W6 - 6 Maple Square (Chalmers)

A/N: Not much going on here right now, except the big prep for end of year and graduations. We did have a tornado that passed overhead the other day, but other than spending half an hour in the basement waiting for the all clear from my husband (he was on duty at the fire station) it was no major deal. It never even touched down, the most damage we had was a few larger than usual tree limbs on the ground. I'm so glad to live in a geographical area where our most frequent nature based problems are blizzards and ice storms. I know some people would term these natural disasters, but they're so much easier to deal with than earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes that I would feel horrible comparing them to the disasters that others have to deal with. So yeah, weather here is crazy, one day you're wearing your skimpiest clothes trying to cool down and then next you're wearing the big comfy sweater that you steal from your husband (who me?) but on the whole, we've got it good.

Previously at 6 Maple Square

Last week was fairly average at the Chalmers. Heath was mostly left alone with the Wabbit Head while he was a toddler so that his greedy mother could continue to paint. Phoenix made TOC in Paranormal and then switched to Education. Near the end of the round both boys had a birthday, which prompted the family to invite the headmaster over. Of course they got in, my sims always get in (barring glitches). More exciting, just before the round ended, Cadence managed to earn $100,000!!!

Tuesday (Winter)
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First things first, hobbies...
Well, it seems that Cadence and Heath are into Sports...

Phoenix is into Tinkering...

and Chad is into ... SPORTS???

After having gotten rid of Karen, it's time for Chad to help Heath with his homework. This kid is way too serious for a teen, but I like it.

Way to go Phoenix, now hit the Robot bench please.

After many hours of tossing a football, Chad makes supper for Heath.
"Hey! I made spagetti, not hamburgers!"

I am still determined that someone from this house will be abducted, at least with Freetime I have a higher chance.

Wednesday (Winter)
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Sorry Phoenix, I always take Veggies, and it's always wrong.

Wow, Pete sure gets around town! Why is that outerwear even available in the boys section? It just doesn't make sense, this isn't the 80's people.

Fine already, get a job, see if I care!

"Now he looks more like our kind of people!"

Not really, he's not even a good Knowledge sim, he never spins up wants to skill build, just sneak out and stuff like that.

Thursday (Winter)
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"Sports Schmorts, I want to create marvelous beautiful pieces of art, not to mention sell them for outrageous amounts of money!"

One good, one bad, not too bad I guess.

Man Heath, you are one popular kid!

Well Hello to you too April, you lucky girl.

Friday (Spring)
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Way to go Phoenix.

Sorry folks, this house is unbelievably boring this week, and possibly glitchy.

I hope you're happy now Chad.

Chad seriously fustrates me, he's as bad as Rowan. No Knowledge wants, but a lot of wants that seem more Fortune oriented. Get a job, earn a gold badge in Pottery/Florist, etc.

Saturday (Spring)
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What is it with Fortune sims? They always let their spouses do all the hard work, and then claim Garden Club Membership for themselves.

I thought you two might get along!

Thanks very much Joe!

Cadence has FINALLY moved on to some rather ugly tea sets!

Phoenix has also moved on to bigger and better things. Don't forget about the garden Phoenix!

Sunday (Spring)
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Ouch, love denied.

Finally, Chad spent half the date crying because she wouldn't go steady with him.

Looks like she changed her mind though.

Yay Phoenix! You may now spend all the time you want on your hobbies.

I hate it when sims decide they want to work on more than one badge at a time, but since Cadence and Phoenix both have hobbies that are fairly hard on their needs, it wouldn't hurt if she could make snapdragons.

Cadence, I take back most of the nasty things I've said about you, you rock!

"I think I hurt myself working at the bench."
I don't think so Phoenix.

"Yay! I married Santa! Now I can get lots of expensive gifts!"
Err, ok, why not.

Phoenix Chalmers
Aspiration: Knowledge
LTW: Max Out 7 Skills
Personality: Neat-5, Outgoing-3, Active-7, Playful-3, Nice-7
Sign: Pisces
Turn-Ons: Makeup & Custom Hair, Turn-Off: Stink

End of Round Review

Cadence
Friends: 3 Family, 14 Non-family, 16 BFFs, 1 Love
Work: Icon
IW: $100,000 / $100,000
Skills: Cooking-6, Mech-10, Charisma-10, Body-10, Logic-6, Creativity-10, Cleaning-4
Badges: Gardening-Bronze, Pottery-Bronze
Hobbies: Arts&Crafts-10, Nature-2

Phoenix
Friends: 3 Family, 10 Non-family, 11 BFFs, 1 BF, 1 Love
Work: Education Minister
IW: 7 / 7 Skills Maxed
Badges: Gardening-Gold, Robotery-Bronze
Hobbies: Tinkering-9, Nature-4

Chad
Friends: 3 Family, 5 Non-family, 7 BFFs, 1 BF, 1 Crush
School: A+, Private
Work: Foreman
IW: 0 / 7 Skills Maxed
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-8, Charisma-8, Body-8, Logic-10, Creativity-8, Cleaning-10
Hobbies: Games-1, Science-8, Sports-1, Nature-1

Heath
Friends: 3 Family, 3 Non-family, 3 BFF, 1 BF
School: A+, Private
Skills: Cooking-9, Mech-3, Charisma-8, Body-4, Logic-6, Creativity-10, Cleaning-2
Hobbies: Arts&Crafts-6, Sports-3, Music&Dance-5

Household Value: $147,028

Week 5 - Round 10 - 6 Maple Square (Chalmers)

Previously at 6 Maple Square

Last round Phoenix finished maxing out his skills, which got him his life time want and his impossible want all at once. Cadence gave birth to a little boy named Heath, who quickly had his birthday and became a toddler. Garth spent some time with the telescope hoping to get abducted, well, truthfully he doesn't know about that, but I do! There's also a debate over whether or not Heath and Garth or cute. Personally, I think they have potential, but at the moment it's their jawlines that are bugging me. They do have beautiful eyes.

Time for Cadence to switch careers again. Cadence is very much a "keeping up with the Jones'" type of sim, and she found out that there were several households in the neighborhood who had not only one but sometimes two or even three Golden Bookcases. She can't have that, her children must have every advantage possible. Why, look at that Piper girl, she managed to go to university only a few days after her 16th birthday with ALL of the scholarly scholarships. Unfortunately, there are no openings in education today, so she decides to stick with her current job since it pays well.

Friday morning after Chad's left for school, and Phoenix has left for work, little Heath is once more left with the wabbit head to entertain himself.

Why is Heath all by himself you ask? It's because Cadence being the greedy little Fortune sim that she is, is busy painting yet another masterpiece.

You two are freaks, I've never met a kid who "greets" another kid by shaking hands. That's Garth Cormier (7 Maple Square) for those of you who are having trouble keeping track of all my sims, lady knows, I am!

Chad doesn't have much choice about playing with his little brother. It's just about the only thing in the household that raises fun quickly before it gets dark out.

Poor Cadence, she doesn't really care about the garden, but Phoenix got promoted to exorcist and needed to sleep before going back to work, and Chad is exhausted.

Congratulations Phoenix, that makes two TOCs. Now go tend to your garden and then you can look for a job in Education. That way Cadence could stay in her high-pay job.

Not another Eddie! Phoenix here just earned his gold gardening badge, but like Eddie, he refuses to flash it at me.

Looks like Lady Luck is with Phoenix, he gets a job offer as a University Guest Lecturer right away!

Aww, I'm sorry sweetie, I know it's no fun doing your homework at 6am on Saturday morning, but this way it'll be done and out of your way.

For all that I love to say that Cadence only cares about money, she does spend time with the boys, although it's probably mostly because I force her to.

Yay! It's bookcase time! Since Cadence and Phoenix won't be having any more children, Chad and Heath can take their time about going to college, but the sooner they skill build, the more time they'll have for socializing later on.

Not that Chad doesn't get to socialize now, it's just preferred if he can skill build at the same time, lol.

Cadence is so close to her $100,000, that I've decided to let her write another novel since she doesn't work until Tuesday and this is a much faster way of earning the remainder of the money.

Phoenix has spent all of Saturday dealing with the garden and landscaping. I think that Celebrations may have caused an issue with the gardens, because for some reason all of my sims' gardens now have one or more plants that refuse to grow. I'm dealing with it by making the none growing plants ready to harvest whenever the growing plants are ready to harvest. It's cheating, but I'm thinking of it more as fixing an unexpected glitch.

Chad's been sent of to bed so that he can stargaze tonight which leaves Garth forced to socialize with Heath.

Rested and ready to hop to, Chad is once more sent to brave the dangers of the telecope.

Sunday. It appears that Phoenix is one of those men, that if you have a grill, you must use it, no matter the weather. I was amusing myself sprucing up their yard, and as soon as Phoenix saw the grill he knew he must use it at once, even if it had started snowing.

Tessa, aren't you cold wearing a raincoat in the snow?

"Heh heh heh, so naive and trusting...."

Finally, harvest time has arrived.

Arghhh! All that time wasted! For some reason I forgot that she doesn't count the amount she earned from the novel in her amount earned to date. Bah!

So it's back to the energizer for Cadence, who will go back to painting.

Phoenix loves his kids, but all weekend he was so busy with yard work and gardening that he didn't spend a moment with him. With snow on the ground now though, there are no more leaves to rake, and he hasn't planted a new garden yet, which leaves him with time to catch up with the kids and prepare for the visit of the headmaster tonight. Both of the boys have a birthday tonight, but I'll have little Heath grow-up after his morning nap, so that he can get into Private School too, provided we don't have another glitched visit.

Snow Day!! I think this is the first snow day that Knowlton's ever had, how exciting!

Happy Birthday Heath!

Heath Chalmers
Neat-10, Outgoing-3, Active-9, Playful-3, Nice-1
Scorpio

"Welcome to childhood Heath, I'm so happy I have someone to play with now."
I guess that we won't remind Chad that his birthday is tonight. And yes, I admit it, they seem to be growing into their faces, that or I'm growing accustomed to them, although their still not as cute as the Rainseekers.

The boys may not have school today, but I am a harder task master than Knowlton Academy. *evil grin*

"Welcome to our home Headmaster, let's not have any glitches, shall we?"

Chad has great timing, right in the middle of the headmaster visit he decided to grow-up.

Happy Birthday Chad!

Chad Chalmers
Aspiration: Knowledge
LTW: Max Out 7 Skills
Neat-10, Outgoing-3, Active-9, Playful-3, Nice-1
Scorpio
Turn-Ons: Fatness & Red Hair, Turn-Off: Underwear

Thank-you Headmaster!

"But Chad, I just don't understand, maxing out your skills is fine and all, but what are you planning on doing as work?"

I've never understood why little kids find this so disgusting and can't wait to run from it, but teenagers find it tons of fun.

Impossible Want Achieved!!!!

I have to admit, the life that she lived in college really helped in achieving this so quickly.


End of Round Review

Cadence
Friends: 12 + 3 Family
Work: Icon
IW: $100,007 / $100,000
Skills: Cooking-6, Mech-10, Charisma-10, Body-10, Logic-6, Creativity-10, Cleaning-4

Phoenix
Friends: 7 + 3 Family
Work: High School Principal
IW: 7 / 7 Skills Maxed
Badges: Gardening-Gold

Chad
Friends: 4 + 3 Family
School: A+, Private
IW: 0 / 7 Skills Maxed
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-2, Charisma-8, Body-8, Logic-7, Creativity-8, Cleaning-4

Heath
Friends: 1 + 3 Family
School: C, Private
Skills: Cooking-9, Charisma-8, Body-4, Logic-6, Creativity-5, Cleaning-1

Household Value: $115,183