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kd7sovThis week was not my best, I think. The Jerras are tough. No money, no fun, no comfort... but I think they're going to get better.
Anyway! Let's see what kind of kid the Vales have now!
Hey, look, Matthew can walk!
Aand get himself into trouble. No, kid, that's not what you want to be...
...doing.
Sigh.
So in other news, Kyle's in need of logic points. So I had him head out to the telescope, and...
Um, Kyle? What exactly are you looking at, over there at the Dalzoons' house?
What.
No, seriously, what.
He sat there for a couple of Sim hours, slowly gaining Logic, staring at the Dalzoons' house with Faran (a member of the Jupiter family) in his thought-bubble, alternating between those two expressions. I have no idea what to make of this.
Matthew is no longer a toddler! He's now a kid!
Kids are tough, you know? He aged up shortly after waking up. So he's all full of energy, and everyone else is about ready to head for bed. So he spent several hours just standing around with his teddy bear.
(In case you're wondering, I built a little attic for the baby stuff. A bit more on that later.)
He did take a break at one point, though, to go crank-call someone who'd showed up and said hi when he was an infant. I did say something about him not being very nice, right?
Eventually I managed to get him to go to bed, but he soon woke up because of rain.
Wait, rain?
Yup. Rain.
So I, ah, fixed the roof. Sort of. I suspect the auto-roofer would have been able to do something smoother, but it got confused by the attic.
Hey, it doesn't let weather in any more, so that's a good thing.
At this point, he wasn't interested in going back to sleep. So instead he went out to the back yard to play in puddles.
Whereupon a bolt of lightning hit the telescope, setting it on fire. Matthew was displeased.
(I'm not sure why; he's never touched it. And it's not like either fire or lightning affects the functionality of an object, unless it destroys it.)
Isaac has probably had to deal with fire before, what with being employed at a fast-food place, so he put it out. "My hero!" said Matthew.
I don't feel like sorting through all the pictures I took of the Jerras, so mostly I'll just sum up.
George, the dad, got fired from being an ambulance-driver. Because he decided to drive on the sidewalk when traffic got super-congested. As the notice put it: there's a reason we mostly don't drive on sidewalks. Because people walk there!
So then Kay exploded.
Or no, that's not quite right. Let me check my notes.
She... turned into a fairy? No, no...
Aha! She grew up!
I'll probably get her new clothes once there's money. Her everyday outfit was designed as an outerwear, and it's considerably more bulky than what is assigned as her outerwear. I realize it's category and not mesh that determines overheating and whatnot, but even so. Also her underwear doesn't seem quite right, but that's less visible and thus lesser priority.
She is quite an accomplished cook, though; moreso than anyone else in the family, thanks to spending most of a weekend studying a cookbook. She promptly got a job at the school yearbook, and was quickly made blogmistress. Without a computer in the house, although that one Mr. Humble dropped off is still in the box outside. And she got award money for taking band class and for selling t-shirts to suppport the yearbook blog and... I don't even know, but she's probably already contributed more money to the family than Grandpa has, and he's had a job since Day 1.
Garet finally met Jenna, with whom he's often shipped. (That's his primary ship, but her secondary.) They didn't hit it off all that great. She seems to be getting along all right with Aaron.
She also challenged Mama Jerra - Ruth - to a water balloon fight.
Just as a reminder, this is the end of Fall. And both of these ladies are canonically fire-casters.
Speaking of the end of Fall, the tomato plant did eventually manage to produce fruit. It was all snowy and not very valuable, but at least it wasn't a complete loss.
Snow fell, people made snowmen (none of whom, I note, ended up with horns or pitchforks; just what is up with you, Piers?), and a bunch of penguins showed up to talk to the snowmen.
I'm not sure what kind of talk this was, but it happened.
At one point a penguin was talking to a snowman at the same time as the grandparents were having a conversation; I kept hoping the two sets would have the same speech bubble at the same time, but they didn't.
So anyway. Garet got his grades all the way up, and was super excited about that. He still had almost a week until he'd ordinarily turn into an adult, and I usually like to let them be teens closer to that before they go to college, but I kind of just wanted him out of the house. But Aaron was going to turn into a teen the next day, so I decided to keep him around for that. Bad idea. But before we get to that...
...I want to know what kind of outerwear you call that.
So anyway. The morning is kind of hectic, so Garet and Aaron miss the bus. They don't have a car, and the taxi won't go to school. So they each miss the day and lose a full letter grade. This puts Garet at a B+, and for the good-student scholarship you need something starting with an A. So I'm miffed about that, and I'm miffed that I can't get those two to finish their leftover homework while they're there. And Kay gets home, so I have Aaron call Jenna and invite her over. He's got a want to make friends with her, and a bottomed-out fun meter, so I figure they can throw something at each other for a while.
No dice. Jenna refuses every time. So eventually I end up with both Aaron and Kay standing on opposite sides of the front door screaming "want fun!" at me, and Jenna is either composing a drum tune or waiting to get to the bathroom, and it's all not so fun. So I stopped.
I think I'll wait a few days before coming back to that family.
Anyway! Let's see what kind of kid the Vales have now!
Hey, look, Matthew can walk!
Aand get himself into trouble. No, kid, that's not what you want to be...
...doing.
Sigh.
So in other news, Kyle's in need of logic points. So I had him head out to the telescope, and...
Um, Kyle? What exactly are you looking at, over there at the Dalzoons' house?
What.
No, seriously, what.
He sat there for a couple of Sim hours, slowly gaining Logic, staring at the Dalzoons' house with Faran (a member of the Jupiter family) in his thought-bubble, alternating between those two expressions. I have no idea what to make of this.
Matthew is no longer a toddler! He's now a kid!
Kids are tough, you know? He aged up shortly after waking up. So he's all full of energy, and everyone else is about ready to head for bed. So he spent several hours just standing around with his teddy bear.
(In case you're wondering, I built a little attic for the baby stuff. A bit more on that later.)
He did take a break at one point, though, to go crank-call someone who'd showed up and said hi when he was an infant. I did say something about him not being very nice, right?
Eventually I managed to get him to go to bed, but he soon woke up because of rain.
Wait, rain?
Yup. Rain.
So I, ah, fixed the roof. Sort of. I suspect the auto-roofer would have been able to do something smoother, but it got confused by the attic.
Hey, it doesn't let weather in any more, so that's a good thing.
At this point, he wasn't interested in going back to sleep. So instead he went out to the back yard to play in puddles.
Whereupon a bolt of lightning hit the telescope, setting it on fire. Matthew was displeased.
(I'm not sure why; he's never touched it. And it's not like either fire or lightning affects the functionality of an object, unless it destroys it.)
Isaac has probably had to deal with fire before, what with being employed at a fast-food place, so he put it out. "My hero!" said Matthew.
I don't feel like sorting through all the pictures I took of the Jerras, so mostly I'll just sum up.
George, the dad, got fired from being an ambulance-driver. Because he decided to drive on the sidewalk when traffic got super-congested. As the notice put it: there's a reason we mostly don't drive on sidewalks. Because people walk there!
So then Kay exploded.
Or no, that's not quite right. Let me check my notes.
She... turned into a fairy? No, no...
Aha! She grew up!
I'll probably get her new clothes once there's money. Her everyday outfit was designed as an outerwear, and it's considerably more bulky than what is assigned as her outerwear. I realize it's category and not mesh that determines overheating and whatnot, but even so. Also her underwear doesn't seem quite right, but that's less visible and thus lesser priority.
She is quite an accomplished cook, though; moreso than anyone else in the family, thanks to spending most of a weekend studying a cookbook. She promptly got a job at the school yearbook, and was quickly made blogmistress. Without a computer in the house, although that one Mr. Humble dropped off is still in the box outside. And she got award money for taking band class and for selling t-shirts to suppport the yearbook blog and... I don't even know, but she's probably already contributed more money to the family than Grandpa has, and he's had a job since Day 1.
Garet finally met Jenna, with whom he's often shipped. (That's his primary ship, but her secondary.) They didn't hit it off all that great. She seems to be getting along all right with Aaron.
She also challenged Mama Jerra - Ruth - to a water balloon fight.
Just as a reminder, this is the end of Fall. And both of these ladies are canonically fire-casters.
Speaking of the end of Fall, the tomato plant did eventually manage to produce fruit. It was all snowy and not very valuable, but at least it wasn't a complete loss.
Snow fell, people made snowmen (none of whom, I note, ended up with horns or pitchforks; just what is up with you, Piers?), and a bunch of penguins showed up to talk to the snowmen.
I'm not sure what kind of talk this was, but it happened.
At one point a penguin was talking to a snowman at the same time as the grandparents were having a conversation; I kept hoping the two sets would have the same speech bubble at the same time, but they didn't.
So anyway. Garet got his grades all the way up, and was super excited about that. He still had almost a week until he'd ordinarily turn into an adult, and I usually like to let them be teens closer to that before they go to college, but I kind of just wanted him out of the house. But Aaron was going to turn into a teen the next day, so I decided to keep him around for that. Bad idea. But before we get to that...
...I want to know what kind of outerwear you call that.
So anyway. The morning is kind of hectic, so Garet and Aaron miss the bus. They don't have a car, and the taxi won't go to school. So they each miss the day and lose a full letter grade. This puts Garet at a B+, and for the good-student scholarship you need something starting with an A. So I'm miffed about that, and I'm miffed that I can't get those two to finish their leftover homework while they're there. And Kay gets home, so I have Aaron call Jenna and invite her over. He's got a want to make friends with her, and a bottomed-out fun meter, so I figure they can throw something at each other for a while.
No dice. Jenna refuses every time. So eventually I end up with both Aaron and Kay standing on opposite sides of the front door screaming "want fun!" at me, and Jenna is either composing a drum tune or waiting to get to the bathroom, and it's all not so fun. So I stopped.
I think I'll wait a few days before coming back to that family.
