I'm alive!

 Merry Christmas everyone!

I thought I'd throw up a quick post today to let you know I'm still here. A friend directed me to a post on Reddit where someone was recommending my blog and they'd added the disclaimer "as far as I know, it's not abandoned".

So that made me think "oops! it probably does look abandoned at this point!". So anyway, Sullivan is not abandoned! I was busy and stressed for a long time and couldn't get up the motivation to play and write an update. And then when I did, the game would crash. When the game crashes for me, I tend to avoid it for a while, because it makes me so frustrated and I don't want to be frustrated again!

I am off work for six weeks now and I really, really hope that I can get out a couple of updates in that time. I won't promise but it's my hope.

And thank you to that Redditor for recommending my blog, if you're reading. I occasionally see nice comments about Sullivan on Reddit and they always make me smile. Reddit can be a bit of a cesspool but r/sims2 is an absolute gem!

You say it's your birthday, June 2047

June 2047 (Winter)

Thomas has had a tough couple of weeks leading up to his 16th birthday.

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May updates, 2047

May 2047 (Autumn)

Josh and Elspeth Royce-Nihill are 33. 

Josh and Elspeth have been married for a year and a half but they are only just getting around to going on honeymoon.

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You say it's your birthday, May 2047

May 2047 (Autumn)

Tim is spending his 27th birthday where he spends so much of his time - at work at the hospital - but he’s not due in until 6pm, so he’s taking the opportunity to celebrate with Marius during the day.

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April updates, 2047

April 2047 (Autumn)

Chris Draper is 32 and Veronica Moretti is 30

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You say it's your birthday, April 2047 (Autumn)

April 2047 (Autumn)

Piper Gentry is 1!

  

She's already proving herself as a very active little girl with an attraction to all things pink. 

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Uni kids (B), March 2047

March 2047 (Autumn)

Sylvia Draper and Alice Jacobson are 21 and Ramona Nihill, Ruby Lane and Jon Clark are 20. 

(Simon is 22)

Alice and Sylvia have just begun their final year of university. 

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Lot tour: Single Storey Remodel Challenge

So this lot tour is a little different from the vast majority of my other lot tours, because no one is living here yet! I did it for a challenge and it's still sitting empty in my hood. I have vague designs of moving one of my playable NPC couples in here...but I also really like it and maybe want my playables to live here? Except it's probably too expensive for any of the ones who will need to move soon!

Shall I stop rambling now so we can start?

The house was built by one of the members in my Sims 2 group on FB and the challenge was simply to decorate it, the only real rule being that we could not change any of the exterior walls.

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Uni kids (A), March 2047

March 2047 (Autumn)

Aurora and Bianca Moretti are 21, Gabriel Nott is 20 and Charlotte and Marcus Lane are 18. 

(Brendan is 24)

Marcus has just begun his first year at Suffolk. He’d decided to major in Physics a couple of months before arriving on campus, so he was raring to go once he finally got there. 

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You say it's your birthday, March 2047

March 2047 (Autumn)

Max and Zaria are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this month. They’d planned to take a trip to their holiday house but decided to put it off until a few months down the track instead. 

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Lot tour: Tim and Marius's house

The other day, I put up a post explaining my absence and I said I'd "finished" Tim and Marius's house. There was a reason for those quotes! They went into a fair bit of debt to buy this place, so their garden is completely bare, as are all the spare bedrooms. So it's "finished" in that it's playable but it's a little bare bones, so this is a relatively short tour! 

But let's get started anyway!

The house is one I probably downloaded from MTS a long time ago. It's been sitting in the hood for ages, so it would be literal years ago at this point! I changed all the exterior fittings, apart from the stairs. 

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She lives!

 Hi everyone, I hope 2022 is treating you well so far! Omicron is raging in New South Wales at the moment, so I'm not going anywhere I don't have to (I'm triple-Pfizered but it's not a risk I'm willing to take), which has meant I've had plenty of time for the game.

I had a crashing issue that I procrastinated on solving, even though I was fairly certain I knew exactly where the problem file was. I just couldn't work up the motivation to fix it! But I did that last week, finally, and it only took me about an hour, all up. 

So once I did that, I was able to "finish" furnishing Tim and Marius's place, which I will share in a lot tour here on the blog in a couple of days' time. After that, it will either be my uni kids or March birthdays. I have to check my birthday list to see if there's anyone I need to post an update on before I decide. 

I would like to try to be more present here this year, so fingers crossed I can do it!

February updates, 2047

February 2047 (Summer)

Collins 2 + Gentry 2

Collins 2

Rebecca Collins is 38, Nathan is 37 and Byron and Noel are 3. 

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Lot tour: Mitchell and Caitlin set up house!

I have a very short lot tours for you today! I finished Caitlin and Mitchell's house a little while ago but it's taken me this long to get the tour up! They had quite a bit of money left over when I finished, so I was able to pay off a decent chunk of their mortgage as well. 

So this house started its life as a house built by Starr, over at Apple Valley. You can see the original in its pixelated, neighbouring lot form to the left in this pic. 

Quite a while ago, I saw this house on one of those house design shows. It's in Sydney, not far from the part of the city where I grew up and it used to be a small carpark until an architect converted it into a house. And for some reason, it always stuck in my head and one day, I decided I'd try to recreate it in the game, using Starr's house as a base. And this is the result. I took it as a very loose inspiration, so it's not an exact recreation! It sat in my hood empty for a couple of years until about a month ago.

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You say it's your birthday, February 2047

February 2047 (Summer)

Lucy Lachance has been pretty anxious about the arrival of Baby #3.

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January updates, 2047

January 2047 (Summer)

Gottlieb 1 + Romilly 1

Gottlieb 1

Athena Gottlieb is 87, Amelia is 58, Wade is 57and Michael is 16.

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You say it's your birthday, January 2047

January 2047 (Summer)

 

Soon-to-be big sister Mia Benton is 1!

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Round 37 Summary

Wow, the last time I did one of these was four years ago! I'm hoping I can complete Round 38 in a slightly shorter timeframe!

 Births: 9 (Jonathan Novak, Caroline Novak, Gavin Lachance, Jeremy Halmi, Mia Benton, Piper Gentry, Imogen, Jordan and Logan Jacobson)

Deaths: 1 (Trent Kirby)

Engagements: 2 (Justin Moretti and Louisa Gentry, Chris Draper and Veronica Moretti)

Marriages: 1 (Josh and Elspeth Royce-Nihill)

Break-ups: (Matthew Lane and Alice Jacobson, Georgina Nott and Adrian Schehl, Joaquin Miguel and Daphne Kirby, Felix Lane and Keira Romilly)

Graduations: 4 (Brendan Lachance, Caitlin Romilly, Annabel and Georgina Nott)

Total population (including playable NPCs): 93 male, 91 female

Babies: 4
Toddlers: 8
Children: 20
Teens: 20
Adults (including Young Adults): 97

Elders: 34

You say it's your birthday, December 2046

December 2046 (Summer)

Audrey’s third trimester has been a rough one. 

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Lot tour: New Draper house

I mentioned in the comments on my last post that my next update would be delayed because I needed to decorate a huge house. I thought it would take me a long time to finish but I got into a bit of a groove with it and basically finished it the same day I started, apart from a couple of minor finishing touches. The backyard still isn't done and I will need that for the update too...but I'm not planning on going crazy with it and don't anticipate it taking too long!

So here is the house! It's been sitting empty in my hood for ages and I no longer remember where I downloaded it. I changed the doors and windows (still might change the roof colour) and made some changes to the layout inside as well. It is now the new home of Lake, Kendal, Rose, Joanna and their sons Levi and Will. 

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