Janelliellio’s Blog

Welcome to Janelle’s Sims!

This is the introduction to what I will later deem updates.  I have diagnosed myself with a preservative disorder – I hate playing a game that will mess up how the game originally arrived in the box.  So when I got The Sims 2 in 2004, I inspected all the homes and families, made by its spawn company Maxis, and no further effort was put into playing those families.  For some reason, I felt that I didn’t want to mess them up.  As if I was going to be the last person on Earth with the files as they were on the CD/DVD, and it was really important they remain that way.

So with The Sims 3 less than 50 days away, I have decided I will play the Maxis families instead of my own neighborhood.  …But which one?  There’s the obvious, Pleasantview – the not so pleasant place to live, with widows, infidelity, deceit, and trailor trash, but I thought I might get bored.  Then there’s Veronaville, where every family is an allusion to a Shakespearean play (The Capps and Montys for example), but again, thought I’d get bored.  I wasn’t ever really into that neighborhood even though it was really neat.  Strangetown is just as it sounds – there’s a rivalry between a retired pollination alien that just want to live a normal life and a military general, the alien-obsessed, and experiments on a nervous subject up on the hill.  Riverblossom Hills is a neighborhood that came with the Seasons expansion pack – a lonely gardener, sims that photosynthesize, and a Goth family knock off.  With the Freetime (hobbies) expansion came Desiderata Valley, a town of leisure.  The newest neighborhood, Belladonna Cove, came with Apartment Life – lots of pairings for me to make, six orphans living alone, and witches to be had.

There’s so much to chose from, I didn’t want to.  So I didn’t.  Instead, I downloaded HystericalParoxysm’s Megahood, a neighborhood with every single Maxis made sim bunking together – Sims from different neighborhoods could, and would, interact as they never could before.

Every post hereafter is going to be what has happened, what I’m planning.  …If it worked.

Ttyl
Janelle