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I’ve recently started to get emails again to say someone had downloaded a file from my Box account and it got me thinking about how much I loved this community and how happy this little corner of the internet made me.

Scary how quick time goes. You log off for the last time and don’t realise how long it’s been.

So I redownloaded tumblr to pop in and see how it was doing.

I am so, so happy to see so many familiar names popping up in my feed ❤️

I often wonder how the people behind the screen, somewhere in the world, are, what you’re up to and hope you’re ok.

I’m just busy, busy.

Life happened, I have a two year old now, how wild is that? (I wish potty training was as easy as it was made out to be in TS2 haha).

I really do miss the simblr community.

I’d love to say I’d have time to start reposting and re-engaging but the reality is I don’t even think I’ve switched my PC on this year.

(Also wth is a “blaze” I feel oldddd)

So just a post to say that I am alive and well and happy 👋

Me when I remember how long it takes to load.

Still waiting.

Gets impatient, clicks on the window. Crashes.

When the game’s obsession with Grilled Cheese lulls you into a false sense of security.

Challenge completed.

Artwork by my friend Jamie.

So, this has been sat in my drafts folder from a couple of months ago…

When the S.O. and I moved in, the previous occupants left the contents of their garage. Some things were super helpful (lawnmower, hedge strimmer and a gazebo!?!?!), some not so.

I needed a bookcase for my nerd room office. Came across a chest of drawers and a bookcase. Same width. Lightbulb moment. Deal with the S.O. - if still in the garage in six months, they go to the tip…

The Creepy Hipster Household 

Laura’s mid-life crisis Part Three.*

And we’ve gone from desperately wanting more babies to fearing more babies.

The Creepy Hipster Household 

Not a great start when your date headbutts you before you can even greet each other properly.

It obviously went terribly, as I these are the only pictures I took of the date, and the date meter hadn’t even appeared.

The Creepy Hipster Household 

To celebrate tricking the headmaster accepting Lyra and Cygnus into swanky school, I give in to Lyra’s want to finally get a date…

So, we call up the matchmaker aaaaaand my game glitches, (a premonition, perhaps?) so Lyra gets a quick wardrobe makeover.

The Creepy Hipster Household

Meanwhile, Laura continues her mid-life crisis, ignoring her offspring in favour of talking to her new babies the plants.

Or, you know, she could be talking to Creepy Hipster Guy, he is buried underneath them after all.

The Creepy Hipster Household

At least the Headmaster didn’t eat dinner with Cygnus... instead of going for the turkey, he chooses the out of date cake.

Not even being an alien hybrid can protect you.

He maybe academically smart, but this kid is lacking common sense.

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Thankfully there was a leftover Turkey dinner stashed in the fridge, so there was no need for anyone to set the kitchen alight, again.

“So, Lyra, tell me, what are you plans for after you finish your schooling?”

“World domination.”

“Huh. Well. It’s nice to meet a young woman with such ambition.”

(somehow that one conversation got 28 schmooze points??? daaaamn girl!)

The Creepy Hipster Household 

Now it’s Cygnus’ turn to try and impress.

Somehow a tour of the dilapidated warehouse is enough to win 40 points for the tour.

“Haha, well, funny you should notice, but yes, I AM half alien - I guess the green skin is a giveaway? And, no, before you ask, I don’t want to study astrophysics - I’m studying robotics, I believe with enough skill, we could find a way to create a being with Sim-like intelligence**!”

*Vince thinking he’s on to another winner*

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Given that I just downloaded a mod to cast spells without the use of reagents, I thought Vince should be Lyra’s unwilling guinea pig womrat.

Of course, having a fully fledged witch come to your academy isn’t something everyone can brag about, and boy, would he like to get one over on his rival Headmaster BJ!

++++schmooze points for all

Naturally the last time I played, I invited the Private School headmaster round. Thanks past-essex, you jerk.