Holiday Addon pack announced
cabelle:
Quote from: aussieone on 2005 October 13, 06:06:27
On Christmas day itself, we have the traditional lunch of Turkey, Ham, Pork and all the trimmings that I'm sure our Northern counterparts are familiar with...however in doing this, we usually make up for having a hot roast dinner on a 40 degree celsius day by plying ourselves with more beer, wine and alcoholic soft drinks than should be safely consumed on any given day. Thus resulting in the odd family fight or two, usually between Aunty Mary and Uncle Tom over who gets to finish off the last beer left in the fridge/ last piece of pork crackling left on the tray etc.
After the 'family fun and friendly banter' is over and all and every last drop of alcohol and food is consumed, we then contentedly flop into the nearest armchair/sofa and watch whatever sport might be on until we fall into a contented slumber.....only to arise a few hours later and do it all again for dinner :)
P.S: Yes we do see the white Kangaroo after Christmas lunch, but I think it's akin to your pink elephants ;)
Sounds a great deal like my holiday family dinners here in Northern California, except for the weather of course! Toss in a few card games (to which "Uncle Tom" and "Aunt Mary" will get into shouting matches because someone's cheating) and you get the general idea. Lather, rinse and repeat for Easter, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, etc. It's quite entertaining. ;D
As for the holiday pack, I'm still thinking about it. $15 is not too bad an asking price but I have quite a few non-sims items on my wish list this year. ;) I can get click happy with books at Amazon too, and my wish list there is pretty huge. Mind you, we already have three huge bookcases filled (two in the upper hall and one in the family room) and will need to buy another before we buy more books. I can't seem to read enough books, hubby and daughters are much the same.
KellyQ:
Quote from: Trubble on 2005 October 13, 13:53:28
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 October 12, 21:34:00
Thanks a lot, I'll get it when I have the spare cash! (I never buy in the shops now, for the same reason. When I got the original sims2 from Amazon, it wss miles cheaper than the shops! and even with the free delivery (2nd class) it only took 2 days to arrive (one really, as I ordered it on a sunday and it arrived on the Tuesday!
I just wish supermarket ordering was cheaper, instead of that £5 delivery charge! Then I might use that too!
I used free delivery and got it and NL on the day it was released, university one day later. I was very impressed, and I do like Amazon a lot. I've had to quit though, I get too click happy in the books section ;)
I love Amazon, the majority of my Christmas shopping is done there (why hassle with cranky crowds and lines?). The book section of Amazon is almost impossible for me to resist....I'm trying though since my husband "commented" (nice way of saying he was totally bent) that Amazon packages show up at our house almost as often as the daily mail.
laeshanin:
Love Amazon... Spend WAY too much, goddamn it! My loft is filled with books, and I have two bookcases full in my bedroom, and one in the sitting room. But still, I keep buying. What's wrong with me? ??? Oh well.
Christmas? Bah... What really gets my goat is the relentless advertising aimed at the kids who become convinced they NEED the latest piece of plastic junk from *Matel (delete and add company name as wished), and that to deny them would be tantamount to abuse. I'm not certain who has the most psychological damage from it all anymore? Parents? Kids?
Point of distress: I took some of the youngsters I work with bowling about 3 weeks ago and the bowling alley had Xmas Trees (pagan symbolism ;D) everywhere. Tacky, cheap and nasty. Plus it had the effect of making all the kids go instantly into "how long to Xmas?" and giving me greivous harm to the earhole! Sigh...
jrd:
Bet the "Holiday Pack" version of TS2 will have the blur disabled from the start, to appease the Republinazis...
Trubble:
I have no bookcases, so all my books are in piles all over my room :) The first time I went to my university library last week, I flipped out at all the books. I could quite easily live in it!
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