I was going to blog about my plans for Sunshined.org’s new layout, but something actually happened today that was far more interesting than what color palettes I thought looked nice, or whether I was going to use Georgia as a body font for the layout. (I’ll save that for the next post…)

Today, while I was calmly fiddling with Photoshop on my laptop, I heard an odd buzzing noise above me. No, it wasn’t the whooshing sound you hear electric fans make. Nor was it the soft humming of my laptop fan. It was a buzzing, yucky, twitchy noise. The kind that makes you cringe a little.

And whaddayaknow, flying above me was a bug! Not just any bug, but one that looked like a cross between a stick bug and a mosquito. Does that make any sense? Actually… maybe it WAS a mosquito and I was just in denial.

Well whatever it was, as with any kind of insect, I freaked out. It was all twitchy and I was all staring at it, frozen.

Once I unfroze, first thing I did was dim my laptop screen so that it wouldn’t hover around me. But that was pointless because the “thing” looked a bit trippy. It seemed as though someone had already tried killing it. That didn’t make it any less dangerous, right? Anyway, next I took the one thing all bugs are afraid of: my mom’s pink house slipper.

I took a couple of throws at it with the slipper (I was too scared to get any closer). And a couple more after that. But unfortunately, luck wasn’t with me and my aims were pretty shabby to say the least. But it DID sense the slipper’s presence and flew to the next wall which was in a better position. So as quietly as I could (do they have ears?) I went a bit closer, and threw the darn slipper like I was playing some crazy game of shot put.

Instead of crushing the bug like it was supposed to, the stupid slipper went here instead:

Just goes to show how good my aim is.

Oh, and no, I didn’t end up killing the thing. I need some more practice…

Thanks Krystalyna for giving me this award since I don’t really have anything better to blog about anyway. To the rules:

The HonestScrap award comes with a caveat or two. Firstly, you have to tell your readers ten things about you they may not know, but that are true. Secondly, you have to tag 10 people with the award.

So here’s my list:

1. One of my favorite cakes is the Daim Cake you get from IKEA. (look down at flickr pics) IT’S HEAVEN!
2. I’ve never ever been to the hospital for any broken bones or anything. I’ve only gone there when my younger brother was born.
3. Ever since I could remember, my favorite color has always been yellow. It makes me happy and reminds me of sunshine~
4. So far, I’ve lost contact with all my elementary school ‘best friends’. I am so afraid the same will happen to my high school friends.
5. I am a VERY light sleeper. I can never sleep if the lights are on or even while someone’s using the laptop in the room. I get very grumpy because the light..it burns!
6. I despise math with a passion.
7. As far as I know, I’m not allergic to anything.
8. If I were a sim, my traits would probably be: bookworm, family-oriented, computer whiz, neat, and light sleeper.
9. I think it’s great to be a part of a family of seven. You can be sure that it’s never quiet in our house!
10. For years, my dentist led me to believe that my teeth were perfect. Then they found two cavities a few months ago that they told me “went undetected”. Some dentist.

I think I’ll just tag these three: Thrila, Skye & Veronica.

Here are some of the sims screenshots I promised! I warn you though, I sort of had too much fun with the new camera controls in the game, so there’s A LOT of pictures in this post. More after the cut!

This is my first sim. His name is Felix and his traits are: friendly, lucky, daredevil, flirty and handy. That’s his house in the background.

Since he’s a daredevil, he likes to play with fire. 

Here he is using his charm to propose to his girlfriend, Madeline.

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