Ghosts of Christmas Past?
Daytona don't know who that Rich Mann thinks he is to be acting like he's got the say so to wrap up the year.
She's the HBIC (Head Beech in Charge) 'round here. She gets the final word. And she's gonna do it comin' at you from the past. Top that.
The red princess is pleased to escort you around certain scenes from her memories.
So long as you don't get too nosy.
Umm...Dixie. Dixie's a safe bet. All Dixie memories are good ones. She never changes.
"We can't play inside today. Grandma's entertaining."
"What's that mean?"
"Quid pro quo," Virgie whispered.
"Huh? Those ain't words."
"They are, too. It's Latin, silly. It means..." she tried to think of a way to explain, "it means favours."
"Oh. Then me and you 'quid procure' all the time"
(Yeah, I'm sure little miss Dixie wishes they procured some quid! That is, if she knew what any of it meant.)
"Pro quo. And no, cuz you both gotta follow through when it's your turn. Grandma says that's what really makes the world go around."
"You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Dixie nodded.
"Exactly."
Nosy Dixie really wanted to know whose back her grandma was in there scratching but the
Beeches knew some different kinda folks from her family. She still asked her later, though.
"So you gotta do me a favour," Virgie continued. "Mom and Dad said of course you
can come to their anniversary party, but some of Grandma's friends will be there-"
"Rich people?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Cool."
"So you'll wear one of my dresses? You can pick it out, whichever one you want. Except, except my new blue one."
"Okay, cool." But then Dixie looked dejected. "Your shoes don't fit."
"Hmm. You could wear a pair of my mom's."
"Um. Okay," Dixie said. But only cuz she really wanted to go to the party.
"But not any with the heels, though. This is how they're gonna be dancing at the party, my mom and dad. La-di-da. Da-da. Da-dum-da."
Virgie twirled Dixie around.
"Hey! That's my foot!"
"Oops. You okay?"
"Yeah. Anyway, my parents don't dance like that..."
"...they be like: unh, unh, work that thang, Lumpy..."
"...show 'em how you do that thang, unh, unh!"
:-D
"Make sure you don't do that at the party!"
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I had no use for any of the above during the Beech round (and no ETA on that update, eep!) but it was too cute to consign to oblivion.
I think I only clicked on 'classic dance' because I was surprised to see it, despite having sometimes used it with kids at weddings :-}
I was going to hold onto a couple of those pics for Round 3 outtakes (hopefully not a whole year away) but I was scouring Aegagropilon's old Widespot updates
because I know she had some Widespot specific cc, apart from Doomsday, that I think I've misplaced and I ran across this one and stuff clicked.
My Virginia and Dixie are only BFF but it was cute all the same, so I threw a couple pics onto
The Lone Daisy mesh just in case someone else might think it's cute enough to grace their simmies' walls.
And while I'm at it, the Newsons were already on Maxis meshes, two for versatility: The Meaning of Fruit and the BV Travel poster.
I didn't futz with their DNA so someone might have use for them.
Only the younger ones as Gavin and Ginger's looks were very backstory specific and the only
one of them without Gloria in it is that one ominously featured at the end of their chapter.
Squeezed together for space but these and the Beech pics are much more photo-realistic than my last batch. No pesky pixelation!
I tried to fix the Harts, actually redid them all, but without the original pics to work from it didn't improve them much. So just these:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/oesiwgpn832d99d/LoneDaisy-DancingKidlets.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/q0gb9c29m1l58qc/MaxisMeshYoungNewsonPics.rar
I am especially pleased with the Beech photos (and of course I dove overboard; the Harts' spread was about 10-15 pics total but I've got at
least 25 in game Beech family photos...nuts! but I needed them!) Skintones slightly altered (Hamilton, Rocky, Virginia darker than as shipped)
but I'll post them up anyway after I write up their round, perhaps they summered at the shore (visiting Sandy's folks?) and came back tanned.
But for now no more spoilers about the Beeches :-)
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Well, perhaps one last bit of cuteness. Rocky!!
The photo shoot and scenes were very Virgie-centric but couldn't forget about him!
"Now that's better. When I"m good and ready I'll be passin' the torch to Virgie but let no Mann forget that we run this.
We do the benedictions. So, now that we're clear, y'all have a merry one. And Happy New Year."