Honey's Housacy Challenge Ch2, Part 7

Looks like it's shaping up to be 10 chapters this time around too. Never fear, where I am up to in the game right now, Alisha just became Young Adult, so that means Chapter 3 has technically already started. Or at least, will have once I finish showing all this. I haven't been able to move her out straight away because of the dreaded 'vacation' glitch, that some of you may know about. But I found a fix for it, so there's no need to panic.

The seasons have changed again in my Sunset Valley full of rich Sims and Celebs. Jack Frost has been at work, crunching up the ground and painting all the leaves, and there's chilly winds, rain, hail and light snow. There are still going to be Sims crazy enough to try swimming in this autumn weather. *shakes head* Part of why I love this game, they never cease to amuse me.

*squints* I think that might be Leif or a paparazzi down there by the horseshoe set. But I'm not sure. Too hard to see, and we get stalkers all the time, because of Agnes.  

 

 As much as it pains me to do it, I packed away the playground set into the family inventory, to make way for Alisha's Spooky Day party that she wanted to throw. STILL hadn't figured out how to put Hesper away, so he came too. We got two buffet tables, a snow cone maker, a bubble blower set, that I didn't know you need stools to use. And a stereo and a dance floor. The new girl with the dark hair is someone Alisha met at high school, with the 'talk to friends' interaction. Chuck Fischer, I really hope that's a costume! Not sure who is playing in the leaf pile. Might be Lief. Ha ha. With his brethren. XD

 

The buffet tables are Halloween themed. Spooky Day parties are all about food and I'm sure we've lived up to that expectation. 

 

Alisha's party was a modest success. All the guests felt good about having attended. And then it's time for trick or treating. She chose the tiger costume, roar!~

 

Darn, she got all dressed up and then no one was home, all the neighbours were out, and I mean ALL of them. Every house we went to was empty. I can only imagine that they all went out trick or treating all the other Sims that were home. 

Well, everyone was out except for this one. Alisha changed into her outerwear because I assume she got too cold. And then we went and rang this lady's doorbell twice, and got a few bits of candy. I think Alisha's jersey made her hungry. (Reads: Keep Calm and Eat Carrots).  

 

Halloween, er, Spooky Day, is over. We need to keep life interesting though, so after a while we invite Marshall on another date. The winter festival hasn't yet arrived and truth be told I prefer it this way, all that glittering expanse of snow to play in. So pretty.

Alisha: "Let's make a snow man, with stick arms!"

 

 Marshall: "Okay, snowmen are cool" 

Looks like they're off to a good start. Hopefully this date will be a success. The first ever date they went on sucked majorly and he left five minutes in, saying she has issues and he's not sticking around to deal with them. He's warmed up considerably since then.  That cheesy smile says it all.

 

Working on it together, they got the base done, and the fun meters are filling up fast. 

Alisha: "I can't feel my fingers anymore"

Maybe I should have given her some gloves.

 

He's starting to look more like a proper snow man now. Whatever a proper snowman looks like.

 Alisha: "Hey Marshall, look over there, it's the Grim Reaper" 

Marshall: "What? Where? I don't see him. Where?"

Alisha: "Heh heh heh! Sucker!"

Snowball fight!

 Their snowman looks on as Alisha makes a snow angel, and someone else wanders through the snow to the barbeques. He's got his seasons a bit wrong, methinks. 

Marshall's still a little freaked out over mention of a certain somebody with a scythe and a black hood. 

Marshall: "The grim reaper, why'd she have to say that? That guy freaks me out" 

Alisha: "Look, I'm making a pretty angel!" 

 

Such a beautiful moonrise. To get Marshall's mind off the things that go bump in the night, they start making another snowman. 

 When this happens. Oh no. Now, I forget who she is so I'm sorry for that. Nevertheless, we know who's coming next.

 

Alisha: "Wow, look at that, he's real. He's here to help this lady to the afterlife. What a nice guy. What would we do without him?"

Marshall *frozen in fear*  

 

The Grim did come to take this lady to her next destination, although it looked like she really didn't want to go. She fell down begging and pleading not to be taken, but he told her to get up and come along, and she had no choice but to obey. Oh dear. Wonder if Alisha still has a high opinion of him. 

 

And that's not the only thing we have to worry about, looks like Marshall's fainted dead away. No thanks to his trait of being a coward. Alisha tried to wake him up and he fainted again right away. Which is a better way to kill a date than to end it on a good note. Everyone else is mourning the missing Sim. But Alisha shows her ties to the Goth family by being mostly calm and collected. 

 

Mostly. Marshall's going to keep fainting if we don't do something, silly sim! Better think up something quick or this date is a disaster. Wait, wait, take inspiration from your jersey, Alisha!

Alisha: "How is eating carrots going to help in this situation?!" 

No, I mean keep CALM. 

 

A nice massage, that sorted him out. Although, as my friend suggested, we would have been better off putting snow down his pants. Lol. That'd wake anyone up. As it were, Marshall enjoyed the massage and said later it was one of the best dates he'd had. Understandably, we wrapped things up pretty quickly after building our fun meters again.

 

Back at home, a chilly winter's morning, and our legacy heir feels like a plate of nice hot waffles. Mmm...

 

Too bad she has absolutely no cooking skills whatsoever. 

 Alisha: "The wall alarm thingy is going off! How do I turn it off?"

 

Alisha: "Wah! Flames! Not good, not good!" 

No that is not. Just like her father before her, she will not be the only person to set this kitchen on fire.  The fire alarm's going crazy, I imagine help will be here any moment. In the meantime, my Sim may scream and panic.

 

Until sense comes into her head, and she grabs a nearby fire extinguisher from hyper space. Or wherever that place is that they pull items out of thin air.

 

Alisha: "Shoot, I better put this out before someone sees!" WHOOSH! Lol. 

Too bad it's not like in real life, where white chemical powder coats everywhere. I'd love to see Leif's reaction to that. However, just like in real life, things can still burn to ashes, so it's best we don't let it get carried away.

 

Yes, the firefighter is here. A nice woman who arrives just in time to see Alisha smother the last of the flames. Her waffles must be blackened beyond recognition. I don't think we can save them. Sorry.

Also, if you'll note, Mrs Firefighter happens to dislike our clawed couch. Doesn't anybody like cat-scratch decor?

 

Alisha: "I just wanted waffles for breakfast. I don't know what went wrong. I put them in the oven, turned the heat on high, and the next thing they're on fire".

After apologies, a small lecture, and thankfully insurance on our oven, which we replaced,  she decided to go for the easier option. 

 

Bread and jam. Guess we better work on her cooking skills.I have a feeling she'll be eating this a lot otherwise.

 

Sending a love letter to Marshall on her day off, just to make sure things go smoothly. It wouldn't do to put in all the time and energy to one Sim only to have them run off with someone else. It has happened in the past. Oh well, I suppose if he does that, we'll just steal him back.

 

Leif is now an elder. What do you think of his work outfit? Lots of brown, but not entirely ugly. I think the white shirt breaks it up a little, and the different shades of brown keep it from being too much.  

Leif: "Glad you like my work clothes" *slurp slurp* 

He's eating soup for dinner.  

 

Just another piccy of Alisha sleeping. I hadn't got to use this outfit much and wanted to see her wear it. She looks so peaceful, must be a nice nap. 

 

Ahhh! Agnes, you weren't supposed to go yet. 

Agnes: "Well no one knows when their time is up. It's not my fault I had to stay late and mark homework".

Whoops, I somehow forgot she only had 15 days. Today must have been the last one. 

Alas, we didn't get to complete her life time want. I tried my best, but she was lagging too far behind on her writing skill.She hasn't died from neglect though, so that's something. I only wish she had departed for the afterlife in one of her more fashionable pieces of attire. She's instead in her outerwear.

 

Grimmy appears, predictably, along with ominous black mist and scythe. He's doing a lot of business lately. 

 

 Agnes: "Hello my old friend, we meet again".

Grim: "Agnes, didn't think I'd be seeing you so soon, come along then, my dear, I have someone who's been asking to meet you"

Agnes: "I should hope so. I've waited long enough to see him again".

 

At this point in time, Alisha had rolled the want to make five snowmen, after completing her want of making five snow angels. I went to have a look and discovered this! How did she figure out how to make the grim reaper snowman at the same moment her mum died? Pure coincidence I'm sure, but it was amusing to see. Agnes will be dearly missed. 

 

Leif is heartbroken at the loss of his wife. As a couple, they gained the eternally faithful moodlet, a fine achievement to have. It's sad to see them broken up. But one day, he'll see her again. For the next two days, he'll cry and mourn her loss though. 

 

Well, both of them will. It's a bit depressing, poor Sims. I checked their inventories for an urn of her ashes but none could be found. So I'm not sure if it's sitting out on the school steps where she passed, or if you don't get one because she was on a community lot. So, she probably won't be coming back as a ghost. 

 

Alisha rolled the want to visit the cemetery, so off we went to help her ease the grief of losing her loved one. Agnes wasn't in there (we checked every stone). But it seemed to cheer her up a little, anyway. Then she sat down in the snow and started doing her homework...and then my game froze, for several minutes. Blah. I couldn't click anything, but the sounds were all working, the bushes and snow were moving, falling, etc. Only, Alisha was stuck in one pose and when I did get it to unfreeze (just waited), and went to Lief, he got frozen playing the guitar. This time, the musical notes were animated, and the music was working but again the rest of the game froze. Not sure if my laptop was overworked and overheated or what, but I logged off for a while and it was fine after that. It's only frozen a few times since then and not as bad. 

 Okay, three chapters in one day. That's enough from me. Expect more updates over the next couple of weeks, or whenever I can get to them. This is the last day of my holidays and then I'm back to normal routine, so things might be slower from here on out.

As always, thanks for reading. <3 Happy simming.

Honey's Housacy Challenge Ch2, part 6

 Seeing as 'welcome back to chapter two, part six', is a horribly boring way to start off this post, I'm not going to say it. Instead I shall say this: several hours of gameplay has brought you thirty-five or so more screenshots to peruse while I continue blabbing on about my Sims!

You may think 'this person has no life' or 'this person really likes The Sims', or even 'I could really go for a pizza right now', but regardless, I am going to keep updating this blog until it reaches its hopeful conclusion. Or until I run out of time and energy and get bored, whichever comes first. 

So here we have Leif. If you squint, you can see him running to Morgana Wolff's party, having arrived fashionably late. I don't know why rich Sims like inviting him to their parties, maybe it's so they have someone to show off to. Lol. Either way, Leif is not complaining. Look at that location!

 

And here be the lovely Morgana Wolff herself, who yes, you guessed it, happens to be a celebrity here in Sunset Valley. She may be an old fried of Leif's. He has that 'long distance friend' reward so he never loses relationship with people he's already befriended, and I never bother to check and see who his friends are these days. Just know that he has plenty.

 

Alisha, still at the summer fest, trying out the roller skating rink. Boy that looks like fun. We have a roller derby where I live but I'm always too scared to try it out after hearing horror stories of the accidents people have at top speeds. Somehow, this looks more sedate.  A nice variation on the winter ice skating rink.

 

Aha, Agnes, you've still got it! She looks fabulous, doesn't she? I think those two celebrity stars were well earned. If only Cornelia were here to see her sister now.

Alisha believes in second chances. She gave the face painting booth one more try and this time she got what she asked for.

Alisha: "This is much better!"

If you can't see it, it's a little sun. Orange, happy, just the symbol to get for our princess.

 

 While she's here, she may as well do everything she can fit in. Seasons are a bit short lived in my game so the festival will be clearing up soon. I have to adjust the settings to make them longer. Next is trying out one of the food stalls, a rainbow Popsicle to be exact. Love the little burger on the sandwich board down there, hehe. That always makes me smile.

 

Oh, and Louie's still here, in case you were wondering. He came to get a snowcone a short time later. I think they're both having too much fun, so he hasn't left yet. But he has changed clothes. Hmmm!

 

To end the day, because it's getting late and dark and Alisha is now tired, they dance to the summer tunes. Alisha also set off some fireworks. I wanted to take a picture and she set off one, went to the bathroom and then went home. She was meant to set off multiple and cancelled out the actions, lol. Guess she had enough for one day. 

 

Another glitch! Yes, my game had started to have small glitches here and there, and this is the second one. There is a wild horse walking back and forth through the house and might I add, through our only set of table and chairs! It must have magic abilities because it walked through the walls and dining set, then turned around and walked back through again. Crazy glitches. What would a legacy be without them? Maybe I should name my next legacy that, if I ever do another. XD 

 

 For anyone who hasn't seen, and I don't think I have shown it, this is what Alisha looks like in her PJs. Her hair changes styles and appears down, but I guess that makes sense, 'cause who wants to sleep with their hair up? (It's uncomfortable). Time for bed, and yes, she's wearing an ORANGE starfish tee. :D

 

Hehe, caught this and it looks like she's staring at the painting of Alisha.

Agnes: "I remember when she was that little, not so very long ago. Goodness, I'm glad that's over! If I had to change another diaper I think I would have gone crazy. Children should be disciplined, I was far too soft on her!"

But she's smiling as she says it. <3 

 

Agnes is making her way to work. Look out kiddies, here comes your teacher. She has a new pinstripe suit too. Although, it clashes somewhat with her umbrella. Rain disruptor. Thing.

 

Err...Alisha's not the only one who's aged up. Hesper grew too. But he's not so adorable as the child version. He's started to pick fights with Alisha and annoy me and her by constantly following her into the bathroom so she has to shoo him, or she cancels her actions. He follows her anywhere she goes for that matter. But sometimes, he's good to dance with or socialize with, or if she wants to beat the stuffing out of someone with pillows. I was considering turning him 'real' but I changed my mind after he started to do more of the mean interactions and kept getting in the way. We might fish him out again later. 

 

Gee, I wish there was a way you could stop imaginary friends from coming out all the time. What was that method again? Lol. I completely forgot about putting Hesper in someone's inventory for storage, so he came to Alisha's pool party as well (and perhaps we find out the reason for that beanie - he is bald??!). Some of her friends have aged up to teens, the kid on the diving board is Chuck Fischer. The bathing suit Alisha's wearing is one I like a fair bit, I tend to choose it for most of my female Sims. 

 

Mitzi came to the party as well, but she's not yet a teen. And here we see where one of our pool floaters has gone. She did take it home. Probably with the other pool lounge she took. 

 

Underwater photos, yeah! My camera is a multi-purpose tool. And it only has one button - C. Ha ha.That's the keyboard shortcut I press to snap pictures. Anyway, Chuck and Alisha are having a hold breath contest. I do wish there were more interactions and games for Sims to do in the pool or at the beach/lake etc. I don't have Island Paradise yet, so there may be more in that expansion pack. I remember in Sims 2 (I think it was), they could play Marco Polo, and sometimes cheat at it. Haha.

Wow, sore loser, Chuck certainly doesn't look happy about losing. 
I find his expression hilarious. Don't worry Chuck, I'm sure there'll be other hold breath contests in future that you will win. 

Mitzi: "Not if he carries on like that, there won't"

 

Enough splashing in the pool, time to try out our new water slide. Wooooo! 

Alisha: "Weee!" Lol. 

I think this guy's name is Jess. I forget where she met him but he's her friend, so we invited him. He's also a teen and as a male, potential future husband. Which sounds creepy now, but will surely not be later. I'm still pretty undecided on who to go with. Marshall, or Chuck or Jess? 

 

Agnes is making one of the nicest paintings I've seen. This is the one she maxed her skill out on and since it was so nice I decided to keep it. I think I just liked how happy they look. It really has a cheerful, celebratory air.

 

 Did you know we have a bar? It used to be inside. Louie Dean drank from it once when he came over to babysit. And Agnes is now using it to practice mixing drinks, otherwise known as mixology. I don't think she will be tending any clubs, though it never hurts to learn new things.

 

Of course, she has to taste test them. 

 

Everyone was getting hungry after all the swimming, water sliding and other antics, so we ordered a pizza. Mitzi complains about our scratched up couch. 

Mitzi: "And they don't even have any cats"

 

 Agnes: "Alisha, that's not very healthy. How do you expect to keep a healthy body and a good figure if you eat junk food? It's lazy!"

Alisha: "One slice isn't going to hurt"

Agnes disapproves of fast food. She has a nice plate of veggie rolls.

Agnes: "Lead by example, I always say" 

With the painting skill maxed out (hurrah!), she gets to work on her writing skill. She's published a few novels, more than I can say I've written, and if she keeps at it, we hopefully should be able to achieve her life time want before time's up.   

 Agnes: "Having pizza for breakfast is unhealthy, Alisha" 

Alisha: "Geez, how do you do that? You didn't even look away from the computer"

Agnes: "Yes, but I'm not deaf. I heard you open the fridge" 

Alisha: "There's other stuff in there besides pizza" 

Agnes: "Be quiet please, I'm trying to write" 

She's right, you know. 

Alisha: "Don't even say it"

 Alisha's friends are now all teenagers. Mitzi (left) and Marshall (right) have come over to play the game of horseshoes along with Jess. A tradition that was started by Leif and may continue throughout this whole legacy.

 

Marshall, close-up view.  Lol, that hair, reminds me of Grease. And he's not wearing orange any more, boo.

Alisha: "He's not horrifically ugly, but he's not incredibly handsome. Average; we can work with that".  

Jess: "What are you muttering about over there?" 

Alisha: "Oh, nothing, nothing. Just legacy stuff, it wouldn't concern you"

Jess: "It does concern me that you're talking to yourself" XD

 Leif still striving to master the guitar skill, he's often out here on the front lawn strumming away. 

Lol, my friend reckons his name is funny. "Leaf, what tree d'you come from?" "You're looking a bit brown, how old are you?" Ahaha~ Well I thought it was a good name. At least I made someone laugh.

 

 Mitzi also looks lovely, she has nice outfits and I have to wonder if they were randomized or chosen specifically (beforehand somehow). I can hardly wait to give all Alisha's friends makeovers, though I doubt Mitzi will need much done. Maybe play with her hair and makeup and see what her other outfits are. And add some accessories. There are all kinds of nice jewelry and bags on some custom content sites, such as The Sims Resource, and Mod the Sims, thanks to all the wonderful creators. There might be some on the exchange too.

 Oh NO! It's started to hail, effectively ruining our game of horseshoes. 

Alisha: "Where's my rain disruptor? I can't find it"

You don't have one, dearie. 

Alisha: "But all of my friends do"

Very apparent, and lucky for them as now they won't be soaked for the upcoming prom. I think the umbrella's design should also be randomized so we get different kinds.   

 Prom, which I mentioned, started at 6 o clock. And look at the ride! A very stretchy limousine. That could fit Alisha and all of her friends no trouble. I partly took this picture to prove that she really did go to the prom after playing horseshoes in the rain.

 

 Do you like her prom picture? This is the first time she got to wear her formal dress, and I think it looks great against the purple background. Traditionally, I go with red, black or pink for formalwear, it depends on the sim and their personality and looks.  Anyway, that's one heck of a prom picture, which we'll be happy to keep as a fond memento of a fab night of fun.

 To top it all off, she was also voted prom queen and her date, Marshall Decker (randomly chosen btw), was prom king. I put the crown on her bedside table on display. <3 Sweet dreams Alisha.