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Okay, so TS2 appears to be up again. Not sure for how long, but there’s not much any of us can do about that :/
I’m supposed to be writing assignments right now. I have two essays in this week, and three for two weeks later. However one of those is poetry. I’ll be crying myself to sleep that week (I think I was trying to prove I’m currently busy, but it doesn’t read that way).
Anyway, all that aside, Twelve is being tamed. Section by section it has been taken out and re-worked. I know I have a tendency to waffle and post before I proof read anything, but you have no idea how long this was. Parts of it were 8000 words of very little happening. So, it is sort of beginning to feel more controllable again. I’m back daydreaming about it at any rate. I’m not going to do that thing I’m so good at, where I predict it will be done ASAP. We’ve all seen how exact that turns out. I finish uni for a while in April and for several months in May. That’s really all I know about my time, but I’m motivated again, so it may well happen.
Snippet
We all waited expectantly for Ayden to laugh off Logan’s accusation.
I was watching for some sly smirk or sarcastic comment. Instead Ayden stood up with a sorrowful expression. He paced forward and stared sheepishly at inanimate objects sat near each of us. He couldn’t quite manage facing us properly.
“Key?” Logan suggested, pushing the spare into the palm of my hand. Without hesitation or any real thought to what might be waiting, I unlocked the door and brusquely strolled through. I didn’t stop until my brain processed the bizarre image before it. Logan crept forward. Peering over my shoulder he grabbed my wrist, which like the rest of me, was rigid with surprise.
“Oh look!” Logan projected. “No one is home, let’s go.”
PROOF, that I am actually not just spouting off lies and stringing you all along. I know it’s still about nine months later than intended, and (sadly) the delay has extended into the new year – BUT(!) I am nearly there. The only other problem is my game is fried. Though, I’m enjoying the pre-reinstall CC hunting. The pressure is on with file-sharing sites having targets stamped to their foreheads. 
ALSO, I know that their are many comments to reply to. I’m not ignoring you (though odds are if you’re asking me technical W7 v TS2 questions I might be – as I am a huge fail in that area), I just have had no time for my online alter-ego… except for Flickr. Thus why my shout box still hasn’t been replaced and everywhere is still festive and snowy. I’ll start with my TS2 gb and make my way back here 
Annnnyhuuuu::::
Unable to shake his shame and exhaustion, Ayden Jones finally vacated his sofa. Everywhere he looked he saw a reminder of every word he’d said… or rather, vituperatively spat. It’d been nearly a week, and though he’d convinced himself that Athen’s involvement in his life would cause him no end of misfortune: he now longed for her. He desired a blunt and honest comment. Ayden needed someone to treat him like the spoiled child he was. His vacant double bed was once again a reminder of the commitment he would never have. There was no hope now. None. And so he did all he could in such a time, and drank himself into oblivion.
I promise you, it would have been up this week – had I not underestimated how busy I’d be. Unexpected things came up, like work explaining that they’d told me the wrong dates and I was in this week. My cat has gone missing (potentially gone off to die), and my best friend has been crushed by a break up. All in all, my hands are tied at the moment. There is a monumental amount of wrapping, tidying and stuff to be done tomorrow, pre-Christmas Dinner.
BUT, I do have a few things which might interest you. Their names are Logan and Luke, and I’ve finally decided I can’t keep them cooped up in my game forever. So they’re here and up for download (usual rules apply). Enjoy them and have a merry Christmas/Happy December!
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It’s changed a bit. The posting part. A bit lost on my own blog. Never good :[
Good news! There’s only one assignment left between now and Christmas. So, for the first time in a long time I’ve opened Twelve and been trying to make sense of my notes. Part of me wants to leave it as is and fill in the gaps, and another part of me wants to hack chunks out of it. At any rate, it won’t be up until I’m home, but I want it up before Christmas
(Plus, game crashing woes need to be sorted)
Also, I am so sorry to the comments here I’ve not replied to, and the emails or PM’s dotted about. I am an awful person, I know! It has been so long since some were sent that now I don’t know what to say, I just feel so bad that I haven’t responded. And for some reason some WordPress blogs that I’m subscribed to no longer email me about posts. So again, I’m sorry that I’ve not kept up with stories and friendships. I wondered where everyone had gone, and found out they’d not gone anywhere. I’m hoping I’ll be able to catch up on everything over Christmas. Sim stories, global friend catch up sessions and chocolate sounds perfect to me <3
Also, my forum is back online – severely neglected though. It really looks like I’ve taken a leaf out of EA’s book, which is never good. Next week I should be back and able to chat and admin and just be where I want to be again, which is chillaxing with you guys.
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Yes, it has happened! YAY
Other than that, sorry for being ignorant and not approving or replying to comments and for taking my sweet time with the forum and WTW. I actually went to take the pictures for it the other day… twice, and it crashed… twice. So not having much success. Usually I’d uninstall, but I’ve flown the nest and don’t have the disks to sort it all out , I think I’ll go home next week and sort it, fingers crossed.
Anyway, THE FRIGGIN SITE/GRAIL/ALL THAT IS WONDERFUL IS UP AGAIN!
For a while now I’ve been wondering what Ayden and Athen would look like if I remade them, considering they’re one or two years old – very accurate.
So, uh, images below, links below that. It’s about time I uploaded something.
If anyone is wondering why the hold up, I applied for uni this year. Well, back in November. So I’ve been feeling sick with anticipation and pressure most of the year. Thankfully my first choice uni let me in, by the skin of my teeth, which I found out mid-August. Yesterday I found out where I’m living. And in twelve days I move hundreds of miles away to the south coast. Though, that said, I have thrown myself at WTW today. I’m a lot more committed to it now I’ve found out all of the nerve-wracking real life stuff.
I know there’s a tonne of other things to do, forum, new blog layout, upload twelve, etc. I’ve had a fair bit on my plate this year is all, despite my weirdly empty timetable.
As my game/sims are so buggy and I haven’t got Ayden or Athen in bodyshop anymore, these would be their replacements if need be. Though I like these ones more I’m a fan of consistency in visual stuff, so until the ‘proper’ ones kick the bucket, these are my back-up sims. That said I have chopped and changed them over the stories lifespan, only the changes were a bit minor and less noticeable.
Hope everyone’s well and not too gutted to be back at school/work.
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First off, LIB is over – very sad/fantastic, if you haven’t read it yet then you haven’t lived, so yunno, head thatta way. Also, I’d recommend Reverie in Green which is brilliant too.
As I usually ramble away for hours on these things, I’m keeping is sweet and short today.
This is taking the biscuit because I’m writing both final chapters together pretty much, because if I don’t then I’m not all that confident with myself that I’ll finish the story. So you’ll get Twelve, and it should be pretty promptly followed by (unlucky for some) Thirteen, and then I’ll be done for a while. That said, Twelve should appear in around two weeks, I’ve finished writing the bits that I kept changing so it does look like plain sailing from this point onwards. Game has been restored, thankfully, some of the sets look a little different, but my PC is just downright refusing to play the game so it’s now a laptop affair.
It might be out quicker than that, I need to be distracted from my currently uncertain future.
TS2 site has been down for four weeks now ((((((
Amy-x
Eurgh, I never have any idea how to start these things. Me and charisma aren’t that tight. Anyway, I just posted to be melodramatic and motivate myself a bit. Tomorrow is the day of impending doom curtsey of OCR and A2 Law. I have revised so hard, but it is pretty dull stuff, and anyone who is as madly in love with the film, television industries, and fictional books as me, will know that the dull stuff cannot be held for very long. There needs to be fireworks and geese that aspire to be astronauts. All I remember well is one case named ‘Collins’ (which may interest you). A man was drunk, walking along and decided he quite fancied playing a bit of adult scrabble (no idea how old people who read my ramblings are, so being safe), and so he picked up a ladder from somewhere/or had a ladder with him, OCR always skimp on the details. He then proceeded to climb up to an open window where a naked woman was sleeping. He went back down and stripped to nothing but his socks – very sexy. He climbed back up, she welcomed him in thinking he was her boyfriend because all men look exactly the same. They played scrabble in the night. When she woke up she realised. He was charged with burglary.
Anyway, in other news my cat has had kittens and they are currently nameless. Well, I refer to them as “Weird Ears”, “Black Back”, “The Twins”, and leave the fifth without any form of acknowledgment. So if anyone has any idea for names I’m sort of stuck at the moment . Have a look and the proud mother, who will bite your shoe if you get to close to her babies :S
Yeah, enough rubbish from me. The whole point of this really was just to say that after tomorrow I’ll be back to writing. I’ve missed it so much. I’ve started planning stories for Sims 4 in my head.
Preview below:
“You’re… here?” A witty response escaped him, his head being too pre-occupied with aching to take on any other task.
“You opened the door,” Sapphire smiled, it was nice, for him to see her smile. “The others said you haven’t been opening it, guess I’m special.”
“Depends how you define special.” Ayden’s words were stiff, true, and sent what amiable quality there had been to the conversation out of the window and to its dismal death. “Again Saffy,” they both shrunk slightly at the use of her nickname, a reminder of what was lost, how close they’d once been, “you’re here?”
After some minor prompting:
I haven’t written any more of 12 since the last thing-ma-bob. Despite using this place to host stories, I do still have a massive crush on the exchange. Without it, I’d have never considered writing anything more than my name at the top of my homework, so I guess my motivation dips a little when error code 5 parades itself about.
Also, I wrote a scene, didn’t like it, and never got around to re-writing it, which sort of stopped me in my tracks.
On top of that, in the UK May and June are month’s reserves for a formidable amount of pain and torture, courtesy of OCR, AQA, Edexcel, and the rest of that crowd. For anyone who is doing or has done A levels, you have my deepest sympathies. For those of you doing GCSE’s, you have yet to know what is going to hit you in the coming years. Basically I have no life until after June 22nd.
Meanwhile I work, have college, volunteer to teach swimming, am considering going back to swimming, have decided I miss exercise and to implement a firm exercise and revision plan into my life, as a result, my right arm which I smashed to pieces when I was fourteen will be subject to some pain while I get back on that horse. But I can’t sit around in the house any longer, eating my weight in chocolate, getting fat and waiting to find something to do.
After my last exam I’m going camping with my friends, a trip I’m trying to plan because I hate camping, and camping in Wales does mean most of the night will be spent making sure the tent doesn’t fly away, so I want to be near food, showers, toilets, and solid shelter where I can squat during storms. Then assuming all goes well (and if it doesn’t, I have decided to move to Hawaii and work in a coffee shop) I should be packing my bags, moving down south where I know nobody, living at university, without any pets, and will be leaving all this behind and will possibly hate it, I’m not really convinced by all of this ‘uni is ahmarzzzing’ stuff. But there is only that one uni that I think there is any chance of me liking, so I’m trying so hard for that.
At some point in the several months before September, I will get WTW all out and finished.
Amy-x
