Well, I've been working on a kitchen for about a month now. It's been as difficult as I expected it to be. That's why I haven't shown anyone but the one who requested it any previews. I was nearly finished when Glamour came out. The day before it did, I had a problem, so I uninstalled FFS. Before I did, though, I zipped up the TS2 folder in My Documents. After I reinstalled, I went to unzip, and the over 4GB zip file was corrupted. Luckily, I had made a backup of the neighborhood in SimPE a day or two before, and only part of my downloads were in it.

I managed to salvage part of zip file, but I still lost a big part. Once again, I was lucky in that what I lost I had backups for, but unfortunatly, those backups were made before I binned all my custom hair and made collection files for all my object sets. So now I have to rebin all the hair, and make all new collection files.

But that's not the end of the bad luck. Two days ago, I went to run Body Shop so I could make some recolors of the new guys clothes in Glamour. I got a Windows error right away, so I decided to reboot. Everything shut down just fine, but it would start back up. No beep to let me know everything was OK. So, after a day of frustration and checking everything I could think of, I realized that my graphics card has died.

What does this mean? Well, I'll be getting my Radeon 9600 back from a friend as soon as I can, so I'm not completely without. I will be finishing this kitchen as soon as I can, but it's going really slow trying to run Milkshape on a GeForce 2. If I have to, I can borrow my husband's PC while he's at work to create. I really don't want to do that. I was so happy when he got his new PC so we didn't have to share anymore.

Hopefully I'll be back in the swing of things again in no time.