Mac's 'Hood

I thought I'd keep you up to date with a couple of anniversary gifts I downloaded and put into my neighborhood. Here is Hunter's Christiana Orion (I keep up coming up with surnames related to "Hunter" and haven't run out yet - and I hope that she never runs out of wonderful creations. ) I also really like the top Christiana was packed with.

Here Christiana (Knowledge/Pisces Architecture/Arts) is entertaining Will Smith (with his back to the camera), Toni's Brandon Fish (dressed nautical, also see page 13 in this thread) and Heli Keijunen, who is becoming his main squeeze. We have the makings of a triangle here... Brandon has two bolts with Christiana, but Heli hates her.


I also started to play Ari's Patrick - here he's named Patrick Driann. Again, I'm using Adri's, Adrian's etc as surnames. Driann is a new one. He's Fortune/Cancer Athletic/Fitness. He also brings back memories of my teenage years.

When I was a teenager (this was the '50s) I was told that the way to success and happiness was at least partially in good grooming - getting my hair cut and keeping it combed among other things. But there was always this guy - like Patrick - who looked like an unmade bed, with long, unkempt hair. And he was always fighting women off with a stick, because he was "cute". That's Patrick. He's in the process of sweeping Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum off their feet, and he is also remarkably successful with a couple of NPC femmes that happened his way. Tom Hanks (married to Doris Day - of course) is less impressed, didn't join the toast, and remarked that he'd had better boxes of chocolates

mac wrote:

... I'm currently playing without burglar alarms, hoping against hope for a burglar to show up so I can try the hack that allows sims to fight burglars themselves.

Toni wrote:

About those dramatic sleeves and cuffs Mac, I think they need a story line of their own!

Great update, mac! It is always nice to see the creations in game!

With her recent appearances on "So you think you can dance" and "The View", I thought it was time to import Lady Gaga to my neighborhood. Celeb likenesses aren't always perfect, but this was the best I could find. And look who dropped in! Lady Gaga and Bill immediately hit it off with two bolts. Here, she's giving the back rub! I've always needed more men in my 'hood to go with the far more numerous ladies, so I didn't import Hillary.


I recently contacted Ari regarding the dress in her wallpaper "Baby Butterfly" she very kindly directed me to a Liana Sims creation (for details go to the Baby Butterfly thread. Although the dress is listed as "maternity" it works just fine as an everyday. Tina Sym (not a celeb) is a pleasure sim, but so far she's behaved herself so she has had no need for maternity... She has a dancer career and a dancer hobby. Here Ari's creation Lenora Aster is admiring Tina's new dress. To Ari...

Oh boy you have lots going on in your hood.
Bill and Lady Gaga Wow that´s a couple!

Hilllary has to find a lover from Mars or something like that.

The Baby butterfly dress looks very nice on your Tina.

Great update!

Aw, you're very welcome, Mac. And I know I've mentioned it before, but I do so love seeing my sims in your game. Thanks for your support!

Sir Mac wrote:

When I was a teenager (this was the '50s)...

I just realized you are near my mom's age, Mac. She just turned 70 yesterday.

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But there was always this guy - like Patrick - who looked like an unmade bed, with long, unkempt hair. And he was always fighting women off with a stick, because he was "cute".

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Tom Hanks (married to Doris Day - of course) is less impressed, didn't join the toast, and remarked that he'd had better boxes of chocolates.

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...but so far she's behaved herself so she has had no need for maternity...

How funny! Tina is stylin' in that purty "baby butterfly" dress, btw.

Enjoyed the update, as always, Sir Mac.
Thank you for sharing and for being here with us.

Your hood never fails to entertain Mac!!! I love it!

Thank you for adding Christina to the hood. I'm jealous of her, I would like to have a conversation with Will Smith!

How many celebrities DO you have in the hood??? Lady Gaga!! Wow...........too cool for me.

Hunter wrote:

How many celebrities DO you have in the hood??? Lady Gaga!! Wow...........too cool for me.

I've lost all count, but I must have at least a dozen of your creations - each more attractive than the next.

I'm finishing up a season with my sims - I do have more than 250 households - mostly, but not all celebs. I'll do a census before I start them all on summer - and that will be another year of playing. I may bump Bill and Gaga up a bit in the sequence. I'm rather curious as to where it will go...

Glad to see you posting more on the site - hope it's indicative of progress and convalescence

Sorry for the double post, but I've actually completed spring with all of my sims. Here is the census:

I have 324 separate households containing 455 sims

The households are as follows:

83 with celebrity partners (2 sims in household, possible children)
116 with a single celeb
71 with a single non-celeb
15 with non-celeb partners
33 with a celeb non-celeb partnership
1 born in game sim (I think I've said before that I don't do kids much)
5 sims off to University, then will join 'hood

Celebs include movie stars, politicians, singers, dancers, fictional (e.g. Jessica Rabbit or Emma Woodhouse), sims creators (Delphy, Hysterical, Milano, Sugah, and Ari). Non-celebs are mainly "interesting" sims downloaded from this site, Hunter's site, and SimsTR (although this one has gone primarily to Sims 3). Also a few Maxis NPCs married with existing sims.

A few celebs appear more than once. Johnny Depp appears both as himself and as Jack Sparrow, and there are two Sean Connerys (one elderly) and two Sandra Bullocks (one married to George Harrison, the other single, but getting involved with Nico Genni)

From Ari, I have the 4 Asters: Don,Lenora,Valera, and Zoe, Ariana Woodfae
From Jen: Marco and Nico Jenni, Patrick Driann, Melanie Drianna, Shanti Adrian, Giacomo and Kiana Adri, and Tiona Adrian-Worrell (Toni - have you figured out the Sir Frank Worrell connection?)

From SimEm, I have Simone Simem

Last, but by no means least, I have from Hunter: Christiana Orion (the hunter), Carole Hunter - a Devil Wears Prada type in my hood, Allison Hunter, Ava, Taylor Yeager (German hunter), Colby Hunt (a politician - hoping to become a big cheese ), Jolie Huntley, Analize Cazadora (Spanish hunter), Helene Huntington, Safire Huntress, and Trinity Huntsman.

I've probably left out a few, I compiled this list at 10PM last night and may have missed some who didn't have last names related to their creator.

To all of you...

Now on to playing Summer with all of these!

Mac wrote:

With her recent appearances on "So you think you can dance" and "The View", I thought it was time to import Lady Gaga to my neighborhood.

Gotta love the GaGa!

Ulli wrote:

Bill and Lady Gaga Wow that´s a couple!

Mac wrote:

I have 324 separate households containing 455 sims

Wow, I have to admire your rotation skills. Keeping track must be quite the chore.

Thanks for the update. Your 'hood never ceases to amaze me.

mac wrote:

Sorry for the double post, but I've actually completed spring with all of my sims. Here is the census:

I have 324 separate households containing 455 sims

How ever do you keep up?! I thought I was the juggle-meister, but you have elevated this thing to a fine art!

mac wrote:

Toni - have you figured out the Sir Frank Worrell connection?)

I'm very impressed! Somebody knows their cricket!

I thoroughly enjoy seeing celebrities in game...and I love the hook-ups! Tom and Doris! Though if they were the same contemporary in RL I think they'd have been a great team. They're both understand (is Doris Day still alive?) the business, made good choices, are superb at their craft...and despite all the industry drama, remain incredibly sunny!

Lady Gaga rocks!

Oh! I'm delighted to see my Brandon in someone's game.

I know you've read by just concluded saga (thank you so much again for your generous feedback)....and Brandon is actually Kyle's dad, with different hair and I think I tweaked his nose a bit. Kept the name though. I'm honoured that he's been added to your rather exciting hood.

ilikefishfood wrote:

How ever do you keep up?! I thought I was the juggle-meister, but you have elevated this thing to a fine art!

Well, among other things, I keep a 22 (currently) page spreadsheet and do a page at a time! I do get a lot of crashes, but I save a lot and get a lot of reading done while reloading.

ilikefishfood wrote:

I'm very impressed! Somebody knows their cricket!

If you haven't, you should check out C L R James' Beyond a Boundary. James (from Trinidad) is one of the best writers ever in the English language - wrote both about politics and cricket. Worrell (from Barbados) was the very first black captain of a WI XI. Much more than cricket in this book.

ilikefishfood wrote:

is Doris Day still alive?

So far as I know, she's still alive - at least as of a year ago. Very active in animal welfare. For one of the most wonderful love ballads, Google "I'll never stop loving you" you can hear a clip - from the movie Love me or Leave me. Good piano arrangement, too.

mac wrote:

Well, among other things, I keep a 22 (currently) page spreadsheet and do a page at a time!

I have a note book!

mac wrote:

I do get a lot of crashes, but I save a lot and get a lot of reading done while reloading.

Oh I get 'em too! Not lots...but I get them every few days. I play in windows mode, and actually keep my game running (well, saved, but open) for days on end. I play until I get a crash.

I've found some lots are really susceptible to crashes...and custom made hoods seem to be generally more unstable in my game anyway. I go from lot to lot and avoid going back to the main hood as much as I can. University seems most stable in my game.

I too use my load time (about 45 minutes), to catch up on reading, chores....and of course to download more stuff!

mac wrote:

If you haven't, you should check out C L R James' Beyond a Boundary. James (from Trinidad) is one of the best writers ever in the English language - wrote both about politics and cricket. Worrell (from Barbados) was the very first black captain of a WI XI. Much more than cricket in this book.

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Beyond the Boundary is on my list of favourite books (CLR's use of language is exquisite) and he is one of my favourite authors. He was also a big social rights activist too!

I totally love that you know him and his work...and of course of Sir Frank's legacy.

If you're remotely interested in cricket...and the incredible story of the West Indies Team of the 70's and 80's (we suck right now)...you may some time want to get a hold of a copy of this incredible documentary, Fire in Babylon. I saw if for the first time when I was visiting my brother a couple of weeks ago. It blew my head off!

mac wrote:

Google "I'll never stop loving you" you can hear a clip - from the movie Love me or Leave me. Good piano arrangement, too.

Am off to check out. My mother adored her. I remember her singing (badly. She was totally tone deaf! ) Que sera sera to me...as a child when I was devastated over a lost or broken toy or some such horrific trauma.

Mac wrote:

I have 324 separate households containing 455 sims...I keep a 22 (currently) page spreadsheet and do a page at a time!

Elle wrote:

Wow, I have to admire your rotation skills. Keeping track must be quite the chore.

Toni wrote:

I thought I was the juggle-meister, but you have elevated this thing to a fine art! ... I thoroughly enjoy seeing celebrities in game...and I love the hook-ups!

Wow! That's a heckofa hood you got there! I'm impressed that you not only keep them all straight, but have broken down your census into categories.

Just a quick update, without much of a story. I recently reactivated Ava Kerrigan (seemed an appropriate name for a figure skater). She is Hunter's "Ava" and on this occasion I didn't use a variation of "Hunter" as a last name. She had a lamp with one charge in her inventory and she was platinum when I brought her up. So she gave it away. Bad choice! She had never used the lamp at all, it had been given to her. She is, however, up to level 7 in her figure skating career. No built-in LTW, of course, so she's going for maxing all 7 skills. Here she is entertaining Ari's Lenora Aster.

Oooooo...I love that coy look in the last photo! Very cute.

How ever did you get a lamp in her inventory if you weren't playing her?

ilikefishfood wrote:

Oooooo...I love that coy look in the last photo! Very cute.

The coy look is in response to a blown kiss.

ilikefishfood wrote:

How ever did you get a lamp in her inventory if you weren't playing her?

Undoubtedly a couple got the lamp, used two charges, then gave the lamp to her. I'm big on giving away lamps if they still have unneeded charges.

BTW - love your new avatar!

mac wrote:

ilikefishfood wrote:

How ever did you get a lamp in her inventory if you weren't playing her?

Undoubtedly a couple got the lamp, used two charges, then gave the lamp to her. I'm big on giving away lamps if they still have unneeded charges.

Aaaaah! I seeeee!

mac wrote:

BTW - love your new avatar!

Thanks Mac!

I was working on a West Indian carnival costume for a simmie I uploaded. I didn't end up using the outfit for the upload, but the pictures I look were so delicious I had to use them for something!

Mac wrote:

...Ava Kerrigan (seemed an appropriate name for a figure skater).

Toni wrote:

Oooooo...I love that coy look in the last photo! Very cute.

Mac wrote:

I'm big on giving away lamps if they still have unneeded charges.

I have to keep this in mind. Mine often go unused and end up dying with the simmie.

Why are Barack and Michelle smiling? Well, on the same day he became Mayor of Simsville and she became The Law. Platinum forever!


Let me introduce a couple of recent sims... On the left is Ella Warne - she's from down under (many thanks to Sugah). She's in awe of her far more famous brother Shane, but hopes to become a famous supermodel - then we'll see who's famous! Chaya James is on the right. She's from Trinidad (many thanks to Toni). Chaya is a creative writer and will be very happy if she is ever half as good as her grandfather. She's published her first book "Within a Boundary - a Look at Trinidad in the 21st Century" It was not a good start but she did give 1000 simoleans from her royalty to Ella to start her household. They are now best friends.


Valera Aster (thanks Ari) came home from work with her. They're both creative writers. After discussing the latest from the book factory where they work, they had a good laugh and are also friends.


Finally, Paul McCartney was one of the sims who welcomed her to the neighborhood and they have hit it off very well indeed. He's a Rock Icon and single. She's working her magic on him and he looks doomed! Chaya has really been a lot of fun to play!

You really do keep your simmies happy. I love the picture of Barack and Michelle; I love when the simmies are at their most affectionate. You definitely have an aesthetically superior neighborhood, Mac. I love it!

Sir Mac wrote:

On the left is Ella Warne - she's from down under (many thanks to Sugah).

No, thank YOU. I am thrilled to see Ella of Australia in your game.
I appreciate you downloading her & look forward to her becoming even more famous than her brother.

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He's a Rock Icon and single. She's working her magic on him and he looks doomed!

Lady Elle wrote:

I love when the simmies are at their most affectionate.

Me, too, my friend.
You'll see me posting close up images of affectionate gestures between my Sims, because I love those interactions so much.

Thank you for sharing, Mac, and for being here with us, as always.
It is always fun to see what's going on in your very creative, eclectic Sims world.

Ella has a career as a model. She is currently level 2, a "Specialty Model". That means that they take a lot of pictures of her hands (rings, bracelets, etc) and feet (shoes, toenail polish, and, when they are feeling generous, hosiery) Big deal! What about the rest of her scrummilicious body???

So she invited Chaya over to take some pictures of her... Two formal dresses



Some sleep and loungewear...



Ooooooo!


Yikes! OMG!


Now that she has a portfolio,I really do think she will be moving up in her career!

Wow...what a great picture spread showcasing Sugah's Ella! Thank you so much for sharing them, Mac. She looks lovely!