Janelliellio’s Blog

Tuesday

Background:  Daniel Pleasant and Mary-Sue Pleasant are married with twin daughters, Angela and Lilith Pleasant.  Angela is the perfect daughter, Lilith not so much.

Daniel Pleasant decided while his wife Mary-Sue was at work, and Lilith and Angela at school, it was high time he hook up with the maid again.  Kaylynn didn’t hesitate – she was already with the town cassanova, Don Lothario, anyway.  Daniel didn’t realize, to his misfortune, that is wife had come home early. 

Mary-Sue walked into the room calmly, slapped the maid (who was waving to her, like nothing happened), and ordered Daniel leave.  He begged to stay, but Mary-Sue is cold.  While Daniel was in aspiration failure and being hypnotized by a psychiatrist only he could see, Kaylynn asked Mary-Sue to forgive her.  Despite standing in her underwear evidence, Mary-Sue forgave Kaylynn.  Perhaps they’ll be friends one day.

Angela cried quietly in the kitchen while Lilith threw a temper tantrum in the living room.  Even though Angela liked both her parents, her relationship dropped for both after this incident – her father for cheating, her mother for divorcing.  Lilith seemed to take it harder.  She was frequently crying and angry – Angela seemed to get it out of her system pretty quick.  Perhaps Lilith blamed this whole thing on herself – her and Angela always wore the same hairstyle, and up until then she did only her makeup and clothing differently than her sister.  Just leading up to the incident however, she bob-cut it, dyed it black and purple, and flaunted to her sister.  Angela decided now that her family was in ruins she would cut her hair too.  …but not dye it, goodness.

Later that week, Daniel found a place, a small city dwelling pad, but it was alright.  And it had a deck.  He invited Kaylynn over for dinner, sprucing up as much as he could.  He knew she was used to the home he once lived in.  As much as he scrubbed, the fridge would never come clean, and the only thing he knew how to make was Macaroni and Cheese.  She smiled politely throughout the dinner, and Daniel probably didn’t notice how false it was.  She felt bad later for thinking she could just grit her teeth through the crappy dinner when he proposed.  She convinced herself she had no idea he had good intentions, so she was right to be so snobby.

Kaylynn wondered through the last few bits of dinner how Daniel and her would marry.  Daniel, the ladies’ man than he is, picked up on Kaylynn’s worries.  He tried, with as much enthusiasm he could muster, to demonstrate how the small wedding bells tied up on a clear spot on the wall could be their wedding spot.  Kaylynn knew she deserved a big beautiful wedding like all the other women in Pleasantview, but she just wanted to be married, now.  Every girl she knows has a family, and she wanted one too.

Kaylynn proposed they be married that night!  Right after macaroni.

 

 

They quickly ran upstairs to celebrate their marriage.  And Kaylynn’s addition to the family worth of §17,000.

 

Meanwhile, at the Pleasants’…

Lilith definitely seems to be taking the breakup harder than Angela.  While Angela was giving herself a makeover (and hogging the bathroom) Lilith thought she’d talk a bit with her mother, but Mary-Sue was a bit inebriated at the moment to care much.

The next few days were pretty mopey – Mary-Sue didn’t leave her room.  She just lounged on her bed and spent her nights reigniting the fireplace.  Angela had decided that enough was enough, and sneaking out was her new venture.  Lilith despised her for it, too – that was her part in the family.

One night, when Angela was the one out and Lilith was warm in bed, Mary-Sue almost lost it.  The fire had gone out one too many times, she would recall later.  Feeling as though she should have tended to Daniel more, Mary-Sue briefly entertained the idea of asking for his return, but from what she had heard, he had actually married Kaylynn.  What was she to do?

Mary-Sue knew exactly what to do, maybe because she had gone nuts.  She jumped out of bed and went to the telephone.  She dialed a well-known matchmaker.  Mary-Sue, the hard-ass she was, often didn’t even take that kind of thing jokingly.  But the woman with black eyes was her last hope for happiness.

The Matchmaker was there much sooner than Mary-Sue had expected, perhaps sooner than most people would have arrived.  She rang the doorbell, and Mary-Sue wondered why she would do that at such a time – Mary-Sue worried she woke the twins.  She waited at the bottom of the stairs for a few minutes to make sure, and when she thought they would have fallen back asleep, she opened the door to one of the oddest characters in Pleasantview. 

She was obviously part alien with those black eyes.  Perhaps it was the reason she was so ugly, but Mary-Sue didn’t feel it was appropriate to ask.  Instead, she appealed to this stranger for a husband, telling her as much as she could in a few sentences what she was like.  After paying a hefty price, a red-haired man dropped out of the sky.  Mary-Sue thanked the Matchmaker for her time while the man rubbed his head.  Mary-Sue introduced herself in her nightie, and the man gave his name, Talin.  She dismissed the name when she saw the last person she’d expect coming up the walkway, Angela. 

After berating her favorite most well-behaved daughter in front of Talin, she thought she’d surely lose the date.  She did, but that’s certainly not why – he just wasn’t into someone as ’stuffy’ as Mary-Sue.

Date after date led to the same disappointments.  Mary-Sue worried that all the elidgeable men out there were too young, or worse – she was too old!  Mary-Sue moped around the house for days, confiding in Berjes, their butler. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One mopey day while the girls were at school Mary-Sue came to the conclusion that maybe she should be dating someone older than she’s used to.  Their wise from experience, not as naive as silly Daniel, and would appreciate her for something other than appearances.  Someone that would take care of her.  Then she looked up at the man who was taking care of them now – Berjes, the butler.

 

Wednesday

Very early on Wednesday morning, Kaylynn gave birth to Daniel’s baby, whom she (I) named Simone.  Kaylynn seemed really french to me, not just the maid outfit, but her face and hair and everything.  Simone has green eyes (both parents) and red hair like her dad.  The upstairs office had to be completely renovated and moved down into the already-cramped living room.  The former office is now Simone’s room, white and pink things everywhere.  Daniel wasn’t home for the birth, but was super excited when he came home a few minutes later. 

When I got a better look at Simone when she aged into a toddler, it was pretty evident that she took after her dad – not just her hair, but everything else.  She looks almost nothing like her mom (darnit, maybe she’ll be pregnant again soon..).

Other than aging the baby, nothing really new has happened here, Daniel and Kaylynn are working.  Kaylynn’s working towards her dream of being an Education Minister, the top of the education career.  It’s pretty funny seeing her of all people as a recess aide.

 

Over at the Pleasant home…

…Mary-Sue went to the kitchen to talk to Berjes.  He tells some jokes, and she laughs, because she hasn’t in such a long time.

With Mary-Sue’s new uplifted attitude came Lilith and Angela’s.  Lilith discovered she’s an avid sports fan, and Angela realized her love of nature.  Maybe I’ll do something with that later, maybe Angela can be a plant-sim or something. 

Soon after the romance began, Berjes moved in.  Lilith and Angela seem to like him, he’s a very nice, but shy, man.

 

Alrighty, I suppose this is a good time to cut off.  Time to go play for today!
Janelle

Welcome to Janelle’s Sims!

This is the introduction to what I will later deem updates.  I have diagnosed myself with a preservative disorder – I hate playing a game that will mess up how the game originally arrived in the box.  So when I got The Sims 2 in 2004, I inspected all the homes and families, made by its spawn company Maxis, and no further effort was put into playing those families.  For some reason, I felt that I didn’t want to mess them up.  As if I was going to be the last person on Earth with the files as they were on the CD/DVD, and it was really important they remain that way.

So with The Sims 3 less than 50 days away, I have decided I will play the Maxis families instead of my own neighborhood.  …But which one?  There’s the obvious, Pleasantview – the not so pleasant place to live, with widows, infidelity, deceit, and trailor trash, but I thought I might get bored.  Then there’s Veronaville, where every family is an allusion to a Shakespearean play (The Capps and Montys for example), but again, thought I’d get bored.  I wasn’t ever really into that neighborhood even though it was really neat.  Strangetown is just as it sounds – there’s a rivalry between a retired pollination alien that just want to live a normal life and a military general, the alien-obsessed, and experiments on a nervous subject up on the hill.  Riverblossom Hills is a neighborhood that came with the Seasons expansion pack – a lonely gardener, sims that photosynthesize, and a Goth family knock off.  With the Freetime (hobbies) expansion came Desiderata Valley, a town of leisure.  The newest neighborhood, Belladonna Cove, came with Apartment Life – lots of pairings for me to make, six orphans living alone, and witches to be had.

 

There’s so much to chose from, I didn’t want to.  So I didn’t.  Instead, I downloaded HystericalParoxysm’s Megahood, a neighborhood with every single Maxis made sim bunking together – Sims from different neighborhoods could, and would, interact as they never could before.

 

Every post hereafter is going to be what has happened, what I’m planning.  …If it worked.

Ttyl
Janelle