Week 2-Analyzing the Week

I just started using this database to help organize the sims in my neighbourhood. And while adding the information, I've noticed quote a bit about my neighbourhood

Babies: 14 born this week (7 males/7 females)
Toddlers: 7 transitioned this week (2 males/5 females)
Children: 9 transitioned this week (6 males/3 females)
Teens: 6 transitioned this week (3 males/3 females)
Young Adults: 10 are in University (3 males/7 females)
Adults: 30 sims (15 males/15 females)
Elder: 1 sim (male)

19 Households (including Truth U)
Total: 36 males/39 females

Week 2 is almost done! YAAAAYYYYYYY!

Goldman-Amin House

I messed up here. I forgot to take pictures of this family completely. It has however grown. Felica and Amin had twins, Ragid and Regina. Cute as buttons and all the rest. Nothing else happened in this household.

NEXT!

Hamilton-Moore

Trisha and Dal had their son, and named him Terrence. He's cute as a button and has actually prompted family visits. Both Blaise and Blake have come over to meet their new cousin without being invited.

Trisha dotes on her niece, Blaise. She even let her work at the store for a bit. Unfotunately Blaise doesn't make all that good of an employee and spent more time playing with Terrence. Trisha reluctantly let Blaise quit but is now wondering whether or not to hire Blake in her place. They seem to have a lot more in common.

Trisha's business is doing well too. She stopped selling the cookies and started sellimg lamps, tables and mirrors. People are loving it.

moore-watson

Em asked Olivia to move in and of course she said yes. First thing Olivia did while Em was at work as a Professional Party Guest (her Life Time Want), was redecorate. As much as Em liked her cutesy deco, it wasn't working for Olivia. Over dinner that night, after Em declared that she liked what Olivia had done, they discussed whether they wanted children and decided that they wanted to start a family immediately. Instead of adopting a child, they decided to have a single donor for the 2 of them. They soon gave birth to a boy and a girl, named Turner and Jadzia.

Bruty-Hernandez

This was a fun household to play. I kinda cheated though. The first time I loaded the lot, within 2 sims hours, Pedro died by flies...(refer back to the exploading garbage machine). Considering that Me'Shell is a teen and pregnant, I exited the lot without saving. This time, I got Pedro in the house as soon as possible.

It only took a day before Me'Shell gave birth. I'm starting to think that my game is stuck. She had twins, Pilar and Paloma (yes, this does reference the characters in Passions but in my defence, I'm still missing Theresa). Almost immediately, and completely on their own accord, (the joys of ACR), Me'Shell and Pedro dove right into bed and she ended up pregnant, first try without my intervention. So they have 2 babies and another 1 on the way. My only relief (somewhat), is that the twins became toddlers before the baby was born, who by the way is named Mya...yes I could have named her Theresa but I was on a Heroes kick and one of the newest characters on there is named Mya. I had to put Me'Shell on birth control just in case. She still has University to go through and I would like her to be not pregnant when she goes.

Let me tell you, those twins are ugly. You want proof? Here it is! Pilar and Paloma as toddlers. I had to age them up to see if they had a fighting chance. I took a huge sigh of relief when I saw them. They are gorgeous as teens. Pilar and Paloma as teens.

Here's a picture I took of the 2 of them when they were teens

Ross-Fancey

Ok, I got a complete surprise or my memory is going. I didn't even remember that Teneesha was pregnant but she was. Corey lost his job at the law firm and he was right about to get another promotion. He'll be joinging another law firm and working his way back up...when the job shows up in the newspaper or on the computer. So he's been spending a lot of time at home, taking care of Teneesha's who's on maternity leave...who knew crimminals took maternity leave?

The dogs, Bibi and Black apparently got to know each other "very well". Bibi is pregnant

Teneesha gave birth in her bedroom to a set of twins...yes, twins again, boy and a girl, Jaliq and Jaanai.

Alrightie, I've kinda forgotten which households I played recently. This is what happens when you wait wayyyyy too long to update a blog. So if things seem way out of order or show no continuancy...sorry :D

Ross-Copur (yes, the Ross-Copur Household)

Nicole Ross was getting tired of being alone and finally decided it was time to start dating. Realizing that she didn't want to waste time with dwindling dating pool in Truth, she called the gypsy match maker, put down a good amount of her life savings and hoped for the best.

Derek, had decided to really and earnestly, track down his run-away girlfriend, Emmy Kosmokos and he actually managed to do what Em Moore had managed to do. Emmy came home with him and moved in to stay in Teneesha's old bedroom. Things are looking up for them.

Nicole waited for her date impatiently. A young, dark skinned, blond haired man in a tweed suit soon showed up and introduced himself as Prof. William Copur. They hit it off immediately, even though he was quite young. Nicole and Will (as he prefered to be called) decided to get married quite quickly. Nicole called her children over for the wedding, Emmy volunteered to cook the wedding dinner (which was quite good) and Derek declared he was the supervisor to make sure everything got done. After glares from his mother and his girlfriend, Will took pity on his soon to be step-son, and asked him to help set up the wedding arch on the balcony.

The wedding went off without a hitch.

Nicole's looked lovely (of course). Teneesha wouldn't have her mother looking any other way.

Both Damien and Teneesha with the turn of events.

Mind you, all the guests were happy with the turn of events

And a lovely evening was had by all.

Watson Household

Big revelation (or at least it was for me). Olivia made a new friend, Em Moore. For the life of me, I was trying to figure out for the life of me, why Em never seemed interested in any of the guys I had introduced her to....and then she went over to Olivia's house and randomly flirted with her. It explained so much! She wasn't interested in men. So Em and Olivia are keeping things on the down-low for now. No one else knows, or knew about the relationship, and they are happy to keep it quiet for now.

Umgabi-Andrews

Angelica and Andrew finally got married. Couldn't happen any quicker considering she just found out she was prenant. They quickly contacted the Vicar, Patrick O'Reilly and he married them.

Olivia and Em managed to sneek in a little time together

What we have also learned from this wedding...

• Kicky Bag is an acceptable sport at recpetions
• Davnus cannot believe anyone actually wants to marry Angelica
• Em thinks that Angelica is "hot"...too bad Anglica doesn't swing that way
• Vicar O'Reilly makes a mean alcoholic drink
• Teneesha is secretly a DJ
• Apparently, it's okay to wear a bridal gown to another person's wedding

Anglica and Andrew also ended up having a set of triplets, 2 girls and a boy:

Week 2 Continues (Nott-Ross, Wilson, and Hernandez Families)

A bit of playing and not much updating. For any readers that I have, sorry about the delay.

Nott-Ross Family.

Breanna and Damien were anxiously waiting for their first child. They had the nursery ready and everything...and even so, they were still not prepared. They were quite surprised when Breanna gave birth to not 1 or 2 but 4 babies, two boys and two girls). Talk about stressful.

Breanna and Damien promptly moved to a bigger house. It's actually quite nice and very spacious. Breanna and Damien have taken the 2nd floor while the quads have 2 bedrooms in the basement. Due to the move to a new house, their play week was a bit longer than usual and they managed to grow up to be children before the week was out. They also gave me the first real experience of winter with Seasons.

They built the snowmen (evil one included), made the snow angels, nearly froze to death, enjoyed hot chocolate and were introduced to the penguin who aparently wants to know what the pay rates are like around the area.

Damien has been working hard to make to the top of the Crimminal Track but is having a hard time keeping fit due to the fact he's constantly overheating from running on the treadmill in the basement. Good thing there is a shower close by.


Wilson Family .

Tanya and Tyrell have become children, with the promise that they should be fairly good looking as teens (thank God for Kendra's genes!). A bit of remodelling was done to the house and a 2nd floor was added as it was getting way too crowded with the way the set-up was. There is actually a full kitchen, including a STOVE! Kendra has never had one of those before. Tyrone was finally happy to have something other than pizza and cereal. Nothing else all that exciting happened in the house other than Tyrone leaving to go to University at the end of the week.

Funny shot though (I'm telling you I feel like I've posted this picture everywhere)

Hernandez Family.

The family did an unexpected growth spurt this week. Miguel (yes, the little adorable one) became a teenager.

Felicia had a set of twins, two boys, named Antonio and Luis (all I need is a Theresa and Paloma and I've got almost all of the Lopez-Fitzgerald kids from Passions). They were a bit of a surprise and a disappointment. As per usual, I wanted just 1 more kid...I end up with more. I also wanted a daughter because Miguela is getting hoplessly over powered by testosterone in that house, but alas, she has to suffer more and with the way the trend is going on in this family, she won't have any daughters of her own either. (Come-on Tyrone, be a man about it and give her some daughters she so desperately wants!). The twins are both green eyed and black hair (apparently Felicia can't seem to pass on her brown hair without divine intervention, namely me, forcing Pedro to have brown hair from CAS).

Miguel became a romance sim who wants to reach the top of the music career. I've never done that career track before so it should be interesting. He's also decided that Blaise Hamilton, is quite attractive, and comepletely ignored the fact that his best friend Arvin (yes little Arvin from the previous post has become a teen with more intervention) may have mentioned that he kida liked Blaise. We'll see how this will continue with we reach back to the Seavey-Hamilton House.

An new member was added to the family and no it wasn't another baby. Roberto finally got the gold badge in robotry and made a servo he called Jeeves. I think Jeeves will be the only servo in the neighbourhood. They get kinda annoying after awhile. But Jeeves does clean up everything and takes care of the twins when everyone else is busy skilling.

Jose was not too far behind Miguel and 3 days later, it was time for him to become a teen as well. Miguela was kinda of upset with how little they knew their oldest brother Pedro so she invited him over for Jose's birthday. Miguel was so happy to see him and they spent a long time talking. Jose managed to get in a few words here and there. I love this sibling shot I got of the Hernandez kids (well, at least 4 of them considering the other two can't do anything but cry).

After Pedro left to go home, Miguela decided it was time for her to go off to University. So early the next morning (like 2 AM), Miguela called a cab and left for Truth U to be with Tyrone.

Roberto was so sad to see his only daughter leaving to go to University, he actually stood at the curb for quite some time.

Week 2 for the Seavey-Hamiltons and the Schlels

Everyone's growing up! They're getting so big and they families are expanding like crazy. This is just for the 2 households I've played recently.

Davnus Hamilton, with his LTW of earning $100,000, decided to start a home business. There isn't much space on a 2x2 lot with a house and a garage for a home business so he decided to build a pond, set up the electro ticket thingamajigee and then charge people to fish in his lake. Stupid idea you'd think...who'd want to pay to fish? Well apparently the people of Truth love the idea of coming over, paying some money to fish in the front yard or relax in the hot tub in the backyard while handing over all the fish they cash to Davnus who can either sell it or eat it. Nice deal for him...stupid townspeople....not that he's complaining. Also because of this new fishing venture, Blake and Blaise are earning fishing skills which of course will come in handy at some point of their life...if the grocery store ever caught on fire and they could never buy food again.

Blake and Blaise spent a good few days bringing kids home from school to come over and play. Blaise brought over Andrea Schlel on the same day that Blake brought home Miguel Hernandez so those 2 got introduced. On the next day, more kids came over, ones I had never seen before:

Arvin (the last name escapes me right now) & Bruce Fuschs

Blaise may have found another possiblity for her one and only...Arvin or Miguel...who knows? I'll wait until Miguel becomes a teen before I age Arvin up and then check for chemistry. They both seem to have very good genes

Blaise has also become the best of friends with Andrea. They are so cute when they hang out together. Sometimes, they even manage to get Miguel in on the conversation...not necessarily by his choice.

It soon became time for their birthdays and they both grew up well

On the Schlel front, baby Andrew has now become toddler Andrew and mama Sandy and daddy Ven are expecting...again...much to Andrea's suprise. She's still trying to figure out where all these children are supposed to go in a 3 bedroom house.

Sandy gave birth to twins...I really only wanted one kid and two pop out. Meet Anthea and Angela Schlel. I still can't figure out if they are identical or not.

Andrew grew up in no time flat. I was very surprise to find out that Andrea and Andrew don't get along...they're not at the point of fighting all the time but the refusal to hug sends a pretty big message. For Andrew's birthday, Andrea gave him a gift. He looked at the gift in disgust and shrugged his shoulders. When Sandy gave Andrew a girft he was bouncing and clapping before it even reached in his hands.

Andrea has decided that her parents are completely insane after declaring that they want 10 kids. From then on, Andrea decided that she was gonna get out of this house as soon as possible. If her parents were going to have 10 kids, they were going to need the space.

Right before the twins became toddlers, a new room was built over the hot tub. Andrea got the new, much bigger room. Andrew took Andrea's old room and the room that had been sitting there for quite sometime, completly unused was going to be the room for the twins when they became children.

Without the bangs, is Anthea

With the bangs is Angela

Sandy has already found herself pregnant again...much to Andrea's dismay. Andrea grew up into a lovely teen. She cut off a lot of her hair and went for a sleek bob.

Andrea and her cooky friends

Week 2 Continues (Tuesday Onwards)

I finally finished playing Monday for Week 2...yeah, not playing like that again for a long, LONG time. I still have to introduce everyone to the new family, the Reillys. So I guess I'll start with them.

MEET THE REILLY'S

The Patriarch of the family. A fortune sim who dreams of being in the sports hall of fame. Michael is the one who tries to keep the whole family in line, or about as well as he can manage with the siblings he's got.

Patrick Reilly is the only member of the family to have moved out as of yet...but it's not like he really has his own place. Patrick has become the local vicar for Truth and lives in the upstairs apartment for the Church

The local romancer of the family. Quinn's a very outgoing, relaxed kinda guy. Lots of fun to hang around.

A rare shot of Meghan without her glasses and her hair out. She is the only girl in the family and she's also very introverted. Instead of gabbing on the phone like most teenage girls, Meghan prefers taking care of her cat, Miko and tending her lemon tree and tomato plants. She has only managed to make one friend in Truth so far, that being MeShell Bruty who was a part of the welcoming commitee. As of yet, Meghan gives her brothers no cause to worry.

Miko Reilly is the "family" cat...but Quinn refuses to have anything to do with the orange beast. Miko spends majority of her time with Meghan and occasionally enjoys being petted by Michael.

Elle Midlock is Michael's live-in girlfriend. Patrick keeps telling Michael that he'd be quite happy to marry them. Michael usally replies by giving his nosy little brother a noogie and tells him not to get involved. Elle is an artist and a family oriented sim.

I'll save the rest of my update, for when I finish the Seavey-Hamilton house (which I have more than recently began to adore even more). The kids are the cutest things in the world.

Week 2 - Day 1 continues...yeah, I haven't made it past day 1

I can't continue to play day by day like this. It takes waaaaaay tooooooo long! But since I have almost finished the 1st day for everyone, I may go back to household weeks or try 2-3 days per household.

Let's just do a quick update as to what everyone has done so far:

• Keely-Ann's chilli has been declared the best by Andrea Schlel
• Andrew Schlel was born (Schlel household/Week 2 Day 1)
• Breanna Nott-Ross is definetly pregnant. Damien Ross is now on the Crimminal Career Track. No sign of Breanna's look-a-like
• Tyrone manages to finally go out on a date with Miguela
• MeShell invites Pedro Hernandez over for dinner to try to work things out. Family adores him. MeShell is not feeling to well and has been throwing up...hmmm....I wonder what that means?
• Roberto, Felicia and Miguela prepare to give gifts to Pedro for his new place. Miguel is preparing to become a teen. Jose is having fun just being a kid. The family knows nothing of MeShell's relationship with Pedro
• Nicole Ross has been working and slowly moving up the medical field. Derek has been having a hard time getting in contact with Emmy Kosmokos. At last notice, she had moved into a foster home but has since run away.
• Olivia is still studying everything she can to make better robots. As of yet, she still hasn't figured out how she got $50,000 but she still has over half of it unused
• Felica Goodman is preparing for her wedding to Amin Carson. He's doing better at keeping himself dressed while company is over to visit
• Angelica Umgabi is just about to become Mrs. Andrew Fancey. She has recently found out that he's adopted and with a bit of digging, she has found that his brother actually lives in Truth
• Max and Matt are skilling their way to the top with the help of Grandpa Brian, the smart milk and the fall skilling bonus. They spend so much time with Grandpa Brian and Grandma Stevie, you'd think their parents Dru and Jace disappeared of the face of the earth. However, they are just busy working their way up the corporate ladder. Grandma Stevie just realized the importance of having a roof over their head when it began to rain in the house
• Trisha may be expecting but she's still not sure. There has been no throwing up as of yet but her bladder seems to have shrunk to the size of a pea. Trisha and Dal are currently remodeling their home and are having plans of starting an orchard and garden in their large backyard
• Em has decided to become a foster parent...first kid has already run away from home. Em is worried and even called the police but apparently run-aways are not their jurisdiction. Em is currently working on her own search party, currently made up of Derek Ross and herself.
• Teneesha Ross and Corey Fancey decided to take in a couple of Dobermans (so far they are the only household with pets and I love these dogs!) named Bibi and Black. Teneesha has gotten a job as a Crimminal Mastermind. Corey is working on become a lawyer
• A new family has moved into Truth. An Irish family named the Reilly's. The Patriarch of this family is Michael Reilly, a Fortune sim. He has 2 younger brothers Patrick (the new vicar) and Quinn (the new local Romance Sim). There's also a younger sister who's a teen named Meghan. Patrick lives at the new church. Quinn and Meghan live with Michael in an oversized show house that's due for some serious remodelling to make it more liveable
• Pedro's new house is sweet. It got a pool, a hot tub and lots of space for parties and living. His parents and Miguela came over to visit, bringing gifts. His mom brought him a berry pie, a few snapdragons and a chair. Miguela brought him over a coffee table and a picture of him from when he was a child. His dad brought over a new invention of his....the Clean Bot 3000. Pedro noticed it sparking right away and put checking the machinery out on his list of things to do. However he got a neighbourhood visit from the welcoming comittee, consisting of Michael Reilly, Em Moorehouse and Teneesha Ross. They stayed in the hot tub forever. Pedro got a job has a gamer that pays quite a lot of money. He skilled and everything. He didn't even feed any of his guests but they insisted on staying at his house until like 1 AM. When they left, Pedro noticed an odd stench coming from the first floor and realized the Clean Bot 3000 really needed to be fixed. There were piles of garbage everywhere. Pedro went up to his room, closed the door and decided he would deal with it after a good night's sleep. It didn't look much better in the morning. Pedro cleaned what he could and called for a maid to come over and help. It was embarassing to have the newspaper girl walk by the house, holding her nose and doing a running leap to drop the newspaper and dash as quickly as possible. By the time he got back home from work, the maid had managed to clean quite a bit but there was still along way to go and she had already worked from 10 AM to 5 PM. Pedro was happy with the progess but he wished there was something called a magical cleaning fairy to get it all cleaned before the bugs come.

Week 2 continues

Wilson House - Tyone

Finally! Mom is starting to take more responsibility with the twins and allowing me to work on my own life...maybe it helped when Pedro had a change of heart and decided he didn't want to woohoo with her. Maybe she'll stop pretending she's a teenager but I think that's too much to hope for. Since I had some time off, meaning no school or homework, I called Miguela so we could go out on a date...a real date not just making out on the couch. I took her out to the Clock Tower. It's a local restaurant that makes some really nice food.

It was going great. She even brought me a gift. I didn't open it until we got back to my house. It was a nice potted plant. Her mom sells plants but Miguela told me she made this one just for me. I felt so bad for not thinking to get a gift for her too.

When we were about to leave, Miguela noticed her brother sitting at a table by himself, looking extremely grumpy.

We tried asking him what was wrong but he acted as if he didn't see us. I'm suspecting it had to do with his seat by the washroom. Miguela says it's girl trouble. I never heard anything about him dating anyone. Miguela just said that he wouldn't talk about it.

Miguela and I went back to my place. We talked some more and nothing...untoward happened due to the fact the nanny was all over the house with the twins. And then the twins would come into my room asking to be read to, fed, placed in their crib...what's the point of having a nanny if they come to me for everything?

I painted her a portrait and even managed to finish it in one evening so I could give it to her as my gift. She told me thanks and went home right after I finished, tired of posing for me.

Mom came home with a wicked promotion. She's a fashion photographer....I just hope she doesn't try to woohoo the male models. I'll know for sure if I get a new daddy who's my age or I end up with more siblings...and since my father is dead, it won't be from him.

Bruty House - Meshell

I took a chance. I went with my gut and started talking to Pedro again. He moved into his own house in town. I invited him over so we could talk. Apparently he feels he has a hard time trusting me because I don't trust him and now he's furious with me. What a load of crap. I introduced him to my father, who had recently gotten fired from trying to come with a line of sporks. And they hit it off. What father in his right mind, with a teenaged daughter dating a University graduate is happy about it? My father has to be one in a million. My mom comes home and meets him. She loves him too and Pedro loves my family too. Maybe things can get better now.

You know, it's not as much fun dating someone a lot older when your family likes the guy. My mom stood there and smiled as I made out with Pedro. Do you know how disturbing that is?

He stayed for dinner. Dad made his infamous Spaghetti and Meatballs (I'm telling you, despite the fact he was an executive chef, he never makes anything else). Pedro and I wanted to talk somemore but my parents were hovering, so when they weren't looking, Pedro and I went up to my room to talk...and one thing led to another and there was a photobooth there...I sent him home afterwards when I began to feel a bit nautious...maybe dad's spaghetti sauce wasn't agreeing with me.

Beginning of Week 2

Pedro

I managed to stick out the rest of University, not as a happy camper mind you, but I did it. Especially after talking to my mom on the phone about the value of a good education, getting a degree and then a decent job that can support a family (she must think I'm actually planning on having 4 kids like her). I didn't even try to remind her that are family is rich now...considering we won the Sim Lottery before we even moved to Truth. From good investing, I'm more than financially set. I decided since I was already 1/2 through my Senior Year, I might as well finish it and I did. With a 4.0 GPA and no sign of the stupid cow. It also helped that I locked the door with a good security system that kept away all mascots, cheerleaders, visiting professors etc.



I bought this sweet Modern home for over $40,000. It's kinda bare right now...but I'm a bachelor. I will get it more furnished as I work on getting Meshell back.

My buddy Corey graduated as well as Teneesha. They got this house just down the street from me, practically right across the street from Teneesha's brother Damien. He's busy giving dirty looks at the house because his little sister is living with a man. Teneesha just rolls her eyes and tells Damien that he needs to accept the fact that she's a grown woman. Am I the only one who knows that's never how it works with brothers and sisters?

Seavey-Hamilton, Blaise

It was mommy's (Keely-Ann) day off today and daddy (Davnus) had to go to work but mommy never works on Mondays anyways. And I woke up to a stink. I followed the smell and it lead me to my brother Blake. How can this kid smell so much but he's so neat about everything else? Mom tells him to wash out the bath and he's jumping for joy...he's just weird. By the time I got downstairs for breakfast, mom had some toaster pastries sitting on the table for us. Dad grabbed one and ran out the door, saying he was late for work. He quickly turned around and gave me, mommy and Blake a kiss before he left again. My daddy's a photographer. Me and Blake had to leave mom and go off to school. School was the same as always. We go to a public elementary school. We don't know that many people yet but my neighbour, Andrea Schlel came home with us after school. Mom had cooked us her chilli con carne. I teased Blake because he made sure he sat across from Andrea. He hated it but it was so much fun. Andrea said it was the best chilli that she had ever had. She couldn't stay for long and by 6:30 PM, she said good-bye and ran across the lawn to her house.



I hope Andrea becomes my friend soon. Daddy came home after she left so he didn't get to meet her but he did get a job promotion...I think he said something about a "free lacing fertografer". It seems the same to me. He still takes pictures of people and stuff. He kissed me and Blake "hello", asked us if we did our homework yet. And then sent us upstairs to do it. It didn't take long but when we were done, we had to go to bed.

While we were sleeping, I heard the fire alarm go off. I was ready to run to the escape exit like they taught us at school. By the time I reached to the stairs to go out the back door, I realized the nanny was still in our house. I don't know why she even came today at all. Mom was home the whole day. But it was 3 o'clock in the morning and I think she was trying to make Spaghetti. She can't cook. The whole kitchen stank and the fireperson had to come and put out the fire.



Mom fired her as soon as she found her...showering in mom's shower.

Andrew-Schlel, Andrea

When I left for school this morning, there was no breakfast on the table. Daddy was running out to work and mom was meditating in the backyard...again...she does it all the time and I'm tired of eating pizza everyday. I can't wait until I'm tall enough to reach the stove and cook a meal for myself. I'll probably make myself a whole turkey as my first meal.

After school, I went over to Blaise Seavey's house next door. I heard her mother makes really good chilli. It was really good. Blaise's brother kept giving me weird looks. I just finished my chilli and went home to mom (Sandy) who was in the middle of giving birth...and dad was no where to be found. I got a little brother...mom named him Andrew. He's got my eyes!



Dad still hasn't made it home. I hope he does soon.