Today I headed to Pleasantview to play the Tellerman family for a few simdays.

On Saturday morning Meidie joined Komei in a game of chess and they both gained a logic point.  Meidie lost the game, but beating her dad is no easy task.  Komei gained maximum enthusiasm in games.  It was both his and Jodie's day off work.  Jodie settled down on the couch to gain a much needed mechanical point.  Meidie washed Brandy before calling her steady boyfriend Randy London to ask him out on a date, which he accepted.  They met at Sims Gone Wired and Meidie treated Randy and herself to nectarine tartlettes in the upstairs diner.  They both had a good time.  Meidie drove back home and decided to give private school admittance one final shot.  The headmaster agreed to come to dinner that night and Meidie set to work making the house spotless.  Komei paid to have a fish pond dug in the backyard and went fishing, but caught nothing.  He headed to bed at 4:30pm - his sleeping schedule has somehow become very erratic.  Meidie managed to break the bathtub not five minutes before the headmaster was due to arrive and the repairman of course couldn't come until the following day.  Meidie served up some Santa cookies for the headmaster and then admitted defeat and went to practice on the guitar instead of continuing to schmooze him.  She gained a creativity point, anyhow.  Komei was up at 9pm (great!) and spent some time practicing chess and playing darts by himself.  Meidie was of course rejected for admittance to private school.  Komei sat down to write a long blog entry on that morning's chess game with Meidie.
Jodie stayed up late in to the early hours of Sunday morning to gain another much needed mechanical point and then it was straight to bed.  Komei spent some time playing SSX3 on the family's computer.  It was his and Jodie's day off again.  As soon as it was a decent hour to be making phone calls, Meidie called Randy to ask him out on another date (which may be their last).  Of course he accepted and she met him in her bathrobe at Gothier Green Lawns (appropriate!)  They spent their date fluctuating between slow dancing, kissing, petting and heavy making out.  They sure knew how to behave in a cemetary.  Their date scored as a dream date.  Afterwards, Meidie drove straight over to My Muse - Music & Dance Studio to enter a dance contest.  She lost her first one, but won the second.  Still in her bathrobe.

She headed home happy with her victory.  Jodie spent much of the day studying mechanical books, but didn't manage to gain another point.  Komei spent some time in the sauna - not the greatest idea in summer but he was stubborn.  Meidie practiced guitar and gained another creativity point.  Komei was in bed by midday but woke up three hours later extremely flushed and overheated.  It took three glasses of water to cool him down sufficiently.  Meidie left for Sim State University to begin her time in college and only Komei cared enough to wave goodbye to her.  Afterwards he spent some time on the bubble blower and once again became overheated - took 4 glasses of water to cool him down that time.  Darn summer!
On Monday morning Jodie washed Brandy  before settling down at the computer to start a tinkering blog - which she has absolutely no hands-on experience at but has read much about.  Later on, she played chess with Komei until it was time for them both to go to work.  Brandy and Alice had a horrible fight in the living room and Alice won.  Komei was promoted to Medical Researcher and drove back to work for a couple of hours (he got paid twice that way).  Jodie brought her friend Shea Johnson home from work to hang out.  When Komei arrived back home again, he clogged the toilet and called the repairman to fix it the following day.  Jodie and Shea became best friends.  Jodie called all her other friends to throw a party for her and Komei's wedding anniversary.  Komei spent most of the party practicing his chess skills.  The party was a success, regardless.  Komei wasn't tired at all and decided to pull an all-nighter.  He spent his hours reading up on cleaning methods and Jodie wrote yet another tinkering blog entry before heading outside to the telescope for some stargazing.

Afterwards, I headed to Strangetown to play the Roque family.  It consists of Gunnar Roque (was originally a member of The Shifting Paradymes Household in La Fiesta Tech) and his wife Jasmine (formerly Jasmine Rai, his college roommate).  Gunnar is currently unemployed and Jasmine works in the culinary career as a Drive Through Clerk.  Jasmine is heavily pregnant with their first child.

Jasmine fell in to bed exhausted at 7am on Thursday morning.  Her pregnancy hasn't been particularly hard, apart from her energy levels.  Gunnar cleaned the bathroom and gained a cleaning point for his trouble.  He baked a batch of Santa cookies for lunch and settled down with some old medical books to learn physiology.  Jeannie Gray (townie) called Jasmine for a chat and offered her a furniture discount.  Jasmine threw a party and invited Jeannie to come along so she could get to know her a little better.  She was pretty grateful for the furniture discount, since she was soon to buy baby furniture.  She was back in bed by 8:30pm due to pregnancy sleepiness.  Gunnar convinced one of the guests, Rodney Jung, to clean the house for him and then spent the rest of the party playing football in the front yard with Jeannie.  The party was a total flop.
On Friday morning Jasmine purchased a bar in the hopes of improving her future parties.  She took the weight off her feet by spending a few hours playing Sims 3.  Gunnar served a basic breakfast of cereal and they sat down to a leisurely breakfast together.  He's a surprisingly devoted husband for a romance sim - all those drama professors from college who repeatedly broke his heart must have opened his eyes some.  He managed to clog the toilet after breakfast and immediately called the repairman to come during business hours.  At 8:32am Jasmine gave birth to a healthy baby girl whom she named Gunine.  She has her father's coloring.  Jasmine called a nanny to arrange care for Gunine during her work hours.  She threw a party to welcome Gunine to the world and spent a great deal of money not only on baby furniture but also on upgrading the family television set and purchasing a DJ booth.  Jasmine became best friends with Guy Wrightley after spending most of the party hanging out with him.  However, the party was a disaster, due to a randy drama professor making unwelcome advances towards everybody.  The trash can got knocked over at some point during the day and the lot developed a cockroach infestation.  Jasmine called the exterminator to come out the next morning before heading to work exhausted.  Gunnar spent the entire afternoon reading parenting books until he felt he knew everything there was to know about being a parent.  Jasmine was promoted to Fast Food Shift Manager and passed out on the front lawn upon arriving home.  I woke her up so she could go to bed.
On Sunday morning Gunnar faced what he had been most afraid of since Gunine's birth - changing a diaper!  He spent some time bonding with his newborn daughter before settling down with a cookbook to gain three cooking points.  Jasmine called Rodney Jung for a chat in the hopes of getting to know him a little better (it's always good to make friends with people you can convince to clean your house).  Afterwards, she and Gunnar spent some time slow dancing and being all sweet in the kitchen.  Jasmine invited Rodney over to hang out and they became friends.  She threw another house party and made a quick call to her best friend Guy Wrightley for a chat before work.  Gunnar gained membership to Sue's Secret Kitchen.  He bought a birthday cake and helped little Gunine grow in to a toddler.  The party was a success.

Gunine not only has her father's coloring, she also has all of his facial features excepting her mother's big doe eyes.  I sincerely hope she'll grow in to that face - so far it looks quite unfortunate for a little girl!

Today I headed in to Strangetown to play the Ramaswami family.  Sanjay works in the music career as a Summer Camp Music Teacher and Priya works in the journalism career as a Fact Checker.  They are childless, but they do have a dog named Jessie.

Sanjay taught Jessie to speak on Friday morning before he and Priya headed off to work.  Priya was promoted to Obituary Writer.  She called her next door neighbour, Vamsi Gieke for a chat in the hopes of getting to know her better.  Sanjay gave Jessie a bath after work and then headed to bed early as he was exhausted after a long day of work.  Priya invited Vamsi over to hang out and they became friends.
Saturday was Sanjay's day off so he threw a house party.  He spent some time with Priya watching a dvd.  Priya invited Vamsi over to hang out again before work.  Sanjay's party was a complete disaster due to Nervous Subject repeatedly poking Vamsi and causing her to spend half the party in the bathroom sobbing uncontrollably.  Sanjay wasn't satisfied with the party, so he called a different bunch of people and threw another.  When Priya got home from work she invited Vamsi over to join the party.  Vamsi and townie Neil Chalmers spent the entire party flirting and became crushes.  Sanjay purchased a hot tub for the backyard and the party was a success.
In the early hours of Sunday morning the Ramaswami house was invaded by a burglar who stole both their car and their television set.  He was caught by the police and the family was reimbursed, but they were still both pretty bummed.  As soon as Sanjay was up, he bought a new car to replace the stolen one then washed Jessie.  It was his day off again and he spent much of the morning drinking at his bar.  Priya invited Vamsi over to hang out before work yet again.  Sanjay threw a house party and made friends with a townie named Celeste Kimbrell.  The party scored as a roof raiser.  He invited Celeste to come back over afterwards as he wanted to spend more time with her.  Priya invited Vamsi back over after work also.  Priya and Sanjay retired to bed early to try for a baby (and apparantly it was their very first woohoo - my bad!).  They were successful - Priya is pregnant with their first child (and what will probably be their only child, they have only 10 days until elderhood.

Afterwards, I didn't range very far.  I went next door to play the Gieke family.

On Saturday, Cheva sat down with her mother's cookbooks and gained a cooking point.  Vamsi called her boyfriend Nicholas Davidson for a chat, then decided it wasn't enough just to talk on the phone and invited him over to spend the day with her.  Bonkers grew in to an elderly kitty.  Cheva was in bed by 2pm due to exhaustion from her all-nighter.  Vamsi called Bonker's work and arranged for him to retire from his job as a Rescue Pet, earning him a tidy pension of $136 a day.  She also purchased a tent for the backyard.  When Cheva awoke, she decided college wasn't really for her and grew up well in to an adult.  Her boyfriend Alec Hiatt aged up along with her.  Chester's ghost was roaming around and scared poor Cheva twice.

Cheva headed off on a night hike and was followed home by a skunk.
Sunday morning saw Cheva hit her mother's cookbooks again and gain two cooking points.  Vamsi invited Nicholas over to spend the day together yet again.  That night, Lainey and Chester's ghosts decided it was time for a terrible rampage.  I think they made just about every guest lose control of their bladders.

Vamsi did some studying too and gained a mechanical point.  She harvested some mouthwatering tomatoes from her tomato plant, which she put on the burgers she made for dinner.  She was scared by Chester and lost control of her bladder.  The same thing happened to Cheva not ten minutes later.  Vamsi wasn't tired at all so she decided to pull an all-nighter.
In the early hours of Monday morning Vamsi planted a new crop in her garden - cucumbers this time.  She managed to break the bath and called the repairman to come during business hours.  She painted a couple of lovely pictures (one of them was of Cheva all grown up) and gained a creativity point.  Cheva served omelettes for breakfast and then settled down with the cookbooks once more to gain two cooking points.  She's now maximized the cooking skill.  Like mother, like daughter.  She also reached maximum enthusiasm in cuisine.  All her painting gained Vamsi membership to My Muse II - Art Studio.  Monday night was blessedly free of ghost activity.
On Tuesday morning Vamsi spent some more time painting and gained a creativity point.  Cheva played bass and gained three creativity points - autumn is definitely upon the Gieke family!  Afterwards, Cheva harvested some mouthwatering lemons which she used for her lunch of chef salad.  Afterwards she practiced painting and gained two more creativity points.  A random walkby townie clogged the toilet, so Cheva called the repairman to come the following day.  Chester's ghost wandered the lot that night.  Vamsi roasted a turkey for dinner and Chester scared Cheva so badly she wet herself.  It's becoming a habit.
Vamsi spent the early hours of Wednesday morning playing bass and maximized the creativity skill.  Cheva painted some more when she woke and gained two more creativity points.  Vamsi spent the afternoon poring over her cookbooks to gain some more cuisine enthusiasm.  Cheva gained membership to My Muse II - Art Studio.  Wednesday night was another blessed ghost-free evening.
Thursday started early with Vamsi awaking just after midnight and serving a midnight snack of gelatin.  She spent the wee hours poring over her cookbooks again and reached maximum enthusiasm in cuisine.  When Cheva got up she browsed the newspaper and found her dream job in the athletic career.  She immediately took it and was to start the next day.  She purchased a drum kit and promptly ignored it thereafter.  She headed to the family's long disused exercise machine to work out for a much needed body point (and was afflicted with the body skill superfast gaining bug!  She was maximized before I even realized!  I freakin' hate that!  Gaaahhhh!)  Afterwards, she painted a lovely picture of Vamsi and gained a creativity point.  Vamsi drove over to Sue's Secret Kitchen to enter her crepes suzette in the cooking contest.  The judge was unimpressed.  She went home very depressed over her loss and called Nicholas to come over for some chaste slow dancing.  She traded in her old stove for a much nicer orange one and then drove downtown to buy herself an mp3 player.  Then it was back to Sue's Secret Kitchen to try the cooking contest again.  She made the same dish and won this time around.  She headed home for some more slow dancing with Nicholas.  She gained herself membership to My Muse - Music & Dance Studio before heading to bed.  Cheva was once again scared by Chester's ghost.  She's cursed, I swear it!

I headed in to Strangetown today to play what's left of the original Grunt family.  General Buzz recently remarried a much younger woman, Trista (I think it was Trista Shaw, townie, it was a while ago that I played them).  Trista is heavily pregnant with their first child together and is having a hard time of it.  Buck grew in to a teenage popularity sim.  Trista works in the law enforcement career as a Lieutenant.  The family has a dog named Whiskey, who works in the showbiz career as an Extra.

On Wednesday morning Buck cleaned the bathroom and gained a cleaning point for his trouble before heading off to school.  Gen. Buzz sat down at the family's chess table to practice his skills before work.  After taking care of her rapidly falling needs, Trista called all her friends to invite them to a house party.  Buck quickly buckled down to do his homework as soon as he got home from school.  After it was done, he bought himself a microphone and performed stand up comedy for the party guests, who didn't even bother to watch.  He gained his first creativity point anyway.  Gen. Buzz gained a cleaning point re-cleaning the bathroom and then smustled with the guests.  He headed back to the chess table to practice some more and gained a logic point.  The party was a total flop.
Thursday morning started early with Trista awakening in labor.  At 3:53am she gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Wanda.  Wanda has her daddy's coloring.  Trista immediately arranged a nanny to come during her work hours.  Gen. Buzz served a big grilled cheese sandwich breakfast for the family but mostly pigged out on it himself.  Buck washed a very filthy Whiskey dog and then spent the remaining time until school spending time with Whiskey, and they became friends.  It was off to school for Buck and off to her first day back at work for Trista.  The nanny she hired turned out to be a child harrasser.  Excellent.  Gen. Buzz decided to throw a house party, even though he was due to leave for work.  He figured he could trust the guests, and maybe they'd keep the nanny occupied.  Whiskey was offered a promotion to be assistant to his executive producer, but he declined and was fired as a consequence.  The party without any family present was a flop.  After school, Buck once again plowed through his homework.  When he got home, Gen. Buzz threw another party.  Trista scanned the newspaper looking for her dream job, and it was in there.  She quit her law enforcement job and accepted a position in the slacker career.  Buck was offered a subscription to the music and dance magazine and accepted.  During the party, ACR was doing it's stuff, with townies Nery Turner and Nikki Zhang woohooing in the hot tub.  There was a nasty fight in the living room between Cooper Olshfski and Jay Bruty, which Cooper won, and they became enemies.  The cops arrived to break up the party, but everybody had a surprisingly good time.
On Friday morning Trista managed to grab only and hours' sleep before it was time for work, and also managed to wake Gen. Buzz up early.  He served another grilled cheese sandwich breakfast, of which he ate five sandwiches.  He washed Whiskey, who is a quickly stinky dog.  Buck called Nery Turner to chat awhile until it was time for school.  It was Gen. Buzz's day off work, and he seriously spent the entire day eating grilled cheese sandwiches.  Disgusting.  Trista was promoted to Gas Station Attendant.  Buzz served yet more grilled cheese for lunch and ate all afternoon.  Trista threw a party to celebrate her promotion.  She was in bed exhausted by 2pm after a long day, however.  Everybody at the party had a good time.  Trista was woken by Wanda screaming for a diaper change but she was no longer tired enough to go back to bed after changing her.  She invited her new work colleague, Meredith Collins over to hang out so she could get to know her better.  Buck did his homework immediately after school again.  Gen. Buzz threw a house party and Wanda grew in to a toddler.

Trista headed to work and Gen. Buzz's party was broken up by the cops before it was even in full swing, making it another flop.  Trista was promoted again to Convenience Store Clerk.

Later on, I played the Larson family in Pleasantview.

On Friday morning Jason gained membership to Sue's Secret Kitchen before flying in to the air for his first day of work as Captain Hero.  Kitty baked some delicious Santa cookies for her breakfast.  Afterwards, she purchased a ballet barre and promptly forgot about it.  Senility, I'm telling you... Instead, she worked out on the family's old exercise machine to burn those cookie calories.  She managed to sneak in about an hour of sleep before it was time for work.  When Jason got home, he also worked out for a while before falling in to bed exhausted at 5pm.  His sleeping schedule's all out of whack.  He was up again well-rested at 10pm.  Kitty brought home a work colleague, Joe Wong, and showed off her awesome drumming talent for him.   Jason headed out for a midnight jog around the neighbourhood.  Joe seemed much impressed with Kitty's drumming, and afterwards they played a nice game of catch in the backyard and became friends.  He liked her so much he passed on a furniture discount to the family.
After catching some much needed sleep, Kitty starting Saturday morning with another session on the drums.  Jason worked out some (superheros need to keep in shape) and then called some friends for a house party before heading off for another day of fighting crime.  A terrible lightning storm raged all through the party and Kitty had a hankering to see just what it was like to be struck by lightning.  She jumped in rain puddles all day.  Lightning struck and started a fire on the wedding arch and also struck townie Joe Carr but it seemed that lightning was allergic to Kitty, though she kept trying until it was time for work.

What with the fire and one of the guests being struck by lightning, the party was a real dud.  Jason was totally bummed about it and went straight to bed after work.  He was up again at 9:30pm to go jogging.  Kitty brought her friend Joe Wong home with her from work again and they became best friends on arrival.
Kitty spent the early hours of Sunday morning playing drums (I'd hate to be her neighbour!)  Afterwards, she and Jason had a long game of catch in the backyard before heading to the bedroom for a woohoo, after which they both fell asleep.  Jason only had a few hours of sleep before work, however.  He threw a house party before leaving though.  That's right, leave Kitty with a house full of guests when she wakes up!  When Kitty awoke, she invited her best friend Joe Wong over to join the party, which ended up being a success all thanks to Kitty and no thanks to Jason.  Kitty invited Joe to come back over straight away so they could spend the evening together.  It was her night off.  Jason brought home his work colleague, Jane Graham and hit the exercise equipment as soon as he got home.  Kitty harvested her first lemons from her lemon tree, which were tasty.  She put some in the burger she cooked for her dinner.  At around 8pm, Jason lost his battle with old age and died in the bedroom.  He left Kitty $20,000 and the deed to his vacation home in his will, as well as leaving Jaki $9100 to see her through college.  Kitty was understandably inconsolable, and decided immediately to cash in her second genie wish.  The genie managed to resurrect Jason without incident, and Kitty was happy to have him back regardless of their marriage now being void and their friendship over.  She cashed in the double bed and bought two single beds instead, then went right back to hanging out with Joe.  Jason was thrilled to be alive again, and called all his friends to invite them to a "Back From The Dead Party."  During the party, Jason spent most of his time with Jane Graham and they became good friends.

Kitty spent much of the party bowling and using the bubble blower.  The party scored as a roof raiser - nothing like being back from the dead to give your guests a good time!
I headed to Pleasantview today to play the Graham family for a few simdays.  It consists of Roger Graham (ex-college dormie), his wife Jane (formerly Jane Stacks) and their newborn son Nero.  The family also has a kitten named Bailey.  Jane works in the law enforcement career as a Security Guard and Roger works in the slacker career as a Convenience Store Clerk.  Their marriage is anything but faithful.  Jane is having two affairs with Castor Nova and Kevin Beare, while Roger is having an affair with townie Brandi LeTourneau.

On Sunday morning Roger invited Melody Tinker over to get to know her a little better before heading to work.  As soon as he left, Jane called Castor Nova to invite him over to spend some quality time without her husband's prying eyes.  She purchased a pet bed for Bailey, as the poor kitten didn't actually have one yet.  Roger was promoted to Record Store Clerk.  Jane spent his promotion money on an easel for herself and practiced on it until she gained a creativity point.  Roger spent the afternoon playing catch with Danielle Lillard, who liked his company so well that she organized for him to have a discount on his furniture from then on.  Jane headed off for her night of work and Nero grew in to a toddler.
Monday morning started at 3am when Nero woke Roger with his screams to be let out of his crib.  Roger didn't seem too put out.

Roger headed off for another day of work.  Jane managed to smooth talk her way to getting townie Nery Turner to clean her filthy house for her.  She got a call from her friend Gordon Wolosenko who as it turns out is her boss' cousin and decided to call in a favour with his relative to get her a promotion the next time she went to work.  Jane bought herself a womrat cage and a sweet little albino womrat named Ursula.  She and her son Nero became best friends.  Roger went to bed exhausted after work - being awoken at 3am finally caught up with him.  Jane talked Florence Dreamer in to cooking her a delicious spaghetti dinner.  Jane had the night off, so she spent her time productively by teaching little Nero to walk.

Roger was up at 9:30pm, which was sure to destroy his sleeping patterns for a while.  He called his mistress Brandi LeTourneau to ask her on a date.  She agreed to meet him at Cold Issue Clothing where he was free to pursue her without his wife's knowledge.  They fell in love and spent much of the date slow dancing out front. 

This led to a heavy makeout session in the street.  Roger headed inside to try on some new pajamas.  Brandi snuck in to the changing room with him for their first woohoo together.  The date was a dream date and after a few more stolen kisses, Roger caught a cab home.  The leader of the wolf pack destroyed Jane and Roger's bed, which sucked because they could just barely afford a new one, and it was nowhere near as nice.  Jane spent much of the night on the phone chatting to Kennedy Grove.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning Brandi left Roger a gift in the form of a brand new karaoke machine to commemorate their amazing date.  Roger spent most of the wee hours playing with the pets and later taught Nero to talk.  It was Roger's day of, so he called Nina Caliente to invite her over to hang out.  He went to bed exhausted at 11am after pulling an all-nighter.  When she got up, Jane invited Kennedy Grove over in the hopes of befriending him.  She was successful in this.  She headed to work around the same time that Roger woke up.  Of course, he wasn't tired at all that night, so decided to pull another all-nighter.  He became best friends with Nero after finally managing to potty train him.  Jane's friend Gordon kept good his promise to get her promoted to Cadet.  She headed to bed immediately to be well rested for her new work hours.

Ripp Grunt in Strangetown: Warning: NOT suitable for children! )
I headed in to Strangetown today to play the Gieke family for a few simdays.

Wednesday morning began with Vamsi serving up a big plate of omelettes for breakfast, which Cheva ignored before heading to school.  It was Vamsi's day off, so she invited her friend Marsha McArthur (a townie) and her boyfriend Nicholas Davidson over to hang with her for the day.  When Cheva got home she quickly got her homework out of the way.  Vamsi and Marsha became best friends.  With her homework done, Cheva decided she'd really like to get in to private school, so she called the headmaster to invite him for dinner the following day.  She then made a start on the mammoth task of cleaning the house before bed.
On Thursday morning Vamsi started a fire in the kitchen while trying to serve up a breakfast of toaster pastries.  Thankfully, the kitchen was equipped with a fire alarm and nobody was hurt.  The toaster pastries were burnt to a crisp, however.  Cheva headed off to school without breakfast yet again.  Vamsi had another day off work, so she invited Marsha over to spend another day with her.  Cheva buckled down to do her homework immediately after school again and then eagerly awaited the arrival of the headmaster.

Right after the headmaster's arrival, Cheva managed to clog the toilet.  She called the repairman, who couldn't come out to fix it until the next morning.  She made a snap decision not to include the bathroom when she gave the headmaster a tour of the house.  Vamsi grew up well in to an elder and called work to retire from her career as a Home Video Editor.  Cheva served a lovely dinner of pork chops for the headmaster, who wolfed them down greedily.  The ghost of Chester made his first appearance and scared the headmaster twice!  That can't be good.  Cheva gave the headmaster a tour of the house (except the bathroom) which he seemed to enjoy.  Vamsi settled down to study cooking and maximized the cooking skill.  Cheva spent a good deal of time schmoozing with the headmaster before heading to bed.  Vamsi took over from her with the schmoozing, but in the end he didn't think the family was good enough to gain admittance to his illustrious academy.  And the score was very high, I've had people get in with worse scores, so I think Chester's ghost probably ruined his daughter's chances.
On Friday morning Cheva harvested some tasty lemons from the family's garden.  She was offered membership to Peerless Park.  Vamsi served a big plate of omelettes for breakfast without incident.  Cheva still didn't eat them and went off to school.  Cymmi grew up in to an elderly kitty.  Upon arriving home from school, Cheva gained a bronze gardening talent badge while spraying the bugs making a home in the tomato plant.  She then tackled her homework assignments.  Vamsi headed outside soon after to take care of re-infestation on the tomato plant, and also gained a bronze gardening talent badge.  The ghost of Chester's first wife, Lainey, was active that night.  She scared poor Vamsi.  Vamsi drove over to Sue's Secret Kitchen for a cooking contest, and her Grandma's Comfort Soup won her first place.  She headed home feeling smug - she always wins cooking contests.  She and Cheva both headed to bed.  Cheva was soon woken by Lainey's ghost and was no longer tired.  She decided to pull an all-nighter.  It only being 11pm on a Friday night, she called her crush, Alec Hiatt to ask him on their first date.  He accepted and they headed to LuLu Lounge, where they fell in love.  They spent many romantic hours slow dancing, followed by some heavy makeout sessions.

After attracting an unwelcome crowd of townies, Cheva asked Alec to come home with her for the remainder of the date.  It scored as a dream date.  Afterwards, Cheva called the college to see if she was eligible for any more scholarships (college is looming very close now) and she won the Tsang Footwork Award - all the dancing on her date improved her dancing skills.  She spent the remainder of the night playing with her gameboy and spending some time with her often forgotten bird Rosella The Second.  Poor little Cheva was scared by the ghost of Lainey no less than three times.  Vamsi was also woken and scared by her.  Darn ghosts!  She never gave me any trouble when Chester was still alive...
Today I headed to Strangetown to play what's left of the original Smith family.  Jenny is an elderly retired widow now.  She's recently found love again with a much younger man, Kenneth Hiatt (a townie).  She seems content just to date him for now.  Jill grew in to a teenage pleasure sim.  She attends a prestigious private school and works part time in the oceanography career as a Dolphin Tank Cleaner.  She's a little on the unstable side, as she has no friends, not even her mother.  The family has two dogs, Cody and April, who are expecting puppies.

Tuesday morning started with the gypsy matchmaker leaving a genie lamp on the Smith's doorstep.  Neither Jenny nor Jill noticed or cared.  Jenny drove her hot little sportscar over to Cold Issue to get a new everyday outfit.  Jenny's a terrible shopaholic when it comes to clothing.  When she got home, she called her boyfriend Kenneth Hiatt to ask him out on their very first date.  She met him at Londoste and they spent the entire date slow dancing to classical music.  It was okay.  When Jenny got home, she bought an easel and practiced her painting skills, gaining a creativity point.  A random townie walkby she'd invited in decided it would be a great time to clog the toilet.  Jenny called the repairman to come out right away.  She then headed to the computer to play Sims 3, but the computer blew up on her.  Luckily the repairman was still there fixing the toilet.  After school, Jill headed off to work.  Jenny threw a house party and then made a beeline straight to the computer as soon as the repairman had fixed it.  She played Sims 3 for quite a while, then played a friendly game of catch with La Shawn Barthelet, one of her party guests.  Then she ditched her own party to go downtown and buy some new outerwear.  I'd like to say she was just concerned about the temperature dropping, but she really is a shopaholic.  When Jill got home from work, she sat down to enjoy some MTV, but the television blew up on her.  Jenny was a terrible hypocrite about the matter, and chewed Jill out for breaking it (conveniently forgetting that she'd done the same thing to the computer only hours before) before calling the repairman to come out the following morning.  Jenny's party was a snoozer - the guests weren't too impressed with her screaming at her daughter so publicly for what could have happened to anybody.  Jenny washed April afterwards - she was filthy.  Jill was too depressed to tackle her homework and was plagued by nightmares all night long.
On Wednesday morning Jenny washed Cody before sitting down to another session of Sims 3.  She was offered a subscription to the gaming magazine and happily accepted.  When Jill had headed off to school, Jenny threw another house party.  Jill went to work pretty much directly after school again.  Jenny's party was a success.  Jenny settled down on the couch with a book on fire safety and learned all she could about the subject.  Afterwards, she felt she still wasn't partied out and headed to the phone to invite some people for a sports party.  She spent most of it playing some more Sims 3.  She was very sleepy and went to bed early.  The party was a total snoozer.  Jill managed to get through Wednesday's homework but was too depressed and tired to finish Tuesday's.
Thursday started with Jenny washing Cody yet again.  He's an extremely filthy dog.  At 7:03am April gave birth to a single male puppy which the family named Arden.  Jenny called the pet adoption service to send him to a good home then played still more sims 3.  She's addicted - I'm not.  After her simming session, Jenny ducked downtown to buy some new PJs, then washed April.  She threw yet another house party.  Jill bought herself a bubble blower after school (to use with all her invisible friends?) and Jenny spent a lot of her party playing Sims 3.  Jill got a visit from the social bunny, who doesn't like her any more than anybody else does.

Once Jenny was finally over playing it, she headed outside to try out Jill's new bubble blower.  She also purchased a hot tub and spent the next few hours soaking away her arthritis pain.  Poor Jill went to work again.  Jenny's party was a success.  When Jill got home, she spent a long time talking to the closest thing she has to a friend - Sir Bricks-a-lot!

Tragic, isn't she?  Jenny actually remembered she was a mother for once and took pity on Jill.  She danced with her for a couple of hours before they both headed to bed - Jill still not stable enough to tackle her growing pile of homework assignments.
Played the Ramirez family in Strangetown today.  Checo long ago sold his business due to complete disinterest.  He now works in the business career as a Junior Executive.  Lisa works in the medical career as a Nurse.  Tessa is a teen now and a knowledge sim.  Checo and Lisa also have a second daughter named Sache - currently a toddler.  The family has a dog named Maggie, who works as a Stunt Double.

On Thursday morning Lisa sat down and taught little Sache to talk.  With that done, she bought herself a bass guitar and played it until she gained 2 creativity points.  Tessa got the urge to get in to private school, so she invited the headmaster to come for dinner that night, then set to work tidying the house until it was time for school.  Upon arriving home she immediately did her homework.  Lisa wanted to expand the animal population of her family, so she called the pet adoption service and adopted a kitten named Bailey.  She'd stayed up all night, and was too tired to greet him when he arrived.  She went to bed instead.  Sache, however, couldn't get enough of poor little Bailey....

Her homework done, Tessa cleaned the house until it was spotless.  When Checo got home from work, he served a big plate of grilled cheese sandwiches (I regret giving him grilled cheese as a secondary aspiration every time I play him).  He gained a cooking skill point for his trouble, then headed outside to greet the arriving headmaster.  Tessa settled down to study cooking and gained herself a point.  The headmaster seemed fairly unimpressed with Checo's grilled cheese dinner, though Checo couldn't understand why anybody couldn't enjoy grilled cheese as much as he does.  He served up another plate in defiance.  Lisa awoke at 9:30pm.  Seems she'll be in a nasty sleeping pattern for a while yet.  Tessa was rejected for admittance to private school.  Too bad.
On Friday Sache enjoyed some play with her xylophone and gained a creativity point.  Lisa spent a great deal of time with Sache improving their relationship.  Sache also gained a charisma point.  Lisa headed off to work.  When Tessa got up, she called the headmaster again to give private school admittance another shot.  She's a girl who knows what she wants.  Checo spent the morning watching a DVD.  He also bought his first car - a utility vehicle with flames on it.  Man, you're *coughs* cool, Checo!  Tessa cleaned the house yet again.  Toddlers and pets make it so messy.  Then it was to school with Tessa (she drove her daddy's awesome new car) and off to work with Checo, leaving Sache with the family's nanny, who is in to baby harassment.  When Tessa got home she did her homework immediately to get it out of the way.  Lisa was promoted to Intern and went straight to bed exhausted.  Checo came home from work with a nasty case of the flu.  When the headmaster arrived, Tessa quickly got to work making burgers before her dad could spoil her chances again.  The headmaster enjoyed them much more.  While he ate, Tessa did a last minute tidy up of the house.  She gave him a quick tour of the house, then schmoozed with him until she was so tired that she needed sleep more.  Lisa got up and continued with the headmaster where Tessa left off.  He happily informed Lisa that Tessa had been accepted to private school.  Checo spent the evening teaching the family dog, Maggie, to roll over (she needed it for work).  Then he headed to bed.
On Saturday Lisa taught Sache a nursery rhyme and they became best friends.  They spent some quality family time together afterwards.  Lisa bought herself a piano with her promotion bonus.  She and Checo headed to work.  Tessa managed to potty train Sache (finally!).  Afterwards she practiced on the bass and gained a creativity point.  She was offered a subscription to the music & dance magazine and accepted.  She decided to clean the bathroom and gained a cleaning point for her trouble.  Lisa went straight to bed after work to avoid passing out.  Sache grew up well in to a child.  Checo practiced his speech in front of the mirror to gain a much needed charisma point.  Tessa gained another creativity point from the bass before heading to bed.  Sache wasn't tired at all, having grown up immediately after waking up from a nap.  She stayed up all night, making friends with Elizabeth Ng (BV townie).  Checo taught Maggie to play dead, which she needed to learn, before going to bed.  Sache purchased a pool table for the family.  Then she sat down at her mother's piano to practice and gained 2 creativity points.  She bought herself an easel and a lemonade stand as well.  Checo still has the flu....

Do you play the Ramirez family at all?  Did they have any more children in your game?  What did you do with this family?
Headed in to Strangtown to play Pascal Curious today.  Pascal's alien daughter, Zo, is all grown up and moved out.  Pascal's an elder now.  He lives with his younger wife Aurora.  They have a dog named Buddy and a cat named Trent.  Pascal is at the top of the medical career (his LTW) and so is in permanent platinum.  Aurora is working in the culinary career as a Sous Chef.  Aurora is also pregnant with their first child together.

Pascal spent Thursday morning teaching Trent to stay while Aurora chatted online.  They then spent some time together playing pool until it was time for Pascal to go to work.  Aurora got her first wave of morning sickness as Pascal drove away.  She left the bathroom in an awful state, but you can do things like that when you have a daily maid service.  She threw a house party, which was a disaster - the guests were in fine form shoving each other and flinging insults.  Pascal earned himself an $80,000 bonus through a good chance card choice, which will assure that Aurora is well looked after when he's gone.  Aurora's pregnancy was making her sleepy and she went to bed exhausted at around 3:30pm.  Pascal taught Trent to speak as soon as he came home from work.  He really loves that cat!  Aurora woke up at 8:30pm and tried to cheer herself by watching a comedy movie.  She started showing her pregnancy.  She stayed up all night since she wasn't tired.
Friday morning started at 1:45am with Pascal waking up (darn elders and their need for little sleep).  He passed the hours practicing his chess skills and washing the dog.  He decided it was time he tried his hand at gardening and bought an apple tree and a garden plot.  He got busy planting his first tomato crop.  Aurora went to bed at 7am and Pascal went off to work soon after.  Aurora woke up at 1pm feeling clucky and settled down to watch a children's movie on the couch.  Apart from that she was mostly working hard at keeping herself fed and making it to the bathroom.  When Pascal got home from work he decided to try to teach Trent to play dead.

Trent got the hang of it eventually.  By this time Pascal was exhausted after a long day so he went straight to bed.
Saturday started at 2:15 when Aurora woke to have her belly pop out.  She was looking very pregnant and uncomfortable.  Pascal awoke soon after to cook them a lovely pancake breakfast.  After catching up over breakfast, Pascal practiced his chess skills some more and Aurora watched another movie.  Her hunger bar was dropping terribly, as was her energy.  After falling asleep in her toaster pastry, she headed straight to bed.

Pascal settled down with his medical books to learn physiology.  You'd think being chief of staff at a hospital would have already taught him that, but no.  He's mastered it now, anyway.  He then managed to break the bathroom sink and there was water everywhere.  He's a busy man, so he called the repairman to take care of it.  He couldn't be there until the next day, but what's a little flooding?  The maid can take care of it.  Aurora woke up at 6pm and chilled on the couch watching a comedy movie, then a bunch of regular programming.  Pascal went to bed early due to exhaustion.  Aurora didn't take long to tire and joined him fairly quickly.  Pascal was back up again at 2:30am and decided it was time for a nice long soak in the bath.  Aurora awoke at 3am and went in to labor.  Pascal was oblivious and didn't bother getting out of the tub for the big moment.  At 3:38am Aurora gave birth to a healthy baby girl.  I named her Annie and she has her daddy's hair and eyes.  Aurora quickly arranged for a nanny to take care of Annie during her work hours, as she was eager to get back to work.  She headed back to bed after settling Annie in her new crib.  After getting out of the tub, Pascal completely ignored his new daughter and practiced chess instead.

What happened to Pascal in your game?
Headed to Strangetown's La Fiesta Tech to play Ophelia Nigmos.  Yup, I sent her to college a while back.  She's in her first semester of sophomore year, majoring in psychology.  She's engaged to Ripp Grunt.

Wednesday morning Ophelia called her BFF, Almeric Davis to catch up.  After a long chat, she decided to invite him over and they had a great water balloon fight in the backyard to cool off in the heat of the last day of summer.  Ophelia went to her final exam and got a C grade.  After the exam, she invited her fiance, Ripp Grunt on a date.  They went to the Lost in Love Hedge Maze and after a quick photobooth picture they settled in to some serious caressing and making out which led to them slipping back in to the photobooth for a woohoo.  The date was a dream date and Ophelia headed back home well satisfied.  She invited Ripp over to hang out once she was there, and then called Almeric to tell him all about her day until it was time to go to class.  She fell straight in to bed after class.
Thursday started with another call to Almeric.  Ophelia's very attached to him and feels the need to tell him everything she's done in minute detail.  After breakfast, she invited Almeric over again and spent many hours of quality time hanging out with him.  She then bought herself a nice mirror and practiced her speech in front of it to gain a much needed charisma point.  She had time to order some groceries for delivery over the phone before going to class, then fell in to bed exhausted.
Friday morning Ophelia cleaned her nasty bathroom and gained a cleaning point, which she needed.  She spent some time watching TV.  She then settled down on the couch with a self help book to learn the art of anger management.  She mastered it just as it was time for class.  It'll probably come in handy if she's marrying Ripp.  After class it was time for sleep.

To be absolutely honest, until quite recently I didn't realize that Ophelia wasn't a townie.  I'd never bothered to click on Olive Specter's household as she didn't seem like she'd be much fun.  It wasn't until Ripp developed an interest in Ophelia that I realized by noticing that she had an address in the phonebook when he was calling her.

Have you done anything with Ophelia?  What's she doing in your game?
Headed over to Strangetown's La Fiesta Tech to play Aldric Davis today.  He's living in The Shifting Paradymes household, and lives alone.  He's majoring in drama and is in the first semester of junior year.

Today's gameplay saw Aldric gain a cooking skill point, so now he can make spaghetti.  I imagine he was getting rather sick of mac and cheese.  He went to his final exam, but due to too much partying and no studying was put on academic probation.  He was bummed.  The personal trainer paid him a visit and he took her up on her training and gained a much needed body skill point.  He'll pass the semester the second time around.  Aldric threw two house parties.  The first one he spent hanging out with his brother, Almeric.  The party was a success.  During the second party, Aldric snuck off to the bedroom with his girlfriend, Mehrissa Carr and scored his very first woohoo.  Needless to say, that party was also a success...


Afterwards, I headed back to Strangetown to play Johnny Smith's family.  Johnny never went to college.  He married Kristen Singles and they have three daughters; Vera, who is currently a child, and newborn twins named Petunia and Birth Queen.  All their daughters have the alien skintone.  Johnny works in the political career and Kristen in the medical career.  They have two dogs; Benny and Ziggy.

Today's gameplay saw the family inherit money from Johnny's recently deceased father.  Johnny was promoted to Lobbyist.  He also gained a charisma and a cooking skill point.
Kristen was promoted as well, to intern.  She gained a cleaning and logic point, and spent her promotion bonus on a solar panel and a massage table, which she has yet to use.
Vera has been very productive, studying physiology and gaining four logic skill points while playing chess against her friend Gallagher Newson.  She won.
Petunia and Birth Queen grew in to adorable toddlers (and they're definitely identical twins).  They have been driving Johnny and Kristen to distraction with their needs.  Both are halfway to being potty trained now.  Their nanny is far too pet-crazy to be of much help, and spends hours playing with the dogs while the little darlings scream bloody murder over her neglect.
Played the Gieke family in Strangetown today.  Chester Gieke (now an elder) lives with his lovely younger wife Vamsi, and their teenage daughter Cheva (a romance sim).  They have two black cats, Cymmi and Bonkers and a bird named Rosella The Second.  Yup, clearly I was out of creative names the day the first bird died.

Today's gameplay saw chester gain a creativity skill point while finishing off a painting of Vamsi which he's been working on for a ridiculous amount of time.  He started a new painting of Cheva, but never finished it.  Chester died of old age today.  I buried him in the backyard beside his first wife, Lainey.  Here's Chester's last painting ever...

Vamsi mourned Chester terribly for the first day and was plagued with wants to resurrect him but no way to do it.  She found solace in becoming best friends with Nicholas Davidson (a townie).  She harvested the fruits of Chester's first garden - bland lemons and some mouthwatering tomatoes which she made into some amazing spaghetti.  A full day after Chester's death, she wished to find love again (it is spring, after all).  A slow and tentative romance has blossomed between Vamsi and Nicholas Davidson, but has progressed no further than hand holding.  But they are in love...
Cheva learned how to make Santa cookies today, quite out of season but on a whim of her own.  She also gained a cooking skill point.  She called up the college to apply for scholarships and won the SimCity Scholar's Grant through her scrupulous attention to her homework.  Cheva also had her first kiss today, with Alec Hiatt (a townie).  They became best friends as well and are enjoying the bloom of first romance.


In other news, Cymmi and Bonkers are not getting along at all.  They take every opportunity to hiss at each other, and had an awful fight in the backyard today.  Cymmi was the victor.

Played my Davis family in Strangetown today.  Almeric Davis (the twin with glasses from La Fiesta Tech that came with University).  He was recently expelled from college due to being far too busy partying.  He moved in to Strangetown right next door to the Smith family and married a lovely sim girl named Rebecka.  They have a son, whom I named Al as it struck my fancy for all Davis males to have similar names.

Today's gameplay saw Almeric finally find his LTW career on the computer.  He wishes to be a Rock God, and he already got his first promotion today, as well as teaching his toddler son to talk and becoming best friends with Sanjay Ramaswami.  His wife Rebecka also finally found her LTW career (criminal), won her first cooking contest, taught little Al to walk and to use the potty by himself.  Al grew up well in to a child and was sent off to his first day of school.  Rebecka spent several hours cleaning up baby bottles and now the house looks neat, though rather undecorated.

What's happened to Almeric in your games so far?

After that I headed over to Veronavilla to play Miranda Capp.  She's in college at Academie Le Tour now, and grew into a far less attractive young adult than she was a teen.  She lives alone with her bird, Goldeneye.

Today's gameplay saw Miranda get put on academic probation after failing to do any study in her first semester of junior year.  She's an art major, by the way.  This academic probation didn't deter her from continuing to do no study, however.  Miranda's spent her time pursuing her hobby.  She's a huge nature buff.  She's spent her days birdwatching, hunting bugs and being chased by bees twice (Miranda always gets chased by bees more than any of my other sims), drinking at her bar, and playing with her gameboy in the bathroom.  She harvested her first apples today, which were bland.  She went fishing in her pond but caught nothing but an old boot.  She went on a lovely evening hike, but ran in to some poison ivy and itched for several hours.  She's only about eight hours from her next final exam and it looks like she'll be expelled for sure.  Maybe she'll grow into a less hideous adult.  We can only hope....

What have you done with Miranda?  Have you found a way to make her less unattractive in your game without plastic surgery? 
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