Happy New Year!
January 1, 2007Hi Everyone! I hope you had the best possible Christmas, and of course a wonderful New Year!
And…at last! My prayers were answered on Christmas Day! My dad insisted I try out the Festive Holiday Stuff Funpack (how could I refuse?), so we installed it and turned the game on. Guess what? My graphics were about 100x better. Yep, while I’d been away at my grandma’s house, he’d installed it for me, ready for Christmas Day. I didn’t fit in much playing (Christmas Day itself is family time), but for the past week I’ve just been enjoying building big lots with proper furnishings, without any blurry graphics or stumpy hands. It’s so wonderful…you can’t appreciate a good graphics card without having had two stinking ones before it. (BTW, it is a Nvidia 7600).
Now, for some sad news. My sister, wishing to check the card out after dad installed it (she was too sick to go to grandma’s house), clicked something in my folders. What that something was, I have no idea. But everything went. My downloads. My sims. All the data. So I wouldn’t find out (makes no sense, this next part) she cleaned out my recycle bin. Then found the back-ups of my neighbourhoods and destroyed them. That little…idiot! I had to reinstall everything from scratch, which was terrible. So no more of Canaan’s Solace. No more Luft Family, or Victorian Stories, or anything in the past. They’re gone. 
But I have found loads of new downloads, and built new Sims. I am also thinking about changing to another site, but if I do I will post to say so. This one just can’t handle the size of pictures I am now able to get with my graphics card, so I figure bon voyage. I am fond of this site, but it reminds me of my dear old Sims and I am more than a little hurt by what Lucie did. It will remain up, but I don’t know about any updates.
Anyway, here are three pictures (which make the layout go all freaky, but oh well) of my new Sims. I am already contemplating a storyline for them. Perhaps they will help me get over my embarrassment of romantic writing!
Thank you! Happy New Year!
Ack! I’m sorry to hear that you lost all your sims and downloads.
I can empathize. But that’s so awesome that you got a new graphics card. When I first started playing the Sims I had a crap graphics card too. It’s very nice to play the game without the graphics degrading all the time. Happy New Year! I wish you all the best in 2007! 
Comment by Kara — January 2, 2007 @ 2:55 am
I’m so sorry to hear about losing all of your Sims stuff! Yikes.
Sometimes it is nice to start fresh, though. Especially with a new graphics card! Whoa, your pics look AWESOME. I’m on my third graphics card, and it’s pretty good, but when I see pics like yours and Kara’s, I get the itch to buy a new one! Guess I’d better save up my pennies. 
Comment by Jen — January 2, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
Thank you, both of you! How very kind you are, though of course all of my Sims stuff is nothing compared to what you two get upto! It appears that my picture DON’T mess up the layout like before. They are very pixelated though, normally they look beautifully clear. I shall have to sort that out.
Right now, though, I’m focusing on looking after my only married couple - they had a daughter (now a toddler), and then twins! Yipes! I’ll post them later!
Comment by amalinaball — January 2, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
soooo is this a sim game?
cuz if so what is it called and do they sell it?
plz reply
Comment by keri — July 12, 2007 @ 12:34 am