The Bookacy Family Alphabet Journal

Ha! So I finally got my act together and finished typing the Curious update. It's a little long (and that's partly why it took me so long), but what can I say, it was an eventful week too!

Anyway, as always, comments are welcome wherever you might feel inclined to leave them. I hope you enjoy!

Well, I can't really say that I had much progress this week, either. I was fairly busy with work and stuff. Thursday was a day off, and I did try to play the next house in the Alphabetia rotation and write some captions for the next Lakewood update, but gave up pretty quickly, I was just too tired. And in the weekend I traveled for Mothers' Day, so no progress there either.

So it seems I'm in a bit of a dry spell currently. But that's okay, things go in phases so it happens. Maybe already next week is better?

Happy Birthday, lorinsv60! I hope you have a great day! Today is one of the biggest celebrations of the year for us Finns, as it's May Day's Eve. So here's to you and to May Day! *toasts with sparkling*

This week was perhaps a bit busier than I expected real life -wise, I did slightly longer hours at work and also exercised a surprising amount (go me!). But I did get a bit of simming progress too.

I continued playing the Curious household, they're in Sunday morning currently. I've also written their chapter some, though admittedly I'm somewhat behind on that. Not catastrophically, though, and besides, it's only one household. I'm not allowed to play the next one before I finish writing this one.

On the Bookacy side of things, I think I wrote a liiiittle bit of text on one of the "finished" slides, but the total of written slides still sits at 52.

It's been a while since I've done one of these picspam gathering posts, but now that I'm about a quarter of the way through with the main 'hood rotation in Alphabetia, I figured it was about time.

If you follow my Tumblr, you've probably aready seen them, and if you start from the top of the blog, you'll get them in the reverse order (because I post them in the order they happen). In any case, here they are, family by family.

Phillips: 1 2 3
Riley: 1 2 3
Thayer: 1 2 3 4
Bruenig: 1 2 3 4

And finally, here are some college makeovers! Glad to have some progress in Alphabetia. :)

Still thinking hard about the rebuild, but since I seem to have sorted a couple of the issues that first looked like neighborhood corruption, I might yet wait and see. The 'hood probably has some corruption (after all, it's from 2007), but perhaps we can manage some time yet. In any case, it doesn't mean I can't plan for the rebuild, even start building the new 'hood on the side if I want. Maybe that'd be a good idea.

So, here I come, bearing an update! It's time for the third week with the Capps.



As usual, if you feel like leaving a comment, they are welcome anywhere it suits you. I hope you enjoy!

Still the right day where I'm at! Happy Birthday, biglenny! I hope you have/had a great day!

Very good progress this week. I managed to sit down and type up the next Lakewood update. I posted it yesterday, despite the fact that Photobucket tried its best to prevent me from doing so. I had to upload the pictures a few at a time, because about half of them weren't going through any given time so I needed to know which were the ones failing. That was a pain, but in the end I got my pictures there. I hope whatever that was passes by the time it's time for the next update.

Now that the next Bookacy update is all arranged with all the pictures I have (so far, I haven't yet decided where to end it), I also wrote a bit there. The update is currently at 40 slides written, and story-wise at the end of Dirk's first year in college. So not bad.

I also started playing the next house in the Bookacy rotation, the Thayers. And here comes the confession: I'm kind of bored. It's a big household, so the life there is kind of a mess, and it's not the most interesting one. I suppose if I can't go right back to the main house or my other favorites, I'd rather be playing the BaCC forward. I feel a bit guilty about that. Again, it gets me to ponder about what to do about the huge extended family in the long run.

Well, in any case, this week's progress was good. Hopefully next week's will be, too!

I'll say this week's progress was pretty good. I finally managed to finish the Davidson household, and with that, I unlocked the first BD for Lakewood and got a pretty nice population boost, so yay! Here's some picspam on that.

I also did some writing, and I'm currently maybe halfway through the Davidson update. Since my playing was so sporadic in the last few weeks, I haven't been able to write as I play as much I usually do. Still, it shouldn't be a huge effort. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll get it done next week. I might even write a little bit more before bed today.

As for the Bookacy side of things, I did get something done there as well. Namely I finally finished pre-arranging the pictures I've taken in the slideshow. Phew, that was a task. I sometimes wonder whether I could come up with a better process for that one. Well, now that's done with, and the next thing to do is to continue writing the update, and of course play the next house in the rotation. Slowly but surely things move along there too.

Next week doesn't look particularly busy, so here's hoping I can keep on making progress! *knocks on wood*

Whoops, it's not a Sunday! Last night I was really tired, and kind of forgot I was supposed to do weekly simming.

Not that there's very much to report. I made the decision to extend the next rotation in Lakewood for everyone so that I can gain the BD already, and I did play a little bit on Monday, but didn't make it that far. During the rest of the week I had headaches (being an office worker sucks sometimes), and in the weekend, when I was feeling better, I was out of town.

So not much progress to speak of, really. And this week looks like the same at least in the sense that I'll be busy in the weekend. Perhaps I'll have time and energy for a little bit of simming during the week, but we'll see how that turns out.