One Week Late, but Still...

The charger finally came!!!!

Now excuse me while I play Sims.

Why I hate ordering Online

Disclaimer: This rant will sound very selfish, especially considering what’s currently going on in Libya. If you don’t want to read on for whatever reason, THEN DON’T.
The laptop I use to play The Sims 3 on broke on the 12th. Specifically, the AC Adapter broke. I found the part online from one website, however, my dad found a better deal on another website so we ordered that last Friday. I didn’t look up reviews for that website, because I didn’t have time. Last Saturday, I ordered Late Night from Amazon. Late Night came yesterday, and the AC adapter still has to arrive. Today, I decided to search the site, laptopz.com, for reviews, and was baffled with the results:

So don’t buy from Laptopz.com!
And the Better Business Bureau gave their company an F.
For once I wasn’t able to play the Sims 3… and EA had nothing to do with it.

Patience is a Virtue…

…but impatience is a pain.

Neither the laptop part nor Late Night (Which we ordered from Amazon) came yet. Okay, so today IS President’s Day, so I wasn’t expecting to get it, but the site we ordered the laptop part from said it would come today. Wouldn’t the site keep track of stuff like President’s Day? But Amazon said that LN was coming Wednesday, but now they’re saying it’s coming tomorrow, so…

And it snowed. Just when all the snow almost melted.

A Minor Complaint

Not being able to play The Sims 3 has really made me remember the days when I didn’t have Sims 3 yet, and how I used to just read lots of Sims 2 legacies. One of the key things that I remember about the legacies were all the stuff the kids used to be able to do, like play soccer, board games, and play in the snow. It feels like in The Sims 3, though, kids have less things to do. They have playground stuff, and the bake sale that comes with Ambitions. They can play in the sprinklers, swim, and play tag. They could even do ‘adult’ (For lack of a better phrase) activities, like write books, paint, and fish. But it still feels like they could do next to nothing.

Judging by all the different sliders, I know most of the demographic probably doesn’t give a crap about kids, so it would be stupid for EA to make more kids things in EPs and/or patches. They have even more glitches and bugs to fix, so it would be stupid for them to make this stuff. But hey, this is just wishful thinking.

It doesn’t really help that most of the CC community (Or at least the MS3B people) treats Sim-kids the same way adults in Toddlers and Tiaras treat their kids- like little porcelain dolls. It’s like the Suri Cruise fashion collection! Every toddler and child has no expression on their face- no laughter, no smile. Have these people even been near real kids?

Sure, I don’t really know what I’d want kids to do, to be honest. I’d just wish they’d have some new stuff in EPs.

Good job, Newsea!

One of the things I dislike about Newsea’s hairs is that the all look alike after a while. Specifically, guy hairs. They’re mostly the same short hair, like the Cloud, the Rainy Season, the Roy, and the Tennis. However, today s/he posted I saw a hairstyle that was different. As in, not just the “short hair with bangs”.

Okay, so it depends on you if the hair’s a nice alternative to hair with bangs, or if it’s ugly, but I personally think it’s nice. Even if it is a little “Rick Astley”.

 

And in laptop related news, my dad ordered it yesterday, so we’ll be getting the part tomorrow or Monday. And we have no school next week so .

Newsea’ll be there for you…

…With a somewhat decent free hairstyle that slightly resembles The Rachel.

It’s an actual normal hair, and it’s nice.  I like the child’s hair color. The other two? Not at all. I don’t get why Newsea keeps on using that ugly platinum blonde hair. Especially with those roots. And then the other one is better, but it j looks painfully orange. It’s not just bright spray tan orange (Like what Hayley Williams’s hair looks like), or somewhat realistic. It’s just in between, in a bad way, and again, the roots are too dark. But then again, that’s just my opinion.

Sadly, I can’t download it, because my Simming laptop’s AC Adapter (A part of the charger) broke.

I’ve got some explaining to do…

This week was the first full week of school we’ve had since… December 2010. As in, first full five day week, without any inclement weather issues. For some reason, this meant that my teachers decided to give me loads of homework. Okay, so the loads of homework stopped Tuesday, meaning I haven’t had that much since Wednesday. But still, that explains my absence. I really hate using the “Sorry guys, I have schoolwork” excuse. It’s so overused. But sometimes, real life happens.

The snow’s starting to melt a bit. I might actually see grass before March!

And I think I know what electives I want to take. Math SAT Prep, Contemporary Issues Honors, and AP US Gov. Contemporary Issues Honors is more or less “Discuss current events”, and I heard the teacher’s nice, which is good. AP US Gov also has a nice teacher, and I heard it’s an easy AP class. On the other hand, I might not stay in APUSH (I’m conferencing with my teacher about it next week), so I don’t know if I should take another AP class. I also want some ‘fun’ electives, because with those electives, the only “nonacademic” class would be gym. So, yeah.

And speaking of electives, we got new ones this semester- Computer Science, and Computers in Art (AKA Photoshop). Computer Science is okay so far. It’s still in the introduction stage, which is annoying, but I’m hoping that it’s just a phase. Computers in Art isn’t in the intro phase, which is good, but the teacher talks too much for the lectures and gives little time for assignments. Oh well.

Yahoo! Finance to the Rescue?

I’m a sucker for Yahoo! Articles. Not sure how legitimate they are, but for the most part, the Finance and “13 Things your [waiter, grocer, burglar, etc.] won’t tell you” (So that’s more rd.com, but still) parts are usually a good read. Today, I saw this on the main website: How to Fight Bad Customer Service. Maybe it will help with EA crap? Okay, who am I kidding? It probably won’t help people because EA sucks, and tips from an article won’t change that, but hey, it might be helpful.

New E-Mail

I decided to get a new e-mail for this blog, joining forums and stuff. I've had too much e-mails- Ones for school, joint E-mails with my brother, ones that came with screen names, and so on. And I've forgotten lots of the passwords (And the security questions...), so I decided to make another one today. It's shiny.shinxATyahooDOTcom. Be sure to change the AT and the DOT into their respective symbols. :P

Early Dismissals, and Delays, and Snow Days, oh my!

Yesterday, we 'had' an early dismissal. Well, it was already an early dismissal for the high schoolers because of midterms, so it really was for the rest of the district. Then, we got a call saying there was going to be a delay, which turned into a snow day. The problem? We're still taking midterms. So instead of finishing them today, we'll be finishing them tomorrow. And they were really supposed to end Tuesday. I really want them to just end already. Yeah, sure, I only have two midterms left, but it's all just so annoying.

And in non-school related news, Late Night still is $39.99. Really? It's been out for like what, three months? Wouldn't it be less? Yes, it's EA, and I have no business knowledge whatsoever (I should probably take some business classes, now that I think of it), but still, with Outdoor Living Stuff in stores, I'd think Late Night would get a little less expensive. Oh well, I could still wait.