Dan & Paula 1.1
Phew, I thought I'd never get these pictures uploaded and pasted in to this window! You see, my internet company is still giving me major dramas and the past two days I've once again only had internet in 10 to 30 second windows, followed by five minutes or so of no internet at all. It's a lot of fun (sarcasm, obviously)! Their idea of fixing my now something like 3 month ongoing internet problem is to randomly email me asking "Hi, how is your internet connection going today?" instead of actually looking in to the fault - that would be too hard!! Typical offshore internet company. I am switching as soon as my six month contract is up (otherwise, I get hit with a "dishonor" fee, and since my internet company has my credit card details, it's not a fee I can avoid). Until then, there will be days like these, randomly...
In our last episode: Dan found the girl of his dreams in Paula, married her, and was caught playing pirates in the outhouse due to a pressing need to find fun with a broken television.
Every day, Paula gets a little closer to those 10 charisma points she needs to open up an opportunity in the entertainment career. Food poisoning does not help matters. However, she's up to around 7 points, I think... closer and closer...
... and Dan is slowly whittling away at maxing out all 7 skills. He's finally maxed cooking. One down, 9 to go! Well, 9 partially to go. He has some points in all of his skills already....
... also, finally chairs again! Seems Paula did a lot of shopping at Harris' New & Used Furniture (and a little at Let There Be Light!) while I was playing Josie & Will. There is so much furniture in her inventory that it won't all fit in the house! They have two huge matching armoires, neither of which fit in the house at all.
Snow Jogging Townie: "Paula, you're looking very well."
Paula: "Thankyou. My food poisoning finally cleared up all by itself."
It did. She recovered just moments after I started playing her. I was so sure she was going to die...
... and don't think I'd forgotten Marge. She's still around, still with Paula's eyes, etc. I actually have fixed her eyes now to be geneticized as recessive, but I've no idea how to change the eyes a sim actually wears, so she gets to keep them forever. The gaps in my SimPE knowledge are large, and random. It's probably ridiculous that I know how to make face templates yet have no idea how to change the eyes a sim is wearing. I imagine.
Dan: I married the right girl!
Yes. Yes you did.
Despite having two knowledge sim parents who are thirsty to feed their spongelike brains at all times, Marge does get her basic needs met. Just not much more than that..
Fun In The Snow!
.... featuring Dan, snowballs, and whichever townie is handy.....
Mary Jo: Must. Not. Breathe.
If you'd put her down, somebody could change her! Seriously, ten seconds before you picked her up I directed Paula to change her. Then you decided to hold her for three hours while she screamed!
These two are so cute....
Dan: I'm making a surprise breakfast of fruit salad for Paula. Do you think she'll like it?
Marry me, damnit! LOL
... I wonder if she knows just how lucky she is....? There aren't many guys I know who would make fruit salad for their wife's breakfast when it's not a special occasion....
Like many Cave children before her, Marge sleeps in a drawer....
Fun In The Snow! Pt. II
Paula: "Ahh, the perfect snowman...."
Paula: "Prepare to meet thy doom, Snowman! Muahahahaha!"
Snowman: ".... I never even had a chance to live...." *wibble & splat*
Marge's birthday finally rolled around. I love how everybody but her immediate family is the most excited to be there.
Really nowhere near as scary as I feared she would be. Cute, in fact. The eyes are not scary and distracting. Yay!
Personality = Libra 2, 7, 2, 6, 8
Dan: "My, what big eyes you have, Grandma! - said Little Red Riding Hood. All the better too see you with, my dear - said the... huh... that's a little discriminatory against wolves - said the Hungry Misunderstood Wolf."
Marge gets very engrossed in storytime....
Now that she's a toddler, she sleeps on a blanket by the fire instead of in a drawer. Besides, Paula bought the toddler blanket, obviously especially for her. She may as well use it!
The bunny, however.... well, I cheated a little. I actually hoped to have Josie & Will with more businesses open by the time Marge was a toddler, and since they didn't, she hadn't any toys! I decided to pretend Dan found the rabbit down the well out front. Because otherwise it'd just be cruel....
Besides, how could I have denied myself the adorable of Marge playing with her rabbit? How?
Marge: Om-nom-nom!
Potty chamber pot training. She never did quite get the hang of it....
Marge: "Hewwo hungy misstoo wooof!"
Wolf: *debates eating*
Marge: *screams bloody murder*
Shaft: Grrrrrr!
Paula: "#$^@~! Sink!"
She likes repairing. Yup.
Skunk. Just because.
Dan eventually did work out that Marge needed a diaper change....
Marge: What? No, that wasn't me - I never throw tantrums. I'm a good girl.....
Paula: "So... I've been feeling better for a while now..... what do you say we....?"
Dan: "Mmmmm.... please."
Clancy: "Hold it right there, you two! Safe Sex Rabbit has something to say to you!"
Clancy as Safe Sex Rabbit: "If it's not on, it's not on!"
Dan: "Wow. I've never felt this awkward."
Yeah, I found the whole thing pretty awkward myself, sweetie.
Paula: "To hell with him! Take me now!"
Clancy: "Why? Why are you ignoring Safe Sex Rabbit? Are you trying to hurt his feelings?"
Safe Sex Rabbit: Boom-chaka-wow-wow!
Paula: "Get out!"
Try For Baby Attempt #1 - FAIL!
Dan: "You know, I felt awkward at first, but having someone else in the room was actually kind of a rush!"
Dan tried to get in one last snowman before the snow melted, but it melted around him, leaving him without enough snow to build him a head. Poor, unfinished snowman. Maybe next year?
Just to prove that Dan did do his share of fathering, even if it consisted of less intelligent activities like peek-a-boo on the frozen ground.... at least he tried....
Oh, I see what you did there, Clancy! That little intrusion earlier had nothing at all to do with safe sex, now, did it?
Clancy: She lights up my winter!
Never gonna happen. Go home.
... then Marge grew up....in the green, but with no skills learned at all....
Marge: "If you bother my Mommy again, I'll kick you in the balls. Repeatedly. I'm just the right height for ball kicking, you know. Don't think I won't do it just because I'm a sweet little girl. I will kick them down to nothing, so help me."
She's so pretty! Sure, she's not her cousin Minnie, but those strange eyes give her somewhat of an ethereal beauty, don't you think?
... and she's proving very helpful around the house for somebody with so few neat points....
However, her one passion is her daddy's remote controlled car. The one Dan brought with him from his own childhood home, which was passed on to him by his father, Finn. I think she's actually the first sim to ever play with that car, but then the original Caves had a television that was able to be repaired when broken....
Try For Baby Attempt #2 - Success!
... she plays with it morning, noon and night....
Although Dan still gets a look in when she wants somebody to spin her around the garden really fast. Like most other Caves, she doesn't get motion sickness.
Fun Fact: The only Cave child to ever throw up after being spun around or playing on the merry-go-round thing was Mae, who was also the only Cave to always fall out of the hammock. Are the two things connected? I think so.
However, it's not all fun and games. Her interest in the remote controlled car, coupled with the broken television, have made Marge very interested in studying up on all things mechanical. Seriously, she rolled the want for her first point randomly after playing with her car. Then she just kept wanting more points. She now has more mechanical points than her dad! A future knowledge sim?
Torrone for breakfast. Oh, Dan, get out of my computer and in to my kitchen!
Paula, stomping cockroaches. Because apparently having food poisoning through her first pregnancy has made her wish for the flu during this one just to make it interesting.... she got lucky this time, however....
Marge: "Dad, was Mom really a psychic before she married you?"
Dan: "Umm, well technically, that was her job description, yes...."
Marge: "Isn't all that psychic stuff a pseudoscience?"
Dan: "Shhh, not so loud - you don't want Mom to hear you - you'll hurt her feelings!"
Marge: "But it is, right?"
Dan: "Right. Now shh..."
Paula: "What have I done? I've taken innocent insect lives!" *bawls out her pregnancy hormones by the bucketload*
Dan has little doubt about his wife's delicate condition....
Paula: "Oh god, the cockroaches! Why? Why?"
Fireflies of 10 years ago: "You killed us too, you murderous hussy!"
Dan: "Sweetie, don't take on like this.... it's not like you at all....."
Paula: "... but the cockroaches...."
Dan: "Aren't worth making yourself sick with grief over. Cheer up! Maybe one of them will be reincarnated as our next child...."
Paula: *snort* "Now you're the one who's being silly!"
Dan: "Heh. Made you smile!"
... I think we can all guess who this smitten kitten immediately went to write about in her diary.....
... and after her first pregnancy pop and some time on the remote controlled car, Paula felt a lot better.....
... there comes a time in every young girl's life when a naked purple man breaks in to her house, tells her he's been watching her and invites her to come tinker with him in his secret location.... Yup.
And that's all for now. Tune in next time to see Carmelita finally start her adult life away from the nest! I'm really looking forward to it. Will she find a man to love who isn't her sister's husband (remember, first kiss with Will?) or will she succumb to temptation?