Procrastination Station

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Work was supposed to be easier this week. It wasn't. It was actually worse. It's just a touch frustrating when you spend the bulk of the week busting your ass to get a big project out the door only to find out at the last second there's another piece that the other departments didn't tell you about.

I enjoy what I do and it's a good company for the most part. Unfortunately, it's still a relatively new company so there's lots of growing pains. Things are constantly changing and not everyone is as good at communicating as they should be. The e-mail chain I got on this lost piece goes back three weeks, but no one thought to let my department know so we could get it out with the rest of it.

The end of the fiscal year was yesterday, so hopefully there won't be any more "OMG OMG THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE RIGHT NOW!" panics. I've got lots of clean up I need to do, but for the most part the worst of the stress should be over.

Why I am I going on about this? Besides the release of ranting? Well, it means I haven't worked on any of my Sims2 stories at all. I keep looking at them thinking I should, and reading everyone's updates has made me want to get back to it, but the brain is not cooperating. On top of that, I don't think I've left a comment for anyone who has updated in the last week and a half. I've stayed on top of everything and liked what I read, but commenting just didn't seem to be in me at the moment.

To blow off steam, I've been playing a bit more of Maxistonia. I'm hoping now to set it aside nad get back to the Pseudo stuff, but while I'm here, let me show you some stuffs.





Did you know that Circe and Nervous have more bolts than she and Loki do? And this is without any of their turn-ons matching. If you switch even one of their turn-ons to match the other, they suddenly turn into three-bolt stalkers. Add ACR to this mix and it's a hilarious recipe for marital disaster.

From Nervous' perspective, marital disaster sounds really good right about now.



Loki really does have NO eyes when he's angry. Doc, I can completely understand why you decided to gender-reverse him and marry Helen into her legacy. The genetic wonders of his face are beyond compare.

For a while, Circe was happily going back and forth between the two men and was trying to get pregnant by either. Loki didn't catch on until Nervous caressed her right in front of him. Circe did finally get pregnant after about the seventh try. Nervous is the dad, so no scary brows on that baby.

I never knew that when you break-up with a sim living in the same house, they move out. The things you learn when you ruin your little pixel people's lives.



Over in Veronaville, I discovered something interesting. Consort Capp is gay.

Well, at least in my neighborhood he is. I think since Contessa is dead when the game loads up, his gender pref isn't set, so ACR randomized him for me. This put a whole new spin on the fued between the families when you think about how close Consort and Patrizio used to be.

I'd never actually spent much time playing the Maxis neighborhoods, so it's been interesting to get to know some of the characters. Veronaville always seemed the least interesting to me, but now that I've played it I've become quite fond of it. I'm sure the trashcan kicking and poking gets a little annoying after a while, but I found it interesting how they've got so many little things set up to try and mix the two families. Romeo and Juliet is just the obvious one. Kent and Bianca are there, Miranda and Mercutio are there.



And then there's the unexpected. Tybalt never expected little Beatrice Monty to turn out so pretty. Even though he won't admit it to Juliette or Uncle Kent, he kind of understands a little bit of where they're coming from now.



Speaking of Kent and Bianca, I think they're my favorite couple in the neighborhood. They're not explicitly set up to get together, but come on. Two single adults, both frustrated with their family, both seeking companionship. Besides that, they don't come saddled with the teen angst aspect that all the other couples do.

I liked them so much, I gave them a real wedding. Of course, I forgot to take her out of her wedding dress, so the next couple of weddings all had her showing up like Bridezilla.



One of the more interesting relationships that I have not had a hand in even remotely is Mortimer Goth and Florence Delarosa. The kept showing up in the Welcome Wagon together and before you know it, they were flirting friends. I'd thought about hooking Morty up with one of the spinsters out there somewhere, but he and Flo seem to have made up my mind for me.



I also enjoyed playing the Monty twins as well. Beatrice and Benedict are a fun pair. Benedict is also one of the few sims I've ever had randomize gay. I was setting him up to flirt with Miranda Capp when he started heart farting his sister's date. Tybalt wasn't too happy about this, but at least it let me know where Benny stands.

Beatrice is really pretty, but Benedict's eyes are a little odd. They're too close together combined with a big nose. He looks a bit exotic as a teen to me, even if he's not exactly handsome.



I also had a lot of fun playing the Summerdreams, even though I got irritated with their house. Who the heck builds a house like that? The foundation is lower than the sidewalk, which makes it nearly impossible to set up a nice sidewalk. I finally gutted the entire place and rebuilt it.

Titania and Oberon actually had decent boltage in this neighborhood, so I went ahead and got them married. They seem thrilled, don't they?



This little one was actually born BEFORE the wedding. Gossamer has her mother's hair and skintone, but her daddy's eyes and nose. I forgot what her personality is since I left the house pretty much right after she transitioned.



Being a big fan of Jenn's 'Familiar Faces', I was curious about whether or not Bottom and Alexander Goth would get along. It just so happened that Puck had brought Alex home on the bus a few times, so he and Titania were friends with him already. It was only natural that I would invite him over for Bo's teening.

What you see above is the VERY first thing Bo did after she ate her cake. She sought Alex out, chatted with him, then farted.



That wasn't the end of it, though. At the main Capp house, Alex and the Pleasant twins kept coming home on the bus. One day while I'm playing, Bo shows up as a walk-by. Since she's BFF with Hermia, she invited herself in and immediately started stalking Alex.

"Put your eyes back in your head, Lilith. The nerdboy is mine so keep your hands to yourself."

If I were Lilith, I would be backing off rather quickly.



Hopefully I'll have a BC update out this week. The desire has been there even if the brain power has not. I keep seeing other people's updates and it makes me miss my pixel people. The Maxistonia neighborhood is a nice distraction, but it's definitely not the same. I think I'm ready to put it up for a while and get back to the meat of the game for me.

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I was really tickled to see them stalking each other. I was hoping they would, but I didn't want to force it.