Saturday the 14th

Aaaaargh!
Sometimes I amaze myself with my own stupidity. I accidentally killed my prosperity neighborhood, AGAIN (I had a few earlier attempts at challenges but they all died prematurely, sniff). I downloaded the new FT patch, but it wasn’t living up to my expectations. It actually caused a gypsy bug and increased my loading time so much that I decided to reinstall. Yes, I reinstalled FT but with no backup!!!! This is very, very, very STUPID! And what’s even worse is that this really isn’t the first time my laziness caused me to loose precious sims
Reinstalling any of your EP’s will kill all of your custom neighborhoods, your custom CAS sims and your entire downloads folder.
This all happened last night, while my boyfriend was enjoying himself with the European Soccer Championships. I had too amuse myself and decided to do some simming and then it all went wrong. Well thats Friday the 13th for you (p.s. I’m really having an unlucky streak, I also burned myself this afternoon while making grilled cheese sandwiches) Anyway, now it’s the next day and I decided not to give up on sim challenges yet. This is actually another opportunity for me to do it even better than before. Yep, I’m somewhat of an optimist.

Something different…

I haven’t posted a new update of the prosperity neighborhood last week because I was on vacation. I had a wonderful city trip to London with my boyfriend, but now I’m back! The next update will have to wait until the weekend but I did play around with some new sims and some nice custom content. There totally unrelated to Aurora Valley but I thought they are great space fillers

Meet nobleman and dark magician Lord Mandrake Vortigern…

The First Community Lots!

Yep, It’s really becoming a little community now. The first two community lots have been added to Aurora Valley: a grocery store and a church. After playing the Walker family, I thought I heard some wedding bells so a church would be a nice addition to the neighborhood. I also figured that a grocery store would be the most logical other community lot for a small but growing neighborhood.

The Church

The good, the bad and the ugly maxis townies…

It’s make-over time! I really, really, really don’t like the maxis townie faces. And somehow I always find something wrong with new default templates available for download. But I’ve discovered the wonders of SimPE’s Sim Surgery! It takes a little time but then those ugly townies finally look like sims I like.

Anyway, I’ll stop blabbering and show you the result of some of my Sim Surgery victims!

Benjamin Long

Introducing Aurora Valley

Inspired by those wonderful sim blogs out there, I started a new project Aurora Valley. It’s a Prosperity Challenge and I wanted to play one for ages, but lazy me just never started. The goal of The Prosperity Challenge is to create a well-run, prosperous neighborhood from scratch. The set up of the neighborhood is decided by the roll of your dice. But first I need a nice new neighborhood to start with. There are some wonderful custom neighborhood terrains out there and my eye has fallen on a small neighborhood from N99 Forum, Ridgton.

I had a lot of fun decorating the neighborhood and this is what Aurora Valley looks like so far: