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Zale Check!
Our dear TH Quill is sleeping.
Good, he deserves it.
Bristol is with little Ridge.
Rainy continues to nap on the couch instead of her lovely bed in her lovely bedroom.
(Note: This post alone has five documented cases of Rainy napping on surfaces… fascinating.)
River is watching gaming streams on the computer.
Reed is waking up all grumpy because he has a new sister.
I hear ya buddy, I didn’t really want her either.
And here’s the sister! Our shockingly successful, last ditch attempt at another baby girl.
Raven in her generic baby glory.
PS. Baby shark…
…doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
River, you turd, quit making a mess.
This house is difficult enough to keep presentable.
Hi Bristol, Rainy, Raven and Plate.
Plate, are you okay?
Plate: sparkles
Reed develops two quirks when he wakes up. Early Riser (boo), but Happy to Wake Up (yay!).
Reed: 🙂
Oh yeah, I can follow Rainy to class. I forgot about that.
I haven’t had that expansion much with an eligible Sim to follow.
I won’t do this often, since I can’t do anything but watch. At least you’ll get to see some of her cute outfits!
She’s pretty tired, so this probably won’t go well.
About as expected… although not a bad use for “morning free time” for one as sleepy as she is.
Except now she’s also emitting green fumes.
A surefire way to make friends…
She attended class for about five minutes, then left.
Don’t mind the plumbob, since she’s the only one here, I can’t help it.
It’s quickly back to sleeping and stinking on the bench.
Remind me not to do this again.
Yes, you smell bad.
I noticed.
Not to spy on her in the nude, but she showered on her lunch!
And you get to see another outfit! I tried to embrace the bookworm/goofball with graphic tees.
IDK.
But isn’t she great thought?
The only acceptable answer is YES.
And her third nap of the day…
At least it’s still lunch time.
She shows up for her afternoon class.
We’ll see if she stays!
She does not.
Rainy: Later losers.
Aaand, another nap.
I will definitely not be following her again. She can head off alone from now on.
At home River isn’t doing much better.
However, Bristol and the two babies are doing pretty good, so it wasn’t a total waste following Rainy. The extra NPC idiots did pretty good.
Like mother, like daughter.
I need to sell the coffee maker.
I actually went to put it in the household inventory, because it was a career reward for Quill, and while in there I found Bristol’s Winterfest gift – a robot vacuum!
I’ve never seen one before. I see it can be upgraded – I’ll have Quill do that when he gets home from the restaurant.
First, River is about to pass out, so Quill sends him to bed. I hope it works!
BRISTOL ZALE – DO NOT JUST STAND THERE – DO SOMETHING.
THEY’RE BOTH CRYING. A LOT.
On the plus side, Quill’s request to send River to sleep was successful!
So there’s that.
Rainy also found her actual bed.
This is a major victory.
Many hours of Quill doing absolutely everything for everyone, I finally get him to upgrade the robot vacuum so it can clean liquids.
How fun!
Thanks, Santa!
YAY! Another pair of “potentially” helping hands!
Anything you can do to assist would be greatly appreciated, Rainy.
Bristol – don’t be weird.
I think it’s okay if she picks up her own little brother.
I kept waiting for the older kids to go to school, but it’s Saturday (noob) – However I caught these cuties being good little brothers.
Adorbs. ❤
Quill is off to work, but don’t let the somewhat happy face fool you.
It’s all shambles. A never-ending cycle of screaming children, diapers, and exhaustion. Maybe he’s just happy he gets to leave the house.
Oh good, I get to leave too. Rainy got invited to a pre-prom party. Here are the party attendees standing around like robots.
Thankfully Rainy (again, sorry about the plumbob, she’s the only playable Sim here, so I can’t hide it) does not just stand there and starts chatting with the redhead.
Her name is Mya.
And she’s a cutie!
I love that hair color, wouldn’t mind seeing it in the legacy…
I have no idea what lot this is, or even what world this is in, because I don’t pay attention…
…but it sure is cute!
These two are having fun, so that’s nice.
🙂
Rainy’s bookworm trait makes its first appearance.
She manages to meet someone else, Rigoberto.
He looks like he’s gonna slap her. (He doesn’t).
Rainy: Hey, cool chat. I’m carrying all these dirty dishes, so I’m just gonna do something about them right now.
Rainy: Good thing this place has trashcans.
WE HAVE TRASH CANS, RAINY. Other teen – Phillip Haas. Nice hat.
Then this pop-up:
Everyone’s dressed appropriately, except Rainy…
…but at least she didn’t wear this dress. Ha ha! Oh hey, that’s Mya. Nice hat.
Rainy gets her groove on.
I *DID* make her an outfit, so I force her to change.
Git it gurl.
Love the look!
She joins in the dancing, so that’s nice.
ISBI prom was better than I expected.
Then “same dress girl ver. I” (or II, who knows) joins Rainy in a “sweetheart dance” – her name is Alyse Markovic.
I did not expect this!
It was for about four seconds, then she walked away.
That’s fine, I didn’t like you anyway.
Mya seems to be having troubles with her arms.
Ouch. (I still think she’s cute).
Award time.
Rainy could not look more bored.
And appears to be getting the stank eye. RUDE.
To the victors go the spoils.
Um yeah, we’re good.
MASHES THAT CANCEL BUTTON
She arrives home freezing, which makes sense. That is not a very “outside-in-the-winter” appropriate outfit.
The Idiots fared about as well as to be expected. Remind me to have Quill make some vegetarian food. River is surviving on increasingly aging birthday cake.
Some quick French toast before he heads off to work.
That’ll help River. Although not much more nutritious than cake, ha ha.
This was just to show off more of Rainy’s clothes. This is another PJ look.
She’s so cute. Hi Bristol. 😐
Dude. Reed. Are you okay?
You look 35 and a little nuts.
Rainy & River are very sweet.
QUILL. COME HOME. SOMEONE TAKE CARE OF THE SCREAMING.
Bristol is not helping.
The noise is awful. Love infants, hate the updates to the crying. So many different ways to hear them cry now. Thanks EA.
YOU ARE PARENTING LEVEL 10.
DO BETTER.
Couldn’t have put it better myself, Rainy.
I am also unimpressed.
That’s great – put the toxic baby in the bed.
Totally the priority.
This doesn’t bode well. Quill came home from work, and had him run around taking care of everything, and before I knew it, he was heading back out the door to work.
Without a wink of sleep. I’m sorry, buddy. I anticipate a fail. (Hi mail person, thanks for the bills)
Poor Reed has been trapped in here for hours.
At least Bristol managed to let him out.
I’m shocked.
Quill managed to make it directly to his bed without a fail.
I’m sure I’ll need to wake you up before too long. Sleep faster.
The children don’t seem to mind the lack of supervision:
Ridge needs to sleep with his eyes closed, however. Creepy.
The peace was brief, and Bristol, who’s nearly as exhausted as Quill, managed to wake up and take charge.
Keep this up, and I’ll be forced to remember why I loved you so much. (once)
River realized the place is a disaster and does what he can.
Unfortunately, he can’t help the screaming babies.
Raven ages up! She adds the sensitive trait. I don’t really have anywhere to put her, so I moved Reed in with River, and she’ll bunk down with Ridge.
She’s a cutie pie!
Quill is finally awake and ready to face the next day’s challenges.
I put him to work on some vegetarian dishes so River can eat.
Stinky Rainy brings Nigel home from school.
He’s adorable! River also stinks. THERE ARE FIVE BATHROOMS.
Hey, it worked! River is now eating real meals and not just cake.
Veggie dumplings! YUM! I also finally added some better lights in the living room, and added some color to the walls. It’s better.
A new maid showed up today. She looks thrilled.
She did an excellent job, however. Unfortunately, she can’t clean the kids.
This filthy little munchkin, Ridge, enters toddlerhood.
He rolled angelic! Woo!
He’s darling and fell asleep in this chair before Quill could finish upgrading his crib to a toddler bed.
Not a fail!
Reed, although not in very great condition, maxes his communication skill!
POINTS! +5 (I think this is the first, and only, points in this chapter…)
Quill gets home from work, and starts to try to help poor little Reed out.
Rainy heads off to school in another cute outfit!
This little peanut has cute outfits too.
There we go – All smiles. ❤
The kids are all very sweet – but I’m so over all the hard work – the next generation is gonna be SMALL.
Maybe not too small.
❤
Quill tries to get Rainy to do her homework.
She does!
These two had the cutest little chat in the bathroom.
Reed was kinda sad, and Ridge was cheering him up. It was very sweet.
Rainy comes home from school stinky & very tense from doing poorly on her exams.
But with the radio blasting, manages to try to teach Ridge about broccoli.
Rainy: This is where everyone but your momma go to the bathroom
River is still here! He has a B in school.
Maybe he’ll get an A at some point.
Feeding this little stink-bomb, Quill maxed parenting skill.
He then added perfectionist to his traits, just like Bristol did when she maxed parenting. Consistent.
ILY Rainy!
Thanks for helping! She’s determined to teach the little guys how to use the toilet.
It’s NYE, and I noticed how much money Quill is making per shift.
But the Zales still only have $264k in the bank. I think I need to give more spouses jobs. I could use their one action per life stage. I’ll have to do that.
Anyway, I’m going to stop here, even though it’s not exactly a stopping point. I checked days until age up, and everyone has a ways to go, and we’re already over 100 pictures. TTFN!
Until next time, Happy Simming!
SCORE:
Self-Wetting (-5): 3 (-15)
Pass Out (-5): 8 (-40)
Failing School (-5):
NTH children earning an A in school (+5): 5 (+25)
Negative Traits Earned by NTHs (-5):
Positive Traits Earned by NTHs (+5): 11 (+55)
Accidental Deaths (-10):
Fires (-10): 1 (-10) (ha ha ha ha, one…)
Social Worker Visit (-15):
Single Birth (+5): 6 (+30)
Twins (+10):
Triplets (+15):
Any sim in the house completing Any Aspiration Milestones (Child/Adult) (+5): 9 (+45)
Any sim in the household completing Aspirations (+10): 1 (+10)
Toddler Skills maxed by NTH toddlers (+5): 4 (+20)
Skills (Child and Adult) maxed by NTH family members (+10): 1 (+10)
TH reaching top of their career (+5) 1 (+5)
NTH sims reaching the top of a career (+10):
Randomizing every trait and aspiration for an entire generation (+10):
Not using spares’ Satisfaction Reward points for an entire generation (+10):
**Note on the above – Since P moved over from TS3, I can’t count them, and Q is where we’re at now, I will award these points when I pass the torch to R – but I have randomized everything, and used no reward points since the move to TS4
Every 100,000 simoleons earned (+20): 2 (+40)
Immortalizing the Torch-Holder (+5):
Left Over Points from TS3: +535
New Count in TS4: +205
Total: +740
Zale Family ISBI - Alphabetcy 