Linnea: oh my goodness. Completely forgot about replying. I'm being buried in classwork xD please, send help. *drowns* Yea the people that work and do school AND have kids are my heroes. Like, how is it even possible. Sounds like you really have a lot of things to do still, or just so many modules. How is that coming by the way? Have you made good progress into it?

My husband is in TN this weekend so I have the kids to myself (they are driving me nuts) and I'm trying to get some homework done (it's not going very well lol), a lot of things due on Monday and Tuesday.

That's kind of cool that Portland is so diverse. As you said, I don't think many people would really expect that, especially considering a lot of the people came from really warm/tropical/desert environments. I would expect that they would have preferred to live farther south but maybe that in itself is an adventure. Something completely new and exciting.

Still no test anxiety, but my problem is that I get an adrenaline rush from tests and that kind of competition and I start going really, really fast. I mean if I'm not the first one done and also have a really good grade I think there is something wrong. No joke. That's the not cool part. Oh, yea the SAT's have completely changed. I don't really think that SAT scores should matter that much because they seem more segregative (not a word but you understand what I mean?) than helpful. I kind of did something similar because it was over 10 years from when I applied for college the first time and my scores were archived x.x so I had to do extra work to get them xD But since it was so long ago, they understood that I wasn't really the same person anymore.

Planning is the easiest stage for me. I have a plan and a back up plan and a back up back up plan. I can deliver plans for people all day, you just have to ask yourself what do you really want to do, and then look at the necessary steps to achieve that desire. I mean, unless it's something completely new, there is already a plan from everyone else who has done the same thing. No need to re-invent the wheel in 99 percent of the cases. I'm good with plans and ideas, then moving towards the goals i'm good with but using the ideas and applying them is where I fall short. My children's books, I have all the ideas, wrote them down and then stopped. SMH. One day maybe.

How is the event treating you? :D

Hi zephi! Seems I walked into a beefy conversation but how are you?

haha yea but that was ages ago [XD] it's ok!
how are ya??

hey guess what!? i am excited that i get to join the avatar contests this event!

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*works on response to zephi*

I guess you're not running them this time?

. Seems like forever ago xD

How's it going Kat :D

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Quick question, are aces high or low!?

Aces are low.

I'm good though. I have work later today but it's a short shift.

nope. Lise is!

Well that's nice. I bet you miss participating in the contests.

You look very pretty btw.

i'll reply to this in order :P

i am making my way through modules, this current class has us doing a lot each week so i'm making more headway with them now. i shall throw out a life preserver to save you! no drowning! *throws out a raft!* i hope you get all your stuff done even with the kids being all crazy and the like [lol]

i am also baffled as to why these people are moving to maine and not other places [lol] but hey, you could be right!

when i applied for grad school again this particular school doesn't really look at that sort of thing, which was nice. i didn't even have to take any testing or anything. i thought all had to, but apparently it's just by school and what not. glad you got it all sorted out though!

for your kids books, what kinds of stories are they?? like what are the characters and settings and things? i have always loved kids books and i think it's because my aunt used to be a kindergarten/first grade teacher and it always kind of stuck.

i was away from the comp for most of yesterday because i went a few states over to see a hockey game. portland got rid out it's hockey team and they were sold to a city in mass. it suuuucks. it's a long drive and i wont' be going back anytime soon [no] i hope you are enjoying the event though!

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well i really like to run them too, but that means i only get to participate in the user's avatar contests and i don't think we really had many this last one.... so yea, i'll be trying to come up with something for this!

and thank you *curtsies* i was hoping to make the background look like inside of a caravan. not sure how i feel about it, but i like the colors [yes]

Fun.

I think you did pretty well with that theme and yeah, in love that shade of green. It's just gorgeous.

oh thanks! i'm glad you can see it [yes]

are you just perusing about for the event or are you participating in anything?

I usually don't participate in event stuff especially since I'm busy now a lot. I haven't really looked at it.

Hiya zea! Nice to see ya. I'm working Halloween morning and probably handing out candy again and then starting nanowrimo at midnight. I didn't finish making my halloweeen costume though so I don't know what to wear to work.

I was making a wolf tail and ears out of yarn but that's an enormous project that's not worth it when I have no free time and spend what I have playing sims. But yeah, since I was making a small tail, I could wear it. So long as it's not unsafe for food and running around, we're allowed to dress up. You should totally wear something to your study session. It's more fun that way.
thanks.

what? sims? where? which one??

Lol. Um, free play I think it's called? I have it on my tablet....and phone.

ah gotcha. i tried that. i hated waiting forever for stuff. i'm into instant gratification and the like

hey, zeap! also your earthy witch is adorable!

It's hard but once you have enough Sims you don't feel like you're waiting as much because they're all doing stuff at different times. But I hate actions that take 10+ hours.

The tail is super neat. It's a pattern I've seen online that's made entirely from yarn and looks just like the real thing. But helluva time effort and hand cramps.

I know, zea is so cute right now!!!

i recently got sims 4, and by recently i mean like a couple months ago, but i'll go through phases where i'll play pretty steady for like a week and all during any free time and then i'll just not feel like it for a while. i think part of me feels guilty for playing it so much when i have other grown up things to do like dishes or school work lol

I play this Sims game a lot like a lot, but it's the only Sims I've ever played.

oh you mean the free play is the only one you've ever played?

sometimes i get nostalgic for the first sims all those years ago, like it was so simple and the expansions were decent ideas. i still have sims 2 and 3 on my desktop computer but i don't have it hooked up but those were good too. sims 2 had a really neat witch-crafty expansion pack with some really neat and old school witchy items, 3 kind of stuck with it in the supernatural expansion packs but they were different, same with sims 4. there was this neat aspect of being a witch im the 3rd one, where your evil or goodness was gauged by your skin color and your witchy clothes; all white was good, brown was neutral, and black was evil. oh and if you were truly evil your skin turned green like the wicked witch/elphaba. oh yea! and in the 2nd one you could do wizard dueling like in harry potter. it was basically like a more indepth form of rock paper scissors, but still fun!

Yeah. The others aren't free right?

I know there is a witchcraft hobby and store in free play but I haven't built it yet.