I got my first pass pages today! I’m really looking forward to sitting down with them and reading Some Girls Are as it looks as a book. The last time I did this with Cracked Up to Be, it felt like something had changed in the reading, but in a positive way.
Uhm, hopefully I will have the same experience this time around.
St. Martin’s Press put their Winter 2010 catalogs online! If you check out the St. Martin’s Griffin catalog, you can see the listing for Some Girls Are! It has a non-final version of the cover and the full plot summary (which I’ve also posted on my Some Girls Are page).
And that is about all that is new over here. Which only leaves A SIMS UPDATE! So much happens when you play this game for hours at a time.
I am dedicating this sim update to Annika.
SO ANYWAY, things are going well with my sim and Shirtless Sam. Now that they are married, they are living the life. Sam got paid $20,000 to streak at a party (did I mention he only has to work on like, the weekends? I KNOW). They fill their days talking about lewd acts involving handcuffs and slow-dancing in the living room with their hands positioned in inappropriate places. My sims are so in love.
Still, my sim really wanted to have a baby. It kept popping up in her aspiration meter. But I think we have established how I feel about raising sim children. After a lot of thinking and ultimately deciding I could always NOT save my progress if it didn’t work out, I decided my sims would adopt a child and see how it went, but not a baby, even though my sim wanted a baby (you can adopt a baby, toddler or child). So I built an extension onto the house.
I thought (and still think) it is HIDEOUS. It breaks up the beautiful layout I had going. So that wasn’t very promising. I already resent this kid and I haven’t even met it yet, right? Anyway, after the day-long wait (that is how long it takes to adopt a child in Simland), the adoption agency dropped off the latest addition to my sim family. It was a girl and her name was Caryl. Within like five minutes of arriving, she was already acting like a burdensome handful, making a mess of the fish tank and playing in said mess:
Our maid was APPALLED. She has just finished cleaning.
I wasn’t sure it was going to work out, to be honest. Also it was really hard to keep Caryl’s needs levels up AND make her do well in school. In fact, when her grades really started to slip, the game threatened to call social services on me (jerks).
AND when I invited her headmaster over for dinner to influence him and boost Caryl’s grades and send her to private school, he said that my sims were no good! Even though he had a grand time in the luv-tub out on the deck. Jackass. But that all happened later. Back to where I left off. So within five minutes of arriving, Caryl is a hellion and I am not sure I want to make her a permanent addition. Even though Caryl was adjusting well and seem to really like her new family, especially her new mom.
Aww. It didn’t carry enough weight with me to save my progress, though. Meanwhile, parenthood was wearing my sim down to the point she could not even eat the turkey dinner she slaved over in the kitchen without falling asleep IN that turkey dinner, so this also had to be taken into consideration when deciding whether or not Caryl could stay.
It didn’t seem very promising for Caryl.
BUT THEN! A BURGLAR HAPPENED! I mean, a burglar tried to rob our house.
Luckily, I had an alarm installed in our house so the police came before anything was taken.
BUT THE POLICE AND THE BURGLAR GOT INTO A HUGE FIGHT. It was very exciting.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get anymore exciting, CARYL CAME OUT AND CHEERED THE FIGHT ON.
And that was so freaking fierce of her, it was the moment I decided she could stay. I saved my progress. Anyway, the burglar was apprehended. Since then, Shirtless Sam and Caryl’s aspiration meters show them wanting to see the ghost of the burglar so uhm… I’m taking that to mean the police murdered the burglar. That is sad, but the police gave us some money as a reward for having a part in the burglar’s apprehension. Or for keeping our silence. I’m not so sure anymore.
Anyway, after about 7 days, Caryl became a teenager. I didn’t throw her a party, but I did cry a little. They grow up so fast.
I am going to be sending her off to college soon, and then I have to choose between demolishing her room or maybe making my sim have an actual baby, because having a baby is STILL in her wants and I guess I care about her happiness. But then I discovered that if male sims (but not female sims!) are abducted by aliens, they can become impregnated with an alien baby so maybe I will have that happen instead.
I’LL KEEP YOU POSTED.
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publication date
Wednesday August 19th, 2009 @ 10:32pm
892 words, 70 sentencesmeta stuff
categories: procrastination,some girls are (your mom)
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You crack me up! But OMG! I was at Sarah Rees Brennan’s website and someone has made CUSTOM Sims of The Demon’s Lexicon characters and I WANT THEM SO BAD!
(That said, my Sims computer is FUBAR and slow so I can’t play anymore. *sigh*)
I feel like I should say something witty or profound on account of this being dedicated to me but WHAT CAN I SAY.
Wow, she’s a teenager and she still kept that little play stove. I bet she takes the panda chair to college.
Your recap of your SIM life at present reminded me of when people get drunk and then recount events with newfound simultaneous detachment (meaning a lack of concern for the people’s actual well-being, treating them as mere characters, which in this case they are) and yet enthusiasm for the story happening at their expense.
That is to say, it was ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ.
I haven’t laughed that hard in days. I think I would love nothing more than to invite you over, make cookies, and listen to you recount things. Which is to say, tell stories. Which is what you already do. So pretty much, in the words of a tween girl in the elevator of a run-down hotel in Rapid City, SD: STAY AWESOME.
:)
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PS. That is what I get for writing a comment while tired and without any intention to actually re-read said comment in search of coherency.
Alien Baby! Alien Baby!
The SGA plot summary has me so hyper! Vicious and nasty…aaaaah! Must. Know. More.
I hope they put up the first chapter soon!
And male sims with an alien baby?? Whoah, that is some freaky stuff. Imagine Shirtless Sam with an alien kid! Personally, I’m hoping for an alien abduction now.
Trish: Awww! It is a tragedy when sims cannot be played. :(
Annika: That was witty and profound enough for this entry.
Sandmore: SHE DID.
Victoria: omg, bb. I LOVE YOUR COMMENT. It is my new wife. YOU stay awesome.
Briony: I KEEP TRYING. THEY WON’T TAKE HIM. WHYY.
C.K.: Eee! I am excited I finally got to share it! I hope they do too… I’m just dying to share the cover!!! I have been trying like mad to have an abduction happen. I might have to resort to a cheat…
Waaaah! (that was excited, not sad) I love the Sims 2! And I love your ongoing saga.
You may already know this, but did you know that if one of the parents helps the kidlet with their homework – all the way through – just once, homework will forever go faster after that, even when the kid does it on their own?
(That is, if your teen isn’t off to college yet.)
I am a Sims addict… Sims three is not as good as sims 2.
I hope your plague is over now! And you are enjoying working on your novel that you weren’t working on. I’m going to save the outlines post for tomorrow, when I’m more awake. It looks like it’s cool, or you’ve figured out a good process. (I’ve got my own novel that I keep going back to and not getting worked out. Just revisited it in June.)
Love the cover for Some Girls Are – hope it’s the final or the final is just as cool. The book sounds really good. Can’t wait to read it!
I remember Sims when there were no people …
Tori: Sims 2 rules! & I didn’t know that!!! The sim in question did go off to college, but now there are two more sim kids, so that will definitely come in handy. Thanks for the tip!
Sarah: Really?! I am so relieved because I keep wishing I had Sim 3 instead, as much as I am enjoying Sims 2.
Sruble: I’ve missed you! And welcome to Twitter! It’s good to hear from you again, I gots to say. The final cover of SGA is even better than what’s in the catalog, I promise. And I remember when there were no people in Sims too. Sigh, seems so long ago! :D
Two words: ALIEN BEBBE!
;)
SHE IS NOW AN ALIEN FRESHMAN IN COLLEGE!
I’ve missed you too Courtney! Soooo, you have lots to say? How about a guest post instead of an interview? You could talk about how your books would be different if they were populated by zombies in the Sims world. ;)
Hee! Are you sure that wouldn’t scare your readers away?! ;)
My readers would love your guest post! :)
sruble: I’m currently being crushed to death by my To-Do list but maybe at some point in the future? :)
The future’s so bright we gotta wear shades (Lady Gaga shades, of course). :P
Sorry, a little too much sugar tonight! The future would be great. Whenever it fits into your schedule, like maybe closer to the release date for Some Girls Are?
Ee! That would probably work out better. I will definitely be in contact. (THANK YOU FOR ASKING!!)