Sims 2 Blabber: I can't resist Ares.

So my old neighbourhood that I built so beautifully? With Harry and Hermione and the Doctor and Martha and everyone? Yeah, the really cool one? It stopped working for me. Maybe it was too full or something, but it up and died on me. I was bereft for many months and didn't bother playing the game again.

This week I decided to make a new start in Desiderata and have done so. I put in Nina Hagen, I put in myself, I put in Gabrielle, Joxer, Xena and Ares and I put in the Doctor. I thought I'd mix it up and try to get into the Doctor's pants, even setting my Sim's attraction traits to glasses and custom hair (which is what my Doctor Sim has).

I've not been able to run into the Doctor yet, most annoyingly. And Ares is going to end up with Xena.

Or so I thought. My Sim is at the nightclub, she's talking to Ares there's double lightning bolt in his little head thing in the relations bar. Even though he doesn't specificially fit the attractors I defined. And I'm thinking, "Fuck it, I"ll marry Ares again and the Doctor can be my toyboy on the side."

*sigh* I'm so utterly predictable!

Fat Acceptance.

I've been reading a pretty legendary thread over at Shakesville about how just because someone is fat, doesn't necessarily mean they're unhealthy.

I wanted to chime in for posterity here - so, SO true. I'm pretty healthy looking, not thin but rather athletic, which is deceptive cause I live probably one of the most sedentary lifestyles out of anyone I know outside of my disabled nephew. And I'm suffering from chronic disease and am probably malnutritioned due to my lack of money to afford the fresh veges every day and because I can't get to the shops to buy them myself due to my mobility issues.

I know people that are a little bigger than me but are WAY more mobile and fit. I would gladly be ten kilos heavier if I could get my mobility back. I'll admit that I'm a vain bitch and I dislike being overweight, but the additional weight and the bummer it might bring me would be hugely outshone by the ability to go swimming, running, dancing, walking, and all that jazz without being in excrutiating pain.

And when people start telling 'fatties' to stop eating so much food, I often think of my Mum. She's gotten curvier in her later years, though she had a couple of bouts of weight issues in the past (particularly when she was pregnant with Tina). She's so hard on herself and her appearance, but it's really not her fault at all. She doesn't over-eat. I eat just like her, actually - like a friggin' bird! She was/is on hormone treatments and antidepressants since menopause, and I think that probably has a bit to do with why the weight won't shift. She tries so many diets, and she eats SO responsibly. No needless fat, cholesterol or salt. Her one guilty pleasure? Potatoes. She doesn't eat refined glutenous food cause she, like me, is gluten intolerant. We both lean towards an Eastern menu as far as eating habits go. Lots of rice, curries, legumes and lentils, healthy alternatives to fattening side-dishes and so forth.

But her weight is what it is. Personally, I love her as she is. I love my Mum's squishy hugs.

So when people start giving shit to fat people, like their food intake is somehow someone else's business, I think of my Mum, and the other people I know who eat normally, who are just genetically predisposed to being bigger.

Does that mean I think people should say "Fuck it!" and over-eat or eat badly? Hell, of course not. But discriminating against people due to something that is none of your damned business? Not right.

Anyway, all this talk about food is making me hungry. I'm out of gluten-free food, I'm really starving. :(