Tuesday 16 November, 2004

Home?

I saw a really nice flat yesterday, and today we went back to see it... and put a security deposit down. So if all goes well, we'll be moving into a real home on December 1st. Flat is big-ish, in West End (north of Downtown next to Stanley Park), has fantastic views of the city and mountains, in 23th floor and costs so much my mom will probably tell me off for it. Truth is, it costs little less than what we've paid for lately in England and is in a more central location... and we can afford it, pretty well in fact, once my money starts coming in as well.

At the moment though, I feel kind of bewildered and anxious. I love the flat - and I hope we've made the right decision although Dragon's trip to work is a bit longer than we originally planned... but on the other hand the flat fulfilled every other requirement we wanted, and is there.

millie_thomas.jpgAnxiety is partly probably because I've been cooped up here in a windowless room for two days doing nothing else than playing Sims 2, and I get really envolved with this game. Here are my characters, Mille and Thomas (and resemblance to living people is of course totally coincidental), or this is what they looked like when I started. Yesterday they got married and had a baby, today Thomas happily retired - Millie never did get back to work after having a baby, and now seems to be trying to live her youth again trough their son. In addition, Thomas is fit and happy while Millie got fat and now refuses to exercise to get rid of the extra pounds. And I'm taking this all far too seriously.

This game is so addictive. It is so well done, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the whole life cycle pans out. Characters are multidimensional, surprisingly intelligent and realistic. If they have a hard job they spend all their times working, and come home angry and tired and don't have time for anything or anyone else (how realistic).

I need structure and stability in my life. At the moment I'm without my security nets and although I'm painfully aware of the causes and effects, I can't get anything done to fix it. I'd rather take the easy option, stay at home playing Sims 2 and whining to Dragon... and I feel I've been extremely unfair and unpleasant lately.

Right. Tomorrow I'll start.

Posted by kolibri at 16 November 18:03, 2004
Comments
# 1 - Dragon (on November 16, 2004 09:33 PM):

Thomas the Sim is a pencil-necked geek! :(


# 2 - Outi (on November 17, 2004 02:12 AM):

Sorry, I couldn't help but giggle :D But, congratulations for finding a nice new place to live, although I can't understand how anyone could possibly live on 23rd floor when even the 3rd floor seems to be way too high for me *blush*


# 3 - kolibri (on November 17, 2004 02:33 PM):

I know, it's so uncanny sometimes :)

And 23rd floor isn't so bad - it's starting to be so high that it's abstract and therefore not scary anymore.


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