Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sick.

Ugh. I'm sick and the craft fair is tomorrow.
this morning after i ate my breakfast i puked on the carpet.
right next to my brother, no less! my mom says i can go to the craft fair if i don't puke again, though. well, anyway, my brother is making food stuffs
for the craft fair, and he won't let me anywhere near his chocolate covered pretzels. i can't even lick them! :-P he also insists on wearing a... a.. hm.
a breathing mask.. thing. and running out of any room I'm in.
he's really intent on not getting sick. anyway, i guess i should explain something.
the craft fair is something my friend put together. it's REALLY fun! twice a year, (once in spring and once in fall) a bunch of people come together, (and not just a little gathering of friends, either. a lot of people come!)
and sell things they made themselves. some people sell lucky charms, some people sell baked goods, some people sell art, and so on. for the past... well, ever, I've been selling, well, let's call it "performance arts". nobody ever bought my wares. this year, though, i was planning on selling legitimate crafts. i had made teru teru bozu, as i said, and was going to make lemonade and chocolate chip cookies.
but now it turns out that, if i go at all, i'm only selling teru teru bozu.
oh well. lets hope a lot of people there hate rain, eh?
on another short note, i found a really cool band online called "Celtic Woman".
they sing irish folk songs, and a lot of their live concerts are in front of real
irish castles! i had my dad download some of their music onto my Mp3.
on a final note, you'll notice i changed the background agian. tell me what you think!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

More Sims 3!

hi! here are some pictures i forgot. A close-up of Susie playing chess in the garden. See that focused expression? hmmm..... and here's a view of her first house's garden from the ground. i particularly like this one because it's so colorful. Update: so, in case you haven't noticed, the new polls are up! anyway, i'm really sorry, but you can't vote on these two pictures. i put up the polls before this post, and by the time i tried to edit it, someone had already voted. but wait! if you want, you can share your opinion in the comments! so... go ahead! Update again: okay... so apparently that one sim's name is Sandi, not Molly. oopsie! Yet another Update: okay. formatting is going crazy right now, so i can't make the post look the way i want. hopefully my educated readers will be able to tell the differences between the two pictures if i can't fix it.

Sims 3!

Hi! Right now I'm going to share some of my favorite
pictures from Sims 3.

This is... errmm... well, we'll call her whats-her-name.
she was adopted by one of my earlier sims whom i have no pictures of,
and made her living by writing books and playing guitar for tips.
for a street player, she was pretty well off.
but i hit a rut with her wherein she just spent all her time doing one
or the other.














These sims right here are some of my later ones.
the one on the right is Molly, (i think!)
and the one on the left is Bugsy.
they're married. i had a lot of fun with them, too,
but one day they just got boring. i guess i might have had too many sims
seeing as they eventually had two sets of twins!















this sim here is Bridget in her later days.
she was made to represent me,
and i had a lot of fun with her, until i made the mistake
of playing her daughter instead of her. i hit a rut.















and this is my current sim, Susie Ridgewood!
she is actually a duplicate of a sim i had in Sims 2.
she has a very interesting life story.
she was adopted and raised as a child,
by a vampire sim of mine. she was raised around cats and soon adopted
one of her own, a beautiful black boy called Jessie James.
did i mention she was obsessed with cowboys?
anyway, she grew to be a young adult,
and eventually went to sim state university,
where she earned a degree in sim psychology, despite having to give up
her beloved cat, as pets weren't allowed at college. what happened to her?
i got sims 3. but this is basically her in another life.
this is her playing guitar in her old house.














she had this beautiful garden where she used to live.
for a while, her entire life was focused around breeding the perfect watermelons.















here it is from far away. isn't it pretty?
i even managed to use harvestables to add to the asthetic appeal!
heh. i've been reading "fine gardening magazine" lately.














this is her in her new house, roasting salmon.
i moved because while her first house was beautiful,
not to mention handmade by yours truly,
the garden was too time consuming. i had to start every day at five
in the morning, and even then it went on 'til nighttime!
first she moved into this really cool house that was actually
built on top of a swimming pool, but it wasn't very fun there because
with the house looking so modern-minimalist, i couldn't decorate the yard
the way i wanted to. so now she lives in this cute little country cottage,
and is pretty darn rich, working as a gardener. she's self-employed!















i managed to decorate the garden pretty well there.
this is her playing chess next to some of the flower bushes.














and, finally, here are some landscape photos:
the lighthouse at night.














the lighthouse in early morning.















and who could forget stoney falls, the favorite fishing spot
of both me and my mom!















oh, and i almost forgot, this is my mom's sim,
Claudia Champone.














well, thats it! i plan to keep you posted on my sim's progress!

UPDATE: my sim just adopted a daughter! lets hope they hit it off!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sims 3, Exercise Balls, and Tagliatelle With Peas!

hi! this is Bridget speaking. first of all, i'd like to talk about sims 3. well, not about the game itself, but about one of it's features: gardens. through this game i have discovered that i am rather adept at landscaping. my sim's garden is BEAUTIFUL! i've even started using harvestable plants to add to my garden's asthetic appeal. i still need to work on the right side of my yard, though. so far the only designing i've done is on my front yard, and my left side yard. but i'm very pleased with the work i've done. now, on to exercise balls. this is going to be a very short topic. i would just like to share that i am writing this while sitting on one. why? well, my back was hurting earlier, and this seems to have made it stop. it's also very fun! i can't stop bouncing up and down! heh heh. lastly, the other day i made dinner! it was a recipe i found in a magazine, "tagliatelle with peas". we used linguine though, as we couldn't find tagliatelle. i got to saute' onions and peas! it felt like real cooking. you see, my plan for a career is to run a cafe' and write books in my spare time, so i figure if i want to have a career in the food business, i'd better learn how to cook, right? anyway, everyone loved it, including me. (luckily!) aaaaand... thats all.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Boonton.

Today i went to see the Boonton waterfall! and do you know what? IT WAS THE BEST DAY EVER! even if you combine all my birthdays and christmas's EVER, it doesn't even come CLOSE to what i did today! first i saw the manmade waterfall. then i saw this HUGE natural one. but the highlight was Twin-Tree falls, which i named myself. it's roughly northwest of indian rock, just follow the stream. it's this little waterfall that goes way up, and has two tree's at the top with it's roots tangling about in the water. it collects down at the bottom of the hill to form a pool. i thought about calling it chimney falls, because it falls over something that looks like a circular chimney, but Twin-Tree falls sounds prettier. anyway, i climbed up to the top, and it was spectacular from there! i saw some baby plants growing where the dirt collects in the crooks of trees, and some moss that was getting ready to release spores. but seriously though, it looked spectacular! just a few feet from Twin-Tree Falls are two logs, which strech over what i can only imagine used to be a river. i walked across one of them real fast. next to the two logs are the ruins of the, um... something something chimneys. i climbed all over those too. afterwards, i headed back to indian rock, and climbed up it. my cousin came with me, and he climbs really well for a five year old! the only problem is, he seems to have no fear, and he keeps walking dangerously close to cliffs. eep! well, anyway, the wind was blowing real hard up there. i got to experience how much harder wind is up high firsthand! afterwards it was time to start heading back to the playground. we took this really remote little path. at one point i noticed that someone had worn a path down to the river. upon further inspection, i saw that it led down to this huge rock right in the middle of the river! what could i do but climb down on it? it was really cool from there. well we kept walking, and found another little ledge that everyone explored. there i found a pudding stone and two freshwater shells! well, eventually we ended up back at the playground, and i taught my grandma how to play mancala. we had a good game. afterwards we all shared what we learned that day, and what was our favorite part. and for "homework", we all did representational dances! yay! all in all, it was a really awesome day. the end.