Janelliellio’s Blog

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This family, as hinted by their name, is having some problems getting along.  Edward and his wife, Opal, are both in the Oceanography career.   Neither parent can really connect with Rick, who is more interested in video games.

Rick invited his best friend, Violet, over to play some basketball, one of his newly found hobbies. Violet is really into sports, so she pretty much won each round.

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I don’t remember her name, but the skintone-4 woman with her hair in buns and a blue dress (came with Nightlife) invited Cyd out for some fun downtown pretty much as soon as I entered the lot and the welcome wagon showed up.  I brightened the pic a little so you could see it.  I think the party was close to eight sims, and the game messed it up – there were two teens and a child in the mix.  As soon as they got out of the car, the child walked home, hah.

Cyd was chatting it up with all the ladies. He didn't know it, but he was looking for a wife to deal with him and his silly dog, Porthos, who won't eat out of the dog bowl.

One of the ladies Cyd was talking to said she'd set him up on a blind date. He accepted, and out of the sky fell a very very pregnant Nina Caliente! UGH - I didn't want him to like her, but I couldn't help him!

Just before exiting the house due to my alloted time with Cyd being filled, I found that he really wanted to see wolves - Cyd might later be a werewolf

After my time with Cyd, I moved onto the next house – the Larsons.  This family consists of Jodie and Jason Larson, twins, who are looking to start a business.  I think they both look like stylists, especially Jodie with her high cheekbones and exotic eyes.  So they decided to start a shop in their home. 

Looks to me like Jason came up with the idea, and trying to convince Jodie. She's going to be the manager though, Jason's the stylist. Mostly.

The first person to walk into the brand-new business was Natasha Una, local Grilled Cheese enthusiast. Gave her a makeover. It might be a little too bohemian, but I like it, for now.

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Sorry I couldn’t post the day after my other one, like I said I would.  Mor engrish homewerk.

Tara is actually quite pretty, but she’s unusually looking.  I thought, even with her cat-lady lifestyle, she was quite classy.  So here she is with her wonderful new makeover!  I think it’s a Maxis hair from their Sim Store.  I figured that after her failed date, she was dating the wrong people, and should start over!  Tara moved out of her cat-lady house and into an empty lot by the beach. 

I thought that perhaps after both these things she could go out and get a suntan so as to attract some nice guys.  I didn’t think of the possibility she would be out long enough to burn…

As she attempted tanning, Julien Cooke happened to stroll by.  Julien is a Maxis sim that came with Freetime – he was said to have moved to Desiderata Valley after his rival, Zebest Quizine, stole his prize-winning recipe.  He was birdwatching and being a dork, so I thought she should introduce herself.  They talked a bit, and he left.  Then I had some weird game glitches and had to re-enter the house.  That night, Tara was thinking about inviting Julien on a date when the phone rang – he was on the other line, and asking her out instead.

They went to a lovely botanical restaurant, and while Julien thought about the lobster, Tara was eager for a hamburger.  She was delighted when the food arrived, but Julien looked a little disillusioned. 

It was a good date, but not totally fulfilling for either party. Tara spent the next few days of her short sim-life watching TV, digging in the sand, and working.  Oh, and feeding her stupid cat, Samantha, who refuses to eat cat food.  Only sim food. 

One day when Tara was moping around the house and feeling sorry for herself, being a family-sim and all, Julien knocked on her door.  She looked up at me and prayed (to me) that she would soon get married.  I suppose this was another sign, other than Julien autonomously calling her, they should be together.  If you can zoom in on her pouty-face, do so.  Even if you have to ctrl-scroll it.

I think Julien was a bit distracted thinking about something else, though.  American Pie grown up. *Shudder*

Quite a bit happened in the next few days.  The TV broke so Tara had to call the repairman, who bore an uncanny resemblance to a Mr. Claus.  She spent a lot of time with her cats.  Mickey likes to sit at the back bay window and look out at the ocean.  Samantha stays with Tara when she watches TV, even if it’s boring cooking shows.  At one point, a burgular came into the house, and woke Tara up.  Unfortunately, she beat up the cop and took off.  Tara didn’t get the money back for her rug and couch.  Faline grew up into a pretty black and white cat with the same cheetah spots as Samantha. 

One night after a swim in the ocean and a nice campfire, Julien proposed to Tara, and she was naturally ecstatic.  It’s about time Tara finally gets to have a family … outside her cats.

Soon after was the wedding.  Since neither of them really knew anyone else, it was a lonely private wedding on the beach where Julien proposed.

Until next time.

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Just to follow up on the last post, here’s a pic of Alivia Green as a toddler.  Creepy, huh?

Anyhow, I’ve been trying to figure out how to pair all these stupid single sims I have from all expansion packs.  Guess I gotta start with one.  So I picked Tara Kat.  She came with the Pets expansion pack, and the idea was that she was the “cat lady” but she’s not old or anything.  And I found out she’s decended from the cat lady from the original Pets expansion for The Sims (1)!  I think her name was …Cornelia or something.  Tara Kat comes with two adult-age cats in her family, and one kitten.  The description wants you to have her breed and sell cats, but I hate creating all these sims/pets that will never be played, so she’s not gonna do that.  It also implies that acceptance of the youngest kitty, Faline, could go either way.

First, I decided that Tara should go on a date with one of the single welcome-wagon sims when she moves in.  Cyd Roseland showed up first, and I thought it’d be funny if the cat lady and the dog lover got together.  They went out to a downtown location for dinner and… it kinda sucked.  Cyd droned on and on about stuff Tara didn’t really care about and pigged out.  Tara in turn kept blinking whenever I took a picture.  SO I guess Cyd isn’t gonna work out with Tara. 

And of course, the many sims I’ve tried to hook up with Mr. Big (rich guy that came with Nightlife) haven’t been able to find them among the numerous NPCs, and here’s Tara that turns around after her date to find him.  UGH.  But he wasn’t interested either.

So she went home, packed her things, and moved her and her cats to the beach.  To start over.

I’m gonna give Tara a makeover.  I’ll post about it tomorrow.  TTYL