You kids are no help at all. Go to your rooms and spank yourselves.

[sarea]

WHOA at this new LJ updating screen. :O It actually previews usericons. That is so cool. Is this why LJ's been teh lame lately? I will assume so, and cut it some slack.

So, D., K., and I were going to have dinner and drinks on Friday because K. is moving to Austin at the end of this month. :( Then, today, I got an email from her husband talking about how he wants to do a surprise dinner for her at Buca di Beppo on Friday, and could I make it? Me: "Ummm ... we actually already have plans that night. Hasn't she told you?" Guess K. likes to keep her hubby on his toes. *snicker* Anyway, so we agreed that this would present the perfect opportunity to lure K. to the restaurant without her suspecting anything, and D. and I have lied our tails off. I've always liked K.'s husband although I don't know him very well, but this gets him extra kudos. I love surprises! And I love husbands who make that extra effort. The only concern I have -- and it's a wee, wee concern -- is that D. and I have promised K. a girls' night out, and now it's going to be this big thing w/ her family and other friends, etc. If you were K., you wouldn't mind, right?

I don't know why I keep giving people crappy things on the Halloween meme (or taking things away). Really, I'm a very generous practitioner of candy giving on Halloween!

Yes, I've created Sydney and Julian Sark. :))

Sydney Sark just doesn't sound right. It might actually change my shipping preferences. I might have to introduce an Eric Weiss, and then he and Syd can hook up. But Sydney Weiss doesn't sound right, either. Damn these people and their usage of last names as first names!! That was always the problem with Dana Mulder. Well, one of the many problems. <g>

Anyway, so Draco and Ginny came over to introduce themselves, but the Malfoys initially were not getting on with the Sarks at all. Oh, I was quite angsted. After a few attempts at conversation, D. and G. eventually just started talking to each other. 8-| I'm like, you fools, you have to make other friends in order to get promotions! Jeez. (Side note: Draco didn't want to talk to Sark about peace; he preferred to talk about money. It's like the game knows!)

Finally, Ginny and Sark started to really get along ... only, TOO WELL. They hugged, which pissed Draco off, and he left in a huff. What an idiot. Because of course, with him gone, there was no reason for Ginny and Sark not to continue talking (poor Sydney was in the kitchen making dinner). I deliberately avoided letting them flirt or give back rubs or anything like that, but I did need them to be friends so that the Malfoys would have friends. Unfortunately, after a bout of dancing, Ginny and Sark fell in love!!!!!! The hearts appeared above their heads!! *facepalm*

Syd and Sark have a daughter, but I think theirs is a loveless marriage. Sark is meant to be a freewheeling bachelor. I'll see if introducing a Lauren into the mix does anything. :D

As for Ginny and Draco, I only wish the Xbox version had the heart bed, so they could "play." Draco seems to have gotten over the hugging incident, and is on his way to becoming friends with Sark himself. (I don't think he knows Ginny's got the heart for Sark, though.)

Hey akscully, does my mood theme look familiar? Yes, I do nothing but steal people's candies and their old mood themes.

Comments

[not-concerned.livejournal.com]

*<33 your subject line*

Dude, you can "play" in any of the double beds. Just get one of the sims to relax on the bed, ask the other to join, then there'll be a bunch of options like "make out," "woo hoo" and "try for baby." It took me forever to find that out :D :D :D All the time I was using the hot tub like an idiot!

My sim reached the top of the medical career and was all rich and happy, then she had to bribe some stupid intern and lost $50,000. My sim life is so hard.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm playing the Sims on Xbox, so there's no playing in ANY of the beds. I haven't played Sims 2 yet. I'm :O @ the "try for baby" option!! I wonder if there are ever any Sims who have trouble on that front.

Your Sim life is hard. $50K :O

[not-concerned.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I see :D :D :D That would account for the lack of baby-trying, woohooing, and public woohooing.

[akscully.livejournal.com]

Thief, thief, thief.

Haha, wait until you get Ginny and Draco to "Woohoo" for the first time. :))

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

My sister has the Sims 2 and she made a neighborhood with all the pairings we share. She had me come over to her house on Tuesday specifically so I could have the honor of making Draco and Ginny woohoo together for the first time.

Sometimes siblings are really worth the effort of not having drowned them during childhood. :D

[akscully.livejournal.com]

Hee! So you saw the butt grab! :))

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

It was so funny! Ginny pounced on Draco and snogged the hell out of him, and his arms were all flying out in shock but then he got this big ol' goofy grin and she grinned goofily back, and then they dove under the covers. What was even better was that after that, they kept thinking of each other and having hearts, although their daughter was less than amused by her parents' antics.

[akscully.livejournal.com]

And the exploding diamond! That's how you know it's good--if things explode.

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

Yes. A giant diamond spurting out sparkles. That always happens when I orgasm.

[akscully.livejournal.com]

Thank God. I thought I was the only one.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I am v. bitter that everyone has played Sims 2 but me.

My Sims don't even get to play in bed! WAH.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

There will be no woohooing for my Sims. :( I am playing on Xbox, and they can't even play in bed, much less woohoo. It's all terribly unfair.

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

HI

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Hi! :-)

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

I like your writing.:D

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Thank you. <3

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

Let us be married.

[merkuria-lyn.livejournal.com]

I think I'll have to book in a day of playing Sims soon. ;) I haven't played for ages but was given the PS2 version of the game a while ago (I only had the PC game). Unfortunately not Sims2, though...

One question, though - where do I find the new LJ updating screen that everyone is talking about?!

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Hmm, the screen just shows up on its own when I go to update my journal. Do you use a client or update on the Web? I always update on the Web. Or maybe they've only rolled it out to certain servers for now. Or something. <g>

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

Everyone knows that any surprise is a good surprise, even (especially) if it comes in the form of a dear friend hiding in your closet, just waiting to scare the crap out of you. She should love it, esp. since her hubby was being so sweet and thoughtful.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Ginny/Sark OTP. He really is just a Draco substitute after all.

Dude, I totally finished the Teresa Medeiros and have this crazy D/G plot bunny. I might have to write it. I might be compelled to write it. At the very least, I command you pick up a copy of the book so that I can tell you about it.

I just made the grave mistake of looking to the right at your quote bar, and espyed the Stewie/Pickles quote. Now I am laughing too hard to breathe. I hope my death will remain on your conscience for all time.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I hope you're right. But if she runs crying from the room, I'll give you the beige face.

Ginny/Sark OTP

Now I really am giving you the beige face.

D00d, write it!! Is your plot bunny based directly on the plot from that book? I still have that one story of mine that's percolating, based on the subplot of this terrible romance I skimmed ages ago. I totally want to read the TM book, if only I could remember what it was called.