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Nov. 26th, 2005 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI have CURTAINS.
I am inordinately proud of this fact. They are ordinary and blue and cotton and from the inexpensive section of Target, but they are attractive, even if the cat is furiously trying to attack the fabric care tag on the lower hem. They are hanging from curtain rods that I chose for their appropriateness with tab-top curtains and for their aesthetic appeal. They're, like, the first item I bought for the house that was bought solely to be aesthetic, unless you want to count the rag rug in the bathroom- and that was mostly so that I wouldn't drip on the floor without something to absorb it. It's just that the secondary purpose was 'hmm, very attractive'. The curtains? One of the blinds broke and came down when I pulled it a few weeks ago, and this time I couldn't put it back up because parts had snapped in the process. I bought the curtains for the two living room windows so that I'd have somethign more attractive than another set of blinds.
I think I'm beginning to understand why Sims characters react so well to items that improve the Atmosphere rating of a given room. Not that I didn't chose my couch and table and stuff because of their appeal- I did- but this just makes it look more like a human being lives here. That, and having cleaned up the living room, which mystifies the cats ("MOOOOOOM! Where is the crap on the coffee table? I was lying down on that crap all last week!"). Also I put up my first set of Christmas lights and wrapped it around the stairs to my loft, and hung up a framed poster of a lightning storm over a Tanzanian game reserve, and put up a hook in the bathroom for my bathrobe and extra towel.
I'm going shopping this afternoon and getting more Christmas lights and a lampshade in addition to food. I'm not doing anything extravagant until next pay period, but my parents gave me a floor lamp that's much more attractive than the one the lsat tenant had, and I'd like to use it properly. Then I'm going to scrub the bathroom and probably the kitchen floor, I think. ANd then when I'm done I'm going to say "WHAT THE HELL?", shake my head furiously, and write up what happened to John Constantine after he got done wishing he could drop possessed fire ants down Dumbledore's robes because he didn't get in a good smoke before the sixth-year Slytherin class.
Sound fair?
I am inordinately proud of this fact. They are ordinary and blue and cotton and from the inexpensive section of Target, but they are attractive, even if the cat is furiously trying to attack the fabric care tag on the lower hem. They are hanging from curtain rods that I chose for their appropriateness with tab-top curtains and for their aesthetic appeal. They're, like, the first item I bought for the house that was bought solely to be aesthetic, unless you want to count the rag rug in the bathroom- and that was mostly so that I wouldn't drip on the floor without something to absorb it. It's just that the secondary purpose was 'hmm, very attractive'. The curtains? One of the blinds broke and came down when I pulled it a few weeks ago, and this time I couldn't put it back up because parts had snapped in the process. I bought the curtains for the two living room windows so that I'd have somethign more attractive than another set of blinds.
I think I'm beginning to understand why Sims characters react so well to items that improve the Atmosphere rating of a given room. Not that I didn't chose my couch and table and stuff because of their appeal- I did- but this just makes it look more like a human being lives here. That, and having cleaned up the living room, which mystifies the cats ("MOOOOOOM! Where is the crap on the coffee table? I was lying down on that crap all last week!"). Also I put up my first set of Christmas lights and wrapped it around the stairs to my loft, and hung up a framed poster of a lightning storm over a Tanzanian game reserve, and put up a hook in the bathroom for my bathrobe and extra towel.
I'm going shopping this afternoon and getting more Christmas lights and a lampshade in addition to food. I'm not doing anything extravagant until next pay period, but my parents gave me a floor lamp that's much more attractive than the one the lsat tenant had, and I'd like to use it properly. Then I'm going to scrub the bathroom and probably the kitchen floor, I think. ANd then when I'm done I'm going to say "WHAT THE HELL?", shake my head furiously, and write up what happened to John Constantine after he got done wishing he could drop possessed fire ants down Dumbledore's robes because he didn't get in a good smoke before the sixth-year Slytherin class.
Sound fair?
