If you’re curious as to how to kill your Sims in the Sims 3 well continue reading.

[I've should of been made this]

Starvation

Simply cut off free will and don’t feed your Sim. If your Sim’s free will is on, let alone on high, they’ll feed themselves. But to make sure, put them in a room with no doors. It takes time but that’s what the speed 3 button is for. This one may take a while. There have been people saying that the Grim Reaper would come but he would give that Sim another chance at life. When your Sim do die, your Ghost Sim will be purple.

Drowning

Since your Sim can climb out of the pools now [in The Sims 2, they couldn't of course] you will have to build a wall around the swimming pool. Make sure you remove any step ladders out of the pool so you can build your wall. When your Sim die, your ghost Sim will be blue and dripping.

Fire

There are a couple ways to set your Sim on fire. You can leave the food [cancel cooking before Sim is finished] on the stove until it catches fire and then move your Sim near it. Or you can put 3-4 fireplaces in one room and cut them all on and remove the door. When your Sim die, your ghost Sim will be orange and flaming.

Electrocution

With this one you can either, have a Sim tinker and try and fix something with a low mechanical skill. Or have them fix something electrical with a pool of water that hasn’t been mopped up with a low mechanical skill. You may only have to try once but on occasions it can take two to three tries to kill your Sim. When your Sim die, your ghost Sim will be yellow with jolts of lightning coming from it.

Old Age

Of course the last one will be is when your Sim die of old age. Just simply let your Sim reach the end of its lifespan and your Sim will die. You can force your Sim to age with the cheat code [forcecheatenable true] by pressing CTRL+Shift+C. Then shift + click on the Sim and there should be a selection to ‘trigger age transition’. When your Sim die, your Sim ghost will be Gray.

Other

There has been word on the internet that there is a mod on Modthesims.com called ‘Dexter the Bear. From my understanding it allows your Sim to kill another Sim in some cruel ways. I will have to do some research on this and I’ll check back with an update on my findings.

You can bring your Sim back to life with a Death Flower. [Check the Ghost Guide]

If you have the patches installed, you can no longer have baby ghost Sims from my knowledge.

In some cases the Science Center will call you with an opportunity that involves your dead Sim. You have to bring the Urn [ashes] to the Science Lab. That’ll be the only way [I believe] you can play as a Ghost Sim in the game.

If you want the ghost to stay or ‘haunt’ your home, just put the gravestone out front or out back and that Sim will stay there.

In the expansion pack [World Adventures] for The Sims 3, you can get cursed by a mummy and perish.

Click here if you would like to see the Death and Ghost Guide.

If anyone have any tips or information they would like to share, feel free to leave a comment.

Rowan stumbled through their front door still in a state of bliss from her first kiss with Joshua.  She barely even noticed her Mom standing in the living room cradling her new sibling.  Finally reality caught up with Rowan and she gasped with surprise.

“Mom!  When did you have the baby?”  Rowan exclaimed.

“Shortly after you left this afternoon.  Isn’t she just perfect?”  Chloe’ proclaimed, staring down at her new baby girl.  Rowan lifted the blanket around the baby to get a better look.  She had to be the cutest thing she had ever seen.  Chloe’ began to make her way upstairs to put the baby down in her crib.  Rowan trailed behind her still in awe of the sudden arrival of her baby sister.  They entered into the baby’s bedroom, stopping once again to admire the angel faced infant.  Rowan asked to hold her new sister and Chloe’ happily placed her in Rowan’s arms.  The baby girl was pink in color and smelled of new linen.

“What is her name, Mom?”  Rowan asked excitedly.

“Addilyn.  Addilyn Whitmore.”  Chloe’ said, beaming with pride.

“Hello Addilyn.  I’m Rowan your big sister.”

After much coddling and cooing, they finally put Addilyn to bed.  Chloe’ laid down on her bed in a heap, exhausted from all that had occurred that day.  Rowan came into her Mother’s room and covered her up with a blanket.  She sat down on the bed next to Chloe’, thinking things over.  Even though they seemed to buck heads over everything, she still loved her Mom.  Hopefully now her Mom would finally grow up and start being more responsible.  But Rowan could only hope.

Later that evening, after everyone was asleep, Rowan got up and crept into her little sister’s bedroom.  Looking down on Addilyn, Rowan smiled.  So much happiness had begun to flood into her life.  It was such an odd feeling to be so happy.  Addilyn cooed at Rowan and lifted her small hands to reach for her.  Rowan placed her hand on her sisters.  She wrapped her tiny hand around one of Rowan’s fingers.

“Don’t worry.  I won’t ever let anything bad happen to you.  No matter what.”  Rowan promised Addilyn solemnly.  Addilyn responded back by squealing happily.

The following morning Chloe’ woke up earlier than usual.  She entered her bathroom and studied her reflection.  Although she was nearing middle age, she still dressed risqué most the time.  She knew that her choice of clothing had been bothering Rowan for quite some time. “Why can’t you just grow up and act like a real Mom?  You dress like your fourteen but your almost forty.  It’s so embarrassing!” Rowan’s words echoed in Chloe’ s head as she scrutinized herself.  With that she decided it was time for a change in her life.

Rowan agreed to watch her sister as her Mom went out downtown.  Chloe hailed a taxi and headed straight for the spa.  After many hours of primping, styling and tweaking, Chloe’ emerged from the building.  She took a quick look at her new reflection in the store window.  The new Chloe’ starred back at her vacantly.  Chloe’ scanned her eyes over her new facade.  The woman in the window seem so perfect.  Hopefully she would be able to live up to her new look.

Ok, my first created Sims reaches its 5th generations already. So i created a new Sim to extend the branch to a new root. check this out!

Enjoying his retirement (forgot if its a 3rd or 4th gen. sim. lol) =]

This is my 2nd created Sim to follow the path of Military (i named him Steven Chanezon).

My Mayor Sim (a 3rd Generation from my 1st created sim) and Steven Chanezon when he was a Squad Leader. Steven marries the Mayor’s Grandchild (5th generation).

Steven in The Sims 3 World Adventure – Egypt =]

By the way, Steven is now an Astronaut, he reached it when he was an Elder. He have 2 children is currently following the path of Music Career.

This is two of my favorite screenshot. Its my 5th generation Sim (the child) with his 4th generation Uncle (the uncle has no wife). Click the image for the actual size.

This is my first special seed, the Flame Fruit. if eaten, sims will have the “warmed” moodlet (by the way, this man is one of these 3rd children in this picture).

Yes. I’ll start with my 3rd generation sims. ain’t they’re cute? =]

Last weekend, when all of the east coast was under a gazillion feet of snow, I spent much of my time reading Sims 3 legacies. Seems to me, most get bored with them around generation 4 or 5. There are loads and loads of half-finished legacies just sitting out there like the preserved remains of Pompeii, like their story just stopped for no good reason. Or maybe the authors had good reason. I don’t know. Probably they bought World Adventures before it was debugged and their neighborhoods turned into weird blue meshes. Whatever. My point is, when I stumble onto an abandoned legacy, I always feel a little sad. And also, merlot ROCKS. It’s warm and cherry and warm. MERLOT FOR THE WIN!

I bring this up–not the merlot, but the other stuff–because I’m at that point now, with the Modelas. Halfway through, and feeling the pressure. The pressure to take what’s been done 4 times over and make it interesting. Pressure to find new things to do within the game. Pressure to get out of my Sims 3 comfort zone and try something new. Pressure to…ooh, nova lox is yummy in my tummy with some cream cheese and thyme and little ikura caviars on a Triscuit.

Onward! To the update!

(Note: I was going to do this update entirely in LOLspeak because it seemed like a good idea with the warm and the cherry and the warm, but I can’t see my computer screen all that well right now, so I’m scrapping it. English is hard enough without making it more harder.)

This dude is Joe Pike. Mollie Sue met him in the park, and as you can see, they got real friendly real fast.

And look at that red hair!!  Their children, while not in line to become legacy heirs, will be gorgeous.

In an effort to milk every experience out of the game, Mollie Sue and the Pikester decided to have a destination wedding.

They were married at Summer Hill Springs on Week 17, Day 5, in front of some of Mollie Sue’s family and a random sim no one knew who crashed the party for no good reason.

In case you’re wondering, no one died.

That I know of.

Joe Pike’s lifetime want is to become a World Renowned Surgeon, so his first act as a Modela was to get on with the skillin’.

Joe Pike says:  I are logic sim.  This are logic book.

Hee!

Katarzyna, on the other hand, is huge beyond belief and does little more than complain about her aching back.

But I guess that’s what happens when your life’s aspiration is to be a home-wrecking unwed mother.  No offense to any home-wrecking unwed mothers out there.  I’m just saying.

On the plus side, she did master her guitar skill, and is only 1 skill point away from mastering her charisma, and therefore her lifetime want.  She also secured an heiress for generation 5.

Catie Modela was born on Week 17, Day 6, at 1:33 PM.  Catie was named after America’s Next Top Model cycle 2 contestant Catie Anderson, who was best known for being an overly-emotional drama queen.  Catie’s skills are virtuoso and artistic. Her favorites are electronica, hot dogs, and lime green.  Welcome to the legacy, Catie.

After Catie was born, I put Katarzyna to work tinkering with various electronic devices.

I was hoping she would either die from electrocution or catch fire, but sadly, neither of those things happened.  She did manage to gain 5 handiness skill points, though, so not all was lost.

(If you’re wondering what’s going on in the background, that’s Mollie Sue and Joe Pike trying for a lullaby.)

Isis got a part-time job at the EverFresh grocery store.

And no one cared.

Kasey Kahne I, who’d somehow been left behind at Summer Hill Springs the night before, aged into a very blond toddler.

So far he’s learned to walk, talk, and go potty.  Now if only he’d learn to put a shirt on…

No pictures of Elyse this week (whaaaaaat?!), but after days and days and days of waiting, there was finally a Kevin Harvick ghost sighting.

About time!  I was beginning to think I’d have to call up Chip Coffey and tape ping-pong balls to my eyes in order to get him to show his pretty little ghost face.

Which I might do anyway, now that I think about it.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Family reunion time!!

Melrose, now a young adult, is looking rather surly.

Jael, also a young adult, is no longer strangling herself at random.  (Good job, Jael.)

Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, and Melrose (again)

Tom Petty’s rear end.

Tom Petty, from the front this time.

I know what you’re thinking.  BORING.  And you’re right.  But things got really interesting when Dexter Morgan stopped in for a chat, and then died.

As you can see, Juan Pablo was unmoved.

He didn’t feel that way, however, when Melrose keeled over for no good reason.

At first I thought maybe she had passed out after seeing Dexter’s ghost (sims sometimes do that, you know).  Then I realized two things:

a)  Melrose had just entered the house, so she hadn’t actually seen Dexter’s ghost, and

b)  Everyone else around her was crying.

Now, I’m not sure what exactly happened to Melrose.  She wasn’t in the household, so it’s not like I could see how her needs were doing.  But my theory is that she was dangerously low on food, and when she saw the ghost of Dexter Morgan, it depleted whatever was left and she starved to death.

Which is actually very sad, when you think about it.

Unfortunately, Dexter and Melrose weren’t the only Modela guests who kicked the bucket this week.  While mourning the loss of Melrose, Kevin Harvick died of old age.

What a sad, sad day.

Oh well.

A few days later, Katarzyna and Mollie Sue aged up to young adults.

Katarzyna added the Family Oriented trait and secured her lifetime want to have Golden Fingers, Golden Tongue

Mollie Sue added the Angler trait, and secured her lifetime want to be Surrounded by Family.

Since Katarzyna won the fan vote to become the heiress, she spent the next two days preparing for her duties.  The preparation included, but was not limited to, working on her charisma and guitar skills, studying handiness, and getting knocked up.

Katarzyna’s baby daddy turned out to be a guy named Keon, who just so happened to be her then-boyfriend’s older brother.  And let me just tell you, Katarzyna very nearly became the first heiress to have forfeited her title for failure to conceive.  Lucky for Katarzyna, she got a lullaby on the fourth try.

You’re probably wondering at this point why there isn’t a photo from Keon and Katarzyna’s wedding.  And the reason for that is because they aren’t married.  Or rather, they aren’t married to each other.  Part of this reason is because it didn’t feel right to tie Katarzyna down to just one guy, but the other biggie is that Keon is already married to a woman named Suzanne, with whom he already has four children.

Iiiinteresting…

Mollie Sue spent her free time doing what she does best–fishing and gardening.

As of this update, she’s half a skill point away from maxing out her fishing skill.  After that, she’ll begin looking for a viable partner with whom she’ll most likely start working on her lifetime want of raising 5 (FIVE!!) children from toddler to teen.  I guess I could go the Katarzyna way with Mollie Sue and make her a single mom, but in the same way it didn’t feel right to tie Katarzyna down, it doesn’t feel right to deny Mollie Sue her right to ignorant wedded bliss.

But before that happens, I’ll need to make room in the household.  Not an easy feat, considering Elsye is still squeezin’ out younguns.

Kasey Kahne I was born on W17 D3 @ 2:22 PM.  He rolled the traits Excitable and Brave, and I don’t know anything about his favorites because I forgot to write them down.  Whoopsie.

I am curious, though, to see how different Kasey looks compared to his sisters, though.  (Remember, his father is Buddy the Maid, not Duncan the Former Immortal.)

Isis aged up to teen on W17 D4, and finally–FINALLY!–resigned her title as fugliest Modela.

Upon aging up, Isis rolled the Evil trait, which should make her more interesting, but won’t make her more important.  Sorry, Isis.  You’re still expendable.

Phew!

That’s all the updates I have so far.  I’ll probably round out the end of Week 17 tomorrow, and then do a holiday-themed family reunion on Thursday.  I’m taking bets on who will die this week.  Will it be the young Harry Potter?  Jimmie Johnson?  Juan Pablo?  Maybe Buddy the Maid or Keon Whateverhisnameis?  Leave your guesses in the comments!

That night as Rowan slept, she couldn’t stop thinking of Joshua.  In her dreams, that night had played out completely different.  Instead of running from the fear of getting hurt, she had stayed on that Pier.  Stayed with Joshua.  As he leaned forward to kiss her, she did not recoil, but embraced it.  They had stayed locked in each others arms until the dawning sun broke over them.

Rowan sat up suddenly in her bed.  She was surprised to be in her own room.  The dream had been so vivid, so real.   With her hand she touched her lips.   She could still feel the sensation of Joshua’s lips on her own.  In that moment Rowan realized how huge of a mistake she had made.  Joshua had been there, by her side, for years.  And now to hurt him like she did, was unforgivable.

The morning sun beamed through Rowan’s windows.  Wearily she opened her eyes and sat up on her bed.  She knew what needed to be done.  All she needed was the courage to do so.  Breathing out a heavy sigh, she nervously dialed Joshua’s number.  It rang for what seemed like eternity before he finally answered.

“Hey.”  Joshua said with a depressed voice.

“Hey.”  She answered back, even more depressed than him.  “Meet me at Look Out Rock…I need to talk to you about last night.”

“OK.  Give me Five minutes and I’ll be there.”

Rowan hung up the phone and got ready as quickly as she could.  As she neared their hang out spot, she could see that Joshua was already waiting.  Its now or never, she thought to herself, knowing that this was her one and only shot at fixing things with him.  She walked up and stood in front of him.  Almost in tears, she was searching for the right words to say.  But she didn’t even fully understand why she did what she did, how was she going to explain it to Joshua?

“I’m sorry about leaving so suddenly last night.”  Rowan finally managed to say.

“Aww, its alright.  I shouldn’t have tried to, you know.”  He said looking away with embarrassment.

“No, I wanted you to kiss me! Its just that I’m scared … and  I don’t want to loose you…” She replied.  Rowan was shocked of her own boldness.  Joshua reached his hands forward and pulled her in close to him, happy that she reciprocated his feelings.  This time Rowan fought the urge to slip away again.  She knew she loved him, she had since the first day they had met.  She starred up into his gorgeous blue eyes and smiled tenderly at him.  Rowan could feel her heart beating faster the closer she came to him.

“Now, let’s try this again.”  Joshua said suggestively.  He leaned forward to kiss her.  As their lips met, everything around them faded away.  Until all that was left was them.

THE SHORT VERSION

Do you like shelling out your hard-earned money for products that are broken, only to find the outsourced customer service department isn’t going to help you and just runs you in circles pounding friendly-sand up your butt?  OK, if you LIKE that sort of thing, buy an EA Games product. Otherwise, JUST SAY NO TO EA GAMES.

THE LONG VERSION

We bought The Sims 3 – for a system trunning XP, it has 3GB of RAM, a Radeon 4350 (pixel shading 4.1, 512MB RAM), on a 2.9Ghx Athalon X2 245.  That is more than enough juice to run this game.  All drivers up to date, BIOS up to date, and even with every service possible stopped and every non-critical process stopped, the game won’t run.  I ran the EA game troubleshooter and sent the file to EA view their help system.  It has been a month, and they still won’t answer our original question… 

First, they started by ignoring the question for almost a week

Second, after sitting in a queue for 30 minutes, I gave them the ticket # and they told us to do all the stuff we already had. Then they asked for a DXDiag report.  I sent that.

Third, they opened a SECOND ticket, and in the first ticket they replied “it looks like you have 2 tickets, you need to close one.”  I kid you not. This REALLY happened. THAT was supposed to be their response!

Fourth, I threaten them with a charge back and demanded a response. They replied the next day asking us to do all the things they’ve already asked us to do (and I had already tried before).  I reply, highly frustrated and ask them:

We've done all that (your link is wrong, fyi - the XP and 2000 list of services are reversed).

The game has never played. The farthest it gets is requesting us to select a neighborhood. After clicking the neighborhood, it loads for a few seconds, then hangs for a few seconds, then the GUI disappears without an error.

* Is there a log file we can send you?
* Did you see anything in the files you've asked us to send (direct x report, or ea game report)?
* Are there any known issues with iPhone, or other specific devices conflicting with the game?
* Are there any known issues with our graphics card (ASUS/Radeon EAH-4350 which supports Pixel Shader ver 4.1 and has 512MB RAM)?

Fifth, I tried twice, waiting over 30 minutes each time, to do the chat thing again – but magically, at the “6-8 minutes left” marker, the chat would switch to “this chat has been disconnected.” 

Sixth, they ignore me, so I flame them, tell them I am doing a charge back and announcing to the world how horrible they are.  I am making good on that with this post!

The votes are in, and the generation 4 heiress is…

Katarzyna Modela

Katarzyna!!!

Despite my better efforts to sway y’all toward Mollie Sue, Katarzyna won the most votes, and therefore will be the Gen 4 heiress.

Which is fine, I guess.  I mean, it’s not like nobody liked Katarzyna when she was a kid because she had stupid hair, or anything, right?  Because no one is that shallow, right?  So it won’t matter if the stupid hair comes back when she turns young adult, right?

I didn’t think so.

Ron finally showed up on Week 16, Day 4.

And guess what?  He brought Duncan with him!

Aww.

Unfortunately, after 3 nights, Duncan was still in too bad of a mood to spawn a little ghost baby.  I guess the bad mood came from the being dead part, but I can’t be sure.  What needs can a ghost have?

Not wanting to get Elyse into the same mess she was in with Bubba, I decided she’d look for a sperm donor this time instead of a husband.

Gasp!

Shock!

A quick overview of her relationships spotted one potential donor–Buddy the Maid.

They wasted no time getting down and dirty in Elyse’s new double bed, and after they’d secured the appropriate lullaby sound, it was back to work for Buddy.

Stop looking at me like I’m a horrible person.  I’m not the one who wanted a boy, okay?

Mollie Sue’s garden is still KICKING ASS!

Unfortunately, it’s getting a bit cramped in the garden, what with all the headstones littering up the joint, so as soon as these plants die out, Mollie Sue will be moving her garden to a space outside that has yet to be built.

With her gardening skill maxed out, and her fishing skill approaching level 9, I had Mollie Sue trek to the graveyard and pluck a death flower from the death flower bush.

Creepy!

I loves it!

I’m not sure how long a death flower bush takes to grow, but it will nice to have Gen 4 and above keep their own death flower in their inventory, just in case something should happen.

Katarzyna has maxed out her logic and has lately been working away at her guitar skillin’.

Here she is playing at Jimmie Johnson’s house across town, where she went after school to do homework with Martin.

She’s also begun dating boyfriend #4, Igor Somethingorother, and boyfriend #5, Harry Potter.

There was a slight miscommunication when inviting Harry Potter over, since there are two Harry Potters.  Fortunately, the miscommunication is not likely to happen again, because once the older Harry Potter arrived at Casa Modela, he died.

Igor, Old Harry, Young Harry

Am I the only one who’s noticed that the Modelas can’t have a party without someone dying?  Freaky!

Isis aged up to child 2 days early, because she’s–let’s face it–just not important.

She also rolled the Insane trait.  Good for you, Isis.

That’s it for Week 16!  Week 17 starts off with a bang, so be sure to check back!

And congratulations to Katarzyna, official gen 4 heiress!  Let’s hope she doesn’t screw it up by having all boys!

Have you voted for the Gen 4 heiress yet?

Because there’s only one day left, and Mollie Sue needs your votes!

(Unless you’re voting for Katarzyna, in which case, she needs your votes, too!)

When we last left the Modela house, Duncan had died and Elyse had gotten remarried to some guy named Bubba (his real name is Graham, but he looks like a Bubba to me).  Since she aged to adult around that same time, I can only explain her behavior as being a mid-life crisis.  I say this because less than 2 days after getting married, Elyse got bored with Bubba and satisfied a want to break things off.

Look!  I figured out how to get sound on my videos!

At first, the split seemed abrupt, not unlike the marriage itself.  Then I saw this while I was going through my screencaps, and it all made sense:

Bubba says:  ”I sure do like me some llamas.”

Llamas aside, that grunting sound you heard was pretty much the only sound Bubba ever made, so I’m not too sad to see him go.  For what it’s worth, no one else seems too broken up about it, either.

Later that night, Joanie’s made another surprise visit.

And she wasn’t alone.  Twiggy and Carlos showed up, too.

Twiggy, workaholicking from beyond the grave

Carlos, shaking his groove thang in the backround

Still no sign of Duncan or Ron, but I figure they’ll materialize sooner or later.

In other news, according to Indie Stone, Juan Pablo and Cathy (Cathy??  What happened to Lily??) are expecting, and Richard Petty Modela got canned.  So very bittersweet.

Katarzyna is now 3/10 on the boyfriends front:

Boyfriend #1:  David Wan

Boyfriend #2:  Don Ford  (He has Monkee hair!)

Boyfriend #3:  Jereme Alvi

She now spends 75% of her time staring at herself in a mirror, so I guess you could consider Katarzyna her own fourth boyfriend.  Probably she’ll end up marrying either Jereme or David for their features, though I doubt she’ll ever be a monogamous sim.

Mollie Sue’s garden is coming along quite nicely.

I say that every time, don’t I?  That her garden is “coming along quite nicely”?  What I really mean is…

MOLLIE SUE’S GARDEN KICKS ASS.

There, I said it.  I love gardening.  I love harvesting.  I don’t care that it takes 8-10 hours a day.  I think it’s cool.  Mollie Sue’s latest wants are to grow flame fruit and death flowers, which is also cool.  A trip to the graveyard is definitely in order.

I’m actually starting to get kind of worried for Mollie Sue.  Even though she’s not a loner sim, she takes absolutely no pleasure in being around others.  She’s pretty happy just talking to her garden and fishing in the patch of lake I put outside for late-night expeditions.  She kind of reminds me of Kiki, Julia Roberts’ character in America’s Sweethearts, the lesser-than sister of the super-popular Katarzyna.  Which reminds me…

GO VOTE FOR MOLLIE SUE YOUR CHOICE OF GENERATION IV HEIRESS!!!

Isis aged to toddler on W16 D4, and I refrained from putting her in that unfortunate curly bob, a la Felicity season 2.

I can’t explain my apathy toward Isis except that I just don’t care for her.  There were times I had Elyse leave the house only to have the pop-up box that Isis couldn’t be left alone.  And when that happened, I was always like, “Who the hell is Isis?”

And then I remembered, oh yeah, she’s the one I don’t care about.

It’s actually kind of sad, when you think about it.

Regardless, Isis has learned to walk and talk.  Tomorrow she’ll learn to go potty and then get started on the peg box.  Whatever.  She’s a spare.  Nobody cares.

So far, I’ve played up to Week 17, D2, and what’s coming next is a doozie (especially the next family reunion!).  If you haven’t already, you can subscribe to the updates via RSS or email by clicking the buttons on the lower right-hand side of this here webpage.

And don’t forget to vote for Mollie Sue!

Man, I haven’t posted in a million years.

Friday was the last day of school, and we basically did nothing particularly educational (or meant to be educational) except for the French test, which I flunked because I forgot that to be in passé composé is été.

O_O

Anyway, in the morning we had to make up 15-minute skits about mysteries, and ours was extremely random, but pretty awesome all the same (THE TERMINATOR). We also handed out Secret Santa presents–Edil got me, I should have known!–and Xuechun was surrounded by mounds of paper because of me and my envelopes. Teehee.

Lunch, however, kind of sucked because Mr. Chiang had promised us a BBQ since we missed the concert party on Wednesday (field trip), but he didn’t show up (-_-), so Caitlin and I bought fries and basically stood in line all lunch period. They were sucky fries too. >.>

Ah well. I didn’t let that spoil my mood. In gym class we had a Fantastic Friday for the first time in ages, and in Geography with Mr. King (again) we didn’t do any work (again) and instead played CatchPhrase–the godliest game EVER. Even though we kept losing.

Then before we knew it, it was last period (Science), and Ms. Western had announced a surprise fire drill to clean us out of the school (o_O <-my confusion on her part), and we were all just hanging around doing almost nothing. You know what that means…

HUGGING SPREE!

So we gave out hugs, and we had the fire drill, and we went home.

HIP HIP HURRAY!

What, in case you’re wondering, did I do during my first WINTER BREAK WEEKEND?

Nothing. Practically.

I played The Sims 3, and I finished two books and started two more, and I did some shopping, and I went to art class and messed up my painting, and I talked to Andi and SingYu on MSN, and I decorated my tree, and I talked to my cousin on the phone, and I daydreamed, and I sat through church, and I walked in the snow, and I dropped stuff.

But I did nothing.

(By nothing, I mean nothing of importance. Tomorrow I’m cleaning my room though–like MAJORLY cleaning, since it’s basically a war zone–so I guess that counts for something. And on Tuesday I’m watching Avatar with a bunch of people, so yeah, that should be fun.)

(My life is so boring.)

SONG OF THE DAY: True Colours by Cyndi Lauper

P.S. All the snow is MELTING! Where’s it going??????????????????

Anyone who knows me, knows that I love The Twilight Saga & I love The Sims 3.  That’s right, I said it.  I’m waving my nerd girl fan card hardcore.

So, imagine my surprise as I was flipping through my current issue of People Magazine which is for their 25 Most Intriguing People and I saw their feature on pop culture through the world of TS3.  OK, that was cool.  But then, look who was featured!!!

I will scan the 2-page artwork and post when I can, but my scanner is being a moron today.  So, yay technology!  In the meanwhile, I found an image of Edward and Bella from Twilight Examiner.

Besides Edward and Bella, you’ll also find Alice Cullen (Ashley Green) and Emmett Cullen (Kellan Lutz).  Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift are also included for their upcoming movie, Valentine’s Day and the Harry Potter group are also present, as well.  But the list doesn’t stop there, there’s more!

From The Sims 3:

We have exciting news coming out of The Sims Studio! The Sims made history with a two-page feature in the coveted People Magazine special year-end issue which is their best-seller each year (2 million+ copies sold). Available on newsstands now, the editorial feature highlights pop culture trends over the last decade from Reality TV and Tweens to Party Girls and Celebrity Babies. The Tween section features a “Simified” illustration of the hottest celebrities from popular brands such as Twilight, Harry Potter, and High School Musical.

Special Thanks:  Twilight Examiner [Photo]