Babies already! Guess who had the first one??

Some of you will only need ONE guess! *devlish laughter*


Yesterday and today I spent one sim day with each household.

Menuchah spent most of the day gardening and reached level 2. I think this is good progress because it's a big garden and it takes a long time.

I found Rachel paying a visit to Max's house. They were getting along well until he got a little too friendly and offered her a compliment that she found a bit forward. She had to make a drink at his bar to fortify herself. I don't know what was in that drink but ... let's just say I made her unclog his toilet for him since she's the one who caused it to need unclogging. Being handy comes in ... handy.

I let her take the handiness class she wanted, which killed two wishes with one stone and put her at level 2. She then wanted to READ about handiness - girl has a one track mind - so I sent her to the reading room. When I left she was at handiness level 3 and logic 1. I was wrong about her logic level before. That must have been the game that crashed. Happens all the time. I had her hire a maid because it occurred to me that a rich girl like her would have one. She should have a cook and butler too, but you can't have everything.

When I visited William's house, he was gone and there were three game generated squatters living there. I have no idea what happened there. I let them stay for now because if I leave the house empty, story progression will just move more squatters in - I think that's how it works, isn't it? I can always kick them out later.


Becky wanted to take a charisma class and then use her newfound skills on somebody, so I sent her to the pub where she met Rachel and Sam. Tyler was there, but they didn't introduce themselves.

I let her use her charming introduction on Sam (why waste it on a woman?) and his reaction cracked me up.

AJ is engaged to Sam, and pregnant. That's pretty fast work, even for you, Sam. I moved her in with Sammy because her house is way too small, and redecorated his second bedroom as a nursery. If I'd been thinking, I'd have given Sam a big house knowing he'd need one. lol.

I sent him to the bookstore for some pregnancy books and kids' books. I fulfilled some more skill wishes and sent them to the classes they wanted.

Preparing for baby

 I just  took this next screenshot because I'd never seen a sim sit that way.

 And these ... well, these were just too cute not to.

I found William living with Wyatt. Wyatt's pretty impressive. Though they're barely acquainted, he already knows every single fact he can know about William. I fulfilled their skill/education wishes too: athletics for Wyatt and guitar for William.


What Ronnie wanted was to learn the writing skill. Odd, because the career he wants is in music. I'm not getting jobs for any of them unless or until I'm forced to. I want to see if they'll do it on their own. I found it amusing that he has a very nice house but drive the Big Lemon.

Then he wanted to go to the Octagon House Historical Museum and Art Gallery. There were a couple of other people there, but they weren't MY sims, so I didn't nudge him to introduce himself. He fell into conversation with one of squatters Daniel Wang, on his own. I saw another new one walking by outside. I bet he moved into AJ's old house. I'll find out later. Ronnie does love his art. He stayed there the rest of the day. He was extremely appreciative and excited. I can't say he has discriminating taste, though. He was just as excited about the movie posters and the plant in the window as he was about the paintings.

Aside from a brief panic attack, he enjoyed his day hugely.

Ronnie now has a wish to write a novel, so I bought him a computer. We'll find out next time if he'll figure out what to do with it.

You hear funny things when you listen to the sims. One of the "others" in the art gallery, who was out of sight but not out of hearing, said something that  sounded like "Oh... darn!" and a few moments later "Yeah, baby!"


Max had an unemployed woman and two small children, none of whom are related, living with him. I kicked them all out because this is getting ridiculous. Besides, he doesn't have enough bedrooms for all those people and they're not kicking the poor guy out of his own bed. I felt a little bit bad about kicking out young children. For a second.

That makes me remember something I read on the forums about story progression: that it's not the number of empty houses that governs random sims moving in, but rather the number of empty beds. Single bed - one sim  moves in, double bed - two sims move in. That theory isn't entirely borne out by my observation, as Max has a double bed and a single: sleeping room for three, yet there were four people in his house. Still, I can test the basic theory of sim-magnetic beds vs. sim-magnetic houses by deleting the extra adult beds from "my" sims houses until they're actually needed.

Time for a gratuitous screenshot. I couldn't resist because, to quote the movie Thelma and Louise, "There he goes. Yep. That' s him going. I loooooove to watch him go."

He wanted to take an athletic class, but there was a concert going on and class wasn't being held that day. Sorry, Max. Instead, he did a workout to the TV and got his own athletic level.

He went to a computer chatroom and met Larry, one of the squatters who moved into William's old house. I'll have to start being more respectful to Larry. He has married Becky (didn't see THAT coming) and taken the name Sharma. If I continue the current pattern of rotation, I won't visit Becky for several sim days, but I don't like (happily) married couples living apart, so I moved  him in with her. Want to place bets about there being a baby when next I get around to them?

He went to bed, got up again to get some ice cream, changed his mind and went back to bed, got up again and got the ice cream. I know how that feels, buddy.

I'm noticing something else about these sims. I made sure most of them had at least two bedrooms (for when they start having families), and every single one of them goes to sleep in the smaller bedroom, not the nicer master bedroom.


Tyler and Talia are up next and  you'll see why I'm doing them together. They've not only met since last I saw them, they have a baby! I guess they both finally got out of their houses after all! Ahem.

Their little girl is named Stephanie. She's friendly and brave. Tyler's house is better furnished and a little roomier than Talia's, so I moved her in with him and did the usual baby redecorating.

When  I heard Tyler say "Hmmmm!" in a wolfish way, I had to zoom in quick to see what he was doing. Yes, he's looking exactly where you think he is. No wonder she's ... pregnant again!

His first wish was to snuggle his baby, which I thought was sweet. The rest of the day was spent taking care of Stephanie and playing with her, reading pregnancy books, and hanging out at home.

They are soooooo smitten!

Poor Lexie started her day with no job, no skills, and no friends, but at least she's acquainted with AJ. She was also hungry, sleepy, and needed to pee, I don't know what that girl's been doing with herself,

I toned down the volume on that bright yellow dress and tweaked her hair shade and makeup slightly. She's one of the sims I made as an experiment and uploaded as an afterthought, so her clothes could stand some tweaking. Some of the houses and sims I downloaded prior to starting this game came with custom/premium content, so of course I have to try some of it out.

She wanted charisma for her skill class, so when she woke up again around noon and after a breakfast of ice cream, off she went to class. I've noticed that a lot of these sims opt for quick meals and juice rather than cook.

While she was in class I looked around for a public lot to send her to to do some socializing. The only person I saw out and about was Wyatt at the pub, so I sent her there.

I wouldn't have pictured her as a bike rider, but she certainly seems to enjoy it.

She was still hungry, so I made her go inside and have some soup so she could learn to eat her veggies.

She's checking Wyatt out. Whether anything will come of it only time will tell. Aside from that, she's being a total wallflower. I was hard to keep my hands off her and ler live her life at her own speed.

That's it for now. I can't believe how long it took. Sorry there weren't more screenshots, but not everybody was doing something worth taking a picture of.

Next time we'll check in on those babies.