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		<title>Donation Drive Halfway Done</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2012/01/donation-drive-halfway-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spring4Sims Info]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to thank everyone who&#8217;s donated so far, you guys are really awesome! I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed the donation drive is almost halfway up, as for today we have raised $57.00 out of $121.00. The Sims community has never failed to amaze me in so many ways and this is one of them. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to thank everyone who&#8217;s donated so far, you guys are really awesome! I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed the donation drive is almost halfway up, as for today we have raised $57.00 out of $121.00. The Sims community has never failed to amaze me in so many ways and this is one of them. You can&#8217;t possibly understand how grateful I am for helping me pay for the hosting. I promise to bring a lot of good finds to you! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Also, I&#8217;ve listed all the donators in <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/2012/01/spring4sims-donation-drive-2012/" target="_blank">the original post</a> and included the sum of money they donated and their country (no names, of course). Thank you so much again!</p>
<p>P.S.: In case you&#8217;re considering donating, find out why to donate and how you can help Spring4Sims in <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/five-reasons-to-donate-to-spring4sims/" target="_blank">this post</a>.</p>
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		<title>Spring4Sims Donation Drive 2012 ($65 Raised)</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2012/01/spring4sims-donation-drive-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year when I&#8217;m asking for your help. In fact, I haven&#8217;t asked for it in the past one and half year. I thought I would take the bills in my hands and just not bother anyone. Unfortunately, things are no longer the same and I need to pay the bills for [...]]]></description>
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<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year when I&#8217;m asking for your help. In fact, I haven&#8217;t asked for it in the past one and half year. I thought I would take the bills in my hands and just not bother anyone. Unfortunately, things are no longer the same and I need to pay the bills for Spring4Sims&#8217; hosting and domain.</p>
<p>As much as I don&#8217;t like it, I&#8217;ve decided to start a donation drive for year 2012. The bed news is I need to pay $121.00 for hosting and domain. The good news is that a one year payment is cheaper than monthly fees ($9.59 / month + $11.99 domain). Asking for money has never been my thing and I hope my readers know that I would not compromise the donations for my personal expenses. (I have no proof, just a solid conscience.)</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to donate, you can use the Donate button in the left sidebar. However, I encourage you <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> to donate more than $10.00. Why? Simply because I don&#8217;t see the reason why anyone should pay a big sum of money as long as more people can donate smaller amounts.</p>
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<p>Please, keep in mind that it&#8217;s okay not to donate at all, but if you&#8217;re interested, there are three ways to <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/five-reasons-to-donate-to-spring4sims/" target="_blank">help out even without donating</a>.</p>
<h4>Received donations</h4>
<ul>
<li>$3.00 &#8212; Kelowna, Canada</li>
<li>$10.00 &#8212; Melbourne, Australia</li>
<li>$5.00 &#8212; Voisins-le-Bretonneux, France</li>
<li>$10.00 &#8212; Ontario, Canada</li>
<li>$10.00 &#8212; Houston, Texas, USA</li>
<li>$2.00 &#8212; Pittsburg, California, USA</li>
<li>$5.00 &#8212; Grand Prairie, Texas, USA</li>
<li>$5.00 &#8212; Salem, New Hampshire, USA</li>
<li>$7.00 &#8211; Laurelton, New York, USA</li>
<li>$3.00 &#8211; Helsinki, Finland</li>
<li>$5.00 &#8211; Chula Vista, California, USA</li>
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<p><span style="color: #99cc00;"><strong>$65.00 in total!</strong></span></p>
<p>Thank you very much for all your help and encouragement!</p>
<h6>Picture via <a href="http://truebloodsims.tumblr.com/">truebloodsims.tumblr.com</a></h6>
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		<title>Newly Organized Categories at Spring4Sims</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2012/01/newly-organized-categories-at-spring4sims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had so much free time (yes, that was sarcasm) that I&#8217;ve decided it was the right time to make the categories on the blog a little more organized. Yes, I hate when things are messy and the categories an Spring4Sims were far behind this state, so some has been merged, some renamed and [...]]]></description>
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<p>Yesterday I had so much free time (yes, that was sarcasm) that I&#8217;ve decided it was the right time to make the categories on the blog a little more organized. Yes, I hate when things are messy and the categories an Spring4Sims were far behind this state, so some has been merged, some renamed and some were deleted or added.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll like the new categories <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/category/top-downloads/buy-mode/pet-essentials/" target="_blank">Pet Essentials</a>, <a href="http://www.google.sk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=cars%20and%20transportatino%20spring4sims&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CC0QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spring4sims.com%2Fcategory%2Ftop-downloads%2Fbuy-mode%2Fcars-transportation%2F&amp;ei=loUFT6f5KMbAswbluoCCDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNF7FLm5LzsyQZqLY6d-rtycNv2erA&amp;sig2=Ku_Vpl37KuJLvXmeQumfiA" target="_blank">Cars &amp; Transportation</a> and <a title="View all posts filed under Study Rooms &amp; Hobbies" href="http://www.spring4sims.com/category/top-downloads/buy-mode/study/">Study Rooms &amp; Hobbies</a>. All these were previously all in one category and I think it didn&#8217;t make much sense. I also created a category <a title="View all posts filed under Bugs &amp; Solutions" href="http://www.spring4sims.com/category/news/bugs-solutions/">Bugs &amp; Solutions</a>, just to make it easier to find fixes for our messed games. There are a few more, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s necessary to name them all.</p>
<p>I still wish the left column with categories was organized in tree instead of alphabetically. It would make much more sense, but I can&#8217;t do much about right now&#8230; Also, in case you find any typo in the names of the categories, please, let me know.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for now, I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy. Also, thanks for all your lovely and kind words in the past year. You&#8217;re my heroes, guys&#8211;I love you all!</p>
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		<title>Merry Christmas &amp; Happy New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/12/merry-christmas-happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dearest fellow Simmers, I would like to wish you Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope this magical season will fill you with love and joy and bring peace to you and your family. I hope you&#8217;ll share these precious moments with your friends and fulfill all your dreams with their help next year. [...]]]></description>
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<h2>My dearest fellow Simmers,</h2>
<h2>I would like to wish you Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope this magical season will fill you with love and joy and bring peace to you and your family.</h2>
<h2>I hope you&#8217;ll share these precious moments with your friends and fulfill all your dreams with their help next year.</h2>
<h2>Last but not least, I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy playing with your Sims even more and keep coming to my site for more inspiration and fun.</h2>
<h2>Happy Holidays, guys!</h2>
<p>P.S.: I might take a few days off during the holidays, but definitely stop by to see what&#8217;s new&#8211;I won&#8217;t stop updating completely.</p>
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		<title>Small Update on Spring4Sims &amp; My Game</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/12/small-update-on-spring4sims-my-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/12/small-update-on-spring4sims-my-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, how are you? I hope you&#8217;re all well and finally enjoying the Holiday Season. I&#8217;m so excited it&#8217;s December again. I already have all the Christmas presents so for me it&#8217;s all about baking now&#8211;or at least I hope I&#8217;ll be baking a lot this year. Otherwise, I&#8217;m quite busy. I&#8217;m working hard [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, how are you? I hope you&#8217;re all well and finally enjoying the Holiday Season. I&#8217;m so excited it&#8217;s December again. I already have all the Christmas presents so for me it&#8217;s all about baking now&#8211;or at least I hope I&#8217;ll be baking a lot this year.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I&#8217;m quite busy. I&#8217;m working hard on my novel almost every day and write on my other blogs. Recently there&#8217;s so much new custom content for The Sims that I almost can&#8217;t keep up with it. My selections are really aiming at the best stuff right now, so I hope you all enjoy. Also, I&#8217;m sorry about those bad tags whether it&#8217;s for The Sims 2 or The Sims 3. I&#8217;m doing the updates usually at night when I&#8217;m pretty tired and that just happens sometimes&#8230;</p>
<p>My game is not working again. I&#8217;m sure you remember that it was lagging really bad. Well, when I solved that, it has started to crash. It happens about every 30 minutes, which is not that bad, but I also have trouble with saving. I almost always get Error 12 and the game can&#8217;t be saved (even as a new world). Honestly, I don&#8217;t know what to do. Reinstall? Again? It&#8217;s depressing. I was so excited for Pets, but I only created one cat in the game and that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve tried so far.</p>
<p>So right now I&#8217;m taking some rest from Simming. It might be for the best, though&#8211;I really need to finish revising my novel. Maybe when I have more time during the Holidays, I will reinstall.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, have a great weekend!</p>
<p>P.S.: I tried it with no custom content and yes, it still crashes. I&#8217;m playing Sunset Valley, not Appalosa Plains (I haven&#8217;t even tried that world), and I have the world maps updated.</p>
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		<title>A Bit of This and That</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/10/a-bit-of-this-and-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I intended to write a small update on all that Pets trouble that seems to be taking down the whole community&#8211;or custom content at least, but meanwhile WordPress has decided to go on strike and left me with posts that were actually impossible to publish. As confusing as it was, it seems to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I intended to write a small update on all that Pets trouble that seems to be taking down the whole community&#8211;or custom content at least, but meanwhile WordPress has decided to go on strike and left me with posts that were actually impossible to publish. As confusing as it was, it seems to be gone, but unfortunately, the problem took me almost an hour to solve and now it&#8217;s just too late (1:01 AM as I&#8217;m looking at the clock) to do any further research.</p>
<p>Anyways, one of my dear readers, Paulo, has informed me that TSR has already came up with a solution to fix this. Yay! Stay tuned. I&#8217;ll be researching tomorrow. Meanwhile, good night and Sim hard!</p>
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		<title>Off-Topic: Remembering Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/10/off-topic-remembering-steve-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/10/off-topic-remembering-steve-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could say I&#8217;ve been more &#8220;around&#8221; when the new computer era has started, but for that I&#8217;m too young. I can still clearly picture the first iMacs, though, so pretty and colorful, made in 1997. The day I saw them I knew there was something magical about them and that behind their [...]]]></description>
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<p>I wish I could say I&#8217;ve been more &#8220;around&#8221; when the new computer era has started, but for that I&#8217;m too young. I can still clearly picture the first iMacs, though, so pretty and colorful, made in 1997. The day I saw them I knew there was something magical about them and that behind their pretty face, there was a good heart. I was definitely Apple-stuck for good.</p>
<p>I woke up this morning early to go to my doctor when my parter called me to make sure everything&#8217;s okay. Then he told me Steve Jobs has passed away earlier that day. His voice was so low and I was pretty sure something terrible has happened. And the truth is, this is pretty terrible. The world has lost a visionare, an inventor, a great successful leader that changed the way we use computers, mobile phones, tablets and MP3 players.</p>
<p>Perhaps I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m the most excellent Apple fan out there. I&#8217;ve never owned a Mac, because I&#8217;ve never found that much money in my pocket, but I do have a small family of iPods, which I love. Four years ago I wrote about them passionately as an editor at a local Apple weblog. Sometimes I think I still miss this job, because to me, iPod has always meant something special (as stupid as it can seem to many, because it&#8217;s just a &#8220;thing&#8221;).</p>
<p>Rest in peace, Steve Jobs.</p>
<h6>Photo via Wired</h6>
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		<title>New Sidebar Links</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/09/new-sidebar-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you&#8217;ve noticed, maybe not, but I&#8217;ve made some small changes in the right sidebar. I deleted a few dead links and added a few new ones that I think are always handy, like the Compressorizor, S3PE etc. If you have any ideas for new links that you would like to see in the sidebar, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve noticed, maybe not, but I&#8217;ve made some small changes in the right sidebar. I deleted a few dead links and added a few new ones that I think are always handy, like the Compressorizor, S3PE etc.</p>
<p>If you have any ideas for new links that you would like to see in the sidebar, let me know and I might consider them. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Small Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/08/quick-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to let you guys know that I&#8217;m not feeling very well these days, because I&#8217;m taking antibiotics and feeling just plain tired and a little stressed (nothing worth mentioning, it&#8217;s just gross what&#8217;s happened to me&#8230;). I need to take a few days off, even off this blog, but I&#8217;ll be back [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just wanted to let you guys know that I&#8217;m not feeling very well these days, because I&#8217;m taking antibiotics and feeling just plain tired and a little stressed (nothing worth mentioning, it&#8217;s just gross what&#8217;s happened to me&#8230;). I need to take a few days off, even off this blog, but I&#8217;ll be back due to Sunday, because I know how much you like to make your weekend download sprees. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>All I feel like now is to play the game and clean up my downloads folder. That&#8217;s my plan. Happy Simming!</p>
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		<title>Off-topic: ChocoAvenue, My New Shop &amp; Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/08/off-topic-chocoavenue-my-new-shop-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a regular visitor of Spring4Sims, I&#8217;m sure you know I&#8217;ve been doing donation drives for the past couple of years except this one. I&#8217;ve decided I should pay the hosting myself, because The Sims and this site is still my personal hobby which should be on my expenses. I&#8217;m not against donating and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-31691" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/il_570xN.263144954-500x666.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="320" align="left" /></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a regular visitor of Spring4Sims, I&#8217;m sure you know I&#8217;ve been doing donation drives for the past couple of years except this one. I&#8217;ve decided I should pay the hosting myself, because The Sims and this site is still my personal hobby which should be on my expenses. I&#8217;m not against donating and even if you still consider doing so, I&#8217;m very grateful, because this site still does take a lot of time to update and of course, the hosting is not free.</p>
<p>That being said, I&#8217;m not asking for donations now. Donating is still possible and appreciated, I just don&#8217;t want to create any pressure.</p>
<p>However, for those who want to help out, I&#8217;ve started an Etsy shop with baked goodies. My family and friends have always loved my chocolate cookies and kept telling me I should try to sell them, so I&#8217;ve decided to give it a try. My shop <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ChocoAvenue" target="_blank">ChocoAvenue</a> is now ready for first orders and I&#8217;ll be happy to see some of you buying my cookies. I think this is even better than donating&#8211;this way you get a sweet treat for your money. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I will also soon open a new blog with the same name, which is going to be about all things sweet. I&#8217;ve had a passion for chocolate and all kinds of baked goods for a long time and I thought learning something new about this topic would be a good thing to do. I&#8217;ll let you know when it&#8217;s ready, meanwhile <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ChocoAvenue" target="_blank">check out my shop</a> and let me know what you think. Even if you don&#8217;t buy, your opinion means a lot to me! Thank you!</p>
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		<title>Spring4Sims Giveaway #1: Winner</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/08/spring4sims-giveaway-1-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/08/spring4sims-giveaway-1-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, Spring4Sims Giveaway #1 has ended and we have the winner. I chose the winner using Random.org. Thanks to all of you who have participated (57 people in total)! Maybe you&#8217;ll have more luck next time. And now for the winner. It&#8217;s Sage who commented as 56th: Wow! I love those keychains! Just a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/random.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="227" align="left" />Hey guys, <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/07/spring4sims-giveaway-1/" target="_blank">Spring4Sims Giveaway #1</a> has ended and we have the winner. I chose the winner using Random.org. Thanks to all of you who have participated (57 people in total)! Maybe you&#8217;ll have more luck next time. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>And now for the winner. It&#8217;s <strong>Sage </strong>who commented as 56th:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wow! I love those keychains! Just a way to show that whoever has it loves sims! I hope you keep on doing this site because its awesome and it helps make my sims lives richier (even if they dont notice <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p></blockquote>
<p>Congratulations, Sage!</p>
<p>The winner has been contacted and if I don&#8217;t get a reply within 72 hours, I&#8217;ll chose somebody else.</p>
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		<title>Spring4Sims Giveaway #1 (Ends August 7th 2011)</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/07/spring4sims-giveaway-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s here! My first tiny giveaway! Like I said, it&#8217;s nothing big, but it might make somebody at least a little happy. Here it is: it&#8217;s a small keychain with The Sims 3 logo and Plumbob on one side, the other site has also a Plumbob on it and it reads &#8220;3rd generation Prius&#8221;. (Just [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s here! My first tiny giveaway!</p>
<p>Like I said, it&#8217;s nothing big, but it might make somebody at least a little happy. Here it is: it&#8217;s a small keychain with The Sims 3 logo and Plumbob on one side, the other site has also a Plumbob on it and it reads &#8220;3rd generation Prius&#8221;. (Just a note: you only get one keychain&#8211;it has two sides! There are two keychains in the picture&#8211;one of them is mine.)</p>
<p>These keychains were exclusive to E3, so you won&#8217;t get them just anywhere. I found them on eBay and I wanted to buy one for myself, so I thought, why not buy one more and give it to one of my readers?</p>
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<p>How to enter / rules:</p>
<ul>
<li>Simply write any comment below this article with your (nick)name and your email address. The email address is not visible for other visitors of Sping4Sims, but I can see it, so make sure you write it down, because I will need it to contact you!</li>
<li>All countries apply.</li>
<li>All comments between July 24th 2011 and <strong>August 7th 2011</strong> are accepted. The winner will be randomly selected and announced in a separate post on August 9th 2011.</li>
<li>I will contact you via email. If I don&#8217;t get a reply from you in 72 hours, I will chose a new winner.</li>
</ul>
<p>Good luck! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Mini Giveaway Soon on Spring4Sims</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/07/mini-giveaway-soon-on-spring4sims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, first of all I would like to thank you for your comments and voting in the poll about how you browse the finds at Spring4Sims. It has really helped me and I hope to make the search even easier for you in the future. Also, I would like to thank you all for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, first of all I would like to thank you for your comments and voting in the poll about how you browse the finds at Spring4Sims. It has really helped me and I hope to make the search even easier for you in the future.</p>
<p>Also, I would like to thank you all for visiting, your sweet comments and of course, supporting my site. It really means a lot to me and I could not continue doing all the work (and of course having all this fun!) without you.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve decided it was a good time for a small giveaway. Don&#8217;t expect anything too big or fancy, but I&#8217;m sure any Simmer will like the price. The giveaway will be open for all countries. I will set some simple rules, but don&#8217; worry, it won&#8217;t be anything too difficult. I&#8217;ll keep you posted, so stay tuned! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>How Do You Browse Spring4Sims Finds?</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/07/do-you-care-about-the-categories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/07/do-you-care-about-the-categories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need your advice, guys. I&#8217;ve been thinking about how you actually use Spring4Sims. I know you mostly visit just to see the new finds, but I would like know how you browse them. Here are my questions: Do you just browse chronologically? Do you use categories (like Buy Mode, Decor/Clutter etc.)? If so, which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I need your advice, guys. I&#8217;ve been thinking about how you actually use Spring4Sims. I know you mostly visit just to see the new finds, but I would like know <em>how </em>you browse them.</p>
<p>Here are my questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you just browse chronologically?</li>
<li>Do you use categories (like Buy Mode, Decor/Clutter etc.)? If so, which do you use mostly?</li>
<li>Would it be fine for you if I listed the stuff only by root categories, e.g. Buy Mode, Build Mode, The Body Shop&#8230; ?</li>
</ul>
<p>I was thinking and came to the point that most of the categories are actually pretty useless. I don&#8217;t think too many people actually use the sub-categories (e.g. Hair for Females, Make-up etc.).</p>
<p>Please, let me know in the comments and in the poll below. Thank you!</p>
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.
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		<title>It&#8217;s Spring4Sims&#8217; 3rd Birthday!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/05/its-spring4sims-3rd-birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/05/its-spring4sims-3rd-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 19:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could I forget about this? Oh my gosh I&#8217;m so lame! It&#8217;s been three years since I created Spring4Sims. I almost can&#8217;t believe that! This definitely makes me think about how much time I&#8217;ve spent around this site and how much time I&#8217;ve been Simming in general. I&#8217;ve been having great time with you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How could I forget about this? Oh my gosh I&#8217;m so lame! It&#8217;s been three years since I created Spring4Sims. I almost can&#8217;t believe that! This definitely makes me think about how much time I&#8217;ve spent around this site and how much time I&#8217;ve been Simming in general. I&#8217;ve been having great time with you all. I would like to thank you for your support and kind words in your comments, they really mean a lot to me. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Now join me for some Smustle dance!</p>
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		<title>Happy Easter!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/04/happy-easter-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/04/happy-easter-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Easter, Simmers! I hope you&#8217;re having some great time and relax with your family and friends while enjoying the first days of spring (okay, I know spring has been here for the past four weeks&#8230;). May you find loads of chocolate bunnies in your garden! I plan to take a few days off and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Easter, Simmers! I hope you&#8217;re having some great time and relax with your family and friends while enjoying the first days of spring (okay, I know spring has been here for the past four weeks&#8230;). May you find loads of chocolate bunnies in your garden! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I plan to take a few days off and hopefully play the game for a while. Are you planning to play more than usual?</p>
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		<title>Follow Me on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/03/follow-me-on-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/03/follow-me-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on Twitter for only couple of months, but I guess revealing who I am should not be fatal&#8230; or at least I hope so. So this is me, the person behind this blog and a few other things on the internet. Feel free to follow me. I usually tweet about what I&#8217;m doing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been on Twitter for only couple of months, but I guess revealing who I am should not be fatal&#8230; or at least I hope so. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  So this is me, the person behind this blog and a few other things on the internet. <a href="http://twitter.com/HanaJariabkova" target="_blank">Feel free to follow me.</a></p>
<p>I usually tweet about what I&#8217;m doing and thinking, there&#8217;s not too much about The Sims to be honest. Only from time to time. Fashion and writing keeps me quite occupied these days&#8230; Anyways, feel free to stalk me and give me a shout once you do!</p>
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		<title>Just an Update on Spring4Sims</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/03/just-an-update-on-spring4sims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2011/03/just-an-update-on-spring4sims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to work a little less this weekend so finally I have some time to write this. My life is keeping me very busy and if I said I it&#8217;s only for now or temporal, I would be lying. I can&#8217;t really think of any lapse of time I had some &#8220;real&#8221; free time, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve decided to work a little less this weekend so finally I have some time to write this. My life is keeping me very busy and if I said I it&#8217;s only for now or temporal, I would be lying. I can&#8217;t really think of any lapse of time I had some &#8220;real&#8221; free time, but&#8230; no, that&#8217;s not what I wanted to talk about. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  After all, it&#8217;s me who decides whether I&#8217;m busy or not, so there&#8217;s nothing to complain about. It&#8217;s just that past few years are not really a garden of roses for me, because there&#8217;s always a lot of hard work and too little rewards like money and free time&#8230; but hopefully it&#8217;s getting only better every day.</p>
<p>What I meant to say with this small blog post is that I&#8217;m truly thankful to you guys not giving up on Spring4Sims. I think the site is still coping quite well, I get about 3,000-3,500 hits a day and I truly do all my best to keep it up. I know, there are some off-days when I don&#8217;t post anything. Also, some stuff that I post is not minty-fresh. I can&#8217;t help it, but I have to pre-schedule posts for three or four days, because it really takes much less time for me to do updates that way. I also know that there are a few other &#8220;finds&#8221; blogs that post many more updates a day. I have to tell you that this has been making me feel somewhat guilty for a long time, but I&#8217;ve decided that five posts a day is the maximum for me to keep the quality of finds pretty high and not spend a lifetime doing it.</p>
<p>The publishing system I&#8217;m using (WordPress) is playing little games with me and it will sometimes miss schedules I create for every post. Also, I still try to post some The Sims 2 stuff, but I have to admit it&#8217;s getting quite distant. Another thing is that I don&#8217;t have too much time to check up on sites that don&#8217;t provide RSS feeds. That&#8217;s why I mostly post here stuff from other blogs. Sorry for that, but if you have a new update on your site (that has no RSS feeds), just leave a comment and I will most likely post it here in a few days.</p>
<p>My game has been a total mess lately and yesterday I had to reinstall it for the third time in the past month. For some reason, I think the custom content I had made something nasty to it again and I couldn&#8217;t play World Adventures&#8230; I wish I could finally play it and take more pictures and post them here, because it&#8217;s so much fun for me to do and I always get so many nice comments from you. I really hope I&#8217;ll figure things out and be able to do that more. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I guess that&#8217;s pretty much it, hope you&#8217;re having a swell weekend!</p>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/12/happy-new-year-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/12/happy-new-year-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to wish you all Happy New Year, lots of love, success and hope you&#8217;ll get to all those things you&#8217;ve secretly wished for!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like to wish you all Happy New Year, lots of love, success and hope you&#8217;ll get to all those things you&#8217;ve secretly wished for! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Merry Plumbob Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/12/merry-plumbob-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/12/merry-plumbob-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to wish you very Merry Christmas, lots of love and happiness for these days. However you&#8217;re celebrating, I hope you&#8217;re having a wonderful time! P.S.: I&#8217;m not sure about updates until Moday, but then I&#8217;m back to normal again. Thanks for your patience and happy Simming, too!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like to wish you very Merry Christmas, lots of love and happiness for these days. However you&#8217;re celebrating, I hope you&#8217;re having a wonderful time! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>P.S.: I&#8217;m not sure about updates until Moday, but then I&#8217;m back to normal again. Thanks for your patience and happy Simming, too!</p>
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		<title>Updates Soon!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/11/updates-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, sorry for keeping it so quite here for the last few days. I have some news: I&#8217;m busy writing my novel! There are only three days left; yet I&#8217;ve been doing really well but unfortunatelly, I have a lot of other stuff to do and in order to win NaNo Wrimo (non-profit organization [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, sorry for keeping it so quite here for the last few days. I have some news: I&#8217;m busy writing my novel! There are only three days left; yet I&#8217;ve been doing really well but unfortunatelly, I have a lot of other stuff to do and in order to win <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank">NaNo Wrimo</a> (non-profit organization that encourages people to write a novel in 30 days&#8211;so much fun!), I just need to keep writing for three more days. BUT you can expect more updates at the end of the next week when I&#8217;ll do some catching up. Thanks for bearing with me! Have a great weekend! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>P.S.: I&#8217;m finally ordering my copy of Late Night and Fast Lane Stuff this Monday. I can&#8217;t wait to play the games!</p>
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		<title>Small Update on S4S, Life &amp; NaNo WriMo</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/11/small-update-on-s4s-life-nano-wrimo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year has been passing by so quickly, have you noticed? Or maybe it&#8217;s only my life that has been changing quite rapidly and there&#8217;s been a lot of stuff going on. I&#8217;m not going to reveal anything (yet), but there&#8217;s been a lot of ups and downs and these days. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m trying to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This year has been passing by so quickly, have you noticed? Or maybe it&#8217;s only my life that has been changing quite rapidly and there&#8217;s been a lot of stuff going on. I&#8217;m not going to reveal anything (yet), but there&#8217;s been a lot of ups and downs and these days. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m trying to hold on and work on things because I know that I can make them work and get them better. It takes a lot of patience and energy, but they say it&#8217;s worth fighting for what you think is&#8230; well, worth it.</p>
<p>My budget has been on a major cut recently; I wanted to buy Late Night and Fast Lane Stuff so badly at the begining of this month but then some unexpected bills showed up and I had to pay them, leaving me with very few money for this month. There&#8217;s not even a chace I can get something more from the new <a href="http://www.hm.com/pressdesign2010/welcome" target="_blank">Lanvin for H&amp;M</a> collection, which I&#8217;ve been wanting so bad (these dresses are so awesome! And the tuxedo! And the t-shirts! Oh no!). Well, it still could be worse but I really hope to get at least the games before Christmas. Guess what I&#8217;m planning to do this Holiday Season? <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>There is also very little time for me to find more time for finds these days. I&#8217;m really trying to get a hold of it, but if you see a day without finds, please, don&#8217;t be mad. I&#8217;ve also noticed that I make a lot of typos in the tags and sometimes I mark posts with label &#8220;The Sims 2&#8243; instead of &#8220;The Sims 3&#8243; and vice versa. If you find such a mistake, just post a comment and I&#8217;ll correct that. Thanks a bunch!</p>
<p>And lats but not least, the good news is that at least I have decided to start writing. Maybe some of you know that November is the month of <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank">NaNo WriMo</a> and yes, I&#8217;ve decided to go and try to write a novel. There&#8217;s been so many ideas popping in my head but I never had enough courage to put them down. It&#8217;s quite hard but motivating. And since I can&#8217;t play The Sims 3 at all now (my computer is still broken), it gives me a lot of time to write. In case you&#8217;ve joined the contest, let me know in the comments, I&#8217;ll be happy to give you some encouragement if you need some, because I know how much ones need it in order to keep on writing. I&#8217;m one day behind the word count, but so far so good. Maybe I will finish my first novel by the end of the month, who knows (at least the raw version). <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I guess that&#8217;s it for my Sims and life update. I hope you guys are well, have a great November and enjoy Simming while I can&#8217;t! See you around!</p>
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		<title>It Feels so Good to Be Back at Last</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/09/it-feels-so-good-to-be-back-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here I am. Writing a blog post at Spring4Sims after three weeks of absence. As you can see, I&#8217;m not dead. And I wasn&#8217;t sick, either. I was just&#8230; what the hell was wrong with me? Good question. To sum up the last month without making it boring or getting into detials of my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, here I am. Writing a blog post at Spring4Sims after three weeks of absence. As you can see, I&#8217;m not dead. And I wasn&#8217;t sick, either. I was just&#8230; what the hell was wrong with me? Good question.</p>
<p>To sum up the last month without making it boring or getting into detials of my personal life, I was pretty much figuring out my life. I&#8217;m in my early 20&#8242;s and deciding what I&#8217;m going to do, where I&#8217;m going to live and all those other questions that pop up a few times in your lifetime. The good news is that for now, I&#8217;m pretty much decided. Decisions usually take you further in your life and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve made good ones.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I was neglecting this site. This won&#8217;t be happening anymore as I really want to get back to doing finds again and write more about new releases, my game etc. Spring4Sims still means a lot to me and so do my visitors. Without you and your support, this site would never exist. Thanks for those who cared and wrote me nice comments, I really appreciate your concerns. I&#8217;m sorry if I disappointed some of you, but you know, your life is sometimes really much more important than the virtual life of your Sims.</p>
<p>New finds this Friday, I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy Spring4Sims again! Thank you for your patience with me and I&#8217;ll see you soon! :)</p>
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		<title>Back to Work Again!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/08/back-to-work-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, the last week and so of no updates was not necessarily planned. Well, I&#8217;ve decided to take some holiday last Thoursday and take a few days off, but some really unpretty flu/whatever struck me and instead of having fun, I had to lie in the bed for a week. Luckily, it seems to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, the last week and so of no updates was not necessarily planned. Well, I&#8217;ve decided to take some holiday last Thoursday and take a few days off, but some really unpretty flu/whatever struck me and instead of having fun, I had to lie in the bed for a week. Luckily, it seems to be gone. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I&#8217;ll have to take things easily for a while but that didn&#8217;t stop me from doing some finds for this week. Hope you&#8217;ll enjoy! Stay tuned for awesome finds, eat fruits and stay healthy! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Mailbox Cleaned, Site Links Updated</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/08/mailbox-cleaned-site-links-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just letting you know I&#8217;ve just browsed all emails in my mailbox and updated links I&#8217;ve collected either from you or from what I&#8217;ve found. So, The List of The Sims 2 Sites and List of The Sims 3 Sites are both updated now. If you don&#8217;t see your site there, leave me a comment and I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just letting you know I&#8217;ve just browsed all emails in my mailbox and updated links I&#8217;ve collected either from you or from what I&#8217;ve found. So, The <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/top-free-sites/">List of The Sims 2 Sites</a> and <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/list-of-the-sims-3-sites/">List of The Sims 3 Sites</a> are both updated now. If you don&#8217;t see your site there, leave me a comment and I will add a link to your site! Also, please note I didn&#8217;t reply any of the emails because there&#8217;s been too many of them and I was already too late to read them&#8230; yes, I need to check that mailbox more frequently. Sorry! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>BRB, My Brain Is Melting Like an Ice-Cream</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/07/brb-my-brain-is-melting-like-an-ice-cream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of updates last few days, guys. It&#8217;s been so hot in here and I barely can sit behind my computer to work all day, because it produces even more warmth and it doesn&#8217;t help at all that my room is in the mansard roof and tends to be the hottest in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the lack of updates last few days, guys. It&#8217;s been so hot in here and I barely can sit behind my computer to work all day, because it produces even more warmth and it doesn&#8217;t help at all that my room is in the mansard roof and tends to be the hottest in the whole house&#8230;</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t really been playing The Sims 3 for the last couple of weeks, perhaps because I was all excited about the new games I&#8217;ve just got: <strong>Tropico 3</strong> and <strong>Tropico 3 Absolute Power </strong>(an expansion pack). The game is really great and so much fun, if you like strategies, definitely <a href="http://www.tropico3.com/" target="_blank">go check it out</a>. I really like the idea of being a dictator of a banana island, making good and bad or even selfish decisions for my small island. The game makes fun of USA and USSR in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" target="_blank">Cold War</a> and I have to say I enjoy it quite a lot since I come from a post-communistic country. Enough said, just make sure you take a look if you don&#8217;t know the game at all! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>But don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve been neglecting my game that much! I&#8217;ve been downloading new stuff, organizing my <em>Mods </em>folder and pretty much deleting stuff I had but wasn&#8217;t really happy with in the game. It&#8217;s quite time-consuming I have to say. Apart from that, I finally received the <strong>The Sims 3 Amitions Prima Game Guide</strong> and it&#8217;s so helpful! I&#8217;m slowly digging through it and figuring some stuff before playing as I&#8217;ve found out sometimes it works for me much better this way. I don&#8217;t have all the time I used to have to try everything at once, so this way I choose the things I want to try the first and then pay attention to other stuff.</p>
<p>Also, I&#8217;ve been thinking about doing a<em> </em>small challege for you all. Do you have your room decorated with any Sims-themed objects? Or do you have your collection of the games nicely displayed on your shelves to show them proudly off? I thought it might be fun to see each other&#8217;s room with some odds and ends from The Sims. I have recently put a big poster of Sunset Valley on my wall and there&#8217;s a Plumbob USB hanging right down from my lamp&#8230; and of course, the games are lying around my desk with the guides. So would you be interested in showing your pictures? I though I could post them here at Spring4Sims and turn them into a show case. I just need to know if anyone would be willing to participate.</p>
<p>So yeah, that&#8217;s all for now. See you tomorrow (actually today&#8211;it&#8217;s 0:30 AM already) with new updates! Sim well and drink a lot of water. Oh and those of you in Australia having winter, enjoy it&#8211;it&#8217;s much better than this heat, trust me!</p>
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		<title>Happy 4th of July!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/07/happy-4th-of-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 4th of July, guys! No, I&#8217;m not celebrating with you as I&#8217;m not American, but reading so many American-based blogs about various things makes me excited for you. It seems like so many preparations go for this day. If you&#8217;re celebrating, leave me a comment how, I&#8217;m always very curious about foreign customs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy 4th of July, guys! No, I&#8217;m not celebrating with you as I&#8217;m not American, but reading so many American-based blogs about various things makes me excited for you. It seems like so many preparations go for this day. If you&#8217;re celebrating, leave me a comment how, I&#8217;m always very curious about foreign customs. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Batteries Drained, Please Recharge</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/06/batteries-drained-please-recharge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard week and too many things to do in real life. Sorry guys, I have to tak a few days off again. Meanwhile, keep playing Ambitions and don&#8217;t neglect your Sims as much as I do. Oh yes, I finally have Ambitions, the Commemorative Edition is really fancy so I&#8217;ll sure write about it soon. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hard week and too many things to do in real life. Sorry guys, I have to tak a few days off again. Meanwhile, keep playing Ambitions and don&#8217;t neglect your Sims as much as I do. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Oh yes, I finally have Ambitions, the Commemorative Edition is really fancy so I&#8217;ll sure write about it soon. I only played the game for 15 minutes, gave a small makeover to one of the local stylists at Twinbrook and that was it. Apart from the fact that I know I can&#8217;t play the game right now I feel the game has added pretty lot of new stuff and it makes me feel lost. I really need the <a href="http://www.game.co.uk/Accessories/PC-Games-and-Downloads/Strategy-Guides-and-Books/The-Sims-3-Ambitions-Expansion-Pack-Strategy-Guide/~r349456/?s=ambitions" target="_blank">Prima Game Guide</a>.</p>
<p>Lately I&#8217;ve noticed I have less and less time to sink deep into details before release of new Sims games. I really have to do something with it, it&#8217;s making me feel uncomfortable since I love the game so much&#8230; Maybe some better time management? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280" target="_blank">GTD</a> might work, or so I&#8217;ve heard (any recommendations?).</p>
<p>Anyways, I&#8217;ll be back as soon as possible (one never knows with me, maybe even tomorrow). Take care and Sim well!</p>
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		<title>Short Break, I&#8217;ll Be Back Soon</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/05/short-break-ill-be-back-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need to take a few days off of making daily finds, I&#8217;m so busy at the moment with exams. But when it&#8217;s over I&#8217;ll be the happiest person in the world. The new expansion pack, Ambitions, is coming out on June 1st. I&#8217;ve already ordered High-End Loft Stuff, I couldn&#8217;t resist anymore. Oh and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I need to take a few days off of making daily finds, I&#8217;m so busy at the moment with exams. But when it&#8217;s over I&#8217;ll be the happiest person in the world. The new expansion pack, Ambitions, is coming out on June 1st. I&#8217;ve already ordered High-End Loft Stuff, I couldn&#8217;t resist anymore. Oh and I&#8217;ll be making new posts most likely about my Sims these few day. And there will be one or two &#8216;special&#8217; posts so make sure to come back again. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Meanwhile have fun Simming!</p>
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		<title>Thanks to Donators, Spring4Sims 2 Years Old, 150+ Subscribers &amp; Issues with WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/04/thanks-to-donators-spring4sims-2-years-old-150-subscribers-issues-with-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phew, how could the last week pass so quickly? I barely realized it&#8217;s the weekend again. I&#8217;ve been meaning to thank to all my generous donators who donated to S4S, you cannot imagine how much help it is for me. Last few months have been pretty hard and I was working my butt off to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phew, how could the last week pass so quickly? I barely realized it&#8217;s the weekend again. I&#8217;ve been meaning to thank to all my generous donators who donated to S4S, you cannot imagine how much help it is for me. Last few months have been pretty hard and I was working my butt off to at least pay all the bills. If things were slightly better, no help would be necessary but your donations have really saved me. Thank you once more!</p>
<p>I also couldn&#8217;t thank you sooner because there&#8217;s been a slight problem with <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a>. I couldn&#8217;t edit some of the older posts, everything was working really wonky and the worst thing is that some finds/posts that I pre-scheduled were deleted. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s been fewer downloads these day. Everything should be working fine now, though.</p>
<p>Another thing I wanted to let you all know about is that Spring4Sims is now 2 years old! Two years is quite a lot if you consider posting new things (almost) every day. It&#8217;s so great to have such large audience that now includes 150+ subscribers via RSS feeds and more than three thousand visitors every day or up to four thousand on weekends. Thanks to everyone who supports my site and visits it. It makes me very happy! *makes the Smustle dance*</p>
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		<title>The Slightly Rotten Posts Soon to Be Followed by Minty-Fresh Ones</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/04/the-slightly-rotten-posts-soon-to-be-followed-by-minty-fresh-ones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My timing for some of the posts / finds published last few days are not the freshest (that&#8217;s why I said they&#8217;re slightly rotten), I know. I&#8217;ve had so much work to do and didn&#8217;t have too much time to concentrate on new finds, but don&#8217;t worry, they&#8217;ll follow soon. Another thing is that I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My timing for some of the posts / finds published last few days are not the freshest (that&#8217;s why I said they&#8217;re slightly rotten), I know. I&#8217;ve had so much work to do and didn&#8217;t have too much time to concentrate on new finds, but don&#8217;t worry, they&#8217;ll follow soon.</p>
<p>Another thing is that I&#8217;m having problems to find more TS2 stuff. Are there any new TS2 finds I&#8217;m missing, something shiny and new? Let me know in the comments. I try to do the finds fifty-fifty, but sometime&#8217;s it&#8217;s just not possible. Sorry for those who are looking forwards to downloading something for TS2.</p>
<p>Also, I wanted to thank to all my generous donators! I hope you all recieved my thank you note. I haven&#8217;t checked my mailbox for any replies and new emails for like a week or almost two, but I&#8217;ll get to it soon as well.</p>
<p>Have a wonderful evening! (Or whichever part of the day you&#8217;re having.)</p>
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		<title>Spring4Sims Donation Drive 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/04/spring4sims-donation-drive-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year has passed which not only means celebrating Spring4Sims being 2 years old (yay!) but also duties such as paying for the hosting. I&#8217;m not the type of person who&#8217;s going to tell you about my daily expenses and how terribly expensive the hosting is&#8230; because, let&#8217;s face it, it&#8217;s definitely not what will make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another year has passed which not only means celebrating Spring4Sims being 2 years old (yay!) but also duties such as paying for the hosting. I&#8217;m not the type of person who&#8217;s going to tell you about my daily expenses and how terribly expensive the hosting is&#8230; because, let&#8217;s face it, it&#8217;s definitely not what will make you support my site, right?</p>
<p>However, if you feel like supporting Spring4Sims, it&#8217;s the best time right now. The hosting costs are now as high as 100 USD for a year. It&#8217;s not impossibly much, but also not the smallest amount for me to pay. So, in case you want to support Spring4Sims, click the DONATE button in the left sidebar and donate via PayPal. Please, remember I&#8217;m not forcing anyone to donate. Donating is absolutely voluntary.</p>
<p>Thank you for your support&#8211;whether you&#8217;re donating or not, you know you can always support me and my site for free by commenting my posts. It always makes me very happy. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Current status: 86 USD / 10 people &#8212; thank you very much!</strong></p>
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		<title>Pick up Your New Treasures Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/03/pick-up-your-new-treasures-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My RSS is cluttered again with new downloads, I feel just way too tired to post anything today. I went to see MIKA in Vienna this Monday, didn&#8217;t sleep too much (I went to bed at 3.00 AM) and I had to finish my term paper on Tuesday, so I slept really just for a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My RSS is cluttered again with new downloads, I feel just way too tired to post anything today. I went to see <a href="http://mikasounds.com/" target="_blank">MIKA</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna" target="_blank">Vienna</a> this Monday, didn&#8217;t sleep too much (I went to bed at 3.00 AM) and I had to finish my term paper on Tuesday, so I slept really just for a couple of hours. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m complaining, I just need to take some rest today.</p>
<p>BTW the concert was fantastic! Any fans of MIKA out there? <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>The Saturday Morning Blah</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/03/the-saturday-morning-blah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Saturday morning and I&#8217;m lucky to say that I have finally no problem to get up at 8 AM and I don&#8217;t feel tired. University gives me one good thing: it makes me very tired which has finally broken my bad sleeping habit or disorder, whatever it was. The bad news is that I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Saturday morning and I&#8217;m lucky to say that I have finally no problem to get up at 8 AM and I don&#8217;t feel tired. University gives me one good thing: it makes me very tired which has finally broken my bad sleeping habit or disorder, whatever it was.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Screenshot-9-2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-22311 alignnone" title="Myself-Sim sleeping well. ^_^" src="http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Screenshot-9-2-500x375.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>The bad news is that I have too much work right now. (It&#8217;s not like I want you to feel sorry for me, definitely not.) But the worst thing of all? When you know you can&#8217;t play The Sims just because it&#8217;s the Saturday morning, because you have to write a seminar paper. That&#8217;s definitely not a good thing for Saturday morning, right? <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>My question is: What do you do on Suturday mornings? Do you play The Sims? Or do you do something different?</p>
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		<title>Let Me Know If Your Site Has Updated</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/02/let-me-know-if-your-site-has-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This message is mostly to creators: if you have updated with new downloads and I haven&#8217;t noticed that, please, let me know. I&#8217;m not checking site updates that much these days and those sites that don&#8217;t have any RSS feeds are getting really neglected by me. I&#8217;m really sorry for that, but the university has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This message is mostly to creators: if you have updated with new downloads and I haven&#8217;t noticed that, please, let me know. I&#8217;m not checking site updates that much these days and those sites that don&#8217;t have any RSS feeds are getting really neglected by me. I&#8217;m really sorry for that, but the university has stared again and I have so much work right now (I mean <em>real </em>work).</p>
<p>In case you found out that I don&#8217;t do as much as updates for your site as you might wish for, let me know about them! I don&#8217;t check my mailbox very often, so it&#8217;s best if you let me know in the comments, just leave one in any article you can find. It&#8217;s the best and the quickest way for me to get it noticed.</p>
<p>Thanks a ton!</p>
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		<title>Off-Topic: Mave Leather?</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/02/off-topic-mave-leather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a totally off-topic post, so it doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with The Sims. I need to ask you guys (since I&#8217;m not a native English speaker) what mave leather is. I&#8217;m particularly curious about the word mave, because I can&#8217;t find anything that would explain what kind of leather it is. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a totally off-topic post, so it doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with The Sims. I need to ask you guys (since I&#8217;m not a native English speaker) what<em> mave leather</em> is. I&#8217;m particularly curious about the word <em>mave</em>, because I can&#8217;t find anything that would explain what kind of leather it is.</p>
<p>I bought a jacket, I even found it on <a href="http://www.amazon.de/ONLY-Leather-Jacket-Lederjacke-schwarz/dp/B001UXK2FE" target="_blank">Amazon.de</a>, it should be made of genuine leather, because the label on it says it&#8217;s a pig leather and there were a few other labels saying it&#8217;s a leather jacket (no <em>faux </em>leather or anything like that). And it also wasn&#8217;t exactly cheap so it would better be one, haha.</p>
<p>But then I came home and my mum and now also my brother have started telling me that it&#8217;s not a genuine leather. It really freaked me out, because I don&#8217;t want a faux leather jacket (and definitely not for that money). It doesn&#8217;t really smell like leather, that&#8217;s right. But all those labels are saying it is genuine leather, it&#8217;s also a good brand (ONLY) and even Amazon claims it&#8217;s a <em>schweinsleder </em>(pig leather).</p>
<p>No idea what mave leather is, though. So I&#8217;m slightly confused. (Especially when somebody keeps telling you that you bought a fauxleather jacket and you wanted <em>real </em>leather jacket, gosh). Any ideas? Thanks a lot!</p>
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		<title>So Many New Downloads!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/02/so-many-new-downloads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I&#8217;m so overwhelmed by the number of new fresh downloads I&#8217;ve just discovered. I have enough to cover the whole week, but they&#8217;re so fabulous you&#8217;ll have to stop by every single day. It&#8217;s also quite good for me, too, because UNI has stared again (bleh) and I&#8217;m away at least three days of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, I&#8217;m so overwhelmed by the number of new fresh downloads I&#8217;ve just discovered. I have enough to cover the whole week, but they&#8217;re so fabulous you&#8217;ll have to stop by every single day. It&#8217;s also quite good for me, too, because UNI has stared again (bleh) and I&#8217;m away at least three days of the week from 7 AM to 20 PM. Pre-scheduling is my best friend again. Anyways, you can expect quite a lot this week. For both TS2 and TS3. I try to make the finds balaced, I hope you like that. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Have a great weekend, sweethearts!</p>
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		<title>Small Tiny Changes, Guys. Thumbs Up!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/02/small-tiny-changes-guys-thumbs-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been having this love-hate relationship with Spring4Sims. And that&#8217;s been for a few reasons: while I always intended the site to be a site for TS2, ever since TS3 came out, it&#8217;s been getting harder and harder to find stuff for TS2. A lot of people, including me, started playing the new game [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been having this love-hate relationship with Spring4Sims. And that&#8217;s been for a few reasons: while I always intended the site to be a site for TS2, ever since TS3 came out, it&#8217;s been getting harder and harder to find stuff for TS2.</p>
<p>A lot of people, including me, started playing the new game more than the &#8220;older&#8221; one, but there are also people who play both at the same time. And because I also used my own site as a source for downloads that I personally prefer, I&#8217;ve decided it would be okay to start making finds also for TS3 files.</p>
<p>In fact, I wanted to do that a long time ago. But I couldn&#8217;t really find a good way to categorize the new finds. Then I thought I might make a new site only for TS3 find. But honestly, I have enough managing one site, I don&#8217;t need another one to take care of and pay more money for hosting.</p>
<p><span id="more-21434"></span></p>
<p>However, I finally figured out the categories with my boyfriend. Here&#8217;s the best part: we have a new super-shiny tag that will show you which files are for TS2 and which are for TS3. You can see both right under the title of article (I put both in this article just for ilustration, there&#8217;s nothing to download here). What do you think? Do you like it? Let me know. BTW if you&#8217;re subscribed to Spring4Sims feeds you will as well see a small description whether the downloads are for TS2 or TS3.</p>
<p>There are also some small changes in the layout, finally no Christmas theme&#8230; it&#8217;s been here for a year, so it&#8217;s been about the time to change it, haha. Some more might happen to come soon, I hope.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I responded all emails in my mailbox that I received in the last three months. I haven&#8217;t checked my mailbox for a very long time, I apologize for any inconvenience. If you haven&#8217;t recieved a reply, <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/contact/" target="_blank">contact me</a> again, please.</p>
<p>For now, I think that&#8217;s all. I&#8217;ll keep you updated with more fresh info. Oh, and I plan to post more random stuff from my game&#8230; just because it&#8217;s a lot of fun to me. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Please, Bear with Me</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2010/01/please-bare-with-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, sorry I&#8217;m neglecting S4S so much these days, but I have exams this week and I&#8217;m feeling a little harsh about it all. I&#8217;ll see if I find any time to make new posts this week, but I&#8217;ll sure be back soon anyway. Take care!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, sorry I&#8217;m neglecting S4S so much these days, but I have exams this week and I&#8217;m feeling a little harsh about it all. I&#8217;ll see if I find any time to make new posts this week, but I&#8217;ll sure be back soon anyway. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Take care!</p>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/12/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy this holiday season playing the game and downloading new goodies, but also have great time with your family and friends!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like to wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy this holiday season playing the game and downloading new goodies, but also have great time with your family and friends!</p>
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		<title>Explanation about Making Finds, Direct Linking, Posting Pictures and More</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/12/just-to-explain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a comment in one of the recent posts. Just to make it sure to everyone, I&#8217;m going to make turn it into a more public announcement so everyone can see why. I hope Kylie won&#8217;t get offended, but I thought this might save me a lot of explaining in the future. The original [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got a comment in one of the recent posts. Just to make it sure to everyone, I&#8217;m going to make turn it into a more public announcement so everyone can see <em>why</em>. I hope Kylie won&#8217;t get offended, but I thought this might save me a lot of explaining in the future.</p>
<p>The original <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/12/few-annoying-bugs-in-world-adventures/#comment-40577" target="_blank">comment</a> is highlited in blue.</p>
<blockquote><p>1. I was in love with the cc you provided in your Sims 2 site, it was awesome! But, recently I got the Sims 3 and also discovered that now you are doing Sims 3 items as well, and well, I’m find it disappointing.First of all, you don’t show the pictures, we have to click on the links to find out what you’re even talking about, &#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Spring4Sims was always meant to be a TS2 site. I planned to expand S4S and start a TS3 finds site, but unfortunatelly, I can&#8217;t find any spare time in my life to start the project.</p>
<p>I thought just clicking the links to TS3 downloads I find awesome isn&#8217;t nearly as hard as taking time to put all the links together and describe them. I <em>won&#8217;t</em> add pictures to TS3 finds because it would only confuse a lot of visitors. People can&#8217;t stop asking &#8216;is this fot TS2 or TS3?&#8217;. Frankly, I&#8217;m so tired of this question.</p>
<p>So, S4S stays a TS2 finds site. TS3 finds will be compiled to lists of finds when I feel like to doing them. If you don&#8217;t feel like taking your time to click the links and see the content, you don&#8217;t have to do so.</p>
<p>Also, the system which I publish articles/finds with doesn&#8217;t allow me to create two categories with the same name (e.g. I can&#8217;t have two categories for &#8216;Hair for Females&#8217;&#8211;one for The Sims 2 and one for The Sims 3). So yeah, you get the point.</p>
<blockquote><p>2. &#8230; and a lot of the time, the links aren’t even to the right places.</p></blockquote>
<p>I can link directly only to sites that allow that. For example, sites like <a href="http://www.cc4sims.com/" target="_blank">CC4Sims.com</a> have disabled direct linking, so I can&#8217;t link directly to categories with clothes or recolors.</p>
<blockquote><p>3. Either that, or the site you send us to is in a completely different language!</p></blockquote>
<p>I take no resposibility for what language are other sites with custom content. You can always use Google Translator if you really mind. But I never link to sites in which you can&#8217;t relatively easily find a Download link. I think it&#8217;s mostly easy to see what the CC is from the pictures.</p>
<blockquote><p>4. Also, you aren’t showing NEARLY as much designer stuff, what happened to the Gucci bags, Ray-Ban sunglasses &amp; Victoria’s secret clothing? I miss it terribly.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s because there is no more designer stuff. If creators made some, I would post it. I love fashion myself and as long as the downloads are high-quality, I&#8217;m posting them. But as long as there&#8217;s nothing new, I&#8217;m not posting anything. I think that&#8217;s pretty logical.</p>
<blockquote><p>5. Also, when I’m browsing through clothes and other items, I can never tell if they are for Sims 2 or Sims 3. It’s very confusing.</p></blockquote>
<p>Go back to point no. 1. See? That&#8217;s why I <em>don&#8217;t</em> post The Sims 3 finds with pictures. Everything with pictures is for The Sims 2. This should clear out most of the trouble, but as I can see, for some people, it still doesn&#8217;t.</p>
<blockquote><p>6. I hope you can do something about these problems in the future, and hope that I’m not being a nuisance for ranting on about this. I just miss the spring4sims I used to know!</p></blockquote>
<p>Honestly, I miss the &#8216;good old&#8217; S4S, too. But since there are less new downloads, less creators, and less time in my personal life, I can&#8217;t seem to help this.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading.</p>
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		<title>Happy Holidays to You&#8230; and Me!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/12/happy-holidays-to-you-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, I hope you&#8217;re having a swell time this Christmas season and I hope you&#8217;ll have wonderful Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve. Unfortunatelly, I&#8217;ve been feeling pretty overworked past few months and I think it&#8217;s time to me to take a few days off from everying, because things have started going over my head. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, I hope you&#8217;re having a swell time this Christmas season and I hope you&#8217;ll have wonderful Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve.</p>
<p>Unfortunatelly, I&#8217;ve been feeling pretty overworked past few months and I think it&#8217;s time to me to take a few days off from everying, because things have started going over my head. That means no updates for a few days, but remember there are more than 5,000 posts at S4S so take a look at the archives and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find something great.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, have great holidays and take care! :love:</p>
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		<title>My Copy of World Adventures Arrived!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/12/my-copy-of-world-adventures-arrived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the traits I&#8217;m really happy to have is probably self-control. And patience. My game arrived today and I&#8217;m so happy! It&#8217;s been such a bad day today, I had an exam from myths and ancient epics (Iliad, Oddysey, Metamorphoses, the founding of Rome, plus a few Roman emperors and many more) and it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the traits I&#8217;m really happy to have is probably self-control. And patience. My game arrived today and I&#8217;m so happy! It&#8217;s been such a bad day today, I had an exam from myths and ancient epics (Iliad, Oddysey, Metamorphoses, the founding of Rome, plus a few Roman emperors and many more) and it went terribly wrong. I wonder if I passed, probably not.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/world-adventures.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-20971" src="http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/world-adventures.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="374" /></a></p>
<p>The good news is that my game arrived. The bad news is that I have two more days of exams, so I&#8217;ve decided just to stare at it for next two days, so I wouldn&#8217;t feel guilty about not studying. But you can bet I can&#8217;t wait to put in my DVD-drive! <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I think most people were pretty positive about World Adventures and I think I&#8217;ll like it, too.</p>
<p>Oh, I wish it was Thursday already. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>A Bit More Shortly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to make a small explanation (mostly to artists, I guess): I&#8217;m in a time pressure these days and it won&#8217;t go away until next Thursday, because I have exams and quite a lot of work. So, the comments for downloads will be really short, if there will be some at all. I know that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just to make a small explanation (mostly to artists, I guess): I&#8217;m in a time pressure these days and it won&#8217;t go away until next Thursday, because I have exams and quite a lot of work.</p>
<p>So, the comments for downloads will be really short, if there will be some at all. I know that you won&#8217;t miss my pointless comments, but maybe artists do appreciate my praise. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  So don&#8217;t feel neglected if there&#8217;s nothing like that for some time now. Thanks!</p>
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		<title>Some People Don&#8217;t Like the Sims Fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this in the comments today: Sims is a game for people who don’t have a life.this game is so boring i don’t know why my brother even bought it for me….bye sims freaks see ya in hell!!! Yeah, I delete comments like this. They&#8217;re pretty rare, though, I think this is the second one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found this in the comments today:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sims is a game for people who don’t have a life.this game is so boring i don’t know why my brother even bought it for me….bye sims freaks see ya in hell!!!</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, I delete comments like this. They&#8217;re pretty rare, though, I think this is the second one in the past year and a half, but still&#8211;why bother commenting when you have something like that on your mind?</p>
<p>P.S.: It might be hot in the hell, but at least <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XczLJ4-sd8M" target="_blank">there&#8217;s good company</a>. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Slowing Down</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/11/slowing-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apart from finding time (= not feeling tired) to make finds, I&#8217;m finding it very difficult to actually find something new. There are tons of The Sims 2 sites, but only very few of them update regularly now. Yesterday I realized I had no updates for you a little too late, so I went to sleep [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apart from finding time (= not feeling tired) to make finds, I&#8217;m finding it very difficult to actually find something new. There are tons of The Sims 2 sites, but only very few of them update regularly now.</p>
<p>Yesterday I realized I had no updates for you a little too late, so I went to sleep instead and did the finds in the morning when I felt a bit fresher. Hope you enjoy double-updates today. <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Have a great rest of the weekend!</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Feverish. Wait, What?!</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/11/im-feverish-wait-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was wondering for the last two or three days why I&#8217;ve been feeling so tired and dizzy. I might be slightly overworked, I get it, but I can&#8217;t believe it took me three days to realize I&#8217;m actually sick. Lol. It&#8217;s actually not funny. Especially because I&#8217;ve been eating so many vegetables, salads and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was wondering for the last two or three days why I&#8217;ve been feeling so tired and dizzy. I might be slightly overworked, I get it, but I can&#8217;t believe it took me three days to realize I&#8217;m actually sick. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Lol.</span> It&#8217;s actually not funny. Especially because I&#8217;ve been eating so many vegetables, salads and fruits past few weeks. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if a broccoli started to grow out of my head&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyway, I hope it&#8217;s nothing nasty because I need to go to college this week (but luckily, I have holidays on Monday and Tuesday this week), because I have a test on Wednesday. I&#8217;ll have to figure out a way how to learn something about ancient Greek and Roman architecture since I found that impossible in the last two days. I wrote a thesis about some sculptures but that&#8217;s it, I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to do anything more than that. Well, except for watching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californication_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Californication</a>, the TV show with David Duchovny. It&#8217;s so much fun!</p>
<p>Meanwhile, you guys stay healthy and be well. I&#8217;m going to reganerate after my 10 km run I took today (yes, I even ran today, crazy me), get something done and take a long sleep. Good night!</p>
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		<title>Fell Asleep &amp; Lost My Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/10/fell-asleep-lost-my-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up at 6:30 AM today, got ready and when I was on the bus with my friend, I just couldn&#8217;t figure out whether I did or did not the updates yesterday. Now I know I didn&#8217;t, the strange thing is that I couldn&#8217;t decide whether I did them yesterday or it was just the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I woke up at 6:30 AM today, got ready and when I was on the bus with my friend, I just couldn&#8217;t figure out whether I did or did not the updates yesterday. Now I know I didn&#8217;t, the strange thing is that I couldn&#8217;t decide whether I did them yesterday or it was just the day before.</p>
<p>This is not an apology because I didn&#8217;t do the updates, I just felt like spreading a word or two about my bad sleeping habits. Or rather a very full working schedule, which makes me sleep 5-6 hours a day at max. This week was rather terrible at this point and I hope to get some proper sleep today. Also, I hope this not to happen again, not because it would make me feel guilty (we all need to get some rest), but because of that very strange feeling I was having all day today.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really not good when you feel like you&#8217;re losing your mind, lol.</p>
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		<title>The Site Is Gone</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/10/the-site-is-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that was quick! The site that was mirroring my posts is down. Yes, really. I wouldn&#8217;t notice if TiaLee didn&#8217;t let me know in the comments, though. Well, I knew it wouldn&#8217;t last too long anyway, but it was much quicker than I expected. See? Bad things go away quickly. And you don&#8217;t even need [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that was quick! The site that was <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/10/thought-i-was-tian-now-i-know-im-coco/" target="_blank">mirroring my posts</a> is down. Yes, really. I wouldn&#8217;t notice if <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/10/thought-i-was-tian-now-i-know-im-coco/#comment-40047" target="_blank">TiaLee</a> didn&#8217;t let me know in the comments, though.</p>
<p>Well, I knew it wouldn&#8217;t last too long anyway, but it was much quicker than I expected. See? Bad things go away quickly. And you don&#8217;t even need to push things. Isn&#8217;t it funny how some things in the world work out? <img src='http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Random Unimportant Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/10/random-unimportant-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to thank you guys for showing your support regarding the site that copies all my content. The site definitely runs on some kind of automated system that mirrors my posts in a few seconds they&#8217;re published. But as I said, I really don&#8217;t care anymore. Another thing I wanted to thank you for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to thank you guys for showing your support regarding the site that copies all my content. The site definitely runs on some kind of automated system that mirrors my posts in a few seconds they&#8217;re published. But as I said, I really don&#8217;t care anymore.</p>
<p>Another thing I wanted to thank you for is that you <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/2009/10/newport-office-by-profi-sims/#comments" target="_blank">pointed out</a> that <em>ProfiSims.huu.cz</em> just compiles custom content from other sites (and offers them as their own). I&#8217;ve decided not to support this site in any way, because I truly believe in originality. I know, those who don&#8217;t support pay sites already know where to get subscription content from TSR, but I think that&#8217;s a little different case. Hope you know what I mean.</p>
<p>And the last thing I wanted to ask you is whether you know some The Sims 2 sites that you can&#8217;t find on my site too often. If you&#8217;re in doubt, check out the <a href="http://www.spring4sims.com/top-free-sites/" target="_blank">List of Top Free Sites</a>. A lot of sites have gone inactive in the past few weeks and it&#8217;s getting much harder for me to find some really nice content. If you know any great The Sims 3 sites as well, then give me the links as well. They&#8217;re spreading very fast and I feel like I&#8217;m a little behind.</p>
<p>Hope you&#8217;re having a wonderful Friday and will have even better weekend! :love:</p>
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