Getting to know you

[Roxana]

Niki, you have such a lovely family and a challenging career. I'm sorry your last words were unreadable...I love the idea of the girls weekend...
Lorijune traveling is a life changing experience, sorry you get caught in that quarantine! We also have a blooming festival and I was part of such a one in Timisoara. Going under the cherry trees when they are in bloom it's an intoxicating experience, so much beauty and so many fragrances!

[justJones]

Here at the last minute, as usual ;) I'm 43. Jones is a nickname I've had for as long as I can remember. Granted I can barely remember what I did yesterday, so...  My aunt started it (a twist on my actual name, Joni) and it stuck. Most of my family call me Jones, and I've been Jones online for a very long time. It's to the point that it sometimes strikes me as weird if someone calls me Joni.

I've been married for 16 years (as of the 19th of this month). We have 4 daughters (the oldest isn't biologically mine, but she's still mine, and I'm her preferred mom as well). They're 18, 16, 13, and...5, because my husband and I thought, "Eh, the kids are pretty self sufficient now, why not throw that all away," lol. The eldest is married (as of the 18th this month) and has a daughter who will be 1 in June (on D-day, much to my history loving husband's pleasure). They all live with us. Her husband is about to leave for boot camp, when he's done with that and AIT he'll be stationed across the country (Washington state, we live in Ohio) which will be a huge thing for our daughter (and us) as she's pretty attached to us, lol.

We have 3 dogs, a 10 yr old Beagle/Blue Healer mix, a 2 yr old Sharpei, and a 8ish month old German Shepherd/ Malamute mix; 2 cats, and a rabbit. We name all of our dogs after musicians. Lita (Ford) is the Beagle mix, Ziggy (Stardust) - the Sharpei (he's red) and Nena (of 99 Luftballons). We also, thankfully have a large house    

I started simming when my cousin's son I used to baby sit introduced me to The Sims console game. Then we moved to TS2 on PC. I still remember how excited he was to show me how much better the color options were. I actually never played TS1 on PC till I'd been playing TS2 for a few years. My husband's aunt got me a complete set for Christmas one year. Even though I almost exclusively play TS4 now, TS2 will always have a huge piece of my heart. As well as Castaway Stories, the Urbz, and even though it gets a lot of hate, the Sims Medieval. My girls all play (or I'm certain will play for the youngest) as well. Even my husband plays the console games with me. I used to create a lot more for TS2 (including meshing and light modding for objects) but I don't create as much for TS4 because Blender and I don't particularly get along...

I can think of a billion more things to share but I guess that's more than enough rambling so I'll leave it here.

[Roxana]

Jones, you have such a nice sense of humor, I enjoyed your story very much. I always wanted to have a big family and literally stamp our feet any chance we've got. I ended up just me and my dog and a large house as well, maybe too large for my needs.

[ekrubynaffit]

Well I hope I'm not too late to this party as I'm hardly ever on anymore, so I'm going to say better late than never!!

Hi everyone, I'm Tiff and 44 years old. I'm from New Zealand and have a fantastic hubby and next year we will be married 20 years and together for 26. I have two amazing boys 17 and 13. I used to be a competitive speed skater (ice) and due to an injury during a competition I sadly had to give it up. Still go occasionally for a fun skate but the old knees and back start to hurt a bit too quick these days.

I worked for Air NZ for a good chunk of my 20s-30s but once the second baby came along it became in the too hard basket with the shift work so I became a stay at home mum for a few years which made me a regular here. I now run an industrial cleaning business and we mainly wash locomotives🚂 which keeps me pretty busy.

 The last few years have been very difficult for my family which was a big reason I disappeared for a bit and would only be around occasionally.  2 years ago, my eldest was jumped by a large group of kids at the mall and assaulted, which led to a lot of mental health issues and him disappearing a few nights but he has come back strong and has almost completed high school with high marks. And we are so proud of how he has come out on top! My husband also had a lot of mental health stuff happening plus had to have two big surgeries in the last 8 months that also took his mental health for another turn but he has turned a corner and found new joy in rock collecting so we now go on drives on the weekend to hunt out rocks and see our beautiful NZ scenery.

So that's me in a nutshell, hope no one minds I'm two months late, it's been lovely reading about everyone and how amazing every single one of you are!
 

[gliese]

I read each and every post and I loved it so much... all the beauty of lives lived. Thank you so much everyone for sharing... God bless you all