College-palooza!! – 2.0

Welcome back dudes and dudettes!

We’re back with the Winchell DITFT! And with my crappy editing!

Last time, we lost Morty and Lark elderfied. Sage and Ginger became teens while Dill, our heir and focus from here out, scampered off to Sim State!

This is going to be picture heacy and image light, not that it’s totally out of the ordinary with this challenge, but I feel particularly bad about it this time around. Outside of this, I usually have a decent balance of images to words. But I wanted to get college in one go and I cut out quite a few superfluous images.

And this is where we meet up with Dill, who aged into a serviceable outfit. Thank god!

As with most of the sims I send to college, we steal one of the computers from the dorm and stick it in my sim’s room so there’s no wait and dicking around with dormies.

More importantly, Dill immediately declares his major. He doesn’t have the luxury of choice, so economics for Dill!

After forcing Dill to marathon skilling, studying, and paper writing, Dill is off to spouse hunt. And to fill some wants, but mostly spouse hunt.

Our first encounter that inspired heartfarts is this bartender, Jeannie. While both Dill and I enjoy her, she’s a bit average. So,  Dill keeps hunting.

Once the club fills enough, he scopes the room and finds this lovely lady. Her name is Gretchen and I think she’s a winner. Where Jeannie was mostly boring, Gretchen is mostly unique. Even if I abhor that dress and can’t find a suitable default replacement for it .

She doesn’t seem to mind his flirts. So he keeps doing it.

 

I ran out of commentary for a second. What?! I worked a rough shift today and I’m sleepy!

By the night’s end, they slow dance and were watched by the creepy dude at the bar(at 6am. Damn, dude! Get your priorities straight).

Creepy Dude: But they look nice together!

But that’s not license to be a creep.

When Dill heads back to the dorm, he works on his creativity and on boosting his cash. With the aptly named Cashgrab. Because I’m creative and that’s totally not what that novel is. It will go on to spawn many sequels…all named Cashgrab.

And it’s good!!

With that cash, Dill invites over Gretchen and buys a makeover chair to fix those buns.

Now that’s a spiffy lady!

First kisses are always the best…in Sims at least.

 

I don’t want to talk about it.

Look at these cutie pies, though!

Also to keep Dill busy and to make sure there is an outfit for everyone to change into, he took up sewing.

Dill has NOTHING to do. This is five hours before his first final ever! And with the silver badge, he made something for himself.

Oh and this the only image I have from his first semester. I know he made the dean’s list…but I don’t have other proof.

He looks like a spiffy businessman in training!!! Handsome bugger.

Dill and Gretchen are moving at light speed, which I’m sure is gonna turn out just *perfectly*. So in his jammies, in front of his dorm, Dill proposes!

And she accepts. She’s so happy about it!

Random Dill on his way to his freshman final.

He sticks it again! Spoiler, that’s not really going to change.

With the money Dill has(mostly) saved, he can afford to move to this not-a-dollhouse. This one has room for Sage and Ginger, who will being joining Dill once he starts his senior year.

It’s pretty empty, mostly because we ran out of money.

That means Dill gets to dig.

*sings song from Pocahontas*

Way. To. Deliver! Treasure chest for the win!

Not 100% on why the lighting is different, but at least there is more than a fridge and stove on the first floor.

Dean’s list again.

To celebrate, Dill and Gretchen woohoo. Since he doesn’t need to wait for marriage.

He’s currently working on outfits for Sage and Ginger. Mostly so they don’t look horrendous

And then nothing happens. For. EVER.

But since Dill hit senior year, it’s time to bring the twins in. It’s an efficient way to get them out of main house and into a place where they can stay indefinitely.

They definitely need those outfits Dill’s been working on. Sage’s could pass, but Ginger’s is a nightmare. Doesn’t fit her at all.

With the amount of cash Dill has saved, both Sage and Ginger get their own personally decorated rooms. They’re not spectacular or anything, but I don’t think I did too bad.

Much better. Now that Ginger’s older, she’s quite pretty. She has her own unique face, but she aged out of being a gremlin.

Sage is still Dill’s messy clone. Not much else.

And the twins immediately start on getting the minimum needed for them to pass. I feel bad, but I don’t actually care about their grades. They might be in college forever, so, I’m not super duper worried about them.

Ginger gets pumped for her reward of a chess table. And what is Sage doing?

SETTING THE DAMN HOUSE ON FIRE!

He is lucky he put that out and didn’t set my heir on fire! I would have sacrificed him to death to get Dill back.

Sage is on perma-sandwich restriction. If he ever uses the stove again, I’ll kill him.

Thanks to Sage and the damn fire, I have to get them all back to where they were. So, Ginger gets to date the only male she isn’t related to. Who happens to be her professor. But he got her back up to gold so I don’t care.

If you read that, first off congratulations for making it through my laziness. Second, you’ll see that Dill, who is on his last semester of college, and Ginger both made dean’s list while Sage passed. Which makes me happy enough.

After neglecting Sage a little bit, just out of frustration with him, he was kinda having a rough time. He rolled romance and he needed a date.

We paid the matchmaker $3000 and we get his father’s ex. How bonkers is that. For a second, I thought it was going to be funny and weird…until…

Apparently she’s either A) not over the divorce or B) upset Morty died. So, the second she arrived, she went into aspiration failure.

Like full on loony toony failure.

Which plummeted the date until it was irreparable. Sage stayed miserable and I was robbed of my funny weirdness.

In better news, as the semester draws to a close, Dill reaches a quarter of his LTW. Which is a great headstart! I didn’t think it would be too hard with his generation goals, but this is awesome!

Wrapping up his last semester, Dill( and Ginger) hit the dean’s list again. Which means Dill’s kept the steady 4.0! It also means that we actually get to move onto real adulthood and the actual challenge!

 

So Dill calls up the taxi and he’s on his way!

Aging up in his jammies, Dill heads off to Bluewater Village to start the generation proper.

And that’s all I have. Like I said, I’m sleepy and tittering between grouchy and depressed.

I’ll see ya later buddied ❤

Suitably Devastated – 1.3

*Waves*

Before I greet you properly and before we proceed, I must give you a bit of a warning. For the first half of the update, all of my pictures are going to be horribly inconsistent in terms of editing. I’m trying something new in terms of images. First off, I’m realizing I should just be using FRAPS, which comes too late since I have about 200 more images from before said realization. Second, I should have made back up images instead of playing around with editing. Third, I’m probably going to drop trying  to edit entirely. None of them are coming out great, even the few test images I’ve been using. I partly blame the lower quality graphics on this computer.

Anyway, last time, Dill grew up a bunch until he was a strapping young teen. The Winchells also welcomed Sage and Ginger to the fold and are now children. Morty also became an elder.

And now on with the show!

*falls asleep for four hours*

Damn it! Okay…

We start with Dill’s current college scholarships. While there is no rule saying he has to go, it feels fitting within the generation goals to have him go to college. And since he did so well in school as a child, he immediately qualified for this scholarship!

And the plan is for Dill to qualify for as many scholarships as possible.  So the family splurged on this telescope so Dill would have every opportunity to get abducted.

Lark, however, decided to swoop in first and spy on the neighbors. She was quite lucky no one came running.

Dill works on other skills in the meantime. He’s pretty close to qualifying for the creativity one thanks to all of his time alone with the xylophone.

But when night falls, he scoots off to spend the night attached to the telescope.

He isn’t lucky(or unlucky) enough to get abducted, but he does end up snagging this the next  day.

The rest of the family is alive and well. Morty continues to work as his days dwindle and Ginger is sweet on him.

Of course, there is a more pressing matter at hand. It’s Lark’s elder birthday!

My founder is already growing old! What the what?

A quick, albeit achy, spin and Lark enters the final stage of her life.

And she’s just as lovely as she was!

First order of business in to fulfill her LTW. Time to throw a Golden Anniversary party!

Then two things happened. Lark completed her lifetime want and the only party guest, Fleur, decided not to show up. Spoiler: the party is a disaster. Not that Lark gives two craps.

Even if they’re busy and don’t get to interact that often, these two still got it.

Back to our heir, Dill got himself a job in Intelligence since Business wasn’t available. It would’ve been nice to have that head start, but it’ll do.

Meanwhile, Lark continues to work on her fishing. It would be awesome if she could get that optional goal. It’s a heck of a lot easier than getting all the fish in TS3!

And Dill becomes an overachiever! There is a picture of the memory, but I’m lazy. And he did qualify for the scholarship that go along with reaching the top of a teen career, but he found a job in Business the day after this and lost it.

But not everything can be about Dill! It’s the twins’ birthday!

Also, fun news for you folks at home, my crappy editing stops here!

Blow out those candles guys!

Sage is still a copy of Dill and Ginger isn’t as bad as I thought she would be. When she finally get hair, she’s actually quite nice. But I neglected to get a picture of that. Whoops.

Lark gets a juicer! It’s like nothing could go wrong! She’s on top of the world!

Well…shit.

Morty’s time is up. He was quite a bit older than Lark, but I was hoping to keep him around until Dill went to college. He’s a least going out platinum thanks to the genie.

Lark, unsurprisingly, is devastated. And I was a little too. Only a little, but it’s the first death of the challenge and  that means Lark’s clock is ticking rapidly too.

At least his left his family wealthy. Which might I note, he left nothing to his other children. Just the Winchells. And some rando named Sarah. I have no damn clue who Sarah is. Luckily, she didn’t get much.

Everyone was suitably devastated. Ginger was so upset she grew hair 😉

See! She didn’t turn out too bad. Especially after looking like a troll as a toddler. She is 100% channeling someone like Wednesday Addams, though. The inner goth girl is strong with this one.

^Was that rude sounding? I meant it in a good way!

Lark is one fish shy of that optional goal. Of course it’s the golden trout, but there is still enough time for now.

When I made up Ginger’s teen room, I made the mistake of including a stereo. While it’s cute that the siblings gather to dance, it’s annoying that the room is small and they aren’t doing productive things.

While it was neglected for a short while, Lark never really abandoned her garden. Since she’s  got the gold badge, it’s fairly easy to keep the plants happy and net quite a bit from the harvests. Even with the large inheritance left by Morty, I want to make sure they have plenty to redo the house/move when the time comes.

Then Lark gave me a flipping heart attack when she got struck by lightning ! I would like generation one to see generation three, please!

Also, I forgot how to spell lightning…because I’m an idiot.

With Morty gone, Lark posessing a death wish, and Dill a few days from adulthood, it’s time to pass the torch onto Dill! He’s off to college and this will be the last generation 1 update!

I’m going to give a run down of what Lark has acomplished so far. Even if Dill will be taking over, I’m still going to count whatever Lark achieves before her death. The rules never say that once the torch is passed that you can’t still hit goals, so I’m going for it.

Lark’s Achievments so far:

– Get a gold gardening skill badge – Check
– Have a garden containing each type of plant – Check
– Get married, no premarital woohoo – Check
– Have a boy & a girl – Double Check

Optional:
– Catch every type of fish – One more fish to go so – In progress
– Max the nature hobby – Check
– Marry a sim whose predestined hobby is nature, or marry a gardener – Funny enough – Check. I can’t remember if I mentioned it, but Morty’s OTH was nature and that was a unintentional bonus!

Lark did really well! So next time we start generation 2 and head to college with Dill

Time Keeps on Slipping-1.2

*cracks knuckles* Alright. Let’s do this.

Welcome back to the Winchell DITFT! Last time Lark was a plantsims until she wasn’t. She also married Morty Roth, now Winchell of course! She spawned Fleur, a plant baby who grew up in time for Lark to get pregnant with our first heir contender for the gen, Dill.

Before we dive in, I’m going to apologize for any future photos without ceilings. I’ve completely forgotten how to do it, so for the time being, they’re going to be a bit sloppy. I’ve considered starting back up with photo editing, but I’d have to download some software since I’m on the back up computer.

Anyway!

This is about all that happened during Dill’s infancy. Part of me feels bad, but he did nothing but poop and eat. Lark did nothing but garden, fish, and not die. And Morty worked, skilled, and didn’t die. So nothing happened.

And it’s birthday time! Also I just now realized that I gave Dill’s stats too early.  I’m honestly used to being able to see an infant’s personality, thanks to my love for Sims 3, but eh. I’m not really gonna hide the fact that I’m more than a generation ahead ingame.

Dill needs a makeover. Beyond that, he’s pretty cute. Although those eyebrows are doing him zero favors.

See! Cutie! And he’s learning to potty.

With Dill firmly in toddlerhood, it’s time to work on another baby!

For all the trouble they went through conceiving Dill, they get baby #2 done first try!

Morty is in charge of Dill’s skills. While it’s usually up to both parents to teach one skill, Lark is pregnant and still needs to work with the garden. That means Morty’s up to bat to be superdad.

Yup. Definitely pregnant! Funny enough, Lark didn’t have a lick of morning sickness with Dill. The first day, there was hardly any change at all really. Unfortunately, this pregnancy isn’t nearly as easy.

Lark takes it upon herself to read Dill a story. It happens quite often. Everyone wants to read Dill stories.

Lark’s pregnancy has hit her very hard. She’s either starving or about to pass out.  There is no way for her to spend hours in the garden at the moment.

So Morty steps up. He earns himself a bronze badge just from watering and weeding a few plants.

And NOTHING happens for a day and half! Seriously. Between taking care of Dill, keeping Lark alive, and Morty just Mortying, nothing of note happened.

Regardless, Morty is still excited for another baby. These pics never cease to be adorable in my book.

With the new baby and the eventuality of Dill turning into a child, the house got a clunky expansion. Also an energizer. There is nothing in the rules forbidding them so…

The room is pretty sparse. There is a two pronged reason. First, the Winchell family is still struggling with money. Not to the point where the repo man is a threat, but they don’t have a lot of extra to spare.

Morty’s birthday is totally forgotten until he ages up in the middle of the kitchen.

And this is the only shot you’ll get for a bit of Morty’s makeover. I believe the chain of events went: Morty puts something in the oven, Morty ages to elder, I send Morty to change his ugly outfit, oven starts on fire.

At least nothing, including sims, were harmed.

The fire didn’t do much to improve the state of Lark’s pregnancy. It was already touch and go, but now she’s passing out willy-nilly. All the while Dill is screaming for attention.

Luckily, Dill will no longer be part of the drive-Lark-crazy equation. It’s his birthday! And at this point, I was holding out hope that Lark wouldn’t go into labor.

And my hopes were dashed. At least Dill got to blow out the candles first. So…

But before we get back to Dill, we have a new baby!

This little guy is Sage!

He’s not alone, however!

After dumping Ginger on the floor, it’s time to welcome his twin!

Not to be outdone, Dill ages up as his little sister comes into the world.

A lot is happening a short amount of time.

This is Ginger! She’s going to be the only girl this go around.  Lark and Morty are done having kids. Three is enough.

Especially when Dill ages into this. This was the moment I decided Dill would be our heir. He doesn’t look too much like Morty or Lark. While it’s not totally fair to Ginger or Sage, but I kind love Dill. He’s the perfect little business man!

Once again time slips away. The twins are completely synced, which leaves Lark and Morty at a disadvantage.

Which means that the twins’ birthday arrives fairly quick.

This is Sage. You can barely see his face but he is a clone of Dill, right down to his stats. Which is just my renewed inexperience with the game. I used to know how to do all of these things once upon a time, but now I’m a big ol’ dummy. Anyway! Sage is cute even if he is a clone.

AH! GREMLIN!!

^ Which was my first reaction when first seeing Ginger. She got the worst features of Morty and Lark. Too bad I’m not doing an uglacy. Ginger would be a great start. I feel bad because if I remember correctly, she’s the nicest of the three.

And again time flew by. Lark’s harvest were pretty decent so they were able to build a greenhouse for the winter.

Dill was constantly flocking to Morty when he got home. Not that there was any reason not too. Morty is also the one he seemed to prefer to show off his good grades, which he works his butt off for his A+.

And before they knew it, the twins(fully skilled might I add) were turning into children!

Up first is Sage.

Then Ginger. With an aged up Sage stuffing his face.

In order to keep Sage and Dill straight, I gave Sage a messier look. Ginger grew a little more into her features. She’s actually cute! Uniquely cute, but I like her!

I’ll keep her.

The Winchell’s got a genie lamp!

Lark burned through two of the wishes on wealth. Mostly because she got the first $10,000 bag and then worked through the rest of the chain of bag drops. She actually did it twice.

The last wish was for Morty. He needed peace of mind because there was no way he’s going to reach the to of the adventurer career. His LTW is near the bottom of the to-do list. There’s no spare time to go out and cultivate friends so he can get promoted.

It’s time for our heir to turn into a teen, where I swear more pictures will happen. This was around the time I switched gears. So I started snapping more. \

And Dill ages up quite nicely. And into an appropriate outfit! He looks like a prep school kid. Since he has a set destiny, he was given fortune aspiration with a secondary in knowledge. His LTW is Earn $100,000. That’s totally doable with his future in business.

And we leave, yet again, on Dill. Like I’ve said a few times, I promise this whole thing will get a lot tidier and more interesting soon. I hope I haven’t lost any readers because of it. Sorry guys.

I’ll see you next time!

Plants, Baby! – 1.1

Hello and Welcome back!

I was hoping to have this out (hell, even started) earlier than this. But the past few weeks have had me constantly between

This:

This:

ANNND this:

I apologize firstly for the overabundance of GIFs right off the bat and second for the puking gnome. I’ve been under the weather but not puking gnome sick. I kind used it because the image has been in my head all week and won’t leave. But the moral of this weird story is, despite desperately wanting to reach gold for SimNaNoWriMo, I’ve partly relegated my hopes to “it might not happen” land.

However(!!), I have been playing a lot! Having massive headaches and ear pain don’t do well with almost anything, but I have been able to play while laying down. So, I’ll spend my after work hours when I’m not crying, playing. So there is lots to cover! And if the jerk narrating this thing would stop talking, we could get on with it!

Lark, our founder and current plantsim, continues to press on with her garden. Since hitting gold gardening badge, she planted every plant available to complete that objective.

Morty, pending spouse and recent divorcee, is crying about his divorce. He’s not that close to his children and his relationship with his ex, Stella, wasn’t stellar. Yet he continues to wail constantly.

Since he’s officially divorced and on the track towards marriage, he gets his spouse makeover.

He cleans up pretty well.

After Lark finishes her gardening for the day, it’s time to get these two hitched! Nothing says romance like ovens and PJs!

He didn’t need Stella after all! Lark is amazing and he accepts her proposal!

They married immediately! Babies need to happen, but no ring = no woohoo!

Woohoo! For recreation only this time. Mostly because Lark’s plantsimness isn’t optimal for child-having.

However, a baby plantsim is in order! Her name is Fleur and she is not is the running to carry on the challenge. However, I want a plantsim running around after Lark is cured.

Morty takes to Fleur immediately and teaches her a nursery rhyme. He’s going to make such a good biological dad(to these kids…not so much to his previous ones).

Biological non-plant babies do need to be had soon. Morty is 10 days to elder and it might be nice for him to see(and in turn help raise) his kids to an age where they aren’t super needy.

So Lark phones up the gypsy/matchmaker to cure her planty situation. Lark buys a large quantity just in case future plantsim transformations.

Looks painfully fun…or just painful. It’s unclear if she’s grinning or gritting her teeth.

Also a gullible person could be fooled into thinking she was transforming into a werewolf. Just saying.

Normal Lark is back and just a lovely as before!

Morty’s happy to see her happy in her human form.

Of course , they waste no time getting to making … okay so I’m going to break away here and say I was going to write they were going to make flesh babies instead of plant babies, but that sounds like something a serial killer would say and makes my skin crawl for even thinking it.

They want heir potential babies…? Better? Definitely. And if it make you feel better they tried three times and failed.

Fleur makes her own fun while left alone. At least it keeps her hydrated!

Lark and I both feel a little bad for Fleur. She’s the only plantsim in the house and no one understands her anymore.

Lark and Morty try again the next night. I honestly had no clue if this one worked. I think something temporarily borked.

Thanks to Lark’s harvest and few promotions from Morty, the couple is able to afford a remodel. Some of the previous images included some of the remodel, but I was still hoping for loose narrative at this point so…tough noogies. I wanted to have each room have at least a few pieces of furniture and…it wasn’t totally plausible right off the bat.

It’s a little sparse at the moment, but they have all the necessities.

When I mentioned that I was having trouble with the lullaby, I wasn’t kidding. I never heard one and I for once was playing with sound on.

However, this is a happy surprise! We need someone to carry on and Lark had rerolled the wish for a baby. She had one when she and Morty first married but thankfully plantbabies count!

Also, Lark’s neck is pretty broken for someone still alive.

Morty rolled a bunch of lovey dovey wishes as soon as he first saw Lark after she popped.

While getting frustrated trying to get Lark pregnant, Fleur’s entire toddlerhood is almost completely ignored.

She’s not too bad, although I am kicking myself. I had the Ideal Plantsim replacement all cued up for download and then I pulled the plantsim baby trigger too early. I may play with her later with the replacement.

Fleur interrupts her mother while in the garden to get a farewell belly rub in before moving out on her own.

As much as I want to keep Fleur around, I’m worried she’ll be completely ignored and I really don’t want her to age and die ignored when I would gladly play her at a later time.

Bye Fleur. Hopefully we’ll see you around town!

The Winchell’s get themselves a pond! Lark needs to work on her fishing and it looks nice.

This image is here for two reasons:

A) Lark has maxed her nature enthusiasm

2) Lark popped and I missed it. This is the only image you’re going to get of it. The entirety of the next 24 hours is spent on Lark fishing or gardening and Morty working or catching up on his needs.

With harvests and Lark’s catches, they were able to expand the kitchen out a little. There was no actual dinning area and that was the big goal the money was heading towards.

I told you nothing happened.

Lark giving birth next to her husband in a bubble bath is about as interesting as it got over that time period.

It’s a baby!

This little guy is Dill Winchell. He’s got his dad’s hair and…I’m really ashamed to say that I don’t know. I’ve played quite a bit ahead and I really don’t remember.

I do know that Dill is a Leo. His breakdown is 4/9/4/7/5. He’s outgoing and, beyond that fact that he’s the only one at the moment, leaves him in a good spot to take over. But again, he has no competition at the moment.

Morty’s a good dad. I mean…I guess I never heard bad things about him as a father…but he didn’t seem super-duper broken up about just leaving them in the past.

Oh well! We have Dill now and Morty seems to be all about raising him!

And with the arrival of Dill, we must depart for the day. I’ve been working on this update for four days now and I have been so scattered between work and being sick that I really have no energy most of the time to do much besides veg out and play.

But thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you soon! ❤

Getting Going – 1.0

Hoy! Hello!

And Welcome to So On: The Winchell DITFT! I’m Jess for those who don’t already know. This was going to be a loose narrative adaptation of these rules. However, my images were/are a bit shoddy and it was waaaaay too frustrating trying to create conflicts later in the generation without completely derailing my game.

Anywhozzle, this challenge spans 15/16 generations and we are starting anew in Sims 2 thanks to my personal laptop being temporarily broken. I’m so excited to try this! I’ve tried this challenge in Sims 3 so many times, but gave up because I felt as if I NEEDED to do a narrative. I’m all in on this attempt. So forgive my clunky intro! Let’s go!

This lovely lady is our founder! Lark Winchell will be tilling the future. She’s an Aries with a 3/8/6/3/5 rundown and Family aspiration. Her LTW is to reach a Golden Anniversary. Her Turn on’s are beards and great cook. Her turn off is make-up.

Thank goodness for that! I specifically chose Family because it minimized the risk of getting a career LTW and maximized the chance of getting one that would be easy to take care of while she farmed for a living!

This is our starter home located in Bluewater Village. It’s built where that storybook looking home was. It was the flattest land that I didn’t have to invest money to flatten. I was never going to use it anyway.

The plot of land was also going to be used as justification for how Lark could find stuff in ground to pay the bills.

The current homestead was going to be built over the rubble of a burnt out mansion. It’s now sadly just my headcannon.

But we still need cash. The house, while kind cruddy, took all of the remain money we had. So dig!

Digging for most of the day yielded enough to get by, specifically an expensive vase. Before she started digging, Lark was the proud owner of a shell with a bathroom.

Lark: This stuff stinks!

It’s fertilizer. What do you expect? But plants must be had and there is nary a badge to be found around here.

Morty Roth is the first male to walk onto our lot.

I wouldn’t dare break up his marriage for the built-in plotness and because he was literally the first guy we saw, would I?

I totally would!

Lark: Looks like we’re marked to hook up.

Morty: I’m already married though. How?

Hangout time!

One thing I’ve come to learn about Sims 2, or maybe just came to remember, is that if sims hangout, I can fast forward to friendship! MAKES IT EASY!

Both parties are hungry, so Lark whips up some spaghetti and takes this party inside.

I’m probably going to mention the discarded plot threads I had, so please bear with me. This dinner was supposed to be the start of their romance. Which was going to come off far less homewrecker-y and more he loved the smell of her plants then enjoyed her company.

When it’s just me talking, it’s skeezy.

Potty hugs are the best hugs!

That’s not true. I’ve never had a hug in a bathroom that wasn’t weird and awkward.

Thinking of it, I’ve had very few hugs that weren’t flat out awkward.

If I hadn’t been gung-ho to add Morty to the family, his persistent walk-bys sold me on him.

Romantic hugs!

Steps to breaking up marriages…with Jess, Lark, and Morty.

Lark makes a meal for Morty every time he comes by. Partly because it was going to be a plot thing, Partly because Stella is apparently starving the crap out of Morty. He’s always coming over hungry.. I’m not making it up.

While waiting for the cheese to bubble, Morty takes it upon himself to play gardener. Lark is very good at keeping her garden alive, but all of the decorative plants get full on ignored. Thankfully Morty is helpful.

First kiss! Too bad we have to live under a no woohoo rule or we would just affair it up.

I promise I’m not a dirtball in real life. However, my sims are not as lucky. Sims brings out the….this is awful but what would happen if…?

Apparently Morty and Stella aren’t the true love romance that Bella and Mortimer seem to be.

Morty seems more than happy to mix it up with Lark.

Late night anger gardening for the win!

This is the state of the garden after spending a day with Morty.

On the bright side, the marathon gardening leads to a golden gardening badge!

I missed shots of bronze and silver most because I only just installed Fraps last night and couldn’t get screengrabs.

Now we get to plant the rest of the available plants to hit that goal.

Since Lark spends a lot of time gardening and she is currently all alone, the house is a total sty.

I had to intervene just to make sure Lark wasn’t eaten by flies.

Not that things were normal anyway!

I was kind of dreading this.

Lark is a plantsim! I both love and hate this. Love because I want a plantsim and her needs are a lot less intense, but we’re just starting out!

On the bright side, the tomato plants are ready for sale!

And they don’t look too bad. Or maybe I don’t know what good plants look like in this game.

Lark was kinda hard up for attention though and idiot me didn’t think to have her talk to the plants.

Instead of interacting with the bunny, we called up Morty.

At least this is going somewhere! Romantic kisses right out the gate!

I think they are kinda adorable! Especially with Lark’s plantsimness.

So quite a few things happened around here that weren’t pictured because I neglected to take them for story sake. Note to everyone ever, don’t switch plans halfway through.

Firstly, this is where Morty agreed to move in. He brought $5000 with him and nothing else. The money is being saved for an actual expansion. Morty moving in doesn’t really merit one.

Second thing that happened here is inviting Stella over. In order to break up the marriage, we need to make her hate him and the easiest thing to do is have her catch him and Lark.

It was messy and annoying. She ran away before I could break them up officially.

The official break up happened the next day before Morty headed off to work. He invited Sandra and Stella over(because Stella wouldn’t come on her own -_-)

Stella is super unhappy. Who the hell do you think kicked over the trash?

And this is the end for today. Sorry this is a really anti-climactic. I’ve been really under the weather and switching formats kinda left my brain weird. I promise it’ll get better as we go. I’m almost completely through with the first generation in-game.

Thanks for coming by and I hope to have more out soon ❤