Meme -- the answers

And here are the answers to yesterday's music meme. I stumped lots of you, it would seem, with one in particular. ;) If you'd like to hear any of the songs you didn't recognize, just let me know and I'll YouSendIt to you.

1. "We're both looking for something we've been afraid to find" -- from "First Time" by Lifehouse, correctly guessed by nobody

2. "It's in the rhythm of the dancer, it's in the standard flag unfurled" -- from "Heart and Soul" by Wolfstone, correctly guessed by nobody

3. "I was sick and tired of everything when I called you last night from Glasgow" -- from "Supertrooper" by ABBA (or in the case of the one I was actually listening to, performed by the A-Teens), correct guessed by blaze_rocket

4. "Once I rose above the noise and confusion just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion" -- from "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, correctly guessed by clez

5. "I get such a thrill when you look in my eyes" -- from "Best Years of Our Lives" by the Baha Men, correctly guessed by siddyq

6. "Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking" -- from "Move Along" by the All-American Rejects, correctly guessed by hezyfaerie

7. "There you see her, sitting there across the way" -- from "Kiss the Girl" on The Little Mermaid OS, correctly guessed by hezyfaerie

8. "One, two, princes kneel before you" -- from "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors, correctly guessed by nobody (to my utter confusion, given that the title is in the line!)

9. "Let me know that I've done wrong, when I've known this all along" -- from "Dirty Little Secret" by the All-American Rejects, correctly guessed by destinedtofly

10. "And the streets turn me inside out" -- from "Stay With You" by the Goo Goo Dolls, correctly guessed by clez

11. "I once had a dream where no one had to walk two hundred miles" -- from "Brave Foot Soldiers" by Wolfstone, correctly guessed by both siddyq and _revolutionary (very good, girls!)

12. "You remind me of the babe" -- from "Magic Dance" by David Bowie (Labyrinth OS), correctly guessed by blaze_rocket

13. "One day I looked up, and there you were" -- from "Dela (I Think I Know Why the Dog Howls at the Moon)" from the George of the Jungle OS, correctly guessed by nobody

14. "I want to have the same last dream again, the one where I wake up and I'm alive" -- from "The Adventure" by Angels and Airwaves, correctly guessed by nobody

15. "All the colors of the rainbow, all the voices of the wind" -- this is NOT from "Colors of the Wind," as people kept guessing! It's from "Testify to Love" by Wynonna (on the Touched By an Angel TV series CD).

16. "Out on the borderline, somewhere between heart and mind" -- from "Saved By Love" by Triumph, correctly guessed by nobody

17. "Is it fate, or random chance? How can I decide?" -- from "Somebody's Out There" by Rik Emmet, correctly guessed by nobody

18. "Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?" -- from "Holding Out for a Hero" by Jim Steinman (sung by Jennifer Saunders), correctly guessed by clez

19. "I'm afraid it's been too long to try to find the reasons why" -- from "Waiting for the World to Fall" by Jars of Clay, correctly guessed by siddyq

20. "When in the springtime of the year, when the trees are crowned with leaves" -- from "The Mummers' Dance" by Loreena McKennitt, correctly guessed by hezyfaerie

Tada. :)

My Christmas card!

As I reported some while back, I received the Best Christmas Card Ever this year from siriuslypeeved. Kevin scanned it in for me last night, so I may finally show you all what makes it so incredibly awesome. ( Here's a hint -- he's a man in black. )

My Sims!

So today I had a funny idea for Sims. I came home and started tweaking. Unfortunately, my screencaps are kind of on the small side; Pie's going to have to teach me how to take nice big ones like she does. But you can see what's going on, pretty decently.

Basically, I moved myself and Kevin into a big Federal-style mansion with six of the kids. You can only have up to eight people living in one house, so I had to pick. I went with clez, carnage533, siddyq, amarctis_q2, destinedtofly, and _revolutionary. Claire, Jerry, Kristie, Jonathan, and Lyn are all teenagers; Raven, since she's my youngest, is a child. I made these guys as much like the real people as I could; I think Kristie and Kevin's Sim versions are particularly similar to the real thing.

So. Screencaps.

First, the family portrait. Kevin and I are in the middle, of course. That's Jerry on one knee in front; Kristie is in the pink dress; Raven is the little one with glasses. Jonathan is the blond boy. Lyn is in a Ravenclaw uniform because I said so, and Claire is in the back.

I put a lot of work into making this a beautiful home filled with books and culture. Here's the living room. Other rooms include the dining room, the master bedroom, and the entry foyer.

Raven, being the youngest, has the room next to Mommy and Daddy. She's also the only member of the family with a room all her own.

The boys share this room. Mom is very nice about letting them hang that picture of a woman on the wall.

The entire third floor is the girls' bedroom. Kristie sleeps in the middle bed; Lyn's is on the far left. Claire is the eldest, so the armoire is positioned in such a way as to give her a little privacy.

This is our backyard. It includes workout equipment, a swing set, a barbecue grill, a telescope, and a hot tub. It also has a rather bitchin' pool.

Raven reads the newspaper. She might be job-hunting, I'm not sure.

Claire earns creativity points by learning to paint masterpieces.

Jon, on the other hand, prefers to earn them by mastering the piano.

Kevin and I don't really care what the kids do; we're happy to canoodle in the hot tub by ourselves.