OK, so I’m a bit early, but since I’ll be busy tonight and tomorrow, I thought I might as well post this now. :-)

I hope all of you have a very happy and healthy New Year!

By the way, I’m working on an Annabel Island/Brayton update (the Christmas one, a bit late) and plan on having it posted by Sunday or Monday (three-day weekend, woo!). I have all of the pics taken and just have to write the darned thing. If you’d like to see a sneak preview pic, click on the “Read the rest of this entry” link below.

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Hey, I figured out how they make snow on the North Pole:

Wouldn’t you know, that was the first thing Santa and the Mrs. did when I moved them into their Christmas house last week. Thought I’d share it just for kicks. (Credits: House by Pinecat at The Sims Resource, Santa & Mrs. Claus apparel/hair by Maxis.)

Elsewhere in the news…IT’S COLD!!! Below zero! Why do I live in Minnesota?? :-) Ah well, the snow is pretty…as long as you don’t have to drive in it.

Ravelo update coming soon (hopefully Tuesday night) and Annabel Island on the weekend, if not before. Until then, Happy Simming! And stay WARM!

Well, my friends, NaNo is nearing its end, and I have almost 15,000 words. I can either lock myself in my room for the next 9 days and churn out 3800 crappy words each day, or I can put NaNo 2005 behind me, eat turkey and pumpkin pie, sing some karaoke, see the new Harry Potter movie a few more times, and try again next year. I know, I’m weak. My hat is off to those of you who are still plugging away, whether you reach the finish line or not — you totally rock, and you have my sincere admiration. Keep it up! You will feel like the king of the world when you reach that 50K.

As for me, I’m fine with remaining a pauper for the time being. My problem with NaNo is that I don’t have a story crying out to be told, so there’s nothing driving me to write all those crappy words. It feels great to reach 50K, yes, but I’ve already proven to myself I can do that (and the resulting novel didn’t have one good paragraph in it). So I’m not going to torture myself any longer this year. I’d rather focus my creative energy elsewhere, and save the big push for when I have a story that’s dying to be told.

That means I’m going back to my Sims stories for now, and I have a few things in the works. Read on, if you’re curious! Feedback is welcome.

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Well, we’ve just about reached the halfway point of NaNoWriMo, and funnily enough I have half as many words as I should have by now. So I’m pretty far behind, but all hope is not lost — if I write an average of 2350 words over the next 16 days, I can still make 50K by midnight on November 30th. Since I can write about 2400 words in 45 minutes, this should be no problem at all, right?

Umm…right.

Perhaps I should have phrased that differently. I can TYPE about 2400 words in 45 minutes. But I wouldn’t call it writing. It’s stream-of-consciousness gobbledygook that just barely resembles prose. My main character spent the first 7000 words of my novel sitting on a bus, rambling on about what she sees out the window, where she works, what kind of town she lives in, and how she doesn’t like people much. Then I decided it would be more interesting if she was on her way to work instead of on her way home, and had her wait for the bus…for another 1000 words or so.

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Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that my updates may be very sporadic over the next 4-5 weeks. My little brother is getting married this weekend, so I have assorted family stuff to do all week, plus I’m babysitting my cousins for two nights and won’t have computer access there (*sniff*). Once November 1st hits, I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo, so that will take up quite a bit of my time (I’ll be attempting to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days). I’m not doing a NaNo blog this year, but I may check in here from time to time to let you guys know how it’s going.

I want to do at least one Ravelo update before Nano starts, but after that, things may be quiet here, and if I do update, the posts will be relatively short. I hope you’ll keep checking back, though, and definitely do come back in December, as I’ll be revving up for my Simmies’ holidays. :-D

Take care!

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Greetings from Mt. Geneva, I decided to do two things:

First, I began a new Legacy family, the Ravelos of Rosebrook. I played them for several hours last night and am really enjoying it so far (the Xtreme Start for the Nightlife Legacy Challenge is hard, but not as hard as I thought it would be, thank goodness). I plan on posting the first update tonight when I get home from work. Huzzah!

Second, I wanted to take a little stroll down memory lane. It’s been an incredibly fun year sharing my Sims stories with you guys and receiving such generous feedback in return. And to all you other Sims 2 bloggers (including those who are no longer blogging), thank you for inspiring, enlightening, and entertaining me. You guys rule.

Without further ado, here are 12 pictures from this blog, one for each month of the past year.

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