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Lorretta and Michael only have two weeks left, and even that hinges on Kelly not going into labor before her due date. It’s Kelly’s first baby, meaning that Lorretta is hopeful they actually do have that long, if not a bit longer.

In that time, they have to finish the nursery, and ideally Lorretta would like to put in a new washer and dryer. The current appliances are rattling in an alarming way, and the washer is leaking water at random intervals with seemingly no correlation to what happens around it. If it only spat water when overloaded, or when put on a certain setting, it would be easier to live with or even implement a rushed fix. As it is, it’s simply dubbed temperamental, and will need replaced.

We haven’t been furnishing the house so far. I usually don’t furnish in these projects until I land on whatever the houses ‘current’ state is, that’s when I put in furniture and actually make the sims that live there. But…there’s new baby furniture I want to check out, so let’s do it.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: The Baby Room”

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Our family has two months left to entirely finish the house in time for the baby to arrive. The bathroom is next, then the kitchen, then the laundry room if they have time. The bathroom is not bad, and Lorretta is tempted to keep the vintage façade…except for the moldy grout. The Sims has no good way to show it, but that pink tile was put in nearly a century ago, without ventilation, with only one bathroom to the entire house. That grout is black.

They try to save the tile by removing it carefully, but by the time the fifth one disintegrates in their hands, it’s clear that won’t be happening; this is a reno.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: Tradition”

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Lorretta is sinking her money into the house like a gambling habit. First, it was $5,000 for the original quote of fixing the back bedroom.

Then, she discovered rot in the second bedroom while taking out the paneling. Another $2500 for the repairs. Then, she had to put carpet in all the upstairs bedrooms. She wants to opt for at least mid-tier carpet, since it was how she rationalized continuing with the reno instead of just selling the place.  She is out easily $14,000 by now, and she hasn’t even discovered the water heater yet.

At this point, she finally has to face the third bedroom, the former study, which she hasn’t been touching except for to install the carpets. The other rooms have been stripped of their paneling and painted, but the study she saved for last.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: The Three Months”

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So, I have a Sims 4 Overthinking post written and ready for screenshots and posting, but EA has chosen now to force me to ‘upgrade’ to their new EA App (and politely uninstall Origin for me in the process.) I can’t help but picture the purchase screen for a new appliance, like a washing machine, where they offer to haul your old one away if you give them $80. But, instead of charging me $80, they’re just breaking into my house and taking it by force. Gee, thanks.

I’ve known this was coming for awhile, but I had bypassed it in the program files hoping I could put it off. It seems EA is onto this, however, because the bypass I did, and the one many other Sims players were using is no longer functional.

This would usually be a pretty quick thing. I’d be angry for half an hour and try to bypass it, then, once I realized I couldn’t, I’d just sigh and accept my fate, download it and move on. The problem is, my install is a bit special. Most of it is totally fine, but some of my files are a cracked version that it’s going to take me and my husband a week to figure out how to make work with the new launcher.

If I’m not very, very careful, and go slow, I could end up breaking my save games, including, you know, the one I’m working on for this funky thing I get to tell people I do for a ‘job’ now. Thank you guys for sticking around and reading this trash, it’s super cool to be able to tell people I do anything for work. So many years of doctors appointments and going to the bank where I just had to go ‘Uhhh…’ when asked what I do for work, but, no longer! Now I write for the internet! Ha! Huh. Maybe that’s more a ‘gotcha’ in my head.

Anyway, I guess I have a week of shaking my fist angrily at the corporate overlords to look forward to. Oh goody.

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