More Awesome Than You!

I was trying to clean some junk off my computer and I found something I must have done ages ago. I vaguely remember doing all of them, but this is the only one's that turned up so far.

So you think you are obsessed? Beat THIS:

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Yes, that's right, it's the entire Monty family tree. With labels. :o

Should I be looking for a place to hide from the men in white coats?

Too late...we've already found you...  :P

I've done the same thing, only on paper instead of on the computer. So, I'm actually a little envious...

No worries, when I'm done with Sara I'll check you out too (I couldn't stick to my lab tests, I had to do field work too...)

Okay. I'll just sit on the floor babbling like a baby until you float down with your umbrella...

Damn...an umbrella! My kingdom for an umbrella! You know, there's not much need of one in Greece. In the unlikely event of a rain I just use a long-sleeve shirt with a hood. Sorry, I'm stuck in my lab with these goddamn DNA tests that keep failing on me.

Okay. I'll just sit on the floor babbling like a baby until you float down with your umbrella long-sleeve shirt with a hood...

You're a persistent lil' fellow, aren't you...?  ;)
Now, I don't know what the weather's like around your part of the planet (you're in the States IIRC?), but over here I'm in a t-shirt, cursing for having to bear the jeans jacket I wore in the morning. And the bloody PCR keeps returning blanks! Damn I hate it when I don't get results!

I did it with my legacy family..so I guess that makes me a bit insane as well.

I figure though if you're going to spend some of your spare time playing this game it warrants some of the insanity that comes along with it  :D

I'm a female fellow, but yes, I'm persistent.

I'm in the southeastern US. Atlanta, GA. Also in a t-shirt, as it still averages in the 80's, I'd say. Actually, I'm lying. I'm not in a t-shirt, I'm in my pajamas. But, they're short-sleeved pajamas.


I hate when that happens. Again, I'm lying. I have no idea what you're talking about. But I think I recall you saying you're a veterinarian, am I correct? You have my dream career, if that's the case. As a little girl, I checked out books on veterinary medicine for fun. I was, oh, 6 or 7 years old. :P Went to college, to a college with a very good veterinary school, I must add, and majored in...journalism. Oh, well. Never got anywhere in that major, anyway. Spent most of my twenties working as a vet tech. making less money than a burger-flipper. Damn, I wish I'd gone to vet school.

Fellow is unisex. My memory is prone to pulling me nasty pranks, so I went on the safe side, hehe.


In the '80s...you almost gave me a flashback there...You know, Atlanta, '80s, Matlock! Then I realized it's 80 Fahrenheit you're talking about. 22-24 Celsius is about the temp we've got over here at the moment (that's 72-75 F) You REALLY should start using Celsius grades and METERS over there! You too, ye englishmen!  :P


PCR, aka Polymerase Chain Reaction is basically taking a small sample of DNA and multiplying a certain region of it millionfold times. Well, I really love animals (particularly dogs), so I think it was bound to happen. Bad thing with my PhD is it's almost exclusively lab work, so I don't get to see or treat any live animals. All I see of them dogs is their DNA. And it's a scarce sight as well these past weeks!  >:(

I was a lab tech for about 2 weeks. My supervisor and I apparently had a personality conflict. She was a bitch, I'm not.
I love all animals, but particularly herptiles. I've been fascinated by reptiles since I saw my first lizard. Usually I have a house full of animals, but at the present time I'm down to 2 cats, 3 leopard geckos and a five-lined skink my father rescued from a glue trap. My husband keeps my animal population in check, despite my insistence that we get more, more, more. I wish I could have dogs, since I grew up with them, but my son is allergic. We had 2 german shephard-husky mix dogs, but my parents had to adopt them from us once my son developed allergies.
I majored in Art for a while in college, too, so now I do commissioned portraits of people's pets. At least I'm putting some of my college experience to work, huh?

I can actually beat that for obsessiveness, truely I can.

I have an excel database with the names, actual dates of birth, period in months before I will allow them to age (see previous post somewhere about my aging polivcies)  Family connections, job titles, career paths, and all of this spanning several generations of a huge 80+ household neighbourhood.  I also have a family tree that I used Legacy Software ti produce, and that's before you get to all the folders of hardcopies of houseplans (In case a lot gets corrupted I have the floor plan to rebuild from) a bi-monthly census of the neighbourhoo.

Oh not to mention the online forum where my sims blog and chat with each other.

I'm not obsessed.....just committed.

Jorenne, please tell me you don't have a full time job as well.  Because then I'll have to go kill myself.  I hardly have time to even play the game!

Yay, there is somebody in this world that wastes more time on a game then I do, lol

....I want to see that forum lol.

My dear sweetie you are not alone.  I too need to be locked in a closet.

I take note of the names of each of my Sims with gender, age level, aspiration, zodiac sign, jobs, marriage status (single, married, engaged etc).

Aspiration and zodiac signs are listed by gender and age group (I like a lot of variety in my game) and same for jobs.

I take note of each of the pre-made teens name that comes in each Maxis made neighborhoods.  Take note of the name of the DJ'S, barista, maid etc... for all my neiborhoods.

And I could go on like that for hours.  I prefer to write it on paper (since I don't have a printer at home) so it is always near me when I need it.

My boyfriend thinks I am a bit obsessive lol.... what do you think?

If only I can find a healthy balance between work, running the house, cats, hubby, and Sims 2.  Problem is, all I want to do is play my game.  And I get real cranky if I have not been able to play for a few days. *sigh*

*raises hand*

My name is Barb and I'm a Simaholic.

I made charts for my genetics neighborhood.  The top line reads "Last (name), Husband, Wife, Child 1, Sex, Child 2, Sex, Child 3, Sex, Child 4, Sex".  On the side are spaces for astrological sign, aspiration, job, skin color, eye color and hair.  I also have a weekly calendar (Mon-Sun) that I chart which day of the week they're on, when a sim got pregnant, had a baby, age transitions from toddler to teen and when they went to college.  Three generations per page, printed on both sides of the paper.

A separate chart is for college.  Which year, semester, note if they finished their term paper for that term, which dorm they're in, what their LTW (or my choice for their career is) and what their major is.

And I just recently made ANOTHER chart for which color married which color so I don't have two of one color family marry two of another color (like two blues both married to purples) because I want to see how much variety I can get in the children's genetics.

I keep this all in a notebook along with various other things I've printed like compatibility charts, cheat codes, etc.

Whew! I feel better just having admitted that!  But... I... just... can't... stop...

I have a balance, although I don't know how healthy it is.  I NEVER feel like I have enough time for TS2.  When I'm at work, I spend my breaks and lunch reading through forums such as this.  I get about an hour to an hour and a half in the mornings before I leave for work.  That is the only time my husband "allows" me access to our one computer.  For some reason, he absolutely cannot stand being at home while I'm on the computer and he isn't unless he's sleeping.  I've noticed myself askng him if he'd like to take a nap several times on the weekends, just so I can play with my Sims.

I think it's all best for me since I usually get bored if I try to play for more than two hours at a time.

I've just recently started keeping records for my sims in a notebook, but I still don't list everything I'd LIKE to.  I think I'm going to create a page template with all the information I want to keep for each of my Sims and make a PDF with that page template repeated multiple times, then upload it to Cafe Press and order a notebook of it so it's all nicely bound, like a workbook.

I'm actually sort of surprised no one's put together a Sims workbook in cafe press or the like to sell considering how easily it could be done and how many Simmers obsessively keep records.

Shhhhh, please don't tell my boss but I use their copier to make copies of my templates....   :-[

I have been there! "Honey, you look exhausted. How about a widdle nap for the hubby-wubby?" I've been thisclose to slipping him a mickey. Kidding!


Up until last February, we shared a computer. Which sucked. So when he began eyeing a very expensive watch (conveniently just before Valentine's Day), I took that and ran with it. He got his watch, I got my laptop.  While we were browsing laptops, my husband actually told the salesman that I needed one with such-and-such requirements to be able to play Sims 2. Never in a million years thought I'd ever hear my husband say that, since pre-watch, he was ready to throw my game out the window.

Hopefully we won't have to share a computer for too much longer.  Earlier in our relationship and in the beginning of our marriage we had two separate computers.  Although I'm still trying to figure out the math, I think keeping two computers upgraded with the latest technology is three times as expensive as keeping one computer upgraded.  This is because when one part goes on Computer A, Computer B must receive a similar new part even if it doesn't need it.  We got tired of constantly upgrading both computers, so we combined all the best parts into one (and incidentally started upgrading far less often!)

My employers have a nice employee purchase program for computer equipment (basically a 2 year interest free loan) and my iBook is just about paid off.  We have no room for a second computer now so we're likely going to user our 52" HDTV as a monitor and get a wireless keyboard and mouse.  Hubby's still figuring out the logistics of it all, but let me tell you, I can't WAIT to play Sims on a huge screen.

I've been thinking about doing that as well. Big-screen sims would be perfection.

The database that Pegasys made is quite nice, still in testing but hey what the hell.  YOu have to enter stuff in yourself, but its not too shabby if you ask me.

Convince your honey that he would like a new computer.  This is not hard.  When he gets one, you take his old one.  When you need a new video card, convince him that HE needs a new video card.  When he gets one, you take his old one.  Sometimes the guilt gets to him and he buys you a nice flat screen monitor.  Works for me! 

Or convince your hubby that he needs anything in roughly the price range of a computer you want. Must not really be a necessesity, though. Must be something totally frivolous. Like a watch.

Well, the reason it didn't work before when we had two computers was because if I needed more RAM for example, he INSISTED on getting more/better RAM, even if he didn't need it!  There are specific upgrades I need to do the work I do and every time I needed an upgrade, he HAD to have an upgrade to the same or a better part.  It was bleeding us dry (about $200/month on computer upgrades.  Now we spend maybe $400 / YEAR)

I hope it's not going to be the same story when we get another new computer.  Since I'll likely only use the TV computer for the Sims and surfing the web, it's only going to need to be upgraded when a part goes out or an EP boosts the requirements.

Errr, no, I don't have a full time job at the moment, I'm sighed off work by my doctor until at least august 2006.  I miss working, but part of me thinks, "Aarrggghhh, no can't ever go back to work, where would I find time to play/obsess then???"

Ummm, I'm sure a lot of you would LOVE to read my forum, however since I'm not the only one who writes on it I'd have to get permission before allowing a peek.  We're veeerrry protective of our little world, we've been writing and blogging together for more than 2 and a half years now.  OK, we admit we have no lives lol.

You need to get permission from your sims to allow a peek? Hmmmm...you are obsessed. :D

lol, no, my sims "write" with sims of another ever-so-slightly less obsessed simmer, I need to get the other person's permission first, and it's not all pg-13 stuff either

 I've noticed myself askng him if he'd like to take a nap several times on the weekends, just so I can play with my Sims.
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LOL...I thought *I* may have been the only one to do this!! I try and coax my partner into having naps on the weekends too so I can play.  :-[

From reading all this I am so happy we have each, me and my boyfriend , a computer.  For like 5 years we did not, then Sims 1 appear... 2 years later each of us had our own computer.  Of course at first I ended up with is hold one but I was so happy I could play my favorite game on MY OWN computer.  Since then I purchase a computer I like with the spec I wanted.

So no need for me to push him to take naps, he does it well already on his own  ;)

Seriously, that sounds like fun.

That does sound like fun. I find that playing with other people really makes the game different, regardless of how exactly you interract with each other, whether it's by blogging or actually playing the same neighborhood together.

I'm doing Prosperity with two other people. We swap the neighborhood in its entirety. We rolled a 4 for the number of households, so we each own one house, meaning that that house can only be played by the person it belongs to, and the fourth is for anyone to play. For major events that involve each other's houses we collaborate on what can happen. It's getting kind of huge in terms of file size (it's now 4 files 8MB each), but we think we will be able to finish since we are on gen 4 right now for all but one house, which is still on gen 3.

Ever since I moved in with my g/f I've pretty much hijacked her computer. In the past two years I've bought her a keyboard set, some decent speakers, a second hard drive (she thinks it's mine, but I sure won't take it with me if we ever break up)...these are the parts she knows about. In order to avoid further drama (since she doesn't want me to spend money in her computer...), I've never mentioned the extra 512MB RAM I recently added...nor the substitution of her Radeon 9200 256MB with a Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB two days ago!
-"Honey, is the computer going faster or is it just my impression?"
-"Yah, I did some disk cleaning and a defrag. Works wonders, doesn't it?"

OK, I have permission to share on a few conditions.

1)  Reading only, no signing up, no posting.

2)  I'm not allowed to post an open link where sheep who don't understand these rules may see it.

So PM me, and if you're not a sheep I'll send you the link :P

DrBeast, your name does you injustice.  You are a big sweetie.

Hehe, thanx...but it's not completely selfless you know. After all, as I am the one who (ab)uses the computer about 99% of the time, I'm the one who's really gaining. BTW, DrBeast is actually an in-the-rough adaptation of the greek term ktiniatros (animal aka beast doctor, veterinarian). And it sounds pretty good too, hehe.