Missing things

I have been having one of those days (well it has been a few days) that I am missing something terribly and as of yet, there's nothing I can do.

I had to make up a spreadsheet to keep score of a quiz challenge at my church. Of course I couldn't make it simple. I had to have it start looking up information. Since I hadn't really done it in awhile, I had to go to the spreadsheets I had created for my Sims 2 game.

I started looking over the information in the file which left me wanting to play them again. I wanted to see Felton graduate university. I wanted to see how many kids Mr. Fuchs would spawn. I wanted to see how the recently opened farming section would grow. Unfortunately for me, the DVD rom drive on the computer doesn't work and it hasn't worked for months.

When I finally do get a fully functional computer, I'm pretty sure I'll start from scratch all over again, another Prosperity Challenge along with the beginning of the Complex. I'll have fun building the neighbourhoods and creating a new spreadsheet tracker. Maybe I should start rolling for the Prosperity Hood from now :)

On another note, I got to spend the evening with some of my cousins for one of my cousins sweet 16.  They throw good impromptu birthday.  Found out two of the cousins are fanfiction writers.  I can't wait to read what they wrote :)

I'm off to bed now.  It's almost 11 and despite the fact that I said that would put up a picture of the progress of my Pirouette socks but I didn't take them.  I just started the toes and maybe tomorrow, if I find the time, I'll finish it off and the Pirouette socks will be done!

I even packed a back up project of my Shapely Boyfriend Cardigan that I'm pretty certain I will not be getting to it at all for the weekend.  Oh well!  I'll catch up on it when I start catching up on tv shows online.

This has nothing to do with knitting and everything to do with Sims and Writing

I know, it's a rare thing to not be writing about knitting but I have to get this out there.

I have been playing The Sims 2 since the day it came out.  I was right there, as soon as EB Games opened, asking the manager if they unpacked the box with the game yet.  Much to my dismay, he tells me that they hadn't even received the box yet.  Every break that I had at work that day, I was back at the store to see if the shipment came in.  That alone, tells you how much I love this game.

I love playing neighbourhoods, especially ones of my own creation.  I've done about 3 major ones (I had blogs for 2 of them which are still available to read - just look through my profile).  And I've lost each one of them due to computer crashes that were "beyond my control".  My mind is always thinking about major neighbourhoods when it comes to the Sims.

I have been going through withdrawal   My DVDrom drive has decided it no longer wants to be a part of the computer system.  Everything else works well but the drive won't open and the rare times that it does, it's not even acknowledged in Explorer.  Therefore I don't have the option of installing the games. Therefore again, I have spent extra time, thinking about this neighbourhood I want to create called simply "The Complex".

The Complex will be loosely Dystopian society.  I haven't yet decided if it will be completely underground or above ground but indoor  I'm still in the middle of making up the laws that rule this society and the reason they live like they do.  I have a decent amount of my own sim pool that I can make my starter sims from.  I may or may not have a blog about it but I won't be able to do anything other than theorize until I can install the game.

In the mean time, I can go over the pool of sims I do have, and based on memory, write about them living life in the Complex.  You never know, it could end up being something big. {insert winky emoticon here}

If anyone wants to, you can read the bare basics, that I plan to be continually update, here: The Complex.