A few pics from that other large house just down the street
Monday morning finds Sparky at her computer, looking over the previous evening's posts on a certain Forum:
The score:
Humans: 8
Imaginary Friends: 2
Comic Con 2008: 4
Other Entertainment: 4
Way Off Topic: 9
Spam: 745
About average these days. Some of those posts came from within her own house, some from elsewhere in the Valley, the rest from around the world. While Sparky worked, Jekylljuice played:
All Sims know how to juggle, and they're pretty good at it, too; no one has ever dropped a bottle. The really playful ones even carry a set of juggling balls with them, useful for killing time that could be wasted on homework. Fortunately there is no school on Day One, therefore no homework for Jekylljuice to avoid. Lynnie, on the other hand, went straight to the bookcase when she entered the house:
She and Linestra were both intent on picking up a point or two of Cooking skill, and both succeeded. In the background, Jekylljuice is job hunting online while xxxClaire heads for the kitchen for a bowl of cereal. x_dummkoff_x, hereafter referred to as Xdx, had already found the cereal and plowed her way through it:
Looks like I've got another Eduardo, here. Breakfast was a haphazard affair, with everyone pretty much on their own instead of one big group meal. That's often the case, particularly with the larger families, as not everyone is always hungry at the same time. Much of the morning was spent killing time really, just getting to know each other a little better and picking up a skill point here and there. And a little gossiping went on,too:
I honestly have no idea why they're gossiping about xxxClaire; as far as I know, she hadn't done anything gossip-worthy. She did take off from the house a moment after the pic was taken; her destination was the mall, her mission was to buy a Gameboy or some such thing, which she did, and earned 500 Aspiration Points for doing so. More importantly, she ran into someone we all know:
She and Coco hit it off rather nicely. Their personalities are quite different in some respects but they seem to have similar interests and goals, which definitely helps. Oh, she met this guy, too:
Not quite as in synch as with Coco, but good enough. Wilt has been a frequent visitor to the mall when I send other Sims there, much more so than in the old Valley, and has met quite a number of people since I started playing. Works out well for everyone, as far as I'm concerned. xxxClaire eventually got her game and went home, at which point Imaginary Light decided that she wanted to take a trip to the mall, too. No one from Foster's was there this time but she did run into this guy:
Quentin McBride, one of the members of that family of thugs I mentioned awhile back. Quentin, however, is kind of the "white sheep" of the family. He has no interest in crime or troublemaking; he's a good student with a passion for medicine and dreams of someday becoming a doctor. Nice to know there's one good kid in that family. After they parted company, Imaginary Light, feeling the need to earn a little cash, made her way to the crafting station in the robotics shop and got to work:
"Hey, Cass? Go photograph that Hanazono anime girl and let me work in peace, okay?" Love to, but Karin's not here, and this post is about you and your family, not her. I did pull back, though; one does not argue with a woman who has a screwdriver in one hand and a wrench in the other. Shortly thereafter a toy robot was created and sold for a small profit, and she gained 500 Aspiration Points in the process. After that she went back home, where Linestra was getting lunch on the table:
In truth it was a bit early for lunch but hunger knows no schedule. Those who were hungry ate; those who weren't found other things to do. Pretty easygoing morning, overall. At that point the clock struck noon, and everyone sat back and waited to see who would be in the soon-to-arrive
Pest Brigade Welcome Wagon.
More to come... (
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