( The Mackenzie Legacy : 2.1 )

Okay, so...

Yesterday afternoon my sister loaded up FreeTime and discovered every single one of her neighborhoods was missing, and the only thing on the 'hood chooser was the option to create a new neighborhood. I didn't have time to look at it then, because I had somewhere to be.

So, today I went to try and help her and see if there was anything to be done, but apparently while I was gone my dad tried to help her with her vanishing hoods, and while he's pretty computer savvy, he doesn't really know much about TS2. So, apparently they did all kinds of experiments with moving things in and out of the My Documents/EAGames/TS2/Neighborhoods folder (because the files were apparently all still there, they just weren't showing up in the game) and making backups and such. They ended up renaming the hood folders, that is like F001 and G001 and N003 and all those, to the actual names of the hoods.

Now, I was under the impression that doing this is Very Bad, and once you've renamed them once, the game won't recognize them. Is this true? If we renamed "Pleasantview" back to "N001", would that do anything? Or is there really nothing else to do but reinstall and start fresh at this point? I mean, I had a few things in mind to try and fix the vanishing hood problem, but if this renaming thing has already really screwed things up...

We have all the EPs, as well as Family Fun, Glamour Life, and Celebration. I wish I could be more specific, but as this is my sister's computer and her game, I'm in the dark about a lot of it. She says the only things she's downloaded since her last successful session is maybe a few outfits and some hairs. I've done the usual searches of the Wiki, and the comm archives, and Google. Sorry if any part of this post is unclear; it's been a long weekend and I am way too tired to really be dealing with this now.

but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.

Although I am not Christian, I find this a very deep and true comment... 

From the film Kingdom Of Heavan

Hello All!

If you're as bananas about this new movie coming out, then you've definitely checked out the XF2 promotional banners at Cannes on www.xfilesnews.com .

I have to say, when I saw the slogan on the big banner ("To find the truth, you must believe") I couldn't help but think back to an article on the new movie in the summer preview edition of Entertainment Weekly:

" And Carter — a former skeptic who's got more ''faith that it's not all meaningless'' these days — cites influences like string theory and the work of religious scholar Huston Smith, saying a phrase from one of Smith's lectures actually ''became'' the movie.(fans start Googling)"

So I did, and I came up with this:

“In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.”- huston smith

To quote our fav Fox Mulder, "I think we've found our smoking gun." But I also have my reservations.
What do you think?
Has anyone else taken on the EW mandate and sought out THE quotation?
I'd love to get feedback on this.

mods, do with this what you must ;)

Yes that's right. It's a LaRough update.

Well, it seems that the college pics got lost in the shuffle of life. I have no idea where they are. Most likely deleted.

Anyways, quick recap: Hope, Faith and Connor all went to college where I debated who would be heir. Youngest daugther Grace decided she didn't want college and married soon after adulthood. Connor and Faith became my first EVER double heirs. I loved Hope and her twin, Grace, but they really were an accident. I was already happy and torn with the first two; Connor and Faith.

Household: Gen 7 heir Elijah and wife Autumn.
Gen 8 heirs Connor and Faith with husband Braison

Oh and this is not going to be narrated. Mostly comment based.


Let the story continue.


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1. Working on my 'draining brains' lit review. Keep finding new stuff.
Hmmph.

ETA: Freakin' foreign people can't write their freakin' reports in freakin' English.

2. Would anybody give a damn about Ackles and Padalecki if they weren't pretty?

I'm trying out this facebook application made by SixApart that allows the user to post to multiple blogs from one easy interface.

Lets see how well it works!

Today I sat down to meditate for the first time in my life. It was quite a humbling experience. I began my meditation thinking "I'll star slow...maybe 30 minutes".
Ha.
Ha.
HA.
I was able to keep deep-concentration for all of 12 minutes. I am sure I will able to expand on my ability to focus a little bit more each day, and am sure it is something that comes with time and patience.
For others that meditate, I have a few questions:
- do you use a mantra or sit with a focus?
- do you sit cross legged or kneeling..does it matter?
- do you have to sit for a certain amount of time for it be "effective" or is that highly personal?

Also, I noticed some strange sensations when I was on the brink of really being focused (I never got fully engaged, fully focused. Something prohibited me from going very far). First, I felt almost a vaccum sensation, rather than a sense of "letting go". I felt that I was "pulling in" instead. I also became conscious that my head was nodding. I wouldn't notice I was doing it at first..I would experience a "drawing in" sensation, then snap out of it and become hyper aware of my surroundings again...sounds, smells, and my body. How do I go past this self-consciousness and go deeper into my meditations? What is this block that snaps me into awareness and out of my concentration?

Hi guys, I'm Sera, 29 and I live in London (the UK one!). It's taken me ages to create a final 101 Things list but here it is in all its glory and I've actually already completed one thing! (I should have posted the list before I went on holiday but didn't get around to it. I wonder how much of a challenge this project is going to be?!)

( My 101 Things )

So! I gave up pop 12 days ago. For the first few days some of my friends kept asking me how I felt, physically. Honestly, I hadn't felt really different at all.

It isn't really until today that I think I feel differently. I realized two days ago that my internal clock seems to be much more right-on with regards to waking up at a decent hour. I generally have energy to get through the day now without the need for a nap. I still drink caffeine some mornings but its not even a requirement so that may be the next thing to go. I'll switch coffee with tea.

On the lines of life-changes... I'm meeting with Sarah Edmonson on Tuesday to start my new food lifestyle. We were supposed to meet yesterday but having a contagious throat infection put a damper on that. She and I are going over a shopping list, rules on what kinds of food to mix and what not (for instance, apparently one should never mix carbs and proteins! Sad Face at Sandwiches), and then a cooking lesson. In exchange I'll be teaching her more about her website. :)

I'm taking the "natural path" from here on out. I have no idea what that means, to be honest, but I think it means nothing white (i.e. white rice, white bread, white pasta) and lots of herbs. I'm switching my coffee cream out with almond milk.

My goal is to loose 25 lbs in three months. and then another 25 in 3, etc. until i get down to 145. Its only 100 pounds to loose! so that shouldn't take me more than two years... given that there likely will be failures. My first weight-in yesterday was 250.6. Go Team Tabby!

Simpsons Ride THIS is what they replaced the Back to the Future Ride with. :(

 

Title: Happiness in Slavery
Fandom: Blood Ties
Author: ruafair 
Character/Pairing: Henry/Vicki
Table: LAW AND ORDER
Prompt: #18 Imprison
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 100
Summary: warden and prisoner…
Notes: Title is from a ‘Nine Inch Nails’ song.
My Table

A batch of 40 icons from the episode 'Sonata'.....

All caps from dj_capslock
All other resources here...

Samples:



( and the rest are here... )

Please help yourself to any you may like.

Comments are appreciated and credit is always nice.

Fiona

Ok, hopefully I can explain this well enough without pictures. I'd take screen caps, but they all come out black. That may or may not be related to the problem.

In the CAS screen, in front of the canvas, it's very dark on one side and not as dark on the other. It's weird and makes some of my sims look like they're half one nationality and half another (literally, right side will be dark and left side will be light). At night, community lots are incredibly dark; even the ones that are inside and have a ton of lights. Lots other than the one I have my sim living on show up very shadowed, most noticeably when I have my sim drive to that lot. It's a little annoying and a lot ugly.

The only thing I can think of is that I downloaded a custom CAS a few months ago (things still worked afterward) and deleted it this past week. I don't know why deleting a custom CAS to revert back to the original one would do this, especially to community lots, but I don't know what else could have happened.

Any ideas and/or solutions? Thanks in advance. :o)

1. make the switch to mama cloth and divacup
2. make cloth wipes out of all old receiving blankets
3. potty train my daughter
4. read at least 1 book every 100 days (books with bright colors, pics, and rhyming words don't count!)so far so good, im on #1
5. start a mommy n me group with at least 5 members!
6. get a good stash of clay figures and purses/coordinating ready for sale
7. research how to start selling my goods and also how to start my own daycare
8. get all closets organized by next spring
9. talk less...i talk too much
10. quit getting drunk when i drink.
11. drink more water to ward off migraines
12. plant a tree
13. make Christmas fabric bags for wrapping instead of paper
14. convince husband to stop using paper towels
15. sign up for the site that stops junk mail so i can reduce waste and energy (recycling)
16. after completing 1, 2, 13, and 15...become a paperless household (except journals and kids art, which will be kept)
17. get a feung shuy (however its spelled) book and live it
18. keep trying to figure out non-digital photography
19. go on a trip alone with my husband...Hawaii, or Mexico, or Catalina, or an Alaska cruise, etc...
20. walk my kids to the park at least once a week in the sunny seasons
21. find an exercise video that i love and do it!
22. put a few streaks of pink in my hair...always wanted to do it, but afraid of the looks/comments from mother in law
23. don't worry so much what mother in law thinks! in progress as always
24. have "the talk" with my dad. tell him what i feel n think about him and what i want from him as a father/grandpa
25. become better friends with people who don't smoke or drink
26. stop smoking!!!!!
27. find a laundry organizing system that works...stick to it!
28. finish my family scrapbook...the white one, been working on it for 2 + years!
29. use my serger for the first time! if i dont do this within 1001 days, i must sell it!
30. learn how to speak spanish with my son...basics
31. take the kids to the library for book babies...or something like it
32. get a new shelf system for our extensive dvd collection...been trying this for a loong while
33. catalog all 250 dvd's
34. get current with ALL debts...start the DR get out of debt plan or whatever it is!
35. drive to huntington beach to see adams grandpa who has altzeimers
36. go to "green" sites and tell them to add cloth diapers/send message to al gore about adding cloth to his inconvenient truth  deal
37. switch to green power at PGE...i think its wind power in this area...
38. start our house savings account. i hate this rental!
39. start hosting the portland chapter of miracle diapers..
40. appropriately  thank alicia for getting me to cross the line from looking at cloth, to actually using it.
41. hike at least 1 time a month in spring/summer/early fall. so far we have gone 2 times in 2 months...once in apr, once in may
42. see jack johnson in concert
43. sponser a child overseas.
44. cut down our eating out for dinner to once or twice per month.  (, start out with once a week, go from there)
45. post in lj once a week at least
46. never throw away anything that i can recycle...mostly already do this, its a once in a while thing ill throw it out. but STOP!
47. volunteer at inside out, a homeless teen place. now that im not preggers this will be more attainable
48. get a hard drive just for my pictures
49. find alternatives to plastic bags for doggy dooty
50. switch from plastic foodware to metal/wood/glass(i did get sigg bottles for andrew n i for water)
51. get more plants in my house/garden
52. compost!!!!!!!!!!!!!
53. get my son to go to bed without us in there too!
54. set a schedule for kids and stick to it
55. start my own craft website...the chatty crafter!
56. finish my family website
57. pare down the furniture in my house.
58. collect all seasons of grey's anatomy and the office
59. start shopping at the portland co-op
60. donate 5% of all earnings from craft sales to a noble cause...
61. when i go to costco always get 1 thing for a food bank closet thing
62. no more buying boxed meals/sides. stay out of the center of the store!!!
63. have a reunion with all my ex co-workers from 3 years ago. we were really tight n i miss em lots!
64. no more smoking cigarettes   as of about a month ago!
65. start a habitat for humanity group and convince family to do that instead of x-mas gifts for each other
66. help people who need help, support people who need support, and don't for those who don't
67. accept things i cannot chance, change things i can change
68. NO JUDGING!!! im too guilty of that.
69. go on the polar express ride at the mt. hood railroad this x-mas time!
70. sponser a family at christmas every year
71. volunteer for extreme makeover:home edition next time its in oregon/wash/cali
72. cut out caffine
73. take a class for sewing/serging
74. learn at least one new dance
75. sing karaoke
76. start to finish my first attempt at an associates degree. (did 16 creds so far)
77. support my mom with her aa meetings, my bro too
78. quit taking advantage of my sister (free babysitting)
79. finish this list
80. get bigger diaper stash
81. finish knitting lolas pants
82. get membership to tha zoo for this year
83. go to atleast 3 summer on the lawn zoo concerts
84. meet unetortue
85. make clay figures for my ma friends  x
86. make a dress for t
87. make a dress for me
88. make dresses/purses for boomba toomba
89. be patient!
90. make baby shoes for shelter
91. donate old clothes
92. go to washington to see baby corey
93. go back to cali to see shannon and anniejo uncle bob
94. watch all of band of brothers
96. cut down andrews tv time
97. go to library or swim lessons for kids
98. dont get involved with friends drama
99. stay in ma..even if i slip
100. teach andrew how to read
101. go back to school and take a few classes

Hey everybody,

I know that a lot of us have goals that involved dabbling in vegetarianism, so I just wanted to let everyone know that it's National Vegetarian Week starting tomorrow. So, if you've got a goal to try to be a vegetarian for a week or a month, or even forever, no time to start like tomorrow. You might even find that some of your favorite veggie-friendly eating establishments are celebrating with you.

Good luck!

Hi all,

I am desperately seeking some advice. I cleaned my pig out on yesterday morning and notice there was a lack of poo compared to normal. (He's cleaned every other day). Since then he has produced maybe around 10 and all are small and nothing like the chunky ones he normal does. I've read about anal impaction in boys and that you can help them remove them, but I have no idea how to do this. I plan on taking him to the vets tomorrow but am worried that it may not be soon enough. If anyone has any advice I would be so grateful

Language Warning! This is written from the point of view of one of the patients & there will be swearing.
You have been warned =)
Enter the Asylum!

Part 1 - Pleasant Acres Asylum
Part 2 - Nina Sux
Part 3 - Fire & Brimstone
Part 4 - Lightning Crashes

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Just as my old laptop was going through its period of crashing every once in a while, I was able to save all the information from my Sims games (the EA Games folder in both the Program Files and in My Documents) onto my External Hard Drive. I had the Base Game up through Seasons (with just the H&M Fashion Stuff Pack), and loads of custom content.

Some of these EPs, though, have gone missing, and I'd like to get into playing on my new laptop sooner rather than later. I now only have Sims 2 Deluxe (Base Game and Nightlife), Open For Business, Seasons, and I recently bought Free Time (am missing Pets, University, and H&M Stuff). Is it possible for me to move over my custom content from the old games without causing major repercussions with the new games by having CC and game information for EPs that I don't have installed right now? Would it just be advisable for me to wait on introducing my CC and older game info after I reacquire my other EPs? (And yes, I have removed my mods and hacks for Free Time.)

Also, what kind of files/folders is it possible and/or necessary for me to transfer to the new laptop in order to not lose my old games? Is that even possible?