If you cannot tell by the time right now, I have been having a horrible time sleeping lately.  Moreso than usual, I mean.  I am starting this post at 3:45 AM, and I feel wired!!  I am so awake.   I will probably take a shower, because, for unknown reasons, that seems to helps me sleep.

I don't know what it is, but I am just so content at this time of night.  I don't know if it is the quiet or the fact that no one else is around or what, but I feel most creative and like myself at this time of night.  It's like when I stopped taking my A.D.D. medicine.  It feels so good to be myself again.  It's another thing I cannot explain, but stopping the medicine was like coming up from underwater.  I feel like colors are brighter, shapes are sharper, noises and music are clearer!  I feel like that at night.  I feel best at this time.  Unfortunately, it is not universally accepted amongst normal humans to live during the night and sleep during the day.  I think I would get terribly lonely were I the only one awake.  Vampires must be lonely people.  They are just misunderstood.  Hug a vampire if you can find one.

Anyway, I am going to go take that shower so I can face normal society at a decent hour tomorrow.  Or later today, rather.

Sigh.  I have been waiting for years for Sims 3 to come out, and when it finally did, I did not have the right opperating system.  I figured my 7 year old laptop could use an upgrade anyway, so I got a whole new laptop.  A really nice one, at that.  A pretty good price, too.  But it wasn't cheap, mind you.  So.  I bought a whole new laptop and the game and, at first, I was not extatic.  It was confusing at first.  Once I got used to the game, though, I started to really enjoy it!  You can customize EVERYTHING!  No more searching the web for different colors of the same base game outfits and furniture.  Now, I can change anything to any color or design I want.  I love that about the game.

So I play for hours.  Just like I did with Sims 2.  I make myself, and I make Kevin.  We get married and have six kids.  Business as usual.  Until our first child grows up.  I tried to make him move out as any normal young adult would do.  But when I had him move out, I lost any control over him.  I could switch active households, but then I would lose control of my original family. 

Unlike Sims 2, Sims 3 does not let you have two active households in one neighborhood at a time.  I find this is a huge flaw and takes away my favorite part of the game, which is the growth and expansion of one specific family.   I love having different generations of Sims living together in the same neighborhood.  But since I cannot control the children after they leave the nest, I have no chance to make them get married or have children of their own. 

I am so disappointed by thisthat I have stopped playing Sims 3 all together for the time being.  I am even thinking of loading Sims 2 onto my new laptop in order to play the way I like.  I am so disappointed by all of it.   I had such high hopes for this game, too.  Bah!

I will probably return to the game eventually, but at the moment I cannot get into it.  Hopefully I can find a way to make the game work.

So, I said I was going to do this, and for once, I am keeping a promise.  This is the beginnings of my list of Harry Potter fanfiction recs.  Almost all of the fics are going to be slash, and the majority are going to be Snarry.  I do have some other pairings, and maybe some gen fics, but I do not read het as a rule.  That being said, here is the start of my list, which will get infinitly longer, I am sure, since I am reading new fiction all the time.  Also, this is in no specific order.

So, without further ado, here is my list of (some of) my favorite fics:

 

I just realized, that I will not be recieving a single Christmas card from any of my favorite authors or artists within the Harry Potter fandom.  Is anyone willing to send me one?  It is so dreary, because I recieve no mail for Christmas.  I am not sure why this is.  I suppose my family and friends are just not into the whole U.S. postal service thing.  I don't know if anyone will see this, let alone respond to it or send me something, but I figured this would be worth a try.  If you are willing to send something to me, like some Snarry art, please let me know and I will give you my address.  I know this is pathetic and begging, but I so love to get mail, especially at Christmas, and the idea of not getting anything makes me really sad.  Anyway, I hope someone sees this.  I love you all whether you read this or not.  Thanks!  And Happy holidays!!

[x-posted at insanejournal http://greenishmaitai.insanejournal.com/ ]