Extracting RAR files using Jzip tutorial

Step 1: Open Jzip

Step 2: Click on the "Open Archive" folder

 Step 3: Go to where you saved your file that is to be extracted.  In this tutorial I am using Ladyfrontbum's Naughty and Nice Skin which Chrome automatically saves to your downloads folder. Click on the file once so it highlights (like in pic) and click "open".

                       You should see something like this (depending on what you are extracting you may have more files showing up under "Name"):

 Step 4: Click on the file name(s) you want to extract, then click once on the "Extract" folder to open it.

Step 5: Go to your documents folder...

 Step 6: ...Electronic Arts Folder....

Step 7:...The sims 3 folder...

Step 8: ...mods folder...

 Step 9: ...packages folder...click the extract button in the lower right corner and you're done!

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Simming Confession #....13?

I am terrible at CAS-ing objects.  This is my weakness.  When I say it takes me 1 week, or more, to build a house, it's not actually taking me 1, or more, weeks to actually build the house. It's taking me a week or more to CAS the objects (including walls) in the house. This is why I google each individual room  (as stated in Confession #8 ) as a reference, or guide.

Real Life Confession #13:

I love John Goodman.  Not like "in love" with him, but I think he's an awesome actor.  He pulls off being the tough guy asshole so well, and then in the next project he's the big teddy bear that is sweet as can be.  Love that he was/is the voice of "Sully" in Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, and "'Bid Daddy' La Bouff" in The Princess and the Frog, but my favorite character that he has done is "Dan Conner" in Roseanne.

Yellow Farmhouse

Downstairs is done~

Not done--just showing update of the WIP. :) 

Thanks to Wibs for her wallpaper (in the bathroom and walk-in closet)which can be Found here

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I know I've already done 10, but I decided I'm going to keep going until I run out of confessions (or decide not to do them anymore :P )

Simming Confession #11: I hate, HATE, that we cannot place stairs on angled foundation, or at a 45 degree angle.  I hate that my only option is to either place them straight on, or make the area an illusion so it looks like the stairs are at a 45 degree angle.  I wish they would allow us to place the stairs on angled foundations.

Real Life Confession #11: I still love the band "No Doubt" and was bummed to hear they preformed here in Seattle in 2009.  I was about 8 months pregnant when they came and couldn't go.

And my favorite song of their has always been, "Just a Girl".

I love Gwen Stefani's voice.  And also love her "What You Waiting For" song.

AOK Ranch

Passes Custard test:

There are a few empty rooms you can decorate yourself if you have a large family, and lots of options to change things around on the second floor (as far as rooms go)

Download here
 4shared

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Simming Confession #10: With the exception of two sims, I have never played any of the "celebrity" sims I've made.  Meaning, I have never played a household with my: Snookie sim, Tracy (from "Jerseylicious") sim, Harry Potter character(s) sims, Jennifer Aniston sim, Lauren "Lo" Bosworth sim (from 'Laguna Beach and The Hills), Edward or Alice Cullen sim etc.

The exception to this confession is my Kim Kardashion V.2 sim and my Kate Middleton sim.  I have played both sims before.  Kim didn't last long, and Kate (whom married a very quick and badly made William) made it as far as having a child.  Then I got bored of them and stopped playing them.

Real Life Confession #10: I hate being late.  I hate people who tell me to meet them at a certain time and they are late.  Five minutes late is fine, but 20 or more minutes is unacceptable in my book. If I agree to meet up with someone at 10am...I'm there at 9:50am or even 9:40am.

 I had a friend once who could never meet me on time.  It annoyed me to no ends.  Her excuse was always, "The traffic was really bad".

  Because I came from 40 minutes away and managed to make it here 10 minutes before the time we agreed on. You live in the same city we are meeting in and are 20, sometimes 30 minutes late--so tell me, why is traffic really bad where you were, when you are only 10 minutes from the meeting place, but the traffic was good for me when I was 40 minutes away from our meeting place, and I managed to make it here 10 minutes early?  If the traffic was as bad as she used to claim, shouldn't it been I who was late?

I  hate when I have an appointment, that my bf is taking me to, and we leave 10 minutes before the appointment when I know it will take us about 15-20 minutes to get there, making us 5-10 minutes late.  Drives me nuts.

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Simming Confession #9:  I have only ever entered 2 contests.  The first one was a "sim-celebrity" modeling contest that I used my Kim Kardashian V.2 sim for.  The competition died after the 3rd or 4th assignment.

The second was more of a "show" for MummyGaga/x_MG_x's "The Battle of Mummification". This is still going on, but I was voted out a few weeks ago.  It was fun while it lasted and I still enjoy reading each episode.  :)

Real Life Confession #9:  When I make hot chocolate at home, from the packets like "Swiss Miss", I add two packets to my coffee cup.  Not because I like it to be more chocolaty, but because my mugs are bigger than a standard mug.  The package says to add 6oz of water to the cocoa powder.  6oz is not even 1 whole cup...literally.  1 cup = 8oz.  I know not a big difference, but when you have mugs that hold 12oz of liquid...you feel like you are being cheated by only adding 6oz of water to the cocoa, and if you add more water to only one packet...it waters it down; therefore, I add two packets to my mugs.

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Simming Confession #8: I am terrible at decorating and color coordinating the rooms in the houses I build, so I go looking for pictures of rooms that resemble what I try to do for each room.  I use google images to find each room and when I find a room I like I use it as a reference.

So for instance.  I'll google, "sitting room", and find this picture:

So then I try to make my room in my game look similar to that (which obviously it's not going to look exact to that pic, but it's just a reference to get my imagination going), and this is what I came up with:

Real Life Confession #8:  I love photography and have 2 cameras (I used to have 4 but I broke down and sold one and the other one died so I threw it away--it was a cheap little camera). Now I have a Cannon Digital camera that my dad used to have (he gave it to us) and my Nikon FM 10.

I almost decided to pawn this one recently due to us desperately needing money for Christmas.  The camera alone cost me $500 (this doesn't include the bag, filters, flash, film, or lenses (which I have none of, lenses I mean--I have 4 or 5 filters, the flash etc.--but if I did have other lenses...it would make it more valuable).  I just couldn't do it.  I would only sell it if I were getting a better camera than this one.

And my digital:

Between using the digital camera and using my graphic design skills I was able to make a really good picture of my daughter during Christmas time last year.

We have it enlarged and framed in our living room, and everyone who see's it asks where we had it done.  

Jennifer Aniston

I had already done her before, but I decided to take her back into CAS and do some tweaking.  Well, what do you think?

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Simming Confession #7: My favorite simmies that I have made, by far, are my three HP characters: Harry, Hermione, and Ron.

Harry Potter

 Harry Potter -- more pics here

Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger -- more pics here

Ronald Weasley

Ronald Weasley -- more pics here

Real life Confession #7: I am a huge Harry Potter fan.  Never really read the books (don't really have the time), but the one book I did read was Order of the Phoenix (the longest book in the series at that time that I read it).  Until I saw the final movie, OOTP was my favorite out of the series with Prizoner of Azkaban coming in a close 2nd.  If the Harry Potter Exhibition ever came back to Seattle, I'd go (didn't go the first time it was here). Daniel Radcliffe is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors.

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Simming confession #6: I have never made a berry sim.

Real Life Confession #6:  I enjoy grocery shopping.  I will take the car early in the morning, like 8am, and go to my favorite grocery store and spend an hour or so there.  The only exception is that it must be early in the morning because any other time of day it's a mad house at this grocery store and being claustrophobic...it doesn't go well with me. So, 8am is good because there is hardly anyone there, and the lines are super short.

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Simming Confession #5: I have not sent my sims on "vacation" since the release of Generations for fear they will disappear or become corrupted.  Speaking of traveling...I usually do not accept tasks that result in my sim traveling to another "country".

Real Life Confession #5:  I remember going to see E.T. in the movie theater with my parents.  I was only 5 years old.  I was too small to see over the persons head in front of me by sitting in the seat "correctly".  My parents came up with this idea, since no one was behind us,  to keep the seat flipped up, and then put the coats on the edge of the seat for me to sit on (they were the old fashioned wooden seats without the cushion) so that I sitting high enough to see the screen over the people's heads in front of me.
Seats were flipped up like this:

  Anyway, when the time came that Elliot first found E.T. , Elliot screamed, E.T. screamed, and I screamed causing the seat to flip down with me and the coats falling into the seat. lol

To this day I don't like E.T.  Not because of that... it's just not a movie I can sit through.

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Simming confession #4: I prefer to build small houses compared to large houses.  Preferably cottages.  I love the Thomas Kinkade portraits and try to make cottages look like they are from his paintings, but cottages get boring after a while and I will make large houses.  The largest house I've built so far is my "Aisling House" that cost about $500,000 furnished; although, my French Chateau that I'm currently working on is giving "Aisling House" a run for its money.  After the French Chateau I'll most likely go back to building some small cottages.

Real Life confession #4: I didn't get my learner's permit until I was 18 years old and didn't get my drivers license until I was 19 years old.  When I went for my drivers license I failed the first time (the DMV lady---whom I knew personally, and disliked a lot) said I had taken a right turn too wide and went into on-coming traffic.  I don't know what she was looking at, but that didn't happen, and I, as well as my private trainer, tried to appeal the decision--it didn't work.  The second time around I got another DMV lady, that I knew of--I went to HS with her two sons--and she passed me adding that I was probably one of the few testers she's seen pass the test perfectly. I have never gotten a ticket, or been the cause of an accident.  Also, I love parallel parking--I find it fun.  :p

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Simming Confession #3: I can't seem to "complete" a legacy.  Meaning I can't get to generation 10, hell I can't seem to get past generation 2 or 3. I seem to lose interest after generation 2 or 3.  I was doing well with my prior legacy family:

But after the pets patch, something really messed up my computer and I ended up having to delete them in the long run.  So now I'm trying a simself legacy.  I tried this a long time ago (back when I first got the game) and was interested in how the family turned out, but I don't remember what happened...I ended up getting the daughter to an adult stage and starting generation 3 with her, but again, lost interest and stopped.  Hopefully my new simself legacy will prove to be more interesting for me.

RL Confession #3:  I hate talking on the phone.  Even as a teenager, I didn't really like it that much.  If I can do my corresponding through email then I will.  I don't know why, I just prefer to email someone, or if I have to talk to the person directly, I'd rather talk to them in person so I can see their facial expressions.

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Simming Confession #2:  I've never had a simbot in my simmies families.  I don't know, they just seem useless to me....and since I like to keep my families as realistic as much as I can, the simbot doesn't fit in with the families I play.

Real Life Confession #2: I hate having my bed made so that the comforter folds over the pillows, like this:

I prefer to have my pillows propped up against the head board like this:

This is because I worked as a housekeeper for 12 years and folding the comforter over the pillows is how we made up the beds.  If my bf makes the bed, and pulls the comforter over the pillows before throwing the shams and throw pillows on the bed, I will pull it apart and redo it. So seeing my bed made up in that manner drives me nuts. P.S.--I ♥♥♥ that bedset in the second pic.

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I saw Leggokatz do this on her blog a while ago, and now MummyGaga is doing it as well.  I've been meaning to do one myself, so why not start now.

How it works:  For the next 10days days I will post one sim confession as well as one real life confession, until I reach 10 confessions. (I may or may not do this on  the weekends unless I find time).

Sim Confession #1:
I love creating sims from real people (celebrities) or movie characters. I love the challange of trying to get the sim to look like the person/character they are created from.

Real Life Confession #1:
My daughter is a Hispanic-mix.  I am Caucasian, and her father is Colombian.