for housing I'd use underground hideout, you have to complete a virtual reality quest to complete it, and while it does have storage for everything you find ((including DLC items)) the only way to get them is to add them in yourself, the mod author gives you nothing built in. You even have to shell out caps or convert energy cells to power all the lights and other neat objects in the house. And you can use a built in tool to move it anywhere you'd like once you have it. Project Nevada has a lot of overall enhancements to gameplay and options for tweaking things like perk and skill gain, exp gain, combat damage multipliers, etc, etc. Imps more complex needs, Needs some tweaking but it does make you think more about what your character puts into their body. It also has stat boosts for eating a healthy diet, and getting plenty of regular sleep, and penalities including death for neglecting your needs or over doing it on chems and booze. For guns i'd go with weapon retexture project or book of earache ((Just don't ask where to get the second one.)) New vegas bounties 1 and 2 are both nicely done mods that together have about as much play time as the main quest in New Vegas. Definitely worth trying out if you want to put your skills to the test as a gun slinger. And lastly I'd pick up Spice of Life, especially seeing as it's now compatible with Breeze's males. doesn't really do anything but slap some new outfits on the various people roaming the waste, but It adds some nice variety, and there are certain outfits that don't come up at all in the leveled lists ((Not that I've noticed at least)) so you have a few outfits available for your companions and yourself to use. Well I asked the folks where I will be making the diary what kind of character they would like to read about, Currently I am down to either a child in the wasteland and/or sheriff of goodsprings. Anyone can suggest some more things to help out with my little project?
