House 012 Chapter 4 < | > House 012 Chapter 6

First, we check on our house goals:

House 012 Building Goals:
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons (42k)
House 012 Generational Goals:
Complete the Friend of the World aspiration
Have The Drifter Declare another Sim an Enemy
-Then raise the relationship between The Drifter and their Enemy to BFF (good friends)
Have The Drifter Engage in and WIN 5 fights (3/5)
-Each win must be with a different Sim opponent
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage (child)

Four weeks until we’re done. I plan to get at least one week done in this post. (I get two). The first thing that happens Is Tracey’s birthday – and she grows up just as cute as her brother was.

She rolls charmer. And on that note, it’s time to go pick some fights.

I swear, this old lady looked at us sideways. 🙂

The gardener (not hired by us, though) looks pretty shocked at the whole thing.

… But at least we win.

… And then, I need one more fight target, and he’s here.. so we pick on another elder.

Not sure it was fair to target two elders, but that’s ok. We win this one, too.. and we’re done with fights.

Hmm. I need to finish decorating the house. Poor Tracey’s room is still drywall.

Our second to last goal. (The last being raising the heir).. and our enemy is now our BFF.

Sione really is a good Dad. Although there was one point this week where Lyric was at work and he couldn’t figure out how to change Tracey’s diaper. But we’ll excuse that.

Meanwhile, Lyric like to complain about taking care of her family all the time. I mean, she’s just making dinner… and she’s all dramatic like this.

Sione .. you COULD clean that mess up instead of standing around grinning to yourself.

At least Jax is being useful. Thimble is well cared for in this house. And I bought him an anti-aging treat, because we wouldn’t want to lose him!

Dear lord, Sione.. don’t throw the toddler out of the house!

I realize I need a second bathroom, so I add it and finish decorating. This is the value I end up with. And the second kid’s room isn’t upgraded yet!

Lyric, that’s not really a good spot for reading a story. Poor Tracey can’t even see the pictures!!

Time to teach Jax about astronomy. Which, apparently, triggers them to Stargaze. Kinda cool.

A whole week has passed, and it’s time for Tracey to age up. In her shades, of course.

… And she rolls Loves Dogs. Hrm. Sione loves them, too.

She’s really cute!

.. And here’s her room all upgraded.

… Yup. I called for a dog. A little German Spitz named Prissy. She turns out to be Friendly, Adventurous, and Hunter. All good traits. Not that I would have sent her back for bad ones – but hey. Good ones are all the better!

Adopted! (And creepy angry adoption guy kicked out.)

And so we buy some doggie stuff and fit in it where we can. Prissy immediately checks out her new bed.

And, the horse from the table earlier (if you were paying attention).. is as big as Prissy!!

Now that Prissy has moved in, the two Sims I bought the dog for are ignoring it. But it gives me something to have Lyric play with. LOL. So it wasn’t wasted.

The gnomes show up for Harvestfest, get appeased, and sold almost immediately. I’m not sure why they annoy me so much.. LOL. But they do.

Bet you can’t guess what I was taking the picture of…

.. Because it was clearly not the Sims in the background.

Lyric doesn’t really like participating in family dinners. She cooks, then sits on the couch while everyone else eats at the table.

I do make her interact with her kids, though. At least for homework and manners and volunteering and stuff. Gotta get those traits.

Prissy grew up!

… I love her so much. You be you, pupper.

Lyric hardly has to be told twice to take time out for the dog, at least.

The kids, however, are pretty much left to their own devices unless I intervene.

Sigh. Sione.. can’t you see that Lyric is making dinner already? (He’s addicted to Salsa and Chips.)

At this point, the dog has almost all of her tricks learned, Jax has his “A”, and I’m just waiting.

And watching everyone … proof that Thimble is still well cared for. Usually autonomously.

Finally!!

… How did I manage to hit the jackpot on traits? I can almost guarantee the third one when we get it will be bad. Like Unflirty.

HAHAHA.. What a face, Jax.

Smile, you’re the heir, buddy! (And he’s definitely going to be a heartbreaker!) … So where does that leave us? .. 13 days of torture while we wait for Jax to age up. Because everything else is done. So… I will probably speed three through the next play session and try to get it done in one chapter. In the hopes that the next house is more interesting. I already love Jax, though, so that’s a bonus!

House 012 Chapter 4 < | > House 012 Chapter 6

Chapter 2.4 | Chapter 3.1

An abbreviated version of our goals for this generation:

Yup. We’re done. And after putting quite a bit of thought into it, I decided it was ridiculous to wait to start the next gen until young adult if kids can move out at teen still. So I updated the rules. … Which means that we have literally 8 days left until the next generation starts. Or about that. We do have to wait for Matteo to age up on his own, so it’ll be slightly longer.

Since we have nothing better to do, I have them playing the.. um.. ancient game of Don’t Wake the Llama quite a bit this week. I mean, it’s just a bunch of sticks and a carved Llama, right? No technology needed.

Thalia spends a lot of time with Maliyah – possibly because everyone else is playing with sticks.. or perhaps it’s because she’s always low on social. Thalia, that is. Mali is fine on social. Still – a cute interaction.

Family dinner, part one.

Part two. This is where they usually eat. Sad, but it’s the easiest.

After dinner, Marl spins herself up to Adult. Don’t worry, sweetie, you’re still gorgeous. *grin* .. Oh, and I was waiting to see if the last Try for Baby worked. Apparently not, since she just aged up.

.. Which means that, since Skyor needs “fun”.. we’ll have to Try for Baby instead of just Woohoo.

I finally remember the bees for a change.

Ah, yes. The old “mopping the mess that isn’t there” trick. Very nice. Thanks for helping, Matteo. I think.

Wait. Seriously. There’s nothing there. Matteo just cleaned.. nothing. And now you are. And I SWEAR the toddler didn’t make another mess in between, because Mali is SOUND ASLEEP. Sims are weird.

It occurs to me that I could save up some more money for future generations. So Skyor goes on a marathon bathtub spree. Again. Do you think he’s sick and tired of carving bathtubs? I would be!!

Marl: “.. Um.. guess what, Skyor. We’re expecting again.”

Skyor: “… Whaaa?”

Marl: “.. Yup. You know. Nooboo. Soon.”

Me: *facepalm*

Hey, technically, you chose to wash laundry yourself. Don’t complain to me!

And, yes, I know Thalia isn’t doing it. She’s doing what I told her to do – try to sell some of those concoctions that have been sitting there for a couple weeks.

Midnight visitation again. Spoiler: talking to it actually works for a change. But the other kids are all still upset and wake up the parents. Sigh.

Thalia taking care of little Mali, again.

One word: EW. I send Skyor over to fix it. This picture plays into the next one, so it’s not just to show a nasty toilet. LOL.

SEE?? Is fixed. And that puddle is not all because it was broken. Poor Marl doesn’t make it literally around the corner from her bedroom and pees herself. Sigh.

The next day, we get that orange message again – it’s baby time!

Welcome to a little girl – Anaya the Sweet.

!!!!! How cute are those! I’ve never seen them before!

Mali: “Why do I gotta wait to be big like you!?”

Matteo: “Because ovens and cakes aren’t invented yet!”

Okay, finally. When I least expected it, of course. Poor kid got Gloomy, though.

Luckily, she makes up for the “bad” trait with adorable looks. I love her.

The bubbles flying always crack me up. Thanks for your hard work, Thalia!

Um… Mali.. why are you resting up here??

Me: “Oh CRAP!”

Goes in an gives her an actual bed. Oops.

Thalia and the kids playing while Mom gardens. Who needs fun motive when you’ve got a big garden?

… Ummmm… oooops. Guess that last TFB was a bad idea. We’ve got only around a day to go. Now I have to decide whether to wait to move Matteo until the baby is born so I can name it.. or whether to go back later and rename it. Sigh. Awkward.

Samara gets too sick to “go to school” .. she wasn’t able to go anyway, game. =P But thanks for the day off!

See? I told you she was sweet. That was a random roll!

… Except she looks Evil instead. And Poor Skyor looks like he’s utterly done with kids. I can’t blame him. It’s not like his whole life hasn’t revolved around them.

Matteo gets home from school on his birthday.

… And to my surprise, gets an A. I never told him to do his homework, either. That was completely on his own! Way to go, buddy. Not that you’re going to use much of your education, but good job, anyway.

Peek-a-boo! I find Anaya just dancing away to her own music in the hallway. How cute!

Skyor playing with his youngest. Considering he’s been busy doing other stuff most of his life, he’s still managed to get level 5 parenting, mostly on his own.

.. That’s quite a crowded bed. LOL. Good thing it’s not actually bedtime!

Matteo gets his new trait and aspiration – which reminds me, I should update the Generation Rules to state what the teen aspiration is for the next generation, so you don’t have to read the next Gen to find out, if you’re trying to avoid spoilers. … Also, time to give Matteo his makeover…..

Oh… oh, dear. LOL!!! The arms persist!! I literally laughed so hard at this, and his eventual makeover, that I was in tears. Probably not nearly as funny to the rest of you, but it really struck my “funny bone”.

Anyway, here’s our heir, Matteo the .. er.. Strong.. and he’s all ready to move out. I will go back and rename his new brother or sister later after they’re born…. because I’m truly itching to get into Generation Three.

.. Oh, and this is how much the family home is worth. Just as an FYI. They have some 35k in household funds, too. See you tomorrow!

Chapter 2.4 | Chapter 3.1

House 012 Chapter 3 < | > House 012 Chapter 5

First, we check on our house goals:

House 012 Building Goals:
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons
House 012 Generational Goals:
Complete the Friend of the World aspiration
Have The Drifter Declare another Sim an Enemy
-Then raise the relationship between The Drifter and their Enemy to BFF
Have The Drifter Engage in and WIN 5 fights (1/5)
-Each win must be with a different Sim opponent
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage (toddler)

I am.. literally… at the same place I was last time. Except for the fact that I have a toddler heir. Sigh. Maybe I can get some more done this week?

We start with Lyric picking a fight. Because she has to for this house. This fella is more than happy to comply with the plan.

Really – how do they think fights actually work. Feet do not get that high in the air, guys.

Despite how it looks – Lyric wins. That’s fight #2 for our goals.

For reference: I’m calling this fight #3. She’s fighting the Flower Bunny for eggs. I laugh so hard at the fact that eggs are flying everywhere around them.

But she wins. And gets… ONE EGG … for her trouble. Really? ONE?! Ok. To heck with that bunny, anyways.

The week continues on… and then Jax spins into his hot weather outfit and goes to wander outside. And I can’t even. Do you see how cute he is?!

Seriously. OMG. I love his coloring and hair. Maybe there’s a redeeming factor to playing this save right now after all. (Yep, still struggling – but I’m determined to get through this house!)

Just.. oh my gosh. Jax is so distracting!

Okay. We can do this. Back to our goals. We have to befriend our enemy. Sierra is no longer our enemy, we invite her over and work on friendship.

.. Wait. Why did I do this again? Yup, you’re reading the screenshot correctly. I had them Try for Baby again. I mean – it does have to be a three bedroom house. Who else will sleep there?!

Ummmm… WHAT? I am so tempted to say yes. Then someone asks whether it would be bad to lose Lyric. Answer: yes. And I remember that’s she’s pregnant. So unless it’s a race to the toilet, we aren’t going to win. So, sadly, I say no. And mourn the opportunity. I don’t think I’ll be lucky enough to see that pop up again – I’ve certainly never seen it before now.

Hey. You’re not supposed to be cooking. I mean, I know your wife is at work… but there’s food in the fridge. And you better be making some for your son, too….

Chips and Salsa. For One. And he leaves it on the counter. Spoiler: he goes back to get it. No food for Jax after all.

Sierra is back over – and instead of coming to say hi, she’s checking our trash. Rude! However, we do get the relationship up to “Good Friends”. Progress. Finally.

That Charisma skill is the only thing holding us back on the aspiration we need. So we’re working on it. Hence the fact they’re still living in a tiny home, despite the fact that they have plenty of money to build a real house. Jax seems to not know the difference, at least.

Success! One thing to cross off. Finally! – I seem to be saying/thinking that word a lot this chapter. I apologize. But this sim-save just feels like its dragging along very slowly.

This is also when I realize I ought to stuff toddlers into tiny homes more often. An uncontrollable toddler just got Top Notch trait. And he has two days to age up still. Hm. Okay.

Clearly, I worked Lyric too hard. But we got that 10 Charisma, and that’s all that matters, right?

I get her into bed, and she wakes up almost right away. Figures. Baby time! I think I named her Tracey? .. I’ll check when I get in game next time. If I load the game now, I’ll never finish this post. LOL.

So: welcome, whatever your name is little girl! Oh, and turns out, Sione is a GREAT dad. I can hardly ever get to take care of either Jax or the new baby, because he’s on top of their needs nearly 100% of the time.

… Ever take what feels like a really long blink and wonder what happened while your eyes were closed?? I think that’s what my sims are currently doing. They were just peacefully doing their own thing while walking around their tiny home.. then POOF. HOUSE. Okay, so it’s not done. But – HOUSE! So, another pic:

I *may* have gone a bit overboard on the color scheme. But it matches Lyric’s outfit. Or something. Dunno, but I like it. Not something I’d do in my own house, lol, but whatever. Sims is all about doing new and different stuff for me.

Jax doesn’t appear impressed, though. In fact, he seems quite perturbed. OOh big word for the day! *grin*

Sorry for the dark picture – but Lyric comes home from work with a promotion, and my camera zooms to her… apparently that was her new year’s resolution. Scared me for a second, I thought she was dying or something!

Congrats, Lyric! .. Your kid isn’t even a child yet, you have WEEKS left – and maxing a career isn’t even on your to-do list. But you did it anyway. Nice.

Of all the chairs I put in that room to watch TV on. .. THAT’S the one you choose to sit on?! Umm.. that’s for the toddler, goofy. And the toddler always walks to the couch. *roll eyes*

Happy Bday, Jax! Top Notch Toddler here we go. And he rolled “Good”.. not the worst trait, that’s for sure. I can handle that.

Not sure I’m down with the color scheme he chose for his outfit, but he grew up cute! He’ll get his makeover for being heir soon enough. Or not soon enough, as the case might be.

And I’ll wrap this post up with an adorable hedgehog. Because I can. Thimble is always so adorable, and Lyric has a new little buddy. Not sure anyone else in the household has even noticed they have a pet, yet, but Lyric seems happy with it. She keeps getting positive moodlets from it. See you next time!

House 012 Chapter 3 < | > House 012 Chapter 5

Chapter 2.3 | Chapter 2.5

An abbreviated version of our goals for this generation:

We had tons of progress last post, let’s hope things go as well this time!

We start .. with Skyor laying down on the job. Er, well… no, he’s working on Wellness. It just doesn’t look like it. It looks like he’s waiting to be sacrificed.

Oh yeah, and Matteo aged up at the end of last session, I gave him his makeover, and then forgot to show him to you guys. :Blush: … Ooops. Here he is. He’s adorable.

I’m not exactly sure why the pirate boat appears to be after the carriage, but Matteo is definitely yelling for the charge. Good thing his sister isn’t sleeping.

I keep forgetting about the bees on this lot. It’s not like they’re right by the house or anything, so they keep getting left so that anyone who goes to the garden or to swim in the garden pools gets attacked. Oops.

I’m not sure why I found this screenshot so funny, but two of those sandcastles are cowplants.. so, technically, this cow pasture is now stocked with cows… *cracks up laughing again*…

Thalia is such a help. She’s usually very low on fun and social… but the chores around the house definitely do get done!

Samara is just so cute. Here she is learning to talk with Marl – who I’m sure appreciates Thalia the most.

Matteo is keeping himself busy. When he’s not at school – which is awesome that he can go this generation. His sisters will not be so lucky.

More playtime with mommy. I’m not sure why Marl seems to be begging the sky for something, but Samara’s expression is priceless.

A rare break for Skyor from yoga practice lets the two lovebirds spend some time together. And they are – lovebirds, that is – they just don’t always get to spend time together. Using the upstairs table is even more unusual. I tend to have everyone eat in the kid’s room. Yep… lazy Watcher.

I catch Matteo taking out the trash by himself. What a good kid!

This is proof that Skyor is no longer upper-arm challenged. He actually looks like a “normal” sim now. WOO!! There’s hope for Matteo, yet.

Oh, goodie. Clingy.

And she immediately runs over to “play” in one of the indoor plants. Never seen a toddler do that before, but it looks like she’s fighting with it. Weird.

Zarra stops by with a gift for Marl, and we invite her in.

What’s the gift? A rare plant seed packet. I didn’t even know that was a possible gift! We open it.. and get a magic bean. Sigh. Useless. Oh well.

Skyor gets level 9 Wellness and can do a fertility massage. So I give it a try, and then while she has the moodlet, I Try for Baby. Spoiler: no baby is had. *frown* Useless massage.

Proof that toddlers don’t give a hoot about monsters under beds. Matteo tries to talk to it, all by himself…

… But no success. Sorry, buddy. Better go wake up Mom and Dad.

Oh, this picture reminds me – our neighborhood is “Green” – so the plants are all “perfect” – and I just noticed sims can “bask in the rays” .. (or something like that). I try it out, and Matteo runs to the cow pasture to worship the sun, getting him an energized moodlet. Darn. I was hoping for inspired. Should have cloudgazed.

Zabala stops by to see Marl, and I have Matteo go meet his grandpa. I guess I was slacking on the family relations… but technically, we can’t travel to see him since he’s out of district, and the rest of Skyor’s family is WAY out of reach in Sulani.

Skyor can now do handstands, too.. but this looks like an interesting pose in that skirt.

… Drumroll…. and we’re done with goals! Just have to get Matteo to grow up now. We’ve got a while to wait, too. Since the next gen doesn’t start ’til young adult – even though teens can move out. I’m not sure I’ll keep that rule.. but for now it stays.

Now, poor Skyor has nothing better to do than sell all his old Herbalism concoctions. Remember this photo: I pay for this yard sale in a little bit.

Samara spins herself to aging and I roll for her trait. Then, I send her into CAS for her makeover. I don’t think that maybe that yard sale had just barely ended, or was close to ending.

… Samara is gorgeous. Love, love, love her!

Then, I go about my normal watcher business.. sending sims to bed, to eat, etc.

… Until I notice that Skyor isn’t moving. He keeps route-failing whenever I ask him to do something. So I have him teleport next to the food. Nope, still won’t pick it up and eat. Then I mouse over him and see this horrifying sight. My game is glitched.. and the last time I saved was, like, two hours ago. I tell myself to stop panicking, and save, quit game to main menu, reload. He’s still stuck. I try resetting him. Nope. Nothing. testingcheats, try again. Nope. I spend five minutes trying to find something about it on google, eventually run into a semi-similar issue on Crinrict’s site… where it says to evict the family and move them back in to fix. So, crossing my fingers, I give that a try. Nope. Nothing. I try completely exiting the game, still stuck. At this point, I’m in full panick mode. Finally, I have him “Split from household and move” .. which for some reason, he can do. He moves out, and I call him back over to re-invite him. Skyor: “Sorry, I’m sleeping.” ACK. *face palm* .. wait til morning, try again. He immediately shows up when I call, and has no “neighbor” tag on his head. He accepts the invite to join the household, and is fixed. When my heart finally stops beating five hundred times a minute… I test out various things, and confirm he’s fully functional again.. although his needs are all reset. But that’s ok. At least we have Skyor back. I save the game.. and consider completely stopping for the night. But – sometime in the moving out and back in fiasco, there are laundry piles ALL OVER the lot. And they’re annoying. So I have Thalia collect them, and I watch Skyor very carefully to make SURE he’s still okay.

He is… and Zarra stops by with Marl’s birthday present. Not that Marl can really HAVE a birthday, since we can’t bake a cake.. but that’s not the point, right? She’ll have to wait to spin up on her own. I honestly can’t tell you what the gift was… I was still calming down at this point.

While Zarra is here – we have Matteo meet his auntie. They get along famously. I keep checking, by the way, and those Try for Baby interactions before I moved Amir out didn’t work. There’s no cousins. *frown*

Meanwhile, Samara and Skyor were bored, so we tried out the Llama game. Skyor looks upset at winning – which I find hilarious, and Samara gets a sad moodlet.

… Then all the phones except for Skyor’s start ringing. Uh-oh. That’s never good.

Zabala is no more. Aww. And he JUST met his grandson, too. Poor guy. On this note, the piles are now washed, and I’m 100% sure Skyor is fixed.. I decide that no matter how many pics I have, I’m totally done for the night. It’s time to write this post up and do something else for the rest of the night. Sims has given me my heart attack of the night/week, and I’m DONE. See you next time!

Chapter 2.3 | Chapter 2.5

House 012 Chapter 2 < | > House 012 Chapter 4

First, we check on our house goals:

House 012 Building Goals:
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons
House 012 Generational Goals:
Complete the Friend of the World aspiration
Have The Drifter Declare another Sim an Enemy
-Then raise the relationship between The Drifter and their Enemy to BFF
Have The Drifter Engage in and WIN 5 fights (1/5)
-Each win must be with a different Sim opponent
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage

This post is going back to just a tiny bit over a week long – and since most of the week was spent studying, there’s not a huge amount of pictures, for which I apologize.

Now, where were we… (Trying for Baby!)

Success! Poor Sione looks a little worried, though. He seems to be thinking “gee why are we doing this now, we’re both still unemployed!”

Halfway through the week, we have Lyric take a quick break from studying and celebrate Winterfest.

I don’t remember what he got, but it wasn’t spectacular. Lyric gets a nice, expensive painting.

Then Santa gives her a London’s Choice stove. I leave it in the family inventory – no sense having either of them starting fires yet.

Uh-oh, it’s that time! (And at least she had the decency to wait until classes were over for the day!)

Welcome, little Jax Rambler. Our heir is going to be a boy again!

Through the course of the week, Lyric gets this…

… then this, just by studying and going to class. Guess that leaves choice of careers wide open for her between Astronaut, Criminal, or Secret Agent.

Sione.. poking at the baby doesn’t help. Change the poor baby’s diaper!

Sione: “What? Did someone say something?”

Somehow I manage to pull a 4.0 while being pregnant. A feat I wasn’t sure I could do. Now if only I could have done half as well when I was in college years ago…

Lyric goes to the graduation ceremony, and sees that guy who was rude to her at the library. Apparently he graduated, too. And what’s up with the other dudes bracelets… I mean, if that’s not an.. interesting.. fashion choice, I don’t know what is. They’re all giving the side-eye to:

…. This dude, who just showed up to cheer all of them on. Weird.. but okay. Happy mascot day?

New Year’s arrives, and I have Lyric make a resolution to get a promotion (since she’s got a job now. I put her in the Criminal career – Boss branch because that was the highest paid job she was offered for finishing her University Degree.)

Look, ma, we have a house now! .. Er.. Sorta. Sione seems to like it, at least. Having a good bed should help, and we’re still able to be within the mid range tiny home for Lyric’s Charisma gains she needs to do for her aspiration. (She’s at level 7 now, I believe)

Sione: “No, you’re not supposed to stir it that way! Go Clockwise!”

Oh, you’re going to complain about how she’s cooking when you have no skill. I see how it is.

Jax rolled Silly. I can deal with that.

And he’s got some really cool genetics. Love that skin tone with the blond hair. Plus, this is a really cute picture.

I buy little Jax the minimum he needs to be a toddler: potty, bed, blocks, toy… and I figure out that the only room I have for said bed and stuff.. is in the middle of the kitchen. I’m just not willing to lose that Tiny home bonus until I have no choice.

Sione: “TOY! Thank you, Watcher!”

Um…. that … wasn’t for.. you. Sigh. *Buys another toy*

At least Sione seems like he’s going to be a good dad. He’s going to be doing a lot of tucking in with Lyric having to work evenings when she’s “on shift”. Not sure where he pulled that toddler book out of, but we didn’t have one before he started reading it. LOL.

Lyric gets home from work – without a promotion because she aged up on her own and didn’t finish her work shift. How rude. – and makes some more fruit salad for the family. It turns out “Excellent” even without Sione’s “help”.

And.. I’ll leave you with Lyric’s little “wall of fame”.. her graduation picture and Magna Cum Laude diploma. She’s officially the first Rambler to go to school, nevermind graduate, and she somehow manages to do it with honors. Way to go, girl!

House 012 Chapter 2 < | > House 012 Chapter 4

Chapter 2.2 | Chapter 2.4

An abbreviated version of our goals for this generation:

Okay.. so where were we?… Working on Herbalism.

Oops. Marl looks so bored, but she’s the one who saved Skyor’s life.

As a thank-you, Skyor practices his massages on Marl. Which, thankfully, gives her a whole bunch of positive moodlets.

Why Thankfully? … Because we’re expecting.

Baby time! Will it be a boy? (I want a boy for heir.)

Well hi there! Guess our timer has started, because this little guy will be our heir.

I really want to move these guys to the bigger house, but we can’t afford it yet, so I put all of Skyor’s skilling on hold and have him work basically day and night on bathtubs to sell. I think my main reason for wanting to move is that I want to move a servant in to take care of things like laundry and cleaning so Marl doesn’t have to.

…See? He barely even gets time to sleep!

I swear, he rolled Angelic..

Oh, he’s adorable! Let’s hope he doesn’t grow up with skinny upper arms like the last generation did.. Although, I’ll be honest, I’m really coming to like Skyor, despite his faults.

MM… Baked Potatoes. .. Or maybe I’m just hungry.

However, Now that Marl has cooking maxed, that’s one of our skill goals done, and when we move, the servant can now do all the cooking. Hooray!

Daddy needed fun, so he plays with Matteo for a little bit.

Then he’s back to the grind. We’re getting close, though!

Matteo: “Oopsie. Sowwy Mommy…”

This is what I get when I’m too busy with other things than watching the toddlers.

Uh-oh. That last social/fun Try for Baby seems to have worked. Well, that’s our second kid. Soon as it’s born, we can cross that off, too.

I don’t have any idea whether they had flash cards back then, but they should have. Matteo loves these things.

With barely enough – off we go!! I even managed it before the second baby was born.

.. Barely. Marl looks about ready to pop in this picture. I ended up making two servants, because this is such a big house, it made sense to me to have a second servant. The girl is Thalia the Neat, and the guy is Amir the Handy.

I quickly figure out that the second servant was a mistake. It’s just too many adults to be keeping track of. I start trying to figure out what to do with him, because I worked hard on making him and I don’t want to just kick him out.

I told you we barely got in before the second kid. Marl easily births a little girl who we name Samara the Meek. The descriptor wasn’t my idea, it was my hubby’s, because, quite frankly, I’m running out of ideas. LOL.

Thalia doing what she’s supposed to. Cleaning. Saving Marl so much time and energy.

Wellness turns out to be an annoying skill to work on. He doesn’t get much in the way of fun from doing yoga, and he loses hygiene like crazy. I give him a break to eat with his wife.

I finally figure out what to do with Amir. Marl invites her sister, Zarra, over, and we start getting the two together.

While I’m busy with that, Marl works on her gardening…

.. And, since I wasn’t watching her, I’m completely surprised by this popping up. Yay! Another skill marked off. Which means that Marl is done with her skills.

Having them Try for Baby a couple times, hoping to have little cousins.

Then – just because I have a feeling it’ll be a “yes” and I didn’t want Zarra to leave without Amir, I hurry up and pop the question. She agrees, and we get the move in box.

One less servant to worry about. Thank goodness.

Samara grows up and gets her makeover. She is so cute!

Matteo gets a bath, while Marl complains a little bit about the laundry. I mean, I would too, when someone is supposed to be doing that for you.

Guess what, honey?? There’s another one on the way!! Skyor seems happy with it, which is a good thing, because it’s happening whether he likes it or not!

I’ve had him working on his skills a little bit each day, trying to get closer to “done”.

I contemplate making that Fertility Elixir, but we really don’t need twins. I’m having enough trouble with the toddlers I have!

The only thing Skyor has left for his aspiration is sleeping in a tent for 5 nights. He’s at 4/5 and I’ve tried three different times to get it with no luck. Something keeps interrupting him or it just doesn’t count… I dunno, but it’s exceedingly annoying. We’ll try again after he wears himself out on yoga.

Baby #3 incoming! I feel so bad for Marl, she keeps ending up giving birth all by herself.

We got another little girl, named Maliyah the Misfit. And somehow, the birth didn’t wake up Skyor.

So… finally….

We can delete that darn tent in the cow pasture. Not that we have cows.. but, you know. The point stands. It’s supposed to be for the animals!

What does that leave us? ….Lots of time for Matteo to grow up, and Wellness for Skyor to max. (He’s at level 7 now I think, and we have plenty of time.)

Chapter 2.2 | Chapter 2.4

Chapter 2.1 | Chapter 2.3

Here’s what yesterday looked like on my SimNaNo goals:

Today’s posts put me at over halfway done on my targeted word count, although I will need to keep working to get the post count.

So, last post, we aced the first part of Generation 2 – now for the fun stuff. The “real” beginning of the Gen. First, though, let’s copy over the rules:

That done, let’s acknowledge the cute pic of the happy couple in front of their new home – the “Lower Class Egyptian Home” linked above.. and move on.

First thing I do: have Marl (why do I keep trying to call her Myra. Wrong sim) take some of the Taro root from her new husband and plant it. I also buy some starter veggies and fruit and plant those, too. Okay, let’s be honest. I had her plant way too much – and later I end up selling some of the plants because they don’t “look right” in the garden. (HAHA!)

I don’t know if the awning here will keep them dry in the rain, but never-the-less, I really like the open-air concept for the dining “room”. Although why they had to sit at opposite ends of the table, I don’t know.

Marl gets down to business as quickly as possible… and starts some laundry. Of note: we are all prepared for babies in this house, as you can see… but these two have yet to woohoo. Since they’ll have to “Try for Baby”, I’m not quite ready for it yet. (Especially since it’s almost Summer, and we need to hit up Granite Falls for Herbalism stuff.. but again, I’m getting ahead of the story.)

Marl dodges the bees as she’s getting to know them. This is the garden before I add too many plants and have to rearrange.

Dad stops over to check on his “little girl”. She informs him that they won’t be home for the next week – they’re spending the Summer in Granite Falls. (Which isn’t quite like an Oasis, but we’ll deal with it.)

After I spend the time to add in the “Early Civilization” Campground and Forest that I built, they go on vacation and immediately head for the closest fishing hole. That’ll give the plants a chance to finish spawning, and Skyor time to get the fish for the first part of his Outdoor Enthusiast Aspiration.

I run myself crazy picking up flowers and plants and digsites and bugs.. and entirely forget to take very many pictures.. but if you’ve tried this aspiration before, you’ll understand why. Finally, we get to the part where he needs 4 Herbalism skill, and we “chain” him to a grill to get that done.

Eating his roasted Beetles. Or, at least cooking them to eat them. He doesn’t seem to be that worried about it. Being that he was born in the “Stone Age”, I would guess not – and after all that collecting, he was pretty darn hungry.

Marl has been doing some collecting, too… but I think she spent most the time complaining about her fishing skill being too low to catch anything. This, by the way, is Skyor eating that all important second plate of beetles. We finish out that part of the aspiration, and get to the part where you have to befriend the hermit.

Little story before we get there, though – they had two whole days where they had thunder and lightning pretty much ALL day. I kinda rolled the dice and still had them in the forest and Deep Woods collecting everything possible, figuring I could run them into the hermit’s house if one got struck the first time. I had to keep cancelling Skyor’s friendly overtures to the hermit, because I didn’t want to glitch the save out by getting to know her too early, which was thoroughly annoying. Somehow, however, neither one got struck by lightning even a single time. I saw some other sims get hit.. but not our couple. For which I will eternally be grateful… LOL. I apparently forgot to take even a single picture of this, but I guess that’s okay – they would have been dark photos, anyway.

We finally get to know the hermit, and we take the time to get to “Good Friends” so we can learn the extra Herbalism recipe. Meanwhile, I’m still hunting down bugs and plants and anything else I can collect with both sims until their needs get too low, then refilling the needs and continuing on. Very exciting – let me tell you.

However, the most exciting part of the whole trip was right at the very end. We had only a couple of hours left on the trip, and I had literally one insect left to find. That darn Walking Stick that’s only in the Deep Woods. I’ve never finished the Insect collection, so I was trying my hardest to spot the little guys.

When I finally spotted them – I was literally yelling at the screen for Skyor to hurry up and get over to where they were so they wouldn’t disappear (And hubby probably thought I was crazy!!) But – I finally completed the Bug collection. (Wouldn’t you know it, I also completely forgot to have the “curator” aspiration up to catch the moment – but maybe it’ll count later, if I get that far? It’s not like I don’t have other things I have to get done this generation.)

We send them home a scant hour early because everything was collected anyway, and I start divvying up the bounty. Herbalism plants go to Skyor, veggies go to Marl, Bugs to Skyor, etc. All the rocks, crystals, maps, fossils, and Herbalism concoctions Skyor had made all went on the sales table. I didn’t put any mysims trophies out – that would have looked weird, so I just sold those outright.

People are buying stuff left and right. Marl is busy somewhere in the background, planting the new veggies. I set up an inside planter for each of the Herbalism plants, but Skyor will have to plant those – after he learns what they all are. Because that’s the part of the aspiration we’re on. After a while, Marl runs out of stuff to do, and I have them switch off. She runs the yard sale, and Skyor works on his skills. I’m going to have him do Wellness and Herbalism, and Marl will do Cooking and Gardening. Hopefully we’ll have time to get all of that done.

Lunch time. Marl grills up some veggie something or other that gave both of them a huge moodlet buff, which I’d never seen before. Something I’ll definitely have to do again, that’s for sure. At least they’re sitting together this time. Oh yeah, and I just remembered to mention – you won’t be seeing Paku and Utali here, because they were left behind in the Bronze Age, as per the rules.

She’s back doing laundry again. Somehow I missed all the Granite Falls pictures, but I managed to get two of her doing laundry. Go figure.

A shot of the roof “garden” where Skyor is starting on his Wellness skill. Too bad it doesn’t give more “Fun” – he’s still really hurting for it, and I’m still unwilling to let them Try for Baby – so I’m trying to come up with other things to do.

Zarra stops by to say hello, so we invite her in and chat a while. At least one of our couple will have some Social need filled…

I finally relent. It occurs to me that I don’t absolutely have to have the first kid be the heir, so they can have one or two before-hand if I’m struggling with the skills. Or that darn tent sleeping requirement that I’m dreading. However – this post is long enough, and I figured this was as good a place to stop as any – so we’ll have to wait to find out if this Try for Baby bears “fruit”.

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I am going to leave you with a bonus: I went in and took pictures of all of Skyor’s younger siblings – in order (which took some remembering who came first) in their current age state and clothes that they grew up in. I think – looks wise – Myra is my fave, but we’ll have to wait to see how she looks as a teen. Skyor certainly has grown on me, though, and I’m having a blast with this challenge!

See you next time!

Chapter 2.1 | Chapter 2.3

House 012 Chapter 1 < | > House 012 Chapter 3

First, we check on our house goals:

House 012 Building Goals:
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons
House 012 Generational Goals:
Complete the Friend of the World aspiration
Have The Drifter Declare another Sim an Enemy
-Then raise the relationship between The Drifter and their Enemy to BFF
Have The Drifter Engage in and WIN 5 fights
-Each win must be with a different Sim opponent
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage

I’m not doing very well, am I? Well, unless you count on my Simnano Goals, which yesterday looked like this:

Here is what our little home looks like after I loaded in and realized that 1, the bed was still outside, and 2.. the strawberries were out of season. It felt wrong to just give her a greenhouse and make her still sleep on the lawn – so we built a secondary roof. The house still counts as a “micro” house for the purpose of skill gaining – which I plan to keep until she graduates. Or as close to it as possible.

She is still studying in the dark, however. Lights cost too much. =P

Only existing on naps isn’t turning out quite the way I’d hoped, though. And the bathroom breaking woes have clearly begun.

Social and Fun are perpetually low, so we invite Sione over. We try to start a romance, but with his Unflirty trait (He’s also Childish and Dog Lover) – he refuses because .. well I don’t know. But he didn’t want any part of it, so we just socialized and played with sand castles.

The final task of the week (that and final exams) .. can I be the first to say presentations are annoying in how you have to schedule them only at certain times!

The first week’s grades come in.. and I realize this past week went by so fast and so boring that I don’t have enough photos for an actual update. However, we did get to a 4.0 GPA, which I am thrilled about.

Since we don’t have enough photos, I continue play for an extra week.

We still have no lights, but things continue to break. I can’t imagine that fixing a sink in the dark is very easy….

At about this time, I realize two things. One, I’m bored stiff with grinding out grades as a solo sim.. and Two, I’m going to have to start thinking about the heir pretty soon. A friend calculates out exactly when I have to have the heir to have them grow up at the beginning of spring – and we have to get pregnant at the very beginning of Winter. Which is only a week away, and will mean that we have to spend the last week of school pregnant for part of it, and with a new baby for the rest.

So – expecting it to take a while to romance Mr. Reluctant.. I invite him over and get him to be “BFFs”. After a couple of flubbed attempts at romance, we finally get him to accept some flirts.

Finally.. full success.. we got the First Kiss. Should be smooth sailing from now on.

We hurry up and ask him to be a boyfriend, just to make sure he says yes while being really flirty…. (although he doesn’t really look hugely happy about it – he looks more shell-shocked than anything.

And then I send them to have some fun, because, as usual, Lyric is extremely low on fun. Apparently college and studying all the time isn’t fun. Who knew… (LOL)

Since he’s being so pliant, I decide to go ahead and ask him to marry us. This would be the successful proposal. They elope right away, and I quickly expand the house as far as I can without losing the Micro bonuses. Which means that I can’t fit in a double bed – so they’re just going to have to sleep in the same room.

The next morning, I notice that the garden is a disaster area, so Lyric works on that and her studies basically all day.

I get the presentation and the term paper out of the way as fast as possible this week, and try to keep up with the homework. Again, we have no time to work on House goals, but having Sione around means that we can keep Lyric’s fun in manageable ranges.

… Lyric.. what are you doing. I don’t think you get bonuses to skills if you’re not actively on your own lot…

I also figure out that we have to meet another Sim in another location for her aspiration – and that we can afford to travel with all the scholarship money – so we head to the park after Friday’s classes are done. We take advantage of the basketball court for a while, then have Lyric go find someone to say “hi” to.

In the interest of getting into House goals, I try to pick a a fight with this girl, but I keep getting routing errors and get frustrated, so I just send them home instead.

And Saturday arrives with our new report card. I don’t know what happened to that one class, but at least it didn’t hurt our average. Sometime during this week, I realized that Lyric’s fitness skill is actually quite a bit higher than I had thought it was from all her studying – in fact, she’s at 8 fitness, even though I don’t send her out running anymore due to lack of time to do so.

Spooky Day.. well evening.. and I decide it’s way past time to get into trouble. So I pick a fight with a costumed passer-by.

.. I keep my fingers crossed that her higher fitness skill will net her a win…

.. and it does!

So, since we’re thoroughly angry at them, we have them become enemies.

After that, I *TRY* to have Lyric apologize, but no dice. Sierra is WAY too ticked off at us, so we let her leave. We spend the rest of the day texting her trying to make up to her, and it seems to be working. We’re almost out of the “red” relationship bar.

Somehow, I end up playing Sunday, too, instead of stopping as usual.. and Lyric finishes all her homework for the week, her presentation work, and the term paper. Plus, she hits level 9 fitness. I think we’re all ready for babies next play session!

.. But before I go to save, Sione randomly decides to take care of the garden – which was a mess again. I had to wait until he was done to save. For obvious reasons. See you next time for the last week of college, and the heir!

House 012 Chapter 1 < | > House 012 Chapter 3

Chapter 1.6 | Chapter 2.2

Last time, we finished Generation One. Which means – we need to figure out what we’re doing with Generation Two – and that brings us to “story time”. In the original rules, erica180 had Generation Two doing handiness stuff and selling the profits with a table. I put Herbalism and selling the profits on a table as “Gen Three” .. and after putting a night’s thought into it – that was just going to be too repetitive and boring. And I’d already put hours into building Bronze Age and Egyptian lots, so I didn’t really want to just cut out the second or third generations completely. Then there was the question of what to do with a teen who couldn’t make babies for the next generation for almost two weeks. So, I compromised. I took generation “Two” (The Bronze Age), compressed it, rewrote the flavor text and the rules.. and I made it a mini-generation at the beginning of the Gen. Now the “REAL” Generation Two is in Ancient Egypt and starts when Skyor is a young adult. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Here’s “Part One” of Gen 2’s rules:

Now, since I built those Bronze Age lots, I was darn well going to use them. But Skyor wasn’t going to need room for a family. So I made him a smaller hut and put it across the street. But that left this great big family home empty… and Skyor was going to need friends. So I searched the gallery, and found a couple of possible “Early Civilization” prospects for his spouse. One of the families was a brother and sister, the other was an adult female. But I really liked her… So.. I made her a teen, made the two girls sisters, and made the brother the Dad. … It’s really not as creepy as it sounds, ok? I also re-named all three. So, for the sake of complete-ness, here’s the three sims in question:

I gave Skyor two options, just in case he has trouble clicking with one or the other. In theory. For reference, Marl is my favorite.

And, just because I didn’t feel bad enough for leaving her behind already:

That’s what poor Arjuna is stuck with. Lastly, before we get started, we’ll re-introduce our heir.. and let him glory in his weirdness:

Finally. Story time is over.. and we can start. Let’s go meet the neighbors, shall we?

Dad Zabala keeps a close watch on the proceedings. At least at the beginning.

Marl seems to be preoccupied with wanting to swim, to we get to know Zarra first. The friendship meter shoots into Good Friend range.. and I decide we should give Marl a chance, too. Because she’s my favorite, and all.

Couldn’t tell you what Zarra’s doing. But Dad is definitely no longer concerned. And making a sandcastle? Read: poor Skyor needs fun desperately. In fact, spoiler alert: he is low on fun nearly this whole chapter and I’m always struggling to get it back up. So much so, that I make him drink some 100 point fun potions. But I’m getting ahead of myself again.

Skyor: “See that cloud over there? It looks like a Cowplant. Wait, you’ve never heard of a Cowplant… well let me TELL you!”

After a getting to know everyone session, we send Skyor home to work on Handiness. Of which he has 0 skill. And we need to max it in like 12 days. AND make 20k simoleons while doing it. Ohh boy.

Our first haunting. Hey, Dad.. good to see you again!

Paku.. what did I tell you about Marshmallows. They didn’t exist, silly. Stop roasting them!

The next day (or was it the one after?) – I’ve worked poor Skyor’s fingers to the bone, and he has an inventory full of little wooden statues – and a Fun bar that’s completely tanked. It occurs to me that teens can’t get pregnant. Maybe it’s time to do some messing around, huh? Also: if you’re watching closely, you’ll see I cut this shot in a wide angle so you can see Arjuna walking by. Hello, you’re not supposed to be able to leave Sulani!! Stop stalking us in the middle of the night!

First kisses. Marl looks completely shocked. Apparently, she hadn’t gotten the memo that she was in the lead in the race for Gen 2 spouse.

Ahh.. no babies on the way. We still have time!

Skyor’s first Yard Sale. Technically, my first, too, since it’s something I’ve never tried in Sims 4. I don’t know why. That 300% markup is pretty darn nice… We sell everything to the not-appropriately-dressed-sims and go back to making statues.

Lots. Of. Statues.

Zarra invites herself over with a gift for us. I don’t remember what it was, but it wasn’t spectacular. Someone apparently didn’t tell her that we were already “taken”. Gotta give a girl credit for trying, though. Skyor looks a little creeped out by her late night visit, though.

Hi, Mom! (Skyor was too busy to say hi.. )

Ghosts do not need food. But since I can’t keep it, I suppose I won’t begrudge you a snack.

Yes, these were all different nights. And nothing else of interest happened except for statue making and yard sales. Over. And. Over. And. Over. Meanwhile.. Mom comes out and decides since we never have time for laundry – she’ll do it for us. Um.. thanks?

Skyor finally gets to being able to make Dining Tables and Bathtubs – which, I’ll tell you what, do the bathtubs when you get the chance… (and yard sales become a thing of the past…)

Woot! Part 1 of the goal done. The other part of the goal is being nickel-and-dimed by me on my phone calculator.

When we absolutely can’t get past the fact that we need “social”.. we invite Marl out to the local Hot Springs (Pool venue built by me). Not a great photo.. but watching all the sims walking around nude for the “Clothing Optional” lot trait was hilarious. I’m not sure how I didn’t get a single nude sim in the frame of this photo. Oh, well.

Marl ages up a couple days before we do. I think it was three? .. So we just stick to friendly stuff and count the fact that she’s already our girlfriend so nobody can “steal” her. At least, not since I don’t have MCCC.

That’s the first time Skyor had to do his own laundry. And, no, it’s not raining. Just very wet clothes. Ignore the dinosaur statue in the background. LOL.

By this time, we’ve gotten our 20k and are just wasting time until Skyor sees fit to spin himself to Young Adulthood. He’s taking forever.

Skyor gets his final trait.. and Irresponsible to add to it. Not really surprised, I mean – he didn’t go to a single day of school his whole life. Nor did he ever do his homework, because I sold it. $1! Woohoo.

We invite Marl to the Bronze Age Temple lot I built – because why not. (Oh and I added a wedding arch to it. It’s a generic lot, I figured we could have an actual wedding there.)

I carefully set them up in front of the arch to pop the question.. and then cross my fingers.

Whew!! She said yes! (I mean, I would have been a little surprised if she hadn’t, but whatever.) We then try to set up a Wedding goaled event, but all the other “Generic” lots in the world showed up except for this one. No matter what I tried. Finally, I gave up and just invited Dad and Sis-in-Law over, hoping they would watch the ceremony.

Spoiler: They didn’t.

Oh, well. At least we’re married now.

… Oops. I guess I never got rid of their “last” name. *chuckles* Too late now. I save and quickly hit “Move Household” – because it’s time to move to my Egyptian House(s)! I Hope they’ll be able to afford the “Elite” one – but they can’t. I guess we’ll have to save up. Oh, and yeah, the houses weren’t completely done by this point, either… so saving was necessary to hop over to my “building” save so I could finish the Egypt lots before actually moving. What do they look like? … Well, you’ll just have to wait until tomorrow, I guess! *Grin*

Chapter 1.6 | Chapter 2.2

House 011 Chapter 7 < | > House 012 Chapter 2

First, we check on our brand new goals:

House 012 Building Goals:
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons
House 012 Generational Goals:
Complete the Friend of the World aspiration
Have The Drifter Declare another Sim an Enemy
-Then raise the relationship between The Drifter and their Enemy to BFF
Have The Drifter Engage in and WIN 5 fights
-Each win must be with a different Sim opponent
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage

Then, we send Lyric through CAS – because it’s tradition!

She then moves out to her new lot, Nookstone,

… and we roll for lot traits:

Her inventory is cleared out, and here’s how she starts:

After all that.. we’re ready to play. Oh! Except for one more thing:

It’s rebate day! … Wouldn’t it be nice if we had enough money to spend on getting a rebate? Nice wish! =P

Anyway, we have poor Lyric standing around with 0 money, and zero ideas as to what she wants to do in life. I’ve been thinking on just this conundrum for days now. I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re going to University. To be a Villain. Because – why not? I’ve never tried it before!

So… the first thing we need to do is raise skills so we can get accepted to a distinguished degree. I’m going to need Vampire Lore, Mischief, Logic, and Fitness all to level three to pretty much guarantee it. Already have Mischief and Logic there, and Fitness will probably be a struggle because she’s Lazy. So, Vampire Lore. Which means we will need at the very least, a computer and a bookcase. For which, we need money. Sounds pretty straightforward. It’s not like we haven’t done this before. LOL.

So.. we start with a collection round. We get some plants, one frog – which is insanely un-useful….

… And, even more un-useful.. some common upgrade parts. Sigh.

At least we were able to afford this. Come on, girl, you can make it!! I believe in you! (She made it.)

We plant the strawberries we found, because they were the highest value plant we picked up… and by nightfall, we notice that some poor fool left an unspoiled hamburger laying on the ground by the (closed) food vendor. I send Lyric to go get it.. because, literally, beggars cannot be choosers.

The (albeit pretty) young adult vendor is the wrong gender.. and, apparently, it’s Springfest. We pretty much ignore the bunny, and spend all day gardening and gathering and forcing her to go jogging every once in a while when she’s not extremely fatigued. (Which only takes one run. Sigh. I guess that means, of the three careers possible for a Villain degree, Astronaut, the one I was leaning towards – is probably impossible. No way am I dragging her rear end to level 8 + Fitness skill.)

Today was far more profitable – we even found a second frog for breeding purposes.. and we were able to expand our.. er.. house? None too soon, by the look of her. That shower is going to come in handy! You have to wonder if Lyric is looking at all the silly decorations up in the middle of Spring on the past Rambler house and thinking how nice it would be to actually be living inside already.

Lyric: “Well, hi, Dad! Suuuure. Everything’s just FINE! Trust me! Things are going great!”

Honey, I think he remembers what starting a Drifter House is like, don’t lie to your dad like that.

Needing fun, we have her play in the sand for a while. Then it occurs to me, we could work on Mischief skill. I mean, it IS Prank Day.. so let’s take advantage of it.

That, and I’ve spotted the first Young Adult male to walk by our lot. A mail carrier. Turns out he’s alien. Sigh. Moving on.

Sure, let’s argue with him. He doesn’t seem to get upset about it, so we give up and go for a Lazy nap.

That house sure does look nice, doesn’t it, Lyric? =P As opposed to this stone bench. Ouch. At least she’s Lazy so she doesn’t really care.

Aww.. Darn. Now he’ll never see that we actually managed to get a roof over our heads.

Sort of. I mean, the bathroom is enclosed, right? And I *think* the computer will work when it’s raining?

She really does hate jogging. I feel your pain, girl. I’m not a jogger, either.

Lyric’s first fight. What can I say, I didn’t like this girl’s haircut?

Unfortunately, weird haircut girl wins. So we can’t count this as a real fight. And I don’t particularly want to be friends with her, so we let her leave.

By Friday, we have our scholarship applications in, and late that night, I put in our application for college, since we got to a whopping Two in Fitness, and the Three I needed in Vampire Lore.

We got accepted for a Distinguished Degree, which will mean at least a 7 in Criminal Boss, or a level 8 in the Secret Agent Villain one. If I can pull off a 3.9 total GPA, I’d be able to get a level 8 in the Boss career, too. Villains make more money.. but Bosses get better cash bonuses for promotions. I have no idea which one I’ll choose.

A huge positive, however, is that our scholarships came through, and we don’t have to pay a thing to enroll. Which is nice, because we only have so much in funds.

After signing up, We pull out the checkbook and finally get her a bed. I get a single, because that’s the best one I can afford right now stats-wise.. and I’m not planning on a baby anytime really soon. We’re sorta missing a spouse first.

Oh, look who I found. He must have the sun immunity trait or something, because he’s definitely not smoking. And in this sun, he should be.

Since we’re enrolled in University, and have more than 1k in the bank.. we take a trip to the Library (ostensibly to study …) to mostly scope out any Young Adult males we can find. This fella is named Miguel, and he’s studying Villain like us. However, he’s noncommittal , and I don’t think his looks “gel” with Lyric’s. I keep him on the list just in case, though.

I forgot to note this fella’s name down… I remember thinking it was a cool name – and his traits weren’t horrible.. but after this reaction to us saying hello, we decide to take a hard pass on this guy.

I didn’t take a photo the first time we ran across this guy, because he has the “Unflirty” trait… which makes wooing difficult. However, by the second time we find him, I’m rethinking that. I really like his looks… and he seems to like Lyric. They’re already “good friends” even though they’ve only met twice. His name, by the way, is Sione.

We get all but one of Lyric’s homeworks done for Monday by bedtime Saturday night, and I plan to come back the next day to start work on her one Term Paper. And maybe scope out some more guys. Meanwhile, Sunday AM is my cut-off for Ramblers.. so I save, and let Lyric nap her way to full Energy. We’ll see her again in a couple of days.

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