It’s a Good Day!

August 26th, 2008

Lot's of cool things today. I have my third Weight Watcher's meeting at 12pm, to start. I've decided I won't really weigh myself much between meetings so I can really see my progress, so today's weigh-in will be another surprise for me. :D

After the meeting I have a phone call scheduled with a client. I'm excited because I finished a very customized Wordpress project for them and will be showcasing it during the call. They will be selling ebooks through the site and I was able to heavily customize the WP theme I designed (using custom fields) to make it really easy to display the books in a "shop" of sorts. Anytime they want to add a new book, they can just "blog" it with the book's details in specific custom fields. You'll see what I mean after I add the site to my portfolio once it's finished.

I bought some new RAM for my laptop yesterday and rush ordered it! Can you believe I've been surviving on only 1gb for three years?! X( This should help speed things up, heh. Instead of two 512mb sticks I will now have two 1gb sticks! It should tide me over until I build the new Precious. The RAM may arrive today, here's hoping!

Finally, the day of awesome will end with me and Jess buying Sims 2: Apartment Life! Hurrah! :D I heard some rumors that it wasn't going to be released until tomorrow or Thursday but so many websites say today! I'll have to call the stores later to make sure. Yay for today! :dance:

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Jess Aug 26, 2008

Yay!! I may need to stop by the house first, my dad is in PA with a migraine and needs some work numbers from his office to call his boss about not being able to work tomorrow. Can’t wait for Sims!! :D

Hev Aug 26, 2008

Blast it, I have to wait until Friday to get the game. You are so lucky. Tell me all about it, if you get it. I am so jealous.

I can’t wait until you add that site to your portfolio. You have raised my curiosity. I know that it will be good, but I still want to see it, lol.

Sarah Aug 26, 2008

I’m going off The Sims 2, and more into shooting games like Call of Duty 2.

Horray for losing weight. :D

Aimee Aug 26, 2008

The Sims AL is being released way too quickly - it seems like I only just found out about it. >.< Excited though. =] Make sure you let us know what it’s like!

Lisa Aug 27, 2008

yay for a great day! :)
I’m excited to see the website you made for your client! I didn’t know wp could be used for things like that.
I want AL too! I’m gonna have to check if it’s released in Norway now aswell. btw. do you have Free time? I’ve been thinking of buying that too, but it seems like there’s not much new in it?

Melissa Aug 27, 2008

do you have Free time? I’ve been thinking of buying that too, but it seems like there’s not much new in it?

Yep I do! :D I actually have all the expansion packs. XD But you should definitely get it…the stuff it adds is so fun! :D It adds a lot of new activities (for the 10 hobbies) and behind the scenes stuff like: an 2nd aspiration, more aspiration rewards (like slower decaying needs!), the ability to let your sims take up to 3 friends with them to the next age group (like from child to teen) and five new career fields!

All that and honestly I think they sped things up a bit in aging. I think it makes it more fun (and easier to build large families) because you aren’t spending so much time “grinding” to their happiness/satisfaction. So I highly recommend Free Time! :D

Aisling Aug 27, 2008

Sounds like an exciting and busy day! I love days like that. So much nicer than “Get up. Go to work. Come home. Stare at wall until bed time. Sleep. Repeat.” ;)

Jem Aug 27, 2008

“only 1gb”…. you’re kidding? I spent years on an old machine with 96MB RAM. Don’t give that “only 1gb” crap! Pffffft.

PS. why aren’t you in the IRC? :o

Melissa Aug 27, 2008

PS. why aren’t you in the IRC? :o

You slavedriver!! XO …. ;)

Cristina Aug 27, 2008

I threw out my scale because not only is it poopy, but like you I want to really see my progress. I too am also only weighing myself at the meetings. Besides, I’m getting of Joshua weighing himself every night before he showers and hearing him say, “Yay I lost 2 lbs!” XO

Susanna Aug 27, 2008

Oooh, is it fun? The Aapartment life I mean? I can’t wait until it’s released here.

Melissa Aug 29, 2008

I really want to buy Sims2 expansion packs but there’s no point - I can only play them at my boyfriends since the original game won’t run on my laptop. So disappointing :(

Nanda Aug 30, 2008

Wow, I didn’t know there was a new expansion pack, I thought it was called Freetime, and not Apartment life. But it sounds interesting. :D

Good luck at your Weight Watchers meeting, and with the phone call as well! I hope everything will go well. The site you described sounds great. I’m looking forward to seeing it.

Melissa Aug 30, 2008

Free Time was the last expansion, released earlier this year. :D Apartment Life is the Fall expansion! Normally the creators of Sims 2 release an expansion twice a year. Not sure if this is the last one or not, since Sims 3 hopefully comes out next Spring!