December 10, 2013

Good morning! Yesterday I got the mail, made a cheese omelet for our son for breakfast, cleaned the house, & then it was another non-productive day of happy ... just playing Minecraft while ALL the Sims expansion packs, stuff packs, & store items downloaded onto the laptop (that took days). I don't have any screenshots yet because they're all on the laptop. I'll get the pics uploaded to facebook & Pinterest once I actually remember. Not much to show yet other than the spawn point. I'll have good screenshots to show once I finish the house I'm building in there. It's going to be a NICE one! It's going to be my FIRST one, but I'm confident that it's going to come out great because so far it looks great. I can build a lot faster in the Sims, but that's because the interface is faster for building (instead of block by block) & I don't have to go find / make all the materials 1st. Since I'm not using any cheats or mods, the roof is giving me fits. It's so far up that if I accidentally fall off, it'll kill me & then I lose all the materials I have on me that I'm using to build it, so I've got to go really slow & steady. Once I try out the Sims on the laptop & see that it plays as well on there as it does on my huge gaming desktop over here (that keeps locking up since Win 8.1 was installed), I may just unplug this huge beast, clear off my desk of everything except the monitor / TV, & give it to hubby who spent a fortune building it years back for me. He can use an upgraded PC & this is one heck of an upgrade compared to the old box he's using. Then, when I'm working at my desk I'll just plug the monitor into the laptop & when I start gaming I'll unplug the monitor & sink into the sofa. I'm seriously thinking of starting fresh with all of my Sims games. Years into the games I'm playing now & I just feel like punching reset. Start each game over from scratch, doing things differently now. I will still have all my old games saved on a flash drive, but it's time for a fresh start starting today. Brand new laptop, brand new Minecraft game, why not brand new Sims?I even have a brand new notebook to keep track of it all. :D

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