W6 - Rainseeker Home

A/N: Somebody save me, it's June! I'm sure a lot of you are going Yay! It's June! I on the other hand am besieged with things that I need to schedule into my plans. My two oldest sons both have graduation ceremonies this year (Kindergarten and Elementary, ie - Grade 6), Ben has a field trip, Marcus doesn't because the school refuses to allow him to go on field trips unless I can go along to supervise him. He's also got a dance and all the preteen angst that goes along with such things over getting the girl he likes to agree to go with him to the dance. Much as I'm the youngest Mom in his class, I really can't remember how 12 year old girls think, so I don't know what advice to give him on that front. I suggested that he talk to a 12 year old girl we know who he's not interested in for girl tips. At this rate, I'm actually looking forward to summer vacation, how insane is that?On a personal note, this is scheduled to go live on Martin's Birthday (RL-Grizou), so happy birthday honey!

Previously at the Rainseeker Home

Last week Billy returned to his ancestral home, which caused Neil, Sierra, Laura, Fraser, and Alegra to decide it was time to look for a new home. Daisy moved in and a wedding followed not long after. Apparently Daisy and Billy were rather busy at their wedding party, because shortly thereafter it became obvious that Daisy was pregnant. Bonkers had a rather depressing day and was given Pookie as a cheer up present. Of course, I'm sure that this means that the bear will attract every single visitor to the house.

Tuesday (Winter)
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Well, that was a no brainer.

It took awhile, but we finally found Daisy's predestined hobby. It's cool too, because this town doesn't have enough tinkerers. We need more artists too.

Ahh, you guys are so cute!

Wednesday (Winter)
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"Ma'am? I think it's time!"

Heh, not bad, I was only off on my due date by half an hour.

Welcome Aliza Rainseeker!

Welcome Laurel Rainseeker!

"Hmm, so the tabs go at the front of the diaper?"

(This line is stolen from my step-father, who never had any children of his own, who reasoned that the pictures should go on the back since that's the part you can see when they're crawling around)

Karen here decided that she was still following Sierra's schedule, which meant that Billy had to reschedule her which of course meant he was late for work again!

Congrats Daisy! Karen wasn't too bad today other than being very late for work.

Uh HELLO? You're children can't even crawl yet, they're not going to come running out for hugs you ditz!

Thursday (Winter)
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Wonder why this doesn't count towards tinkering, or was it just that even EA figured that it was just too uncool for fixing a toilet to be part of a hobby? From all the Sims 3 interviews lately, you'd think this would be right in with the potty humor they so proudly mention in practically EVERY SINGLE interview.

I have been dying to try this out. I'm so grateful to Daisy for being into tinkering!

Billy is actually amazingly easy going about it all. He does whatever I ask of him without whining and fussing and even seems to enjoy cleaning the house and caring for the babies.

Daisy, your taste in house guests leaves something to be desired.

For heaven's sake Mom! Give it a rest!

Friday (Spring)
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You sure are a mean one Mom!

Go Bonkers! You've even managed to earn $10,000!

Happy Birthday Laurel!

Happy Birthday Aliza!

Aliza Rainseeker
Neat-10, Outgoing-3, Active-9, Playful-3, Nice-1
Scorpio

Laurel Rainseeker
Neat-10, Outgoing-3, Active-10, Playful-3, Nice-1
Scorpio

Let the toddler skilling begin!

I don't know what happened, but when I returned to the game Laurel had been given the same hair as Aliza. I think I'll change it back though since it looked cute before.

Saturday (Spring)
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Karen is actually my favorite of the nannies, and even she'll let the kids practically pass out before she puts them to bed. It's so hard to find good help nowadays.

You're doing great Daisy! Keep it up! If you can top this career, then you can quit and stay home with the kids until they're older.

Now that's more like it!

Looks like Bonkers isn't too pleased about the new additions.

Sunday (Spring)
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Sorry folks, I just can't resist these shots, I love watching the twins play together.

Bonkers! Leave the poor kids alone, I'm warning you....

"Kitty! I want the kitty!"
Hah! I did warn you.

Coolness! The girls are best friends! We're not having any complications like a certain family in Pleasantville.

This works out rather well for Billy actually, since he's just a big kid himself.


End of Round Review

Billy
Friends: 8 Family, 17 Non-family, 26 BFs, 23 BFFs, 1 Pet, 1 Love
Work: Education Minister
IW: 53 / 100 Dream Dates
Skills: Cooking-10, Mech-8, Charisma-8, Body-9, Logic-10, Creativity-10, Cleaning-10
Badges: Fishing-Gold
Hobbies: Cuisine-1, Sports-5

Daisy
Friends: 3 Family, 12 Non-family, 15 Best Friends, 14 BFFs, 1 Pet, 1 Love
Work: Lieutenant
IW: 2 / 10 Children
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-2, Charisma-5, Body-5, Logic-6, Creativity-6, Cleaning-9, Parenting

Aliza
Friends: 3 Family
Skills: Mech-1, Charisma-1, Logic-2, Creativity-7

Laurel
Friends: 3 Family
Skills: Charisma-2, Logic-2, Creativity-7

Household Value: $167,847

Week 5 - Round 10 - Rainseeker Home

Previously at the Rainseeker House

Someone, most likely Sierra bought a dog named Alegra, who turned out to be a sweetheart. Neil reached the top of the Medical track, thus achieving his LTW, and the ghosts continued to drive the family crazy.

Welcome home Billy!

Billy Rainseeker
Aspiration: Pleasure
2nd LTW: Become Celebrity Chef
Neat-10, Outgoing-3, Active-9, Playful-3, Nice-1
Scorpio
Turn-Ons: Underwear & Make-up, Turn-Off: Brown Hair

Billy's College Years
Freshman Year
Sophomore Year
Junior Year
Senior Year

Time to sell off the proceeds of Billy's dating madness in college.

Now that Billy is home, Neil has decided it's time to remove himself and his children from the household. Of course Sierra's going with them. Neil doesn't want to be living in someone else's home, he wants to be King of his OWN castle. They also decide to take Alegra, but Bonkers is staying with Billy. After all, Sierra did buy him for Billy and Bobby.

"Bye guys! Don't be strangers!"

Billy isn't a horrible person. He's sending his mother and Neil half of the available cash from the household funds. It amounts to $35,000, and it should help them and his half-brother and sister buy a decent home. To be honest, Billy probably would have been just as happy if Sierra, Neil, Laura and Fraser had stayed. It would have given him some back-up for the inevitable children that Daisy will want. That's actually why they had to go. This house may be a mansion, but despite what the town's folk of Knowlton may think, I'm not a goddess, and I'm not ready to handle a family THAT huge!

Time to find a job.... Music, Law, Education, Business, and Athletic. After taking each job in turn, Billy decides to stick with Education until Culinary comes up.

Thank goodness Remington is here. Nobody bothered to clean Bonkers' litter box before they all left.

He even cleaned Panda's cage!

Poor lonely Bonkers, nobody to play with.

"Hey! I thought I was done learning!"

Well Billy, that does it, you've maxed out your logic. Should make cheating at chess even easier.

I think this may be the real reason that Neil and Serena were so anxious to leave Billy with his inheritance. I also rather think that Billy may have forgotten all about the ghosts while he was at college.

Billy decided to spend a little time getting reaquainted with Bonkers.

Then it was Panda's turn. The Wormrats are kinda cute.

Mom, who is Billy's half-sister, decided to get him. Mom is the only one in this family that I never explained the inheritance rules to, and I think she's a little miffed that Aremis didn't inherit the house.

Well, now you know what your cat is looking at when you don't see anything....

Nice look Billy, I'm sure that'll make Abbie stop talking about your sexual preferences, lol.

"Daisy, my love, welcome to Knowlton!"

Quickly followed by the Move In shot....

Followed by the Grow-Up shot. I actually like her outfit, so we just need to change her hair.

Daisy Garth
Aspiration: Family
LTW: Have 6 Grandchildren
Neat-6, Outgoing-3, Active-6, Playful-4, Nice-6
Cancer
Turn-Ons: Red Hair & Brown Hair, Turn-Off: Vampirism

Glitch time! For some reason, Billy just couldn't go to work. By the time I resolved this problem he was already three hours late. Gah! There goes his work performance.

The Pederson's left these poor trees in awful shape, now it's up to Daisy to save them.

Geez, Neil, I know this is supposed to be your chapter, but you just moved out for crying out loud!

"What? You want me to throw a Wedding Party? Who's getting married?"
Not the brightest sim, our Billy.

The Wedding

The Wedding Party

Well, the honeymoon's over, and it's time to get down to business. Being a Family sim, Daisy is obviously obsessed with learning to cook and clean. I'm not going to argue with that!

Billy meanwhile gets the less pleasant job of restoring order to the house after a huge party. Someone broke the toilet during the crazed rush to the toilet that guests feel obliged to hold whenever there's a gathering, and despite the fact that Daisy asked Brandi to tidy up, she left plenty of things to clean.

Looks like someone did a little more than dancing at their wedding!

Well, I hope for your sake Daisy that burnt cheesecake is as effective as non-burnt cheesecake. After all, you may not hate having a ton of kids, but there's no guarantee that any of your children will want to have more than two, which means you need to have at least three.

Billy will probably be a great dad, he's pretty much an overgrown child himself!

Daisy? Why are you bothering with a job? You know that you'll probably rarely get to go to work.
"Yes, but just think of all the maternity leave!"

"So sweetie, I got a job as a Desk Sergeant!"
"Precisely when are you planning on sitting at that desk?"
"Oh, in between babies probably."

One great thing about family sims, as long as they're married, it's fairly easy to keep them happy.

The first baby pop happens Sunday night, so we'll have to get her some decent maternity clothes tomorrow.

It appears that someone has stolen Tom's grave. I just hope Sierra took it with her, in which case I'll have her "give" it to Billy as a gift. I've looked everywhere, and it doesn't appear to have accidentally been moved elsewhere on the lot.

Good choice Daisy, that look really works for you, although your legs may get cold seeing as how it's winter.
"Are you kidding? I feel as though I've hit menopause I'm so hot most of the time."

Billy, are you sure that that's how you want your descendants to remember you?
"Yup"
Umm, okay then, it's your legacy.

Err, oops. Sorry Bonkers. Those dogs were more clever than I suspected.

Poor Bonkers, life has not been kind, first he gets demoted, his toy mouse got broken, and then he gets a stinky bed. Plus, there's a rather noisy wolf right outside his door keeping him awake. I think Bonkers should have taken a page out of Garfield's book, and stayed in bed today. See? I even gave him a bear whom I have named Pookie in honour of Garfield.

"Remember when we had a great wedding party?"
"Yes sweetheart, that was only two days ago."
"Oh, must be the pregnancy, making me nostalgic." Uh-huh

Why don't you get Billy to do that?
"He's talking with his mother on the phone."

It seems that Daisy's decided that Bonkers is the perfect test subject to decide if her mothering skills are up to par. Should have been Panda since he's almost a guinea pig already.

Baby Pop Number Two, which arrived Monday night an hour later than Sunday's. My guess is the baby should be born around 1 am on Wednesday.


End of Round Review

Billy
Friends: 16 + 6 Family + 1 Pet
Work: Education Minister
Skills: Cooking-10, Mech-8, Charisma-8, Body-8, Logic-10, Creativity-10, Cleaning-10
Badges: Fishing-Gold

Daisy
Friends: 12 + 1 Family
Work: Desk Sergeant
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-1, Charisma-5, Body-4, Logic-4, Creativity-6, Cleaning-9

Bonkers
Work: Contraband Sniffer
Behaviors: Eats Pet Food, Housebroken, Respectful, Stays Off Furniture, Stays Off Beds
Commands: Come Here, Play Dead, Stay, Speak

Household Value: $157,927