Hi.

SOOOOOO.

At first it was the crappy router, and then it was the subzero temperatures (the "computer room" doesn't have proper insulation or heating), and then it was just apathy. And part of it is neurotic fiddle-faddle which you do not care to hear but which leads me to avoid the internet. I'm not a social person and I like to run away and I often have so many ideas for amazing things I'd love to do but can hardly be arsed to follow through on because of some crazy personality flaw I can't quite pinpoint.

I was barely playing the game to begin with and I haven't even booted up the damn thing at all since the new year. I don't have the urge to do anything sims related really, though shiny pictures from the people I admire do leave me feeling rather wistful. I even managed to nab up a bunch of webspace and was going to go about making a real website, but that ambition quickly fizzled. I'll try to find (or cobble together) a single website to put up all the stuff I've made, so it's easier to peruse through than livejournal. Suggestions are welcome, website-building related or otherwise. MTS2 is not an option, no.

This is a rather wishy-washy apology for being so absent, but I am sorry. If you have a WCIF that I have not yet responded to, ask here. If you have any questions, ask here. If you sent me some message on some website and it is MOST DIRE that I read it, remind me here. If you decide you don't want to be LJ buds anymore, it's okay. If you want to be RL LJ buddies, ask here, but there are no guarantees as Phobia =/= Me in real life and I won't talk about Sims 2 things and hardly ever update but it will probably be the only real way I'll keep up with anyone's shenanigans. Long sentences.

If I see you soon, then yay! If I don't, then I enjoyed getting to know everyone I got to know. :)

TL;DR VERSION: I won't be around. I may come back, make some CC again, I may not. Who knows. Leave a message if you need to.

Most awkward flounce ever. So here are Ripp!tears from ages ago. Bye bye be good.

Yay Christmas! So I participated in the GoS Secret Santa exchange and it was a lot of fun. Lots of people received many wonderful presents which I am coveting from afar, hands clasped in pained envy. The present I made was for simperfect. My present from Steerpike/rage_rage was one of the really sweet Asian Fusion outfits from the Sims 2 store with boots, as boots make everything better. Everything. I have retexturing plans, oh yes (can there be retexturing plans, Anna?). So I decided to take a few minutes to boot up my game in the midst of waiting for cakes to cool and snap some screenshots. One sim is Pepper Tremaine's uh... granddaughter or daughter, I can't quite remember anymore and the extremely cute alien is xel_squirgle_ox's Amy who is the daughter of her Bunker and my Fritz. rage_rage is going to be sharing the outfit over on GoS maybeprobablyIsuspect because that's the righteous thing to do, man.







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Things that are awesome right now:

simgaroop's Advent Calender. Seriously. GO LOOK. She's retextured and recolored tons of my favorite hair meshes. I'm swimming in a sea of delight, it makes me feel all tingly.

AweSims has really really excellent recolors (quite a few of them of Maxis meshes) and some wonderful wallpaper and floors. Some LJ people might not have come across this site yet, so I encourage you to check it out.

sixtylilies makes an assortment of lovely things on her livejournal including enticing Nouked hair retextures, clothing, and sweet recolors. Please go harass her with affection, for she is most deserving.

smjoshsims put Easy/Lucky/Free on the Maxis sclera which is so many flavors of fantastic. Sim animations are so wacky and gappy black bits of doom are not so wacky. Be sure to grab the contacts by showercapfrog too, if you're interested, they're at the bottom of the entry.

I have my own proper webhosting now which means sometime soon I won't have to rely on Photobucket for image hosting and box.net and mediafire for file hosting. Huzzah! Now to teach myself Dreamweaver.

Things that are not so awesome:

My router is on its last flailing arthritic limb which means my connection to the internet is sporadic at best. I usually can't stay on for more than 15 minutes at a time. I don't quite know when the situation will right itself but hopefully soon.

I'm still busy in real life and facing the arrival of my annual bout of the doldrums which strike me every January through late February. Combined with the fritzy router means I spend most of my free time elbow deep in flour, yarn, paint, or idling about in Animal Crossing: City Folk. Be well and hope you all have a happy holiday!

PS - All complaints about my pseudo e-popularity can be directed to katu or expressed in some delightfully rendered simsecret featuring my metaphorical head on a pike and the words "GTFO" flashing in spasm-inducing neon red and yellow. Be sure to include the phrase "FUCK N99!!!!" for consistency's sake.

I really don't know whether I kinda like this or I kinda hate it. I could dig the Lily Allen video, mainly because I like Lily Allen's music. I also think Simlish is adorable in a bizarre and utterly silly goo-goo sort of way. C'mon, shoe flee? I'd like to punch Katy Perry in the face though, but she makes ridiculously catchy pop music that my boyfriend likes to listen to because he secretly has a vagina. Except for "I Kissed A Girl" because every time I hear that song it makes me angry enough to chew glass and shit beer bottles. Also, I GUESS she's kinda good-looking. I GUESS. I prefer Zooey Deschanel. I don't know. I apologize in advance if you actually bother to watch the video. It made me want to play TS2 at least!

Edit: I forgot to add that if there are any colors of the Sarhra eyes that anyone wants that I did not make the first go-around, I'll happily take requests.

Hey Livejournal,

Okay, so I kind of suck having ignored you and have been a bad LJ friend, but I wasn't playing the Sims 2 at all.  I couldn't even open up Bodyshop just to gaze wistfully at my zombie army, with their facial stitching and asymmetrical haircuts and soupy blind eyes.  Preparing for school and my boyfriend's brother getting married threw a wrench in most of my free time.  Admittedly I still had time to post on the forums every once in awhile, but that was Pretty Much It as far as Sims related activities go. 

So in a fit, I redid my LJ layout, upped new icons, changed my name on GoS (treelet to Phobia) and deleted all my entries.  Seems crappy of me, but there wasn't much in the way of downloads to begin with.  Derek might show up again eventually, but for now I'm pretty happy with starting over.  It's something I like to do an awful lot.

Which brings me to my next point: I cleaned out my Downloads folder of everything and am starting from scratch.  It seems ridiculous, but I have nearly everything backed up somewhere, I just have to pick through it and quit trying to coordinate five different neighborhoods with five significantly different themes.  The zombies were getting in the way of the rainbow families who were overshadowing the normal sims, etc.  Cleaned all those out too.

I'll be going through my friends list and reading all your juicy entries whilst I organize the slew of new stuff put on GoS over the last month and cry my little crocodile tears.  What will I do with all this fabulous custom content, a-boo hoo hoo.

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