheese: Gavin Biggs, Tycho Biggs, Don Raha, Lyndsay Raha, Toby Biggs (called House o' Cheese because Gavin and Tycho are descended from Annie "The Cheese" Biggs)
• Tiger House: Rajah, Moll, Rakshasi
• Fireflower House: Pierce, Rani, Angora
• Pseudo House: Will, Orikes, Hugo
• Marie's House: Nick, Green, Liv (Nick and Green are adopting Liv as their heir)

So what do you think? The other households will, of course, be sprinkled in and about as the plot calls for it, but I think these 7 are the core of my game at the moment.

Stuff about sims you'd think should be on that list but aren't is spoilerish (i.e. Toshiko).

Anyone else you'd like to read about?

Anyway, stay tuned for a livejournal-esque update about the non-legacy houses.

docnerd

So I know I've said all along that Cy's twins didn't look terribly alike, and that Didi favored Jane while Del favored Cy.  Went into my photoshoot neighborhood to shoot some stuff with Del and Nuala-clones, and figured I'd make a pitstop at the 'hood where everyone's extracted to and provide some proof: