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Last night I finished up my latest project for the Sims 3 and uploaded it to MTS, so it should be ready for download within a day or two. I went to my sister's house earlier and helped her tear out her kitchen cabinets so that they could get the new ones installed. Of course who knows how long it'll be before that actually happens. Now she's got no kitchen and basically just a fridge with which to feed her four hungry children.

Anyway, it was really fun demolishing the cabinets. I got to work out some aggression and such. Until you've used a sledgehammer to bust a bunch of cabinets into little tiny pieces you won't know how therapeutic it can be. I wish I could do that at least once a week, even though I did minorly injure myself. I have a booboo on one of my knuckles. I scraped it on something.

After we were finished with that I started reading one of my niece's books. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. I read through the whole thing in one sitting. I absolutely could not put it down from the moment I picked it up. She's got a very easy style of writing to read. Minimalistic in detail but gives you enough to really picture what's happening in the book. With the minimalistic detail it keeps the book moving very quickly and I really felt more like I was watching a movie than reading a book. It was that engrossing. Enough detail to let your mind's eye picture what's happening, but not to much to bog down the flow of the story. The second book in this alleged trilogy will be out in September and I'll be hungrily waiting for more. If you've ever enjoyed reading anything, I would highly recommend giving it a go. It's considered Young Adult, but makes for nice light reading if you are an adult.

Now I just need to decide what will be next on my list of priorities; another Legacy chapter or more lowrise bottom wear for the sim guys out there.

So I was in the bathroom earlier, and I suddenly realized that that's the only time I ever spend any quality time with my cat, Hazelnut. Yes, it's odd, but whenever I'm using the bathroom, she'll come scratching at the door until I let her in. She's just over 2 years old now, and she used to be practically attached to my lap whenever I was sitting at my computer. This stopped basically once we moved from Owings Mills to Aberdeen. Occasionally she'll come and sit with me, curl up on my lap or snuggle herself in my sweater. But for the most part, she really only ever wants to be around me when I'm sitting on the toilet.. which I find most odd, but I guess you take what you can get, eh.. even if it is rather inappropriate. Of course, what do you really expect from a cat? Oh, and speaking of inappropriate, when she was still rather small, if she was on your lap and you were petting her, she would push up your shirt so that she could suckle on your belly.. while digging her claws into you. We rescued her and Troy from the Baltimore County animal shelter, and I have a feeling she might have been separated from her mother at too young of an age. I remember the people at the shelter said they estimated her age at 4 months when we got her, and I'm not sure how long she was in there.. long enough to have been euthanised had I not shown up that day, apparently, but I still have no idea how long that is. She used to be simply fascinated by water. We had a leaky faucet in the bathroom when we first moved in, and she would hop up on the sink's edge in the bathroom or the counter in the kitchen and watch the water drip, occasionally batting at it. I think her biggest thing was trying to figure out where it was coming from. Of course now we can't even get water from the bathroom sink, which means I have to go all the way around to the kitchen to clean my hands when I'm done whatever I'm doing in the bathroom.

In other news, I reinstalled AwesomeMod. I saw a few new options in the configuration setup thinggy, so I loaded up the save game where I spent so much time getting my simself and his manslaves to perfect the art of staying young and beautiful before I installed Indie Stone. I had my simself quickly train one of his manslaves in the Athletics and Logic skill. I was shocked and amazed that being trained on the weight lifting machine, using the highest workout mode possible resulted in him maxing his athletics skill in 24 hours. I guess that means.. I don't know what that means.. I'll have to run some more tests later. in any event, once that was taken care of I started tutoring him in Logic skill, which he got up to a fairly high level before I cheated him up to lvl nine in the Evil criminal Career track. Finally the day came where he would get promoted to Emperor of Evil. (And it took long enough too, since he got arrested twice in two nights, and then had two nights off) But unfortunately, instead of getting promoted to Emperor of Evil, he simply got a raise. so I uninstalled AwesomeMod, because, honestly, I don't think it's awesome at all.

Welcome back, Fair Reader, to Aaroc's Nunya Non-Legacy!

As we left off last time, Emma, our Generation 2 Heiress, had befallen a few misfortunes, invited Susie Broke to move in with her, and continued to have steamy dreams about her late husband Larry.

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Hello and Welcome back to Learning With Aaroc.

Today's test has to do with Skilling based on mood levels and how they stack with the Library Skilling Bonus.

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Hello and Welcome back to Aaroc Sims. today I do not have a Legacy entry, but instead I have the first installment in a section I'm going to call "Learning with Aaroc."

Today's test has to do with the bonuses from gaining skills at the gym or library versus learning at home. The results may surprise you. I know that I was certainly surprised by my findings.

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Welcome back, Fair Reader, to Aaroc's Nunya Non-Legacy!

As we left off last time, Emma, our Generation 2 Heiress, had moved out on her own, gotten married to an unfortunate man, and had two children, Joanna and Laura.

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Yeah, me too. Unfortunately duet o my game crashing I lost a lot of stuff the other day. Ally had nearly completed her Music Skill Challenge Point, Lydia had completed her Logic skill challenge Point. Rayven had completed his Athletics Skill Challenge Point. Faust and Feralas had become teenagers and were scoping out potential spouses. Then all of the sudden my game froze up and Windows kicked it. I hadn't saved all day while playing and achieving all those points (From now on I'm going to save and save often, mind you) Elly was actually closing in on her Fishing and Gardening Skill Challenge Points. Plus she had gotten the opportunity to grow meat plants.

Since the crash, I haven't played my family much. It's a bit depressing, but I'm coming along and getting a few pictures. I just now went to post an entry, only to find that I didn't have enough content to make an update. It's still early though, and hopefully I'll be able to get something out today.

At least this time around I have a bit more knowledge about playing for tips in the park, and will be able to get Ally closer to her Charisma Skill Challenge Point sooner than I did last time. Still bummed out, however.