Some replies!

Still have quite a few more to get around to, but it’s a start. 😀 Paging @blissful-indigo, @holleyberry, @alienpod, @mswn, @littleblondesim, and @kayleigh-83!

blissful-indigo
replied to your post “Do you struggle to pay rent living in NY, even with a good salary…”

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I feel you. Just relocated to Seattle and am living in a micro-studio apartment because rent is absurd here, too. Not quite as bad as NYC and San Francisco, but not much better.

littleblondesim replied to your post “Do you struggle to pay rent living in NY, even with a good salary…”

I loved this little tidbit. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

Oh, of course! ❤ Thank you for reading (even though I have an extreme tendency to ramble). Tori, I can only imagine. D: I can only speak for NYC because that’s all I know (aside from college, this is the first time I’d be living on my own – heck, my family’s been in the same apartment since before I was born!) so I really have no idea about the housing/rental market elsewhere. But I’m sure it’s the same in a lot of major cities. It’s the (literal) price we pay for convenience and/or opportunities. :

holleyberry
replied to your post “Oh my WCIF are those light up hood buildings? I have Aurora Skies…”

Can I say I was hoping eventually someone would put all those links in one place 😛

Heheh, much obliged. 😉 I hope I didn’t miss any! I’m waaaaay overdue for updating my resource list, anyway, so this was a good start.

alienpod
replied to your photoset “Shyra and Melanie, two of the SSU dormies. :)”

The second one is so gorgeous 😮

mswn
replied to your photoset “Shyra and Melanie, two of the SSU dormies. :)”

Super cuties

Thank you both! ❤ A little Pooklet/Drew randomizer magic goes a long way. 😉 Also (spoiler alert!), but Graham agrees with you, @alienpod. ;D

kayleigh-83
replied to your photoset “Finally got around to replacing 90% of my hood deco with light-up…”

*heavy breathing*

*puts on lab coat and fetches inhaler* ;D 

Repliiiiiies! <3

For @blissful-indigo, @prettysimmings, @nadehzdia, @kayleigh-83, @echinopeae, @ofgodsandllamas, @dramallamadingdang, @eulaliasims, @kkelpcake, @touchmypixels, @soloriya, @wanderer-sims, @fuzzyspork, @prettybabo, and @sterina-sims ~

blissful-indigo replied to your photoset “Living and dining area of Evelyn and Shena’s new house.”

Lovely!

Thank you! ❤

prettysimmings replied to your photoset“Evelyn and Shena’s kitchen. I fought with this room for days before I…”

Your neighborhood is so pretty!

Ahhh, thank you so much! I’m glad you like it. 😀 

nadehzdia replied to your post“Your landlord is hot~ . Where can I find the kitchen sink? :)”

a pulse? ~attractive~

Hahaha, we’re really setting the bar high over here! ;D

kayleigh-83 replied to your photo “Besides it being way too small for two adults, a dog, and a newborn,…”

I had to empty out an apartment building I liked cause it got glitchy :/ it was a small building with no elevator, just stairs, but then they couldn’t use the stairs!! Whenever I played Sims on the upper floor I’d have to use cheats to move them up and down the stairs, including dogs going to do their business -_-

UGH it makes me so sad that apartments in TS2 are so glitchy because I really love the concept (especially since I live in one myself!). I love the social aspect of it and how perfect it is for single Sims and couples – but then stuff like this happens and before you know it EVERYONE GETS A HOUSE because I’m fed up. 😐

echinopeae replied to your photoset “The new Mahoney-Fox residence (well, Fox residence, as Evelyn took…”

This is just so gorgeous *.*

Thank youuuuu! ❤❤

ofgodsandllamas replied to your photoset “They didn’t even get to “consummate” the marriage before Shena went…”

RUDE poor Porkchops sleep was so rudely disrupted 😦 lmao

LMAO I know, especially since it looks like Evelyn is about to kick him off the bed ahahah

ofgodsandllamas replied to your photoset “The new Mahoney-Fox residence (well, Fox residence, as Evelyn took…”

I LOVE it!!!! that little patio deck!!!! It’s the perfect place to have friends over for drinks and so quaint aaaaaaahhhhh. I’m in love! I can’t blame you for loving it so much too.

Thank you!! I based it off of a floor plan I found and it had that cute little dining patio, and I thought it’d be the perfect opportunity to use those awning pieces I’ve had floating around in my DL folder forever. ❤ My Sims seem to like it, too – the NEVER eat in their gorgeous dining room, nooooo. Always outside, no matter what the weather. 😛

dramallamadingdang replied to your photoset “The new Mahoney-Fox residence (well, Fox residence, as Evelyn took…”

The pergola is fabulous. 🙂

Thank you! 🙂 I’m glad it worked out. It’s one of those CC items I’ve had forever and kept telling myself “well, I might need it someday,” so I’m glad that day finally arrived. ;D

dramallamadingdang replied to your photoset “More reasons to move out: the trash compactor broke down and the…”

“Yes, yes, yes, I know you’re being electrocuted, but dirty dishes wait for no one!”

Hahaha, I know we say it all the time, but Sim logic never fails to amuse me! 🙂 

dramallamadingdang replied to your photo “Besides it being way too small for two adults, a dog, and a newborn,…”

That always happens. All you have to do is turn on moveobjects and delete them, then they won’t reappear. You have to do it when you’re playing each playable household in the building. Pain in the ass, but at least it’s fixable. 🙂

Aha! Good to know. 🙂 I was afraid my neighborhood was becoming corrupted or one of my apartment mods was causing this nonsense. I feel much calmer and more prepared for the next time I decide to play an apartment building. 😉

eulaliasims replied to your photoset “Oh yeah, then the trash compactor went on fire. YUP, DEFINITELY TIME…”

Yeah, I’m pretty sure this apartment lot is cursed.

Hahah, yeeeeeaaaahh… I’m just going to let that lot sit there unoccupied for awhile until I figure out what to do with it. I don’t think I could risk sending another family to live there. 😛

eulaliasims replied to your photoset “Some more graveyard pictures because I moved the urns of the dead…”

It looks even lovelier in autumn colors! ❤

Thank you so much! ❤

kkelpcake replied to your photo “Gotta give the landlord credit, though – he still tried to fix that…”

Someone give this man a raise

ofgodsandllamas replied to your photo “Gotta give the landlord credit, though – he still tried to fix that…”

thats some dedication wow

touchmypixels replied to your photo “Gotta give the landlord credit, though – he still tried to fix that…”

dedication

I can say with certainty that he is the best landlord I’ve had in my game! 🙂 For starters, he didn’t hang around sniffing the flowerbeds all day and harass my Sims over the phone constantly. 😉 This trash compactor debacle just sealed the deal!

soloriya replied to your photoset “Some more graveyard pictures because I moved the urns of the dead…”

so beautiful!!

Thank you!!! 😀 

wanderer-sims replied to your photoset “Oh yeah, then the trash compactor went on fire. YUP, DEFINITELY TIME…”

OMG, HOW YOUR GAME IS SO FUN. And, that apartment is cursed or something lol

soloriya replied to your photoset “Oh yeah, then the trash compactor went on fire. YUP, DEFINITELY TIME…”

oh no!

fuzzyspork replied to your photoset “Oh yeah, then the trash compactor went on fire. YUP, DEFINITELY TIME…”

:O

I guess I can’t say my neighborhood is lacking in excitement. 😉 Although I must concur with you that this apartment is cursed – even for the Sims, there were just a few too many unfortunate events occurring all at once. ;D

prettybabo replied to your post “I’ve been playing this game for over ten years, and I finally had…”

Aw, gotta love those eye popping toddler/pet squidges.

THEY’RE THE BEST I can’t resist taking a ton of screenshots when that happens! 

❤❤ Makes me want to have pets in all my toddler households! 🙂

sterina-sims replied to your photoset “It’s a girl! 😀 Her name is Sonya (I remembered this time!) and she…”

Who’s the baby daddy?

Evelyn, thanks to my same-sex pregnancy mod ;D

Flaming grilled cheese replies!

nixedsims
replied to your photoset “Sim!Christmas isn’t officially over until something goes on fire,…”

Ooh, I’ve set fire to (Sim) things with that advent wreath, too. 😀 (But yeah, for a moment there I too thought the grilled cheese spontaneously combusted. ;))

frottana-sims
replied to your photoset “Sim!Christmas isn’t officially over until something goes on fire,…”

These are hot grilled cheese. :’D

san-myshuno-dreamin
replied to your photoset “Sim!Christmas isn’t officially over until something goes on fire,…”

For a sec I could’ve sworn the fire was started by the grilled cheese and was worried that was a Grilled Cheese aspiration failure thing no one told me about ahahaha

blissful-indigo
replied to your photoset “Sim!Christmas isn’t officially over until something goes on fire,…”

Is the grilled cheese on fire? Lol!

strangetomato
replied to your photoset “Sim!Christmas isn’t officially over until something goes on fire,…”

I thought the grilled cheese spontaneously combusted for a moment there. LOL!

Haha, I thought the same thing about the grilled cheese! I noticed the fire from the angle I took the first screenshot and I was so confused. I think this was my first time using the Advent wreath, so it took me a couple of seconds to realize where the fire came from. 😛 Ah, holiday merriment! 

omg @san-myshuno-dreamin I don’t think I’ve ever actually played with a Grilled Cheese Sim, I have no idea what happens when they go into aspiration failure and now I really want to find out… *sneaks into test hood*

More replies! :)

IVY EVERYTHING! 😉

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t consider it XD then I decided I was too burnt out from ivying the restaurant. But what do I do instead? Lay single-tile pipes piece-by-piece on OMSPs so I can raise them to run along the ceiling. XD I can’t ever make something easy!

blissful-indigo
replied to your post “blissful-indigo replied to your post: *starts making little dive bar*…”

Looks awesome! Maybe go for an open floor plan for the 1st floor, then do some loft-type spaces on the 2nd/3rd levels that overlook the ground floor, if that makes sense. Just an idea 🙂

This is basically what my plan is – open first floor, small loft on the second floor, third floor is completely open to give the feeling of high ceilings. 🙂 I’m fairly happy with the layout of the building, now it’s just a matter of decorating it. This is WAY outside my comfort zone. D:

quill-of-thoth
replied to your post “blissful-indigo replied to your post: *starts making little dive bar*…”

You could just do the bottom and have the top two floors to let or something? If you’re overwhelmed by all the space, that is.

I actually thought about doing combination community lot/loft apartment, but then I decided I wanted to have an open floor plan and figured it would suck for whichever Sim lived upstairs to live over a bar/club. XD I liked the idea a lot though, so I will probably make another (smaller!!!) building in the same style to convert into a living space. 🙂

themintypixel replied to your photoset “The I-got-a-strike dance. 😛 ”

SO cute

Thank you! 😀 ❤

dramallamadingdang replied to your post “dramallamadingdang replied to your photo: Okay, I promise I’ll stop…”

Yeah, I know, sorry. 🙂 Honestly, though? I’ll take NYC over LA any day, even if y’all are having blizzards there. I hate having to drive everywhere AND I hate earthquakes. :p

These are valid points! I’m 25 and don’t even have a learner’s permit, let alone a driver’s license. 😛 Walking for the win! Although I will say, my lack of driving ability has made me extremely public transportation savvy. 🙂 

simmingbyshortstop replied to your photo “Okay, I promise I’ll stop posting weather pictures. BUT EVERYONE’S…”

That’s awful! It’s about 63 degrees where I am and people here consider it kind of cold #sorrynotsorry

WAH WHERE ARE YOU TAKE ME WITH YOU T^T

getmygameon replied to your photo “Okay, I promise I’ll stop posting weather pictures. BUT EVERYONE’S…”

it seems weather’s bumming us all out…no matter how cold or hot it is where we are LOL XD

The grass is always greener! As soon as it hits 80+ degrees here, NYC becomes like one big toaster oven and people will complain about being too hot! XD

blissful-indigo replied to your photo “Okay, I promise I’ll stop posting weather pictures. BUT EVERYONE’S…”

tOo CoLd D-:

*teeth chatter*

Replies! <3

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blissful-indigo replied to your photo “Ugh winter, please stop.”

Looks just like our weather. We’re supposed to get snow on Monday too’

We had some today, and I’m sure there’s more in the future. I swear, the older I get, the harder it is for me to handle the winter… I’m not even that old yet. 😦 

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simtaxerror replied to your photo “Ugh winter, please stop.”

Geese… and I thought it was cold here.

I’m sure it’s a lot colder in other places, but I’ve never known a winter in NYC to be as bad as the past two years have been. 😦 I’m just always cold, so this is pretty much a nightmare for me. D:

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skyburned replied to your photoset “Me: I will not clutter this kitchen, I will not clutter this kitchen……”

But it looks so nice!

Meeep, thank you! ❤ It’s always a relief when it comes together, even though I’m fully aware of the fact that I may be overdoing things just a tad. 😛 

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blissful-indigo replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 3. It wouldn’t be one of my lots if I didn’t…”

I love that last shot! symmetry 🙂

Thanks! ❤ I tried to get it as symmetric as possible, which proved to be a very difficult task at 3:30 AM.

shastakiss replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 2. Is it weird that I think the bathrooms are my…”

it’s all so perfect and cute and PERFECT and CUTE :3

Ahhhhhh *flails* THANK YOU 😀 ❤

justsimaround replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 3. It wouldn’t be one of my lots if I didn’t…”

How!? *o*

Many hours spent staring at a blank lot and trying to figure out what to put there. XD Also, I almost borked my neighborhood trying to make this lot because I tried to modify the neighborhood terrain and the WHOLE PENINSULA was destroyed. Thank goodness someone reminded me about Hood Replace! (Note to self: don’t mess around with the modify terrain cheat; you don’t know what you’re doing)

notdissimilarplaceholder replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 3. It wouldn’t be one of my lots if I didn’t…”

this is so very cute!

Aww, thank you! ❤

hemfbgsims replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 3. It wouldn’t be one of my lots if I didn’t…”

This is absolutely gorgeous. I especially love that last picture.

Thank you so much! ❤ I’m glad the last picture came out nicely. I actually restarted my game because I realized I had forgotten to download those coin-operated telescopes for the end of the pier, so I couldn’t take the picture until those were in there. XD

taylors-simblr replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 2. Is it weird that I think the bathrooms are my…”

the bathrooms are adorable ❤

twofee replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 2. Is it weird that I think the bathrooms are my…”

the bathrooms are my favorite part of this too 😉

YES! Two more followers for my bathroom army! :3 Thank you! ❤ 

biffysims reblogged your photoset and added: That’s it, I’m moving into your game Christine

AWWW shucks! ❤ We can trade, I’ll move into yours! 😀

pistxl-sims replied to your photoset “The Boardwalk, part 3. It wouldn’t be one of my lots if I didn’t…”

stop it!!! stop being so awesome!!!

NOOOO YOU STOP ❤ 

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sigmundsims reblogged your photoset and added:

The adorableness of these pictures just kills me.

Eeep! *frantically tries to revive* :3 Thank you! ❤

amartin18 replied to your photoset “The bar gets its own post because I’m super happy with the way it…”

This. Is. Gorgeous!

Awww! I’m glad you like it! 😀

dramallamadingdang replied to your photoset “Unnamed skating rink/winter park with a gratuitous amount of Christmas…”

Like Rockefeller Square. 🙂 Man, sometimes I miss NYC…but you know, other times I really, really don’t. *laugh*

That’s part of the look I was going for! 🙂 I took my friend from Texas to see the tree last night… I let her take a few pictures, then we got out of the area ASAP. 😛

blissful-indigo replied to your photo “Skating rink/winter park from hood view.”

🙂

😀

feydecay replied to your post “Sorry for the non-sims, but I sang “What’s Up” by Four Non-Blondes…”

Hahahah! I sang that song on Saturday at a Christmas party. My voice is horrible, so I just belt it out and hope for the best. ❤

LOL yes! We have good taste. XD I have a pretty awful voice, so it’s a wonder I even got up to sing in the first place…but awkward, horrible singing is what makes karaoke fun, isn’t it? 🙂