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And we’ll end with a final picture of all the kitties. Or most of them. I think I missed one black kitten. It’s hard to see them on that dark tile floor. (I don’t know why they were all gathered in the bathroom like that...you can’t explain cats...) Eleven cats is a lot, but I can’t wait to see what all our kittens grow into!
That’s the end of the Kat round. I’ll admit, I didn’t go back and look at what happened last time before starting this one, and I didn’t review the rules of the challenge either. (That’s why Tara spent a lot more than three hours off the lot both times she went out. Not a huge rule break, I don’t think, but yeah...)
I also didn’t take 50 bazillion pictures of the cats this time around. In my defense, it’s hard to keep track of them, and so many of them are teeny baby kitties, so it’s hard to get the camera down to their level. But it does mean that I don’t have any extra pictures for this Thoughts post. Sorry!
The round was fairly easy. I think I played the majority of it in a couple of hours. I don’t tend to do a lot of Plot with this household, so that’s typical.
I did like having Jareth bring other sims out to meet Tara. I love the idea of Kenton being his stepdad who wanted to see what was going on with his stepson. It gives Jareth a bit more personality. I’ll probably try to keep Kenton, and the other sims who came with them to the second dinner, around as friends for the Kats. Maybe they’ll try to invite their friends over for the wedding? Or a dinner party? With Tara’s poor cooking skills and the multitude of cats, that could be interesting.
I hope you enjoyed the Kat round. The Kims are next, whenever I get to them! See you soon!
I woke up last weekend and wanted to play Sims again. I played around with a different neighborhood that I don’t feel like sharing for about a week, and then today I started thinking about Bluewater again.
Since the last time I posted, I’ve taken a lot of CC out of my game. I’ve put in default replacements instead of a lot of the hairs and clothes I had. The sims may look different. I’m going to finish Round 3 - there’s just the Kims and Melody Tinker at college left - and then I will see about jumping into Round 4.
The Kim round is queued up to post this week. Enjoy!
The Kims are technically doing an Officially Wacky Boolprop Challenge, but I kind of decided to throw most of the rules out the window. (Specifically this time around, I threw out the “no service sims” rule. These guys need a maid, a gardener, and a nanny. You will see why.)
Currently, the family consists of Cynthia, her husband Robert, their adopted son Justin, their newborn daughter Barbara, and the family dog, Gabby. Cynthia is kind of conniving. Robert is madly in love with her and otherwise kind of a vacant derp. Justin is the only one with his act together (and he’s 11). Barbara is too new to have a personality yet. Gabby the dog is a dog.
This was the state of the household when I opened the lot. Justin fell asleep in the couch, his parents just got done trying for another baby, their current baby woke up stinky, and the dog slept through it all.
The Kims aren’t the most hands-on parents. Robert mostly complained about how stinky little Barb was. I’m fairly sure I had to tell Cynthia to take care of the issue. How these two are going to manage having two more after Barb I don’t know...
Justin isn’t eligible to be the family heir, since he was adopted, but he’s got an important job to do anyways. He is the dog trainer. He worked with Gabby to learn to speak that morning before going outside to ask his mom something.
Justin wanted to get another dog so that Gabby could have a boyfriend. He convinced Cynthia to go with him to the pet store to buy another Dalmatian.
Meet Flash - a Dalmatian like Gabby but with a slightly different pattern. He wasn’t a big fan of Cynthia, but he and Justin got on right away.
Flash warmed up to Cynthia a bit on the way home. He and Gabby seem to get along (although I noticed that she would Challenge him on some things - like which dish he could eat out of).
Good job, Robert. Step over the baby to make your sandwich. Nice parenting.
Cynthia picked up the baby and played with her for a bit...and then put her right back down on the floor. A+ parenting here, guys. A+.
Of course, since they’re so great at taking care of baby Barbara, Cynthia and Robert decided that it was definitely time to make another baby. Chimes were heard.
At least the dogs are getting along.
The next morning, Cynthia and Robert explained to Justin that he was going to be a big brother again. Cynthia’s morning sickness was pretty bad. Although maybe that’s because nobody cleans up around here except the 11-year-old. (This is why I caved and got them a maid, even though it’s technically against the rules. Someone needs to clean this dump and I’ve given up on either of the adults doing it.)
Cynthia had her first pop and was feeling a bit...restless. She went downtown and called her agent, Sylvia Marie Mashuga. They met at the 125 Cafe and Cynthia explained that she didn’t want to be a housewife, but she wasn’t sure she could go back into acting because she and Robert were trying for more kids.
Sylvia Marie had the perfect solution. “Darling,” she said, “go into my line of work! Be an agent!”
Cynthia liked that idea -- she had liked pitching the whole reality show to Malcolm Landgraab, even if he hadn’t gone for it -- and she agreed to take a job with Sylvia’s talent agent firm.
Cynthia went home and explained what she’d decided to Robert. He was supportive, as always, and happily allowed her to help him get a job as a screen test stand-in. It would be hard, starting at the bottom of the ladder again, but he knew his wife wouldn’t steer him wrong.
Technically, Cynthia works in the Entertainment career, a custom career recreated from one of the Stories games (Pet Stories, maybe?). Robert is in Show Business. I figured this showed the different branches of the entertainment business they’re in. This was around the point when I decided to ignore most of the challenge rules. I can never remember them anyway. The Kims hired a maid, a gardener, and a nanny.
Around this time, I got the pop up that it was nearly Barbara and Justin’s birthday. Cynthia threw a double birthday party, inviting all her friends (and none of Justin’s, since she doesn’t know any of the neighborhood kids).
Cynthia did the honors of helping Barbara grow up. Whee!
Barb is a little cutie! She actually looks a lot like the Worthington sisters, for some reason. Cynthia didn’t put her down the entire night. Maybe she’ll be better as a mom now that Barb can do a bit more than cry and poop herself? (That’s a big maybe, especially with another baby on the way...but we can hope...)