Fall continues, Winter begins

The first day of Fall was bittersweet for Marcel's family. The boys (Keane & Kelan pictured below) grew up from infants to toddlers and both learned to potty shortly after aging up. Also, the girls have been spending time working on their skills and are staying in a pretty good platinum mood for the most part. However, with the good comes the bad, I'm afraid. Both Marcel and Margaret lost their jobs due to bad choices on chance cards. Luckily they have about $10,000 in the bank to pay the bills until they can both find suitable jobs.

It seems that I have lost the ability to keep everybody platinum. Of course it could be b/c I have 6 kids!

The twins Melody and Harmony grew up in platinum (barely) to teens right before Fall ended and their round was over. Harmony chose Pleasure and Melody Romance. My least two enjoyable aspirations in my previous experience. Maybe I'll be able to turn it around this time and actually like playing them - since I seem to be reaching new heights in my simming, anything is possible!

The next set of twins, Keane & Kelan are children now and the last set of twins, Brody & Kennedy just grew up from toddlers to children. This family is definitely going to be more difficult to keep in platinum!

I had to move them out of their house b/c there simply was not enough room for all of them. I really liked the house they had, but it was a custom house from Parsimonious (I think) and was built over the road. Adding on to that house was a PAIN b/c I had to use moveObjects to build and then I'd forget and my objects would be in unusable places. All and all it was too much to deal with.

Marcel's family, although busy, didn't have much to update. Maybe b/c I forgot to take pictures while trying to raise 6 kids!

On to Carter's house. The Fall is over and Winter is beginning.

Rosie the Servo wanted love. She desperately tried to woo every man she met (including Goopy!) but in the end, she wished for Romance from the Wishing Well. Ta Da! Introducing Nicholas Barthelet. They fell immediately in mad love with each other (gotta love that Well!) and were married smack dab in the middle of Carter & Sharlene's anniversary party (which was a Roof Raiser by the way). As soon as they were married, they moved out to start a life together. I guess they will have to adopt.

Eddie quit his job after reaching top of career in Intelligence. Head of the SCIA was just too much responsibility when he can make $3000 writing a novel in just a few hours. He has hobby plaques in Nature & Film/Literature.

Carter has plaques in Tinkering and Arts/Crafts. He is currently working on sewing skill now is at Silver level. Has gold robot badge and bronze fishing & gardening.

Sharlene is now a Theorist. She has a Silver fishing badge and bronze sewing badge. She is now working at the pottery wheel in her spare time. She hasn't maxed all skills, but the ones needed for promotion are all taken care of. As a side note, I don't think Sharlene will be with us much longer. Her age bar has just a little bit of space left on the end. She's actually 3 days younger than Carter, but I think he's going to outlive her by a week at least. I really doubt she'll see another Winter come. She will be the first Sim buried in Torrential Valley's community graveyard.

Jade is perma plat now that her aspiration meter is full. She is still working on climbing the oceanography ladder. For some reason I don't enjoy playing her. I tend to set her to work on something and then forget about her until I see her wandering around aimlessly at a later time. I'm not sure why I don't like her, but I don't.

Alessa has two skills points left in Logic to be maxed in all skills; Elijah need 3 cleaning, 2 charisma and 1 body skill to be maxed. They have 2 days before aging to teen. Both are perma plat already thanks to that aspiration meter thingy. Man, I love that thing!

Well, that's it for now. Not exactly riveting reading this time, but lots of skills were learned!