still missing you

First and foremost, I had actually been without a laptop since early October. Here’s a breakdown of what had been happening:

All of a sudden, my laptop had stopped charging, so I took it into a local Micro Center. I go to school in Denver, but I didn’t know where else to go, and that was where my school IT center had directed me after they couldn’t figure out the issue with my laptop.

Micro Center sent it to ASUS on warranty because they had claimed that there was liquid damage.

There was a whole fiasco between myself, Micro Center, and ASUS, and I had just wanted my SSD back (since it’s been with me since my last last laptop). Ultimately, they had promised to send me a new unit and my original SSD.

I received the laptop earlier this morning! But the SSD they had sent me was not my SSD; it was the actual original SSD of my laptop, not the one that I had installed myself.

Micro Center has agreed to reimburse me by giving me an SSD that’s equivalent to the one that I had + install it into my laptop.

And that brings us to now! The biggest loss from my SSD is all of my TS4 data; I’ve lost my saves, my tray, etc. I actually have an older TS4 save back from when I was having problems in Generation 7 (Titania), so I wanted to ask you all something:

If I were to replay back to where I had been (Generation 9 transitioning into Generation 10), should I treat it the same way as when I had to restart the end of Generation 7? We would be getting new heirs, new Generation storylines, etc. I would be posting casual gameplay photos until we get back to Generation 10.

Alternatively, I can just mix genetics to get as close as possible to our original heirs. I can replay up to where we would’ve been, and we can continue like nothing happened.

EDIT (12/19/19): As it actually turns out, my save is from when Roy and Kory were already in the family, so I may just end up replaying Generation 9 with a twist!

What are your thoughts? I’d love to hear them!

Thank you all for being patient with me. I apologize for going through so many laptop issues, disappearing due to university, etc. I’d like to continue creating CC, but I can’t promise when that’ll be happening. I have a few CC projects lined up, but I have yet to start them. I’ll keep you all posted.

I love you all. Thank you again for being so patient with me and continuing to stay with me through everything.

If Jaime wins the heir poll, we will follow his story as he accepts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn marine biology first-hand at the Sulani Islands Sanctuary under the Hoapili Scholarship. Determined to study the waves he had grown so fond of, Jaime will discover that there’s more to the ocean than its gentle waves and friendly dolphins. He’ll walk along the shores of Sulani with his trusty camera in hand, not once noticing the curious pair of eyes peeking at him from underneath a cluster of seaweed in the distance.

If Eduardo wins the heir poll, we will follow his story as he receives a strange postcard from his Strangerville pen-pal. Worried about his friend, Eduardo will ignore his sinking gut and head out to Strangerville. And while the smiles are unsettling and he is definitely not eating the zucchini casserole (thank you, Mrs. Roswell, he’s sure that it would’ve been lovely), the number one concern on his mind is: where in the world did his pen-pal disappear off to?

If Milagro wins the heir poll, we will follow her story as she feels something thrumming in her veins. Puzzled by the faint sense of longing, Milagro consults her father, Daevan, about why he always seemed to be traveling while she was growing up, why he always seemed so distant even if he was sitting right next to her at dinner in Brindleton Bay. Daevan will reveal that they share Traveler blood, that they were never meant for this mortal world--or at least, that’s what he thought until he met Roy. Torn between sharing Daevan’s secret heritage to the rest of her family or keeping it to herself, Milagro will flee to the secret town of Glimmerbrook where she’ll find that everything and nothing makes sense at the same time. And is that... someone coming towards her on a broomstick?!