The bottle sounds right. I've never used the stuff (my skin hates tea tree oil) so I can't tell you how it feels.

Hey, guys, just popping in to say sorry about cracking open that giant can of fire-breathing worms. Thought I was just innocently musing aloud, but apparently....

*puts can opener on table and backs up slowly*

Someone put that away, okay? 'Cause I clearly can't be trusted with it.





And about the dandruff thing, my brother swears by Paul Mitchell's "Tea Tree Special" shampoo and conditioner, but it doesn't do a thing for my dad. I think it's one of those things where you just have to try stuff until you find something that works.

I don't mind shopping lists as long as the lot isn't packaged with the 'missing' CC. If the lot comes empty, or with Maxis-only stuff, no problem - I might even want to go search for one or two objects (usually not the whole list). But if I have to either hunt for everything or spend a quarter of an hour deleting and replacing random spider plants and stuff I'm generally not going to bother. (I almost never install custom wall and floor treatments with a lot because it's super fast for me to redo those in-game.)

I've seen quite a few people offer furnished and unfurnished versions of the same lot, and for me that seems like the way to go as far as downloader convenience.

(Is any of this making sense? I'm only 1/2-way through my first cup of coffee this morning, and keep losing my train of thought. )

So I picked up one of the small local papers to read on the bus ride home this afternoon, and ran across this little blurb.


Does the fact that Atwat sprang immediately to my mind make me a bad person?

I do okay with that in really tiny stalls - you know, the ones where the door nearly touched the bowl when you open it, and you have to kind of straddle the toilet to get the door closed again once your inside. In those cases I just lean forward a bit more and hold it closed with my hand. It's when the stalls are faily long that I have problems. I always end up feeling like some circus act (The Incredible Peeing Woman) as I do a kind of lop-sided squat on one leg and try to hold the door closed with my other foot while bracing my elbow on the toilet paper dispenser. Good times! Actually, in those cases I usually give up and cover the seat with about seventeen layers of toilet paper and just hope for the best.

Snarky, I love the cover!! (Late to the party, I know. Couldn't get online last night.) I want to print it up and hang it on my wall... but don't want to deal with having to explain the Sim-porn, so I guess I'll just save it to my documents folder where I can enjoy it in private.

You watch what you're saying about the Catholic church!!


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Yeah, sorry about the model. She's... special. I just didn't feel like going back into the game to take an identical shot of this with a different Sim.

I just found this one completely by accident when I was doing up my Miss TSR Booty entry. Take a good look at the nether regions.



My first thought was non-Barbie skintone, but when I tried the outfit with a Maxis skintone I got the same thing. So I shut the game down and booted up Bodyshop and what do you think I found?



That's disturbing on so many levels!

(The outfit's by Maaak, by the way, who's one of their FA's.)

Go ahead and share them if you wanna. The screenshots are all hosted on Imageshack, so they're not costing me anything. I'm not going over there though - I feel dirty enough for one week.

It's kind of old news at this point since they survey's long gone, but now that my computer's stopped running like a sloth in a coma (I can't believe the problem was my anti-virus software. I'm seriously pissed about that!) I can finally put up those screenshots I took. I'm just going to link to them though, since they're pretty large. (And summarize for those who don't want to bother loading all the images.)

First, I skipped the first several questions since it was all your typical, generic how old are you type crap. The first actually relevant question was #8 which introduced the idea of "The Sims 2 Store" and asked for input. Question #9 was a bit more interesting and asked for reasons why this might not be a good idea. (I think I checked Completely Agree for all of them except the one that says "Items that come with The Sims 2 game are enough for me" because I'm a download junkie.)

Next came a series of questions asking how much I'd be willing to pay for a single item (um, zero, zero, zero... maybe $0.05 - $0.10 if the item was really, really cool). These items were divided into three categories. Category one consists mainly of walls and floors, as well as arches, mirrors, rugs and wall hangings. Category two includes clothing, windows, doors and columns, and a variety of objects from various surfaces and plants to appliances, lighting fixtures and decorative items. Category three includes such things as hair, seating, multi-story doors and windows, party items (bars and such), electronics and exercise equipment.

The next series of questions asked, if items from each category cost X amount of money, how many items do I think I would buy in the next six months. There were nine of these questions, three for each category with lower suggested prices each time. I only took one screenshot of these, because at this point the line of questioning was starting to bore me, but now I wish I'd screenied them all or at least written down what the proposed prices were. I know the highest price for category three stuff was well over a dollar.

Next some more boring generic questions: what EPs and SPs I have, how I acquired the EPs and SPs I have, and why I bought the EPs and SPs I have. I was waiting for the 'why do you not have' question, but it never came. To bad. I was really looking forward to telling them exactly why I'm not going to pay $20 for mediocre clothes and objects, or let SecuRom anywhere near my computer.

Then we went back to the TS2 Store idea with questions about purchasing points instead of paying for specific items at the time of purchase, preferred methods of payment, and how I'd feel about only being able to pay by credit card. These questions were followed by a seemingly-random inquiry about what online game/virtual/etc. community I've been active in over the past few months, and then the first specific mention of "fansites" like TSR and Peggy.

Question #29 (yes, this was a long fracking survey!) was basically a big advertisement for TSR, Peggy and Holy Simoly, with Parsimonious thrown in there presumably so people couldn't complain about all the attention being given to paysites. (I love Parsimonious, but it baffles me a bit that none of the better-known freesites were even mentioned.) The question that followed asked how frequently I visit the sites from the previous list which I admitted to having visited in the past three months.
Note: These two questions are where I finally broke down and lied outright. I have been to TSR in the past three months, but I wasn't about to admit to that. I don't think fug-hunting technically counts anyway.

Then another question about the four strangely singled-out fansites, this time asking how many items I have ever downloaded from each of them. (Okay, first, I have no idea how many items I've downloaded from anywhere in the last month, much less the last few years. Second, as if I'm going to give them the satisfaction of admitting I've ever downloaded a thing from a paysite, even if it was a free item. Third, if Parsimonious starts selling CC through EA, I'm going to be very, very sad. I have no idea if they're planning this, and I'm doing my best not to jump to any conclusions, but seeing them as the lone freesite on that list gives me a bad feeling...)

Next came a few more generic questions about my gaming habits, and then one which reminded me a little bit too much of those aptitude tests I had to take in high school. (The ones that told me I should be either an actor or a librarian when I grew up. I've never considered the two things all that similar, but whatever.) And then the final two, rather invasive questions asking about household income and level of education.

And then the survey was over, and I had to go take a long, hot shower because I felt strangely defiled. Seriously, that survey make me feel really icky.

I'm taking screenshots as I go. I'll post them as soon as I can, but my internet is being a PITA right now so it might be a while before I get them uploaded.

She was an FA, but god only knows why. Some of her stuff is just plain boring, and the rest of it looks like the dog threw up or something. If you do decide you must go check it out, make sure you bring plenty of rum and eye bleach.

Personally, the idea of a roll in the hay is about appealing as sex on the beach - not at all! Sure, they both may sound romantic, but they both leave you way too susceptible to itchy, poky, gritty and otherwise uncomfortable things in all the wrong places!

First off, what a cool house! I'm so bookmarking that site. (I love building from actual house plans, and it seems to have some great ones.)

Okay, I'm done.

I'd say it all depends on how you want the house to look. I'd say the hight/width of the 'lighthouse' in the original plan is more in harmony with the rest of the house, but it doesn't really look like the real deal. Which is fine, but if you really want it to look like a functional lighthouse attached to a normal house, I'd say build it at least one storey taller and maybe a bit narrower.