Woot! My second Sims 3 lot has been approved and is due out tomorrow. I thought I'd pop in to give some details on Aveline. If this stuff bores you, don't read it. I'll ramble on like I matter regardless.

So, Aveline is my second Sims 3 lot, and I consider it to be a big sister lot to Amethyne. Big sister because it has more than Amethyne. I added a fireplace and swapped out the formal dining room for a family room to have warm, fuzzy time. I also added a basement room for nectar making/enjoying. I have a snobbish sim that loves her nectar and I put her and her quickly growing family in this house. (I swear she's pregnant 24/7. Do your sims woohoo autonomously? Mine do and I don't have any hacks at all. I guess somebody's dream finally came true. Not mine, however. LOL) Uh... where was I? Oh yeah, amenities. Aveline still has a decent size kitchen. I had to hack some of it off to make room for the basement stairs. The butt end of the house became a mud room type thing. Still 3 full baths and laundry. Two more bedrooms have been added upstairs. Just a matter of adding some walls and rearranging others. So if you really have a house full of sims that all need beds and stuffing them in a huge room barracks style ain't yo thang, then this lot might be for you. The yard is still big and open. I added a pool in back just for kicks. My sims never use it but it looks nice. Aaahhh. Useless nice things. Gotta love 'em. My sims prefer trampolines and Sim Gnubb. I do have a sim that has an odd attraction to his sprinkler system though. He's so cute. Um, anyway, that probably wraps up the newness for Aveline.

I thank Cyclonesue for her chimney tutorial. I just built around/over the nasty red brickiness of the chimneys in Sims 2, but now you have to actually remove the darn thing because you get object errors and junk. Bah. Fine, make it harder on us builders. Sheesh. We still kill your ugly red chimneys! Be gone mediocreness! Is that even a word? I guess it's mediocrity. Eh, whatever.

Amethyne seems to be getting a warm reception so I hope Aveline keeps everyone with the warm, fuzzy moodlet. I'm such a nerd.

And, one last random thing, because I know you love randomness. Why don't we get an OCD trait for our sims? That would roll about 3 others into one trait. Efficiency! There should also be a JERK trait. That would combine a few traits into one neatly defined personal flaw. Oh c'mon, my sims need at least 8-10 traits to really have a developed personality. You know you want an OCD JERK sim in your hood. And what would the other 3 traits be then? Hmmm...