Week 5 - Round 10 - 13 Ash Square (Night)

Previously at 13 Ash Square

Last week Rowan arrived from college in a truly horrendous (unless you're a Grilled Cheese sim) outfit, and promptly asked Grizou to move in with her to help with the bills. Rowan had fulfilled her second LTW by her second day and then did some career hopping to bring in some more career rewards. Really, once you have the Education bookcase you don't need any of the skill building ones, but they're kinda fun. After a few days to settle in, Grizou and Rowan through a huge wedding party with some of our favorite sims including the ever patient Abbie who's been waiting for a long time to join the challenge. Thereafter, Rowan spent all her time assuring me that she was puking because of some bad pizza and not because she was pregnant.

Friday (Fall)
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Yeah, I kinda had you pegged for a Science sim. It sounds awfully boring, but I could be wrong.

Oh man! My husband is never going to live this down!

"What do you mean your husband will never live it down? What happens when my friends find out?"
I don't know, but we absolutely have to buy you some man-tights! Hee hee!!!

Why, thank you very much Mr.Humble. This may get old after awhile, but at least everyone gets a really good computer out of it!

Gosh he looks happy! It's hilarious because RL Grizou can't dance at all!

Ha! Told ya so! :P

Some people are just never happy, still, imagine what might have happened if he'd served her tap water.

"Thanks for spending my LABs on Hospitality, but please don't tell Joe about the ballet bar"

"Don't tell Grizou that you caught me using his wife's dance bar, 'k?"
*snicker* Don't worry, your secret is safe with me, though you and Grizou should try talking more instead of just grunting and slapping each other on the back and other manly type stuff.

Saturday (Fall)
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Despite the fact that Rowan's predestined hobby is Science, she's busy working on getting her talent badges, which means she's getting quite an interest in Arts & Crafts. Could be worse!

She's also getting quite interested in Nature since she seems to get stuck with all the yard work.

Good job Grizou! That promotion money will come in handy, the baby should arrive tomorrow, and there's still no nursery.

Sunday (Winter)
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Rowan likes to pretend that she's learning to make toys for the baby, but if that were true, why did she start crafting toys before she ever admitted she was pregnant?

"What? Of course not, I certainly don't like to do ballet, where did you hear that?"
I forced Grizou to get out his man-tights and start maintaining his friendships, unfortunately, it appears the rumors are flying around Knowlton. (I actually don't have a problem at all with male ballet dancers, I know it's an extremely demanding (job/sport/skill?), but I grew up in small towns like Knowlton, and the men in those towns tend to be very macho and won't ever admit that they'd rather do something like dance than work on cars or go hunting.

Hah! Suffer evil sim-Rowan! This almost makes up for the hard time you gave me in college!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Knowlton Willow Night.

"I have to stick the thermometer where?!?"

With a new baby in the house it's time for Rowan to earn the one skill she doesn't possess, parenting. She still hasn't gotten the knack of parenting because it took much longer than I expected.

"Anything interesting happen while I was at work?"
As a matter of fact, your wife gave birth to your daughter.
"Not a son?"
Why, is that an issue?
"Nope, boys are difficult."

The baby's sleeping, quick, learn stuff!

Meanwhile, the baby is perfectly content in her new nursery. I'm so happy to see new nursery furniture that I haven't had to download meshes for!

Monday (Winter)
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"Who's Daddy's little princess? Yes you are!"

Rowan's finally reached 'The Zone'!!! It's a good thing too, because she still has badges in Sewing and Pottery to earn before she moves on to Robotics.

Rowan's too busy to even bother paying attention to the nice man who just gave her an Arts & Crafts achievement plaque.

Grizou is getting rather annoying with his constant desires for new friends, best friends, and best friends forever, but I'll keep him happy anyway as long as he skill builds at the same time.

Happy Birthday Willow!

Willow Night Neat-4, Outgoing-9, Active-8, Playful-3, Nice-4 Gemini

This seems even more essential than before. Can't wait to try out the nursery rhyme and the activity table!

Grizou, you're a man of many unexpected talents, your daughter looks very pretty with that new haircut.

Awww, how sweet!

This is just too cute for words! I almost wish Rowan had had twins so I could watch them play together!


End of Round Review

Grizou
Friends: Family-2, Non-Family-11
Work: Executive Chef
IW: 9/30 Best Friends
Skills: Cooking-7, Mech-2, Charisma-4, Body-4, Logic-7, Creativity-8, Cleaning-6
Hobbies: Cuisine-3, Games-1, Science-1, Nature-1, Music & Dance-2

Rowan
Friends: Family-2, Non-Family-11, Pet Friends-1
Work: Acclaimed Muralist
IW: 7/7 Skills Maxed
Badges: Floral-Gold, Toys-Silver, Gardening-Gold, Fishing-Gold
Hobbies: Arts & Crafts-10, Nature-3

Willow
Friends: Family-2
Toddler Skills: Talk, Walk, Potty, Nursery Rhyme
Skills: Charisma-1, Creativity-1

Household Value: $51,909

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