She's miming that she needs her hair cut. 

Oh dang, now I think I actually have to get that Adele chair.  I had resisted because the original colors weren't quite what I would tend to use.

And I think my sims are just going to wear sundresses from now on.  Because, dang.  I love all those patterns and colors.

I graduated high school in '93.  Went to Catholic school.  We weren't allowed to use a calculator ever until towards the end of 11th grade when we got to logs.  In college, I majored in math/stats, so I tutored in my last couple years.  Mostly college kids, but we did get requests from parents for grade-school kids at times.  I tutored one such girl and the math she was learning was just so very wrong.  That's always what I think of when I think of "new math."  Can't quite remember what grade she was in, but I think 8th grade or so.  First, they had everything from fractions to algebra to statistics shoved into one book.  How is a kid supposed to really learn useful math when they touch on one small part of it for 2 weeks and then move on?  And what moron decided that statistics was useful in jr high?  Seriously, everything in there was such a mish mash and at such a basic level, not to mention presented in a totally weird way that didn't even make sense.  Some brilliant person somewhere decided that American kids couldn't learn math in the traditional way and started messing with it until you get to today where it doesn't even look like math anymore.  Granted, not everyone is good at math and people don't all learn the same way.  But that's where you teach the teachers how to present a single concept in a couple different ways to reach a broader range of students.

/soapbox off.  The whole math situation just drives me nuts.  Public schools in general are just messed up, especially here in Detroit where they have a huge deficit and are closing schools left and right so that you have 50-60 students in a single class.  I'm not sure what we will do when my nieces start school (they and my sister live with me).

What every father wants his teenager daughter to wear to the beach:



I'm guessing there is a good reason we aren't shown the backside.  (pay content by simal10)  Also, most excellent quality on the top.  Uneven in the front, jagged edges on the side.  Not sure if the bottoms are supposed to look that way or if they are horribly uneven as well.

Anyone else tempted to cut that Perelinka Amelia underwear up and make use of the non-retarded parts?  The front of the panties is kinda cute and the back of the bra.  Could make a decent, cute, modest pair of undies out of it. 

New featured item by CherryND:

 

No thanks.  1) what is that thing hanging from the ceiling?  2) what does it have to do with spring?

And that chair looks so comfortable.

That bedroom set is amazing.  And I totally want that dress on the dress form for my simmies.  While MTS2 was down, I was browsing to find things I might want when it was back up.  Wouldn't you know that I would find some good looking eyeshadow without the metric crapton of shadow under the eye that is so common and it is one of the things that is lost.

But, I did find this today:



http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319978

Kinda scared to admit I think that set is cute and not really smutty.

*ducks*

Okay, so none of these are new or recently updated, but I did read this whole thread (thank you so very much for pointing me to some new sites and creators) and did a forum search and it appears no one has mentioned CokeBuilder's houses.  They are really gorgeous and aren't bogged down with tons and tons of cc.

http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=671691

And if anyone knows of some nice eyeshadows (dark, light, in between) that have little or no shadow underneath the eye, please share!  For some reason, that really bugs me.  I've been resorting to blacking that part out on the alphas, but I'm not real swift with the paintbrush.