Lucy's Valley: Week Three - Montgomery
GUYS, I'M GRADUATING TOMORROW! While I'm not exactly looking forward to marching through the middle of downtown in my bright green Slytherin robes, at least they're bright green Slytherin robes, rather than the hot pink we were told we'd have when we started this degree. XD
Ahem, squeeing over. Here, have an update while I wait for my uni offices to open so I can go pick up my regalia.
Darryl (jens_sims) and Karina (lilith_sims) are happy for it to be their week. Well, Darryl is. I think Karina's just tired of wandering around pregnant while I played four other households. XD
Pancakes. Pancakes are good.
While on the subject of pancakes, I had DELICIOUS pancakes made with fresh blueberries last night. (we do breakfast-for-dinner once every couple months, since our schedules never mesh to the point where we can actually settle down together and make a big breakfast. Or on the days that they do, we'd MUCH rather SLEEP and drink coffee while reading in bed. XD) But when I picked one up off the stack, I accidentally grabbed it on a blueberry, and the little sucker EXPLODED on me. Giant gush of bright purple, BOILING berry blood. Way more than should have been able to fit in it. So now my thumb and forefinger on my right hand are burned and stained purple. And I call myself an adult. Yeah.
Since Karina has to wait for Robynne Cuevas to raise her business to Rank 10 and THEN top the Business career, she's going to be a stay-at-home mum who does a little financial consulting to keep from going in to fortune sim failure. XD
~Inching towards Mayor!~
Awwww, and making comfort soup for the pregnant wifey.
Someone REALLY wants to go on vacation.
After one final pancake faceplant, it is baby time!
We have a boy, with rather fascinating genetics. Julian. Who, yes, clearly is a dancing lemur. He has NOT inherited either the werewolf gene or the werewolf carrier gene, meaning he's free from any supernatural conditions. (the alien eyes from Karina don't count, since she's a CAS alien not a born alien, and thus doesn't have alieny abilities. That I made up, since they don't actually HAVE different abilities. XD)
I really feel like I should cut back on allowing sims to dig for treasure, since it is making things TOO EASY, but it is an AMAZING fun builder. Seriously. I do not know why.
But just look at her fun bar going up at 3x speed. Even playing video games on the computer only does 1x or 2x.
Being a family sim, Darryl wants another kid. Being a fan of the supernaturals, I want someone to carry on the werewolf gene. XD
Awww, what a good daddy. I don't judge them for the fear, but if they autonomously change nappies when they're afraid of it? GOOD DADDY STAMP OF APPROVAL. Bravery isn't the absence of fear but doing things in spite of it. Or somesuch.
Annnnd she's pregnant already. I don't know whether to be pleased (I prefer the kids to be fairly close together) or feel sorry for her. XD
...NO. You're the leader of this town and you CANNOT QUIT.
Is it just me, or is the pottery badge INSANELY tedious to get?
Karina: Hey, Robynne! How are you?
Karina: If I give you this gift item worth $1,000, will you convince my tree to grow nicely?
Robynne: You heard the green lady. No funny business.
Unfortunately, the 'thriving' didn't last, and it was back to bland by harvest. :|
This means...*checks* This means that Darryl needs to become best friends with the sim highest up in the Law Enforcement career, which isn't anyone YET, but WILL be Knox Benson-Fennel, so I can work on that this week. But no more promotions will be allowed until Knox is a POLISMAN. Oh, and Law's unlocked, so Paddie can join her LTW career, yay!
Hello, small adorable child who looks more like a fish than a lemur!
Unless they're REALLY obvious, I'm bad at seeing facial features, but I think he takes after Karina in general structure and Darryl in coloring.
And POPZORS.
Oh Karina. I think we'll earmark this one as going straight to town funds, even though I'm using all the family finances as town funds.
Karina: Lol water, you so silly.
Yes, Darryl, potty training is dull. Cute pictures, sometimes, but the reality is boring.
(can you tell that I just spent a day with a friend trying to potty train her toddler, and it was REALLY REALLY BORING?)
No bone xylophone for you, oh not inheritor of werewolf genes.
Ok, potty training is cute when Karina's doing it. Or maybe everything is cute when Karina's doing it.
Karina: Just walk away calmly. Do not get worked up, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Karina: Screw that. GRAB CHILD AND RUN.
While Darryl valiently puts out the flames, Karina talks to Julian. Partly to keep him entertained, but mainly to keep her from going inside, freaking out, and bottoming out her already dangerously low pregnancy motives.
Yes, Darryl, the soup is burned. It isn't rocket science when a giant fire tried to engulf the kitchen.
One not!burned! pot of soup later, Karina tells Darryl that he'd make a sexy firefighter.
Am I the only person to notice that, in TS3, telling a sim that you're a firefighter is a romantic option that makes the other sim go all swoony? SO FUNNY.
Suddenly! Giant kitty!
Karina LOVES ATTENTION. She does more wandering around getting hugs than the TODDLER.
Darryl: I helped make this.
Karina: :D
:| :| :|
Second time it caught fire in one night.
THIRD BLOODY TIME.
Oh, well, interrupt fire time for baby time!
And we have a girl! All of Darryl's coloring, though with a darker skin than my default S4. Her name is Tara, and she's a carrier for the werewolf gene.
SNUGGLE ALL OF THE CHILDREN.
Child!Julian!
I reallyreally love this bedroom set up. :3
Even if I do have to photograph it from a funny angle due to room sizes. XD
Tara! I think she has Karina's eye shape/size and Darryl's mouth. :D
I'm mainly glad that even though I don't have much option for genetic variety with the kids, they're getting lots of different features.
"family sims" *gesture from crazy-haired ALIENS meme guy*
See what I mean about it taking forever? He worked on the bloody thing ALL WEEK.
House picture, because cute.
While this family does not pay taxes, they contributed $5,000 of treasure to the town funds, bringing the total up to $42,650.
STATS:
Playables: 18
Sim Multiplier (SM): 2
Population: 36
Households: 5
Community lots: 2 (Gorgeous Grown Things L6 [Cuevas], Second Hand Store [npc])
Utilities: unlocked, with requirements
Townies: unlocked
CAS points: 1
Career slots: 1 (education, filled)
Careers unlocked: Politics, Law
Home Businesses: 0
Ahem, squeeing over. Here, have an update while I wait for my uni offices to open so I can go pick up my regalia.
Darryl (jens_sims) and Karina (lilith_sims) are happy for it to be their week. Well, Darryl is. I think Karina's just tired of wandering around pregnant while I played four other households. XD
Pancakes. Pancakes are good.
While on the subject of pancakes, I had DELICIOUS pancakes made with fresh blueberries last night. (we do breakfast-for-dinner once every couple months, since our schedules never mesh to the point where we can actually settle down together and make a big breakfast. Or on the days that they do, we'd MUCH rather SLEEP and drink coffee while reading in bed. XD) But when I picked one up off the stack, I accidentally grabbed it on a blueberry, and the little sucker EXPLODED on me. Giant gush of bright purple, BOILING berry blood. Way more than should have been able to fit in it. So now my thumb and forefinger on my right hand are burned and stained purple. And I call myself an adult. Yeah.
Since Karina has to wait for Robynne Cuevas to raise her business to Rank 10 and THEN top the Business career, she's going to be a stay-at-home mum who does a little financial consulting to keep from going in to fortune sim failure. XD
~Inching towards Mayor!~
Awwww, and making comfort soup for the pregnant wifey.
Someone REALLY wants to go on vacation.
After one final pancake faceplant, it is baby time!
We have a boy, with rather fascinating genetics. Julian. Who, yes, clearly is a dancing lemur. He has NOT inherited either the werewolf gene or the werewolf carrier gene, meaning he's free from any supernatural conditions. (the alien eyes from Karina don't count, since she's a CAS alien not a born alien, and thus doesn't have alieny abilities. That I made up, since they don't actually HAVE different abilities. XD)
I really feel like I should cut back on allowing sims to dig for treasure, since it is making things TOO EASY, but it is an AMAZING fun builder. Seriously. I do not know why.
But just look at her fun bar going up at 3x speed. Even playing video games on the computer only does 1x or 2x.
Being a family sim, Darryl wants another kid. Being a fan of the supernaturals, I want someone to carry on the werewolf gene. XD
Awww, what a good daddy. I don't judge them for the fear, but if they autonomously change nappies when they're afraid of it? GOOD DADDY STAMP OF APPROVAL. Bravery isn't the absence of fear but doing things in spite of it. Or somesuch.
Annnnd she's pregnant already. I don't know whether to be pleased (I prefer the kids to be fairly close together) or feel sorry for her. XD
...NO. You're the leader of this town and you CANNOT QUIT.
Is it just me, or is the pottery badge INSANELY tedious to get?
Karina: Hey, Robynne! How are you?
Karina: If I give you this gift item worth $1,000, will you convince my tree to grow nicely?
Robynne: You heard the green lady. No funny business.
Unfortunately, the 'thriving' didn't last, and it was back to bland by harvest. :|
This means...*checks* This means that Darryl needs to become best friends with the sim highest up in the Law Enforcement career, which isn't anyone YET, but WILL be Knox Benson-Fennel, so I can work on that this week. But no more promotions will be allowed until Knox is a POLISMAN. Oh, and Law's unlocked, so Paddie can join her LTW career, yay!
Hello, small adorable child who looks more like a fish than a lemur!
Unless they're REALLY obvious, I'm bad at seeing facial features, but I think he takes after Karina in general structure and Darryl in coloring.
And POPZORS.
Oh Karina. I think we'll earmark this one as going straight to town funds, even though I'm using all the family finances as town funds.
Karina: Lol water, you so silly.
Yes, Darryl, potty training is dull. Cute pictures, sometimes, but the reality is boring.
(can you tell that I just spent a day with a friend trying to potty train her toddler, and it was REALLY REALLY BORING?)
No bone xylophone for you, oh not inheritor of werewolf genes.
Ok, potty training is cute when Karina's doing it. Or maybe everything is cute when Karina's doing it.
Karina: Just walk away calmly. Do not get worked up, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Karina: Screw that. GRAB CHILD AND RUN.
While Darryl valiently puts out the flames, Karina talks to Julian. Partly to keep him entertained, but mainly to keep her from going inside, freaking out, and bottoming out her already dangerously low pregnancy motives.
Yes, Darryl, the soup is burned. It isn't rocket science when a giant fire tried to engulf the kitchen.
One not!burned! pot of soup later, Karina tells Darryl that he'd make a sexy firefighter.
Am I the only person to notice that, in TS3, telling a sim that you're a firefighter is a romantic option that makes the other sim go all swoony? SO FUNNY.
Suddenly! Giant kitty!
Karina LOVES ATTENTION. She does more wandering around getting hugs than the TODDLER.
Darryl: I helped make this.
Karina: :D
:| :| :|
Second time it caught fire in one night.
THIRD BLOODY TIME.
Oh, well, interrupt fire time for baby time!
And we have a girl! All of Darryl's coloring, though with a darker skin than my default S4. Her name is Tara, and she's a carrier for the werewolf gene.
SNUGGLE ALL OF THE CHILDREN.
Child!Julian!
I reallyreally love this bedroom set up. :3
Even if I do have to photograph it from a funny angle due to room sizes. XD
Tara! I think she has Karina's eye shape/size and Darryl's mouth. :D
I'm mainly glad that even though I don't have much option for genetic variety with the kids, they're getting lots of different features.
"family sims" *gesture from crazy-haired ALIENS meme guy*
See what I mean about it taking forever? He worked on the bloody thing ALL WEEK.
House picture, because cute.
While this family does not pay taxes, they contributed $5,000 of treasure to the town funds, bringing the total up to $42,650.
STATS:
Playables: 18
Sim Multiplier (SM): 2
Population: 36
Households: 5
Community lots: 2 (Gorgeous Grown Things L6 [Cuevas], Second Hand Store [npc])
Utilities: unlocked, with requirements
Townies: unlocked
CAS points: 1
Career slots: 1 (education, filled)
Careers unlocked: Politics, Law
Home Businesses: 0