Random Rugs

I was recently asked if I would make more rugs, so being the person I am, I got to work on a couple new rug designs. A couple turned into a few, a few turned into several collections, and from there it sort of got out of control. Apparently a few, in Cristina's world, means 42, and that's just what I've uploaded so far in between homeschooling, reading, being sick, and shooting the crap out of terrorists in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.

Now is a good time for an intervention. Especially since I'm all stocked up on chips and dip.

I Could Be A Doctor

From what I've witnessed over the past ten years with MY doctor, I'm quite confident that I could do his job. Listen to patient, take notes, look up random drugs, write prescription, collect paycheck. Got it.

The man has been treating me for the same exact thing for 10 YEARS, and I get the same response every time I see him. "I don't see any change in your blood work...Hmmmm... Let's try this." **Shrugs**

Wow, that reassures me. At least he's consistant. Basically what it boils down to is that he DOESN'T KNOW what to do. Okay, no problem. I wish doctors would just be honest about what they do and don't know, rather than trying to act god-like and prescribe you all sorts of BS that won't help. I'd be far more willing to go along with something if they made it clear that it was more of an "experimental" sort of treatment to see what works. I'm not stupid, I know when you don't know what you're doing...

I swear, it took like 13 years for them to realize that I had Lupus. Heaven forbid that they listen to me and go along with MY theory of all the symptoms being related. No, they want to treat every symptom individually, or insist that I take an antideppresant because it's "all in my head". WTF?

I started this rant because of the newest thing to happen. My doctor finally figured out that I have endometiosis. Of course, they had to cut me open to figure it out, but I'd say it was well worth it. Now that man can't give me anymore crap when I tell him that my PMS includes so much pain that I can't WALK! That man used to look at me like I was crazy when I'd explain it to him and then try to prescribe Zoloft. Hello... I'm not depressed, or crazy. I have PAIN. MEN!! The best part? They're not going to do anything about it. Too risky to cut it out, and the drugs that are supposed to help don't mesh well with me. My prescription? "Take Advil." Which, if he'd bothered to care or just look at my file, would know that I can't take Advil, or aspirin. I've been with him for 10 FRIGGIN YEARS!, and he can't remember that?

I think I'm done with doctors for a while. Until something major happens, like my arm falls off, I won't be making any appointments any time soon.

Friday's my Birthday

Just a quick reminder to those of you good enough to visit my page, I will not be "here" this weekend. Friday is my birthday, and since I'm spending this entire week shuttling my kids back and forth to their testing sites, I will be rewarding myself (and them) with a big "nothing" Friday. Consider me dead that day. I'm sleeping in, will not answer the phone, will lounge about in my pj's watching my Angel box set, and eating mass amounts of junk food. Saturday I'll be out at the Home Show with my mom, and Sunday I have the obligatory birthday get together. (I realize that makes me sound ungrateful, but I'm exhausted and need a time out.)

I'll be back Monday if anyone needs to get in touch with me for any reason.

I do not make clothes...

Why? Because I'm awful at it. Believe me, I've tried plenty of times to make something for my Sims to wear. I have great ideas when it comes to an outfit, but when the time comes to actually put it together, my skills are not up to the challenge. "Dodge" here, "burn" there... it creates shading and adds realism. Let me tell you what happens when I take a stab a realism, it turns into one big mess. To prove a point, I posted some of my creations here recently.

Please, I beg you, don't ask me to make clothes anymore. It pains me to see how sloppy my artistry is in this area. :)

Recreated Sponging Sets

I have finished recreating the sponging sets that I had accidentally deleted. They're as close to the original ones as I could make them, but may be slightly different, seeing as how I had to start from scratch.

I will be uploading them tonight and tomorrow, and they should start to become available for download by next week.

Hopefully you all enjoy them. I put a lot of work into them. :)

Cris

OMG! I wrote a tutorial!

I actually did it! I finally sat down, and wrote out how I make new paintings.

It made perfect sense to me when I re-read it, but I guess it's up to the admins at TSR on whether or not they wish to publish it.

I know it's silly, but I'm really nervous. What if they publish it and I sound illiterate? Or maybe I'm the only one it makes sense to?

As nervous as I am about it, I hope it's published. I really want feedback on how I did.

I'm also kinda sick of having to telling people the same thing over and over again. Now I can just (hopefully) send them a link to my article.

WooHoo!

I am MESH Challenged

If anyone can make a mesh for me, I'd be so grateful. I've spent a considerable amount of time playing with MilkShape 3D, and I've come to the conclusion that unles someone is going to sit with me and show me the ins and outs of this program, I will never understand what to do.

All I want to make is a skinny vertical painting. I tried to take The Lady on Red painting, and change the x to equal 0.5. This is EXACTLY the size I want the mesh to be, but as soon as I tried importing it into SimPE, something happened. The texture image was all screwy, and when I got it into the game, there was this weird shadow, and the image would appear under the original painting I cloned.

Needless to say, meshing does not appear to be my strongest area. Ok, ok, I should just never open MilkShape again, and leave it to the pros.

Can/Will anyone help me out?

Coming back Slowly, very slowly

I can barely move at the moment, and sitting in my computer chair for any lenth of time longer than 10 minutes is quite painful, but I promised I'd be back in a week, and I don't like to break promises.

I'll be doing my best to put out a wall set that I've been working on called Indoor Oasis. I have a couple other wall sets that are near completion and I may attempt to upload this week. It all will depend on how bad I feel.

I have several paintings that I'd like to share, and a few new rug sets. Hopefully, little by little each one will go up.

Thanks to all of you who have shown me such great support and have wished me well. I truly appreciate the gesture and I'm thankful that I've been able to find such genuine people here at TSR.

Cris

Taking a break

I've been under a lot of stress here at home with homeschooling the kids and everything that I've let myself get run down. I will be taking about a week off to try to get my health back to normal levels. Most of you know I have Lupus, and I'm currently in the middle of a pretty nasty little flare. I'm exhausted, cranky, my joints and muscles are killing me, etc. I don't currently enjoy doing much of anything at the moment, and I'm hoping that a few days of rest will get me back on track.

If I don't respond to your messages right away, it's not personal. I promise.

Thanks for understaning.

Cris

Thank You!

I want to thank everyone that takes time to leave comments on my downloads. I really do appreciate that you took the time to leave feedback. I know I don't always go to everyone's guestbook to thank them for their comments, but they do mean a lot, and do not go unnoticed.

I'd also like to invite those who are interested to let me know what sorts of things you would like to see from me in the future. All suggestions are taken seriously, and I do want to try to provide a little bit of something for everyone.

Please feel free to leave me ANY feedback. Even if it's negative. I'd like to know what you don't like, as well as what you like. It helps me improve in certain areas that may be weak. I promise not to take it personally. :)

Thanks again!