Special Mad Hippie/Rainbow Ridge Update

The latest update in Rainbow Ridge, also happens to be Chapter 9 of my Diary of a Mad Hippie series. To catch up on that you can just click here!

Hello World! This is so cool! I've been reading about Rainbow Ridge for a year or more now, and look at me! Here I am, the newest immigrant! Far out!

Let me fill your head with how I got here. This is me, when I was just a little rugrat. What a trip, right? Back then was a totally different scene. I was the fifth generation born into a family of hippies. My father Sage was really uptight and tried to stifle our family's unique character, but SURPRISE! I was way more like his mother and grandmother than he even imagined.

And this is me as a baby, with my mother Meadow and my father, after his surgery. There was a bust at the commune, and my entire family moved to the city and shacked up in rad apartments. Not for long though. Right after I turned into a teen a huge epidemic wiped out all of Beatnikville. I'm not really sure what happened, but it was a bad scene. Somehow, I'm the only one who survived. Well, me and my grandmother, Mint. She had already moved out of town, years before. Her life didn't exactly turn out like she wanted it, but that's another story for another day.

This is where I crash now. Morningstar Commune. It's such a groovy place, I doubt I'll ever leave.

And this is my grandmother, Mint. I had always known her as my crazy great aunt. That's another long story. It nearly blew her mind when she heard what happened to Beatnikville. I was still recovering and was in shock, but when she insisted I come stay with her I didn't protest. I didn't really have any choice, anyway. Where else was I going to go? I was a rolling stone...

At first the commune was so boring, just a bunch of old farts, what a drag! But when I went Downtown to Rodney's Hideout one night, I met my soulmate, Ty.

"I get by with a little help from my friends, get high with a little help from my friends..." He was very quiet, it took me a while to really get in his head, but he eventually spilled that he was homeless. A runaway, he said. From The Law, or from his folks, it didn't matter to us. Grandma Mint insisted he crash at the commune, and those were the best months of my life.

He was my first kiss. My first love. My first everything. We had a blast together!

We really were inseperable. Atleast, I thought we were.

One night, after months and months of being together, as I slept, completely out of it, my life was changing. And I didn't even know it. Heavy, right?

By the time morning came, Ty had split. No note, no phone call. Nothing.

I know what everyone thought. That it was just puppy love, that I'd get over it. But it took a long time. I cried every night for weeks. I was a wreck, man. I just couldn't believe he'd abandon me like that. He knew he was my whole world. I thought I was his, too.

That winter was the longest of my life. But it's true what they say: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.I knew I needed to get it together. I couldn't let a broken heart bring me down any longer. Thankfully, there was a lot to do around the commune, I had plenty of chores to keep me busy.

I didn't think it would ever happen, but eventually I was happy again.

Still, I never forgot my first love. Not for a minute. I loved to look up at the night sky, wondering if he was doing the same thing, wondering if he missed me, and why he left me.

Before I knew it, I was all grown up! I didn't have a plastic, worldly party. Every day you're surrounded by hippies is like a party, anyway.

So, like I said, life went on. Grandma Mint served meal after meal for the boarders and all the cats that came to hang out. She never complained either, she's pretty cool. She certainly is different from the Aunt Mint I had heard about as a kid!

Now that I was legal I thought maybe I should get a real paying gig. I could use the bread. But then, like most of my family before me, I let that thought drift right back out of my head. Here at Morningstar we prefer to live off the land, growing our own food, and making our own threads.

I did get to know the locals though, now that I wasn't all wrapped up in my teenaged love life.

I met Melissa Fancey Downtown one night, and man, she's a kindred spirit! We are definitely gonna hit it off, I can tell already.

I also met some like-minded romance sims. Once Goopy told me he didn't mind cheating, I knew we'd get along just fine, too. I tried monogomy once, turned out it wasn't for me. From now on it's no strings for this chick!

Goopy wasn't the only dude in town noticing what a fox I had become. Before long the commune was jam packed with dudes from all over Rainbow Ridge.

Not long after that I started noticing I was putting on weight. And crashing in my dinner. Yeah, I grew up surrounded by free love and freedom from contraceptives. I knew I was PG, and I wasn't exactly cool with it.

Wouldn't you know, I ended up having doubles! Twins! My son Basil and my daughter Curry were born right there in the commune sleeping area. There are so many extra hands around it shouldn't be too hard to look after them. I just wish I was sure who their Daddy is! Time will tell, I hope.

I guess that's enough catching up for one day Diary! Peace out! ~Poppy Howle~