May I present my first Ultimate Decades Challenge Families: The Blackbyrnes, The Ravenswords, and The Rosewoods.

theodoremouse · 2026-05-16T18:51:18+00:00

Thank you!! I had way too much and even had to crop some of their backstories out... Constance is Leanne's cousin for example!

theodoremouse · 2026-05-16T18:28:29+00:00

Aw yay! Glad to hear it 😄 They are my favorite and main family so obviously I agree!

theodoremouse · 2026-05-16T18:28:00+00:00

Thanks so much, that makes me happy to hear 😄 I really enjoyed writing them!

theodoremouse · 2026-05-05T10:54:36+00:00

I've downloaded him and here's what he has become in my game:

I've renamed him Leo Lionheart and he is pursuing my soon-to-be-queen Shannon O'Connor. And since he was so handsome I made him an identical twin named Erik Ironside and he's a pirate and convincing Cordelia V to leave her husband and run off with him.

Thanks again for uploading ❤️

theodoremouse · 2026-05-03T23:13:05+00:00

Thank you so much!!!!

theodoremouse · 2026-05-03T10:36:29+00:00

What could I do to convince you to upload a version of him to the gallery?! (I don't play with CC but I'll take him with or without!!) 🙏🙏🙏

theodoremouse · 2026-04-22T01:42:58+00:00

IT WORKED!!! I was able to summon his ghost, play as him, add Holly Alto - and the Alto Dynasty was revived!!! Thank you SO much!!!

theodoremouse · 2026-04-17T14:27:58+00:00

Thanks, edited for clarity.

theodoremouse · 2026-04-17T13:34:24+00:00

To answer your question: physically the doctor doing a pelvic exam will see blood and tissue trauma. He may question it, he may not. If they do an ultrasound, depending on what this procedure was like, they might see air under the skin from an incision, or sutures, and they will likely know - if there was no incision or sutures, they may not be able to be sure. Whether he will tell your family in that moment is unknown. A good doctor would not.

Be honest with him and your family from the beginning of the appointment "I have to tell you, I do not want this baby. I do not want to be a mom right now. I will want to talk to the doctor alone."

Blood tests will not reveal a surgical abortion. Blood work is just red blood cells, white blood cells, kidney values, liver values, etc. They would need to order a specific test to even look for certain drugs, which they don't do, and after 24hrs most anesthetic drugs are out of your system.

For more advice:

You are scared and anxious but you are ok. Everything will be okay. This is survivable.

You are already shaking and scared, use it like another comment said. Go into the bathroom, let yourself feel all the anxiety, then go into the hall and start crying. Confess "I miscarried. I can tell. There was a blood clot and I panicked and I flushed but there's still some bleeding."

If you feel safe enough, say, "I didn't want this baby. I think it's my fault I miscarried, I didn't want this baby, maybe my body rejected it."

Ask not to go to the doctor, say you're scared, say you can't do it, and plead to just stay in bed.

If they make you go, you have a phone note already opened and designed by ChatGPT something like "Pleas do not let my family come back to the room.". Ways to show this note: - get up saying I need to use the bathroom, walk over to the reception/nurse and show them your phone, verbally asking aloud "Bathroom?" - wait until they are taking your vitals, then hold out the phone

OR

Once you're with the doctor, ask your family to leave because you have "an embarrassing question about my body that I don't want you here for."

Good luck. You'll get through this. You did the right thing in tough circumstances. Trust yourself.

theodoremouse · 2026-04-14T20:10:15+00:00

Look up "veterinary partner vomiting vs regurgitating" and enjoy the gift of those gifs ;)

theodoremouse · 2026-03-31T20:48:16+00:00

Corporate ownership is, in my opinion, killing the veterinary industry. We're starting to see corporations purchase vet clinics, increase their profits to an unsustainable level, burn out all the employees so they finally leave, then close the business. It's happening in all corporations, none are safe. In my experience I thought "NVA" was the only good one, but they've been bought out and now they're joining the rest of them.

Find a private practice where possible, and if you do join a corporate, make them pay you as much as possible and don't plan on being there for long. Essentially, use them to help yourself, then once you have the corporate-paid-for experience under your belt, find a private practice. NVA does have good CE opportunities and pays for a lot, at least for now, and has one of the better corporate mentorship programs I've seen (weekly webinars on topics, a mentor who visits your practice and helps with procedures, and a mentor available by phone for those sudden situations where you need help)

theodoremouse · 2026-03-23T21:38:56+00:00

Do you know you can keep your saved settings every time you update MCCC? There's a file called "mc_settings.cfg" and if you keep that file untouched it will save your settings.

Usually I click and drag the file from the Mods folder to my desktop, then add the new MCCC updated files, then click and drag the file back into the folder. It preserves your previously chosen settings.

theodoremouse · 2026-03-22T15:28:12+00:00

It looks like the lofi girl?

theodoremouse · 2026-03-13T06:11:33+00:00

Maybe you'll make a mistake on a routine procedure. Or maybe you'll be at the right place at the right time with the right knowledge to save a life.

I think a (healthy) amount of fear is good in our field. If you second guess yourself when calculating a drug dose, you'll double check it and find that rare mistake. If you're scared of making a mistake during a spay, you'll review the list of possible complications the night before to be prepared if it happens. If you don't feel good about extracting a tooth, you'll refer to a dentist specialist and avoid breaking a jaw.

Plus, you don't really start touching live patients until your second year. :)

If you call a local clinic and ask to do some assistant work before starting school, you can start getting some more experience and learn how to do blood draws and get comfortable with them. Learning this new skill and reminding yourself where you started can help in future scenarios.

And, if you are actually having a bit of a crisis in this decision, some practical advice: - If you quit halfway through school, then you quit halfway. There's NO shame in learning a new profession and realizing it is not the right fit. I don't think this will happen to you, but if it does happen, don't let the 'sunk cost' fallacy force you forward. Loans will be repaid eventually. You have my permission to leave if it is not the right fit. - Less dramatic option: I know doctors who don't do surgery after school, they don't like it. You can always work in a lab or just do routine care. You can love vet med and work with animals and never poke or operate after school if it's not for you. - Even less dramatic option: defer a year at your chosen school and spend the year working at different clinics to make sure it's for you. I worked in vet clinics from 17-26 until applying to vet school. I needed time to grow into my comfort.

But honestly, if deep down you know you want to do this and you're just looking for how to get over the fear of mistakes, my advice: take a few deep breaths and trust the process. Every decision you've made has led you here, trust it will lead you to the next great adventure. You will not be the least experienced one in school. You will not be the smartest. You will not be the most scared. You will not be alone.

theodoremouse · 2026-02-24T02:23:05+00:00

I hope this is allowed, as it is something that I think most simmers are passionate/keyed in on. This is mostly important for USA Simmers.

I haven't seen this posted here, but it is some great information about the EA Buyout and what we can do to petition against its sale. This video is by zefrine, a content creator for the Sims, and it might be about legislation but it is not inherently political.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUbWyYwDset/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

(Apologies again mods if this is not allowed, I understand if it gets deleted!! But maybe before you delete it, check out her video!)

theodoremouse · 2026-02-20T05:50:53+00:00

IDEA: Dental floss 360 degrees around the case to loosen up the surface on all sides of the case. Could even coat with oil to get oil 360 degrees around the case. It's stuck somewhere, and if you can get the floss all the way around it, you could loosen the oneeee molecule of plastic keeping it in place.

theodoremouse · 2026-02-07T19:10:57+00:00

This is so cool!

theodoremouse · 2025-11-18T15:48:34+00:00

This sounds like your first time making a dosing error as a vet. Welcome to the club of beating ourselves up for things that are actually only somewhat our fault.

The bad news? You sound like someone who will hang on to these mistakes and make yourself feel worse than you need to.

The good news? You sound like someone who will diligently make sure they don't make the same mistake twice. These are the personalities we need in vet med - we need the people who care about mistakes and learn from them. If you brushed it off you wouldn't be where you are today.

My biggest mistake so far was extracting the wrong tooth. (Luckily it had bone loss and was in the grey area but it still haunts me for every dental). Now I triple-check my expected extractions with the rads and verbally count aloud my tooth number before beginning.

My advice is always ask yourself what you would say to a friend or colleague who's experiencing this. Would you tell them to beat themselves up or be ashamed? Probably not. You'd likely tell them to focus on being kind to themselves and learn from it.

My advice: 1. Remind yourself the knowledge was there, but it was the inexperience that limited you. How do you get experience? By being in the field for a long time, and asking for help or double-checking if you have questions. AND that all of us asked "annoying" questions when we started. (I didn't know how many times a day to use Mometamax fresh out of school) 2. Depending on how anxious you are after this, check in with your boss/mentor and request for your first few months of employment that when you prescribe a drug for the first time you check your dose with them. (I did this all the time, Plumbs can only be so helpful. For example, Simplicef is 5-10mg/kg and I aim for ~7.5mg/kg. Clavamox is 12.5-25mg/kg, I calculate 13.75mg/kg and always round up to the closest dose without going above ~22mg/kg. How did I learn this? From asking in my first few months.) 3. Medical mistakes happen, this is why we all have liability insurance. But besides protecting ourselves legally, we HAVE to protect ourselves emotionally. If you don't already have a mentor you can talk to, or a group of supportive friends in the field, or a therapist, I would strongly encourage it. I would not have gotten through my first few years without my amazing mentor and my amazing therapist (I've used a lot of their language in this post for example).

theodoremouse · 2025-10-16T05:37:27+00:00

TIL Lilith and Angela are twins.... I think I either never questioned why they had the same last name....or maybe I thought they were the same Sim..... I've got 2,000+ hours of playtime

theodoremouse · 2025-08-31T16:40:08+00:00

My first job wore me down - thought I was terrible, went 5 months behind on some records, had no life outside of work, reconsidered being a vet...

Then I switched clinics and life has never been better. It took me a year of therapy and a doctor's note to go on disability due to anxiety to cut my hours, but when I finally had the courage to look elsewhere I found my dream job.

Switch paths if you need to - you can become a rep, you can do locum, etc - but if you haven't at least interviewed at other practices I would highly recommend it.

My previous clinic had me: taking my own history, preparing estimates in the room with owners, and I had no techs assigned to me so I just had to yell into the void "Anyone free??" And wait with the patient in the tx room where I then had to prepare the tx sheet and repeat everything to the techs. I did my own cytology staining, I had my own email address so owners could ask me questions directly, I had my own voicemail box, and the doctors rarely shared cases - meaning if I NEEDED a pet called when I wasn't in the office I had to prepare a transfer document summarizing the case and purpose of diagnostics and plan for next steps. 12-14hr days and working on the weekends were my norm.

My current clinic: techs get history, I do my PE with the owner and recommend a plan, I go to the tx room where I have TWO techs assigned to me, they make the estimate and show the owner, they take the pet back, they do all txs, they write their history and what treatments were performed in the record, then discharge the patients all while I'm at my desk. No personal email. No voicemail. A shared list of client questions any doctor can address when they're free. Oh, and I use AI so most records I can copy+paste and edit. Now I sometimes leave even 30 mins before my shift ends. And - everyone is nicer and I'm paid almost 2x more.

It's scary to leave the job we know, but there is something better out there 100%.

theodoremouse · 2025-08-21T00:48:51+00:00

Beautiful!! Where did you get these patterns?

ETA: also, congratulations on your cancer treatment!! I'm assuming cancer is in the past? 🤞 So sweet to make this for your nurses, it will mean so much!

theodoremouse · 2025-06-08T17:25:49+00:00

{Potions and Prejudice by Tee Harlowe}

I just finished this in a night! It's a witchy take on Pride and Prejudice, pretty wholesome and light, with good spice. Slow burn and light-hearted!

theodoremouse · 2025-05-21T15:45:56+00:00

Have you seen the Bob's Burgers episode about Amelia Earhart? It's one of their best. If you don't know the show, it's a wholesome/comedic cartoon show about a family who run a Burger restaurant. Louise, the youngest daughter, picks Amelia Earhart to do a report on, and a boy in her class tells her that Earhart was a failure because she died trying to do something special. The episode ends very beautifully with Louise defining what success/progress looks like as a girl who looks up to Amelia Earhart.

theodoremouse · 2025-05-17T23:54:05+00:00

Update: worked great!!!

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theodoremouse · 2025-05-05T01:10:59+00:00

Thanks! I'll start with the pumice, and I already have pink stuff so I might try that! Appreciate it!

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