school extras, picspam

This post was scheduled ahead for Sunday, so I guess if you're reading it, that means it worked. I should be back online some time Monday to respond to comments... you know, if everything goes according to plans, which is always questionable in moving...

Scheduling entries ahead always makes me nervous, since you'll be reading it before I get a chance to see it published myself, and it could be loaded up with glaring horrible typos 'n stuff, lol! So good thing it's just a fluff post ;)

The extras are coming before the actual school update this time, but these aren't really the spoilery kind of outtakes. I just wanted to separate all this picspam and administrative stuff, so I could keep the story stuff all flowy and nice.

one day, thirty-two years later...

September 2083 - Adrian Jackson and Aurora Miguel are 51.

One day, Aurora decides to buy a little beachside bungalow on Twikki Island. She and Adrian have finally come to a point in their lives where they have plenty of money to spend on such luxuries, and she could use a little relaxation. She's earned this relaxation. The elections are coming up fast, and this fall, she's running for CFO of the Lake County Treasury. And that's on top of managing her award-winning boutique. On top of teaching business classes at the university. But mostly, that's all on top of the fact that her baby is two-hundred-thousand miles outside the Earth's atmosphere, and training to go to war.

Her head is just about spinning, and she doesn't even know which direction to stop it in.

happy birthday to you...

September 2083 - Welcome to Lakeside Heights: Ian, Ingrid, Jacob, Catherine, and Rebecca.

It was a rainy day, early this September, two weeks shy of her due date and not even the slightest warning when the Thompson twins decided to make their sudden appearance. Adam was just about to help Heather down the stairs when her water broke there at the landing. Adam is a mathematician, and he didn't really take many health classes in college, and it's been four years since Laney was born, so he's not really sure if he remembers this all very well.

Regardless though, these babies are coming!

the great 2083 playdate

September 2083 - toddler playdate picspam!

This update is inspired by Emily Miller and Aaron Phoenix. You barely ever get to see them because of their parents' absolute lack of drama, so I figured they deserved a little picspam because they're just so CUTE!

If I were the kind of player that set up kids from the moment they're born, these two would SO be married already, lol!

prequel stories #7: love at first sight

Half of this is a prequel story, and the more recent half you'll probably remember. This is not including the couples from the other young loves prequels, just to save space - I have a lot of couples ;) But some of those other stories would definitely qualify as love at first sight. You can find those here: who just kisses a little in college, young loves, and couples never meant to be. So, for Valentine's Day, I'll give you something good and heart-farty. Prequel story #7: love at first sight :)

one day, when revenge is sweet and so simple

September 2083 - Hailey Monif is 38, Hazel is 14. (Berjes Monif and Bradley Guthrie are 38)

* note: Just a little quickie update for you about my Monif girls. I was just in there to give Hailey a little makeover, and all this came out, lol!

I've been snowed-in with the kid this week, and a hubby working from home, which is not very conducive to my writing. Or maybe we can blame it on Leila, she stole what little brain I had left over these past couple days and refuses to let me work on Jodie's story, or anything else at all. Though this mini-update does indirectly have to do with Jodie's story a little anyway... which I hope is coming up very soon, if Leila allows it ;) *

One day, after school, Berjes stops by to see his daughter. He swears he doesn't miss Hailey, but he misses Hazel. He misses every morning when they'd watch cartoons together, their cereal bowls full of sugar and milk. He misses helping her with her science and math homework in the evenings.

"I'm here to see Hazel," he tells his ex-wife as Hazel's school bus pulls up, as if she didn't already know that good and clear.

SBP: a conversation with Autumn Phillipine

September 2083 - Autumn Phillipine is 67. (Samantha Bradshaw is 33, and has been missing for ten years).

"The name, it's just Phillipine now," Autumn says. "My maiden name. I suppose I should have kept it after all. Turns out I wasn't good at being married.

Mitch, here, he's my third..." Autumn points. "Over there," she says. "Say hi, Mitch."

how to modify a custom career, in a very basic way

How to modify a custom career, in a very, very basic way: and some super dorky experiments in binary math!!! Woohoo! LOL! This tutorial assumes a very basic knowledge of SimPe, and is probably a great way to dip your toes into using SimPe if you've never used it before. Modifying custom careers was one of the first things I tried with SimPe.

Also, at the end, I've uploaded my modified stay-at-home parent career.

LH stuff: modified uni careers hack

This is my modified version of the Uni Careers Hack by Syberspunk from MATY.

career rules: a study on impoverishment

I've always had these career rules that I made up for my game, and I think I've mentioned them before, but never really talked about them in any detail. I haven't actually enforced these in quite a while, but writing these stories for Max and Bella recently reminded me of that. For a time, I was very strict about these, and they work kind of like the ROS do. Maxwell's father actually died of one of these when he was very young (Nina was still pregnant with Anjali at the time), which was part of their family's curse of bad luck - he was in an old custom extreme-adventurer career, and the story was that he died in a bungee jumping accident ;)

These are mostly an effort to make the Maxis careers more realistic, and give some risk for more interesting gameplay. And just to make things harder. I personally get very bored, very fast, when all of my Sims are at the top of their careers.