Week 5 - Round 9 - 13 Ash Square (Night)

Welcome to 13 Ash Square

Designed by the very talented vertefae of TSR especially for this Challenge. In fact, she's the only person who joined the Generations 2 Building Challenge. Nobody else wants to help out? I've had to redesign her original house slightly because we ran into a glitch were the carpool was coming to the side of the house instead of the front. You can find the G2 Building Challenge here. I've actually partially built it a bit further than the first step thanks to some extra college money.

The new tenant? None other than Rowan Night. However, as you can see, Rowan has rather horrid taste in clothing, so let's give her a quick makeover before I reintroduce her.

To catch up on Rowan:
Freshman Year Part 1 Part 2
Sophomore Year
Junior Year
Senior Year

Rowan is rather lacking funds, and I'm kind of anal about my women being the same age or younger than their spouses, so here comes Grizou!

Man, his taste in clothing is even worse than Rowan's. At least he brought enough cash with him for a computer and some new clothes.

Ah, that's better. Grizou's back in his trademark shirt, and Rowan has one of my preferred outfits. Time for photos!

Rowan Night
Aspiration: Knowledge
2nd LTW: Reach Top of Journalism Career
Neat-9, Outgoing-4, Active-8, Playful-0, Nice-4
Virgo
Turn-Ons: Facial Hair & Glasses, Turn-Off: Stink

Grizou Night
Aspiration: Popularity
LTW: Become Celebrity Chef
Neat-4, Outgoing-7, Active-8, Playful-3, Nice-3
Gemini
Turn-Ons: Underwear & Makeup, Turn-Off: Vampires

Rowan settles down to the business of finding a job, while Grizou scarfs down TWO pieces of pizza. Ever noticed that people are always starving when they show up?

Rowan is still working on her Gold Flower Arranging Badge while she waits for her carpool to arrive. No rest for the wicked I guess.

Meanwhile Grizou greets Jerome Cox when he randomly wanders by. Hey, popularity sim here.

I did make him stop long enough for a career search.
"With my education I should be getting better pay than this!"
Next time major in something that's beneficial to your LTW then.

Rowan's off to her first day in Journalism as an Investigatory Journalist. She's quite repulsed by the hideous man that the paper has sent to bring her to work.

Welcome Wagon! Kirsty Wetstein-Collin(9 Oak Square), Weldon Collin(9 Oak Square), and Brandi Mazza(12 Oak Square). Excellent, two out of the three need more friends, which is excellent for Grizou.

Ah, my wonderful energizer. Despite the fact that it's still broken it's still tied for for 2nd place in my list of preferred aspiration rewards. Thinking Caps get first place and Smart Milk is tied with the Energizer.

Have you ever noticed that sims will choose the least comfortable chair to study on?

Rowan is still being a pain in the neck and refused to flash her Gold Florist Badge at me, so this will have to do.

It's only Rowan's second day in the neighborhood and she's managed to fulfill her 2nd LTW. Seems like Maxis put a cap on it at 2 though.

While she was away at work Grizou greeted Phoenix Chalmers (6 Maple Square) and chatted him up a bit. Grizou's gone back to painting though and it looks like Phoenix has decided to help out with the yard work.

Rowan helps him out and then they go in to have some leftovers for dinner.

Once they got rid of Phoenix, Grizou and Rowan decided to celebrate Rowan's promotion by going on a date. By the end of the evening Grizou had decided that it was time to make his move.

Then of course they had to celebrate that in the time honored tradition.

Heh heh heh, love the boxers Grizou. You better shoo Baxter before he destroys your flowers. Has anyone else noticed that Baxter is showing up everywhere except at Tara's?

OMG, lmao, Rowan's got matching underwear. I swear I had nothing to do with this, but it sure is hilarious!

Wednesday morning, it's now Grizou's turn to do some yard work, still love the boxers man.

Rowan gets to slack off a bit and fish in their brand new pond. I'm actually rather proud of this one. Landscaping is not my forte, and it's much harder to duplicate someones use of the water tool or terrain paints. As you can see, I mostly avoid terrain paints because I'm absolutely horrid with them.

Grizou's finally off to his first day of work as a Host. Hmm, I've been told that that really is what men think about at work.

Aww, look a kitty! With a name like Moonshine Rowan just has to make friends with this cat.

Rowan brought Priya home from work with her and then abandoned her to befriend Moonshine, so it's left to Grizou to entertain their human guest, and he's all too happy to oblige. (I installed all of the bin families in Bluewater Village, but I'm not playing them, they just exist same as the other people who automatically live at Uni or Downtown)

Darn cat! I bought a scratching post just to avoid this!

Rowan you pest! Yet again she refuses to flash her new Gold Badge at me (fishing).

Time for Rowan to do some job jumping in order to get career rewards. Today's jobs: Music-Concert Pianist, Gamer-Real Time Strategizer, Science-Top Secret Researcher, Business-President, Athletic-Coach. After taking each she settled in Music for the day since it pays the most.

"Hey everyone, the wedding's over here!"

"I just love your dress Abbie! It's so you!"

Abbie's smoking up the guitar!

The Ceremony

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"Your dress is exceedingly pink you know."

Bobby quit hogging the pinball machine. Why can't you be more like Abbie, you'll notice that she's the only person actually cleaning up after herself.

Time to seal the deal! Remember, it's a time honored sim tradition!

Grizou was supposed to work today, but he's going to try faking sick. He must be a great actor, because despite all the party noise in the background, they give him the day off!

It's smustling time!

After a Roof Raising Party it's off for the honeymoon.

No sooner are they back from their honeymoon then Rowan starts building toys, working on her next badge. Poor Grizou is once again stuck with all the yard work and post party clean-up.

For some reason, Rowan has the strongest craving for pizza. I've decided to let them keep the some of the chairs "rented" for the party since they were nicer than the old ones. Poor Grizou is still gardening 4 hours later, and still hasn't had time to clean up the party mess.

"I swear I will sue that pizza place..."
Rowan, I don't think that's the problem.

Grizou seems inclined to believe that the wall of boots is a masterpiece.

Quick, earn some more career rewards before you get put on maternity leave.
"I'm not pregnant"
Whatever you say dear, do it anyway.
Today's jobs: Natural Science-Unnatural Crossbreeder, Slacker-Freelance Photographer, Politics-Senator, Culinary-Executive Chef, and the job she'll keep, Artist-Acclaimed Muralist.

Yeah, but you don't believe that you're pregnant right?

End of Round Review

Grizou
Friends: 7
Work: Waiter
IW: 5 / 30 Best Friends
Skills: Cooking-5, Mech-1, Charisma-4, Body-4, Logic-5, Creativity-8, Cleaning-6

Rowan
Friends: 11, 1 Pet Friend
Work: Acclaimed Muralist
IW: 7 / 7 Skills Maxed
Badges: Floral-Gold, Toy Making-Bronze, Gardening-Gold, Fishing-Gold

Household Value: $42,449

Week 5 - Round 9 - 12 Oak Square (Rainseeker)

This beautiful home was stolen from Riverblossom Hills. Which of our lucky graduates lives here? Drum roll please....

Bobby Rainseeker
Aspiration: Pleasure
LTW: Become Celebrity Chef
Neat-5, Outgoing-3, Active-7, Playful-3, Nice 7
Pisces
Turn-Ons: Full Face Makeup & Brown Hair, Turn-Off: Swimwear

The reason that Bobby can afford this house is because of his fiancée Brandi. Brandi was quite generous while the two of them were dating in college. Bobby made a quick pit stop on his way home to sell some of her more extravagant gifts so that he could buy them a nice house. If you want to refresh your memories of Bobby's college life just follow the links! Freshman Year Sophomore Year Junior Year Senior Year

"Did I ever tell you the one about the gold fish and the barman?"

Anything in Culinary?
"No, but I got a job as a High School Principal."
Umm, ok, whatever floats your boat.

Bobby had just headed outside to try his hand at fishing when his welcome wagon arrived. Normally this would be fine, but they spent forever milling around trying to find a couple of pieces of level ground so that they could be greeted, and none of them tried to ring the doorbell. Once all that was settled the sat down to a nice fresh garden salad. To refresh your memories, the rather oriental lady in blue is Amber Wetstein-Graham, the gent next to her is Weldon Collin, and the lovely african american lady is Cadence Jalowitz-Chalmers.

"Hewwo, I'm Mr.Bear."
"Sure thing lady"

Hey Maxis, I get that weather was tough and all, but why can't we see rain or snow from inside the house?

Good grief, the bear is taking over the house!

Now that everyone's full, it's time to do a little fishing. Some of these people get very little leisure time in their own homes and I feel I owe it to them. Mr.Bear tagged along to supervise.

Yay Bobby! You caught your first fish, I'm so pround, sob.

Well, fishing was fine, but since nobody is particularly good at it, they weren't having much fun, so it was time for a free-for-all waterballoon fight!

It's only the first day of summer, so Bobby got a bit chilly, what with all the water soaking through his sweatshirt, and decided to light a fire. Seems like he was the only one smart enough to use it though.

"This is the life," thought Bobby, "sitting in front of a warm fire with a good book."

"High-Ho, High-Ho, it's off to work I go"
Bobby is a very cheery sim.

Mr. Bear strikes again! Neil followed Bobby home from work, which works out well. There's someone I want him to meet.

It's time to ask Brandi to join the story. We'll just give them a moment.

The obligatory "Move In" picture.

I'm cursed with sims who have rotten fashion sense. To the mirror with you wench.

Brandi Mazza
Aspiration: Family
LTW: Reach Golden Anniversary
Neat-6, Outgoing-3, Active-6, Playful-4, Nice 6
Cancer
Turn-Ons: Brown Hair & Black Hair, Turn-Off: Underwear

Slow dancing in the kitchen, man these guys are going to give me a cavity.

Bobby has an even better idea, romancing his lady in front of a roaring fire. Smooth moves Bobby.

These two sure do have a lot of scenic places to get all hot and bothered.

They finally settled down to do some skill building. They've both decided to wait until the weekend to hold the wedding. There's a better chance of them both having the day off.

Speaking of which, it's time for Brandi to get a job. I really had no preference for her career, and in the end she ended up in the adventure career track. At least it has some fun outfits to make fun of.

I bet you're glad now that you gave Bobby this piano as a thank-you for a great date. Bobby actually didn't need to sell all his presents to buy the house, so he still has a few that have been placed around the rather sparsely furnished house.

Sweetheart, you don't have children yet, in fact, you're not even married yet, but Mr. Bear will give you a hug if you want.

It was promotions all around for the family which meant a night cuddled up on the sofa skill building. Good thing Bobby got the golden bookcase, Brandi was way too tired to work out.

Maxing Out Logic

Way to go Bobby, not bad for a Pleasure sim.

Bobby's already left for work, and Brandi doesn't leave till 2pm, so it's time to get started on her portrait.

"It's so nice to have such a lovely view while I'm scrubbing down the kitchen."

Brandi manages to leave just as the exterminator shows up. Someone or something knocked over the garbage can and nobody noticed until it was too late. Luckily for me, Brandi hasn't noticed our little infestation yet. I love this outfit, it actually looks really good on a lot of my sims, unlike the ugly blue suit she had on yesterday.

Way to go Bobby, I guess I'll let you switch to culinary after your wedding this weekend. And look, he's brought home Samantha Ottomos and her problem pregnancy. Joy.

Even the Education Minister has to clean up after the exterminator. Life's just not fair that way sometimes.

That's it for this round. I'll leave you with a picture of Bobby and Brandi's newly refurbished bedroom, and let them enjoy a good night's sleep.

Or so I thought, Bobby had other plans though. He woke up at 4:30 with a craving for pancakes, silly boy.


End of Round Review

Bobby
Friends: 19, 1 Pet Friend
Work: Education Minister
Skills: Cooking-10, Mech-8, Charisma-9, Body-8, Logic-10, Creativity-10, Cleaning-9
Badges: Gardening - Gold

Brandi
Friends: 4
Work: Spelunker
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-3, Charisma-4, Body-2, Logic-5, Creativity-6, Cleaning-3

Household Value: $62,228