header image gallery

This is just a little gallery of all my previous header images that I'll be adding to the sidebar. I managed to dig through my photobucket album and find even the very first ones. I think it's fun looking back through them, so I figured you guys might enjoy it too. It's almost like a history album!

I'm a dork, I know ;)

traditional kind of people

December 2080 - Adam and Heather Thompson are 27, Laney is 13 months.

Heather says to her 13-month-old daughter, "The thing is, Laney-cakes, I never really liked it anyway. It's so traditional-looking, so conventional, and what I want to try for is avant-garde. Your daddy liked that one. Your daddy's more traditional than you and I - though we are pretty traditional kind of people - well, except for the graveyard thing. But anyway, the painting..."

LCU, a very dear friend

LCU, fall semester, 2080

*Long, as these LCU updates tend to be...*

Justin is exiled this semester, in what was supposed to be an exciting year of study abroad, instead he'll spend the year at Takemizu Academy without Keri. And it looks like he's going to spend the whole year beating off girls with a stick. He's never considered himself a dream-boat or anything. Not that he thinks he's ugly, and sure, he supposes he's kind of funny, but this desperate girl is just insatiable! She won't take no for an answer. But NO is the answer, since this man is very happily engaged - even if Keri is a world away. He's even thinking about hiring a hit-man.

black sheep

November 2080 - Cameron Gibson is 29, Bella Bradshaw is 24. (Cody Bradshaw is 65, Kendal is 60.)

Bella Bradshaw and Cameron Gibson might possibly be the two hottest people alive... or at least they think so. Cameron is crazy about her, and has been for over three years now. He really hasn't even thought about another woman (or man, for that matter) since they got "serious." But this is Bella Bradshaw we're talking about. Cameron knows he's likely not the only man on her mind - but he also knows it's quite obvious who her favorite is.

give me back my broken parts

October 2080 - Hayden Phoenix is 31, Summer is 16, Ryanne is 10. (Tyler Jackson is 17, Piper Wilson is 26).

* optional soundtrack, "Be OK" by Ingrid Michaelson *

Hayden and his girls are finally trying to put their lives back together, but first-things-first! Ryanne says, "You need a new outfit, Dad, you're thirty-one-years-old and you need to wear shoes that cover your toes!"

seaside woods, grounded for life

October 2080 - Tad and Tosha Harris are 71. Talin Collins is 66, Abigail is 65. Nina Shaw-Gothier and Benjamin Gothier are 64.

Tad thinks it's nice when the younger ones move in. They're not that much younger - not even ten years, probably. But they never had kids... that's why they're still all lovey-dovey! Because first you have kids, and then your wife eats too many pork chops and loses that nice figure she used to have. You see, Abby, she keeps herself nice and trim. Very pretty lady. Never had any kids to mess up that nice figure of hers... But on the other hand, Tosha does make really good pork chops. He just wishes she would use that treadmill he bought her a little more.

And of course, you have to have kids to get great grandkids, and Tad and Tosha have five precisely - Melissa, Zachary, Sarah, Sam - and leading the pack, Lucy, who has never been in trouble her whole life like she's in trouble right now.

you were kind of right about Lucy

October 2080 (mini-update) - Dallas Deppiesse is 16.

"What the hell?" Vicky says. "Now you want to talk to me? It's been, like, five weeks. I've been calling. I've been by several times. Your sisters kept saying you weren't home."

Dallas says, "I know..."

"You told your sisters to say you weren't home, didn't you? That's really pretty lame."

here comes the bride?

September 2080 - Paul Gallagher is 30, Charlotte (Centowski) Gallagher is 26.

Whether or not Charlotte Centowski actually makes it down the aisle this month is anyone's guess. Marisa made the trip back into town this week to be her maid of honor.

"Don't make that face," Marisa says. "It looks beautiful."

"I don't know," Charlotte says. "Something's not right."

"Well, if you would stand up straight, it might look better."

"What color did I tell you, for your dress?"

"Pink," Marisa says.

"I said pink? Why on earth would I say pink?"

"That's what you said, so that's what I bought!"

2080, we don't need no education!

Another school year starts in Lake County!

not a second to spare

August 2080 - Brady Lind is 66, Meadow is 65.

Meadow Lind has had a busy month this August, just as the 2080/81 school year starts! Brady is also working as a public official this term, but his workload has been wonderfully light - so light, in fact, that he actually has time for a nap! He would like to state, however, that he told Madison that 20% tax rate would be too high. But you know, you can't really tell a woman anything, can you?

you're doing it wrong

August 2080 - Orion Deppiesse is 47, Violet is 46, Dallas is 16, Delphie and Dakota are 10. (Lucy Harris is 14.)

Dallas Deppiesse just turned sixteen this month, and finally got his drivers' license. The Deppiesse family might live on Lakeshore Road, but they are deceptively not wealthy. Maybe it's having three kids in private school? But his parents do the best they can for Dallas. Orion says, "I got you a car!"

Dallas says, "That's not a car."

"Sure it is, when you're done with it," Orion says. "You're a smart kid, I'm sure you can figure it out."

round 2080!

Welcome to round 2080!

blissfully clueless

May 2080 - Carly Cook is 26, Piper Wilson is 25, Jodie Larson is 24. // Jason Larson is 29, Amelia Bradshaw is 24. // George McCarthy is 25.

Piper Wilson leads a simple happy existence, working as a Flag Capturer in the gaming industry, making little money, but having a lot of fun, showing up at her friends' parties, fliting from one non-relationship, to another, to another...

She doesn't figure there's anything wrong with her, that she knows of, but just considers herself picky. She isn't lonely, as many friends as she has, as busy as she finds herself. She's torn between a strong desire to settle down with just that perfect man, and raise an adorable baby or two, but also indulges herself in life's great frivolous pleasures.

fresh start, loaded history

July 2080 - Phoenix McCullough is 40, Brooke is 38, Fiona is 12, Robbie is 9, Connor is 2.

It's just one of those things where none of them noticed it getting bad until it already was... all of it. They have a house they can't really afford, a house that ended up having all the hardwood floors pulled because of termites. Robbie wants a car for his birthday, and Brooke says, "No you can't have a car, you're only turning ten!" Phoenix hugs his kids because Brooke will barely talk to him. They don't even know what they're fighting about, but somehow they'd managed to lose that spark, when they didn't even know they were in danger of losing it. They have three kids and no time left in the day, and are still so very tired from trying to keep up with the Lakeside Heights lifestyle. Phoenix is working full time and managing a successful freelance photography career. Fiona is a big help, not because she's generous or anything, but because she thinks the state of their lives is so epically gross that Miss Priss cleans things up herself - she'll be sure to rag on her parents for that later.

a very curious little girl

June 2080 - Cabe Deppiesse is 38, Ashlee is 40, Natalia is 10, and pet cat is Sake.

Cabe and Ashlee Deppiesse were surprised to see that their family was one of the richest in Lake County. They were also surprised to find that in the ten years since moving into their first home, the gorgeous lakefront home next to Ashlee's restaurant had now become within their price range.

(beach house here, by zaxis @ MTS2)