After that I decided it was time that Marcel and Mia finally got married. Actually, I think the “Get Married” want might have spun up for Mia. At any rate, they had a quiet little ceremony in the living room while their daughters were sleeping.
“And I promise to never flush the toilet while you’re in the shower…”
Since I wanted both Mia and Marcel to continue working and hopefully get promoted (Marcel in Natural Science and Mia in Law Enforcement), I had them hire a nanny to look after the girls. Delaney spent most of her childhood working on her skills (which are more important for children now that University is part of the picture. Gotta get those scholarships!).
“Delaney dear, wouldn’t you rather be watching TV or something?”
Sierra grew into a cute little toddler (are they ever anything but?) and had fun making a mess of her toddler mush.
“Wheeee…heeheehee…*splat*”
Just as a semi-interesting aside: Niadon has a large room that houses the living, kitchen and dining areas. For some reason, my Sims seemed to HATE that room. Whenever they were in it, their environment scores dropped considerably. I looked everywhere for a hidden rancid food plate, but found nothing. The room was spotless. I thought maybe the room was too big, so I partitioned it off, but that didn’t help either. When the Shanleys had saved up enough money to remodel the kitchen, I decided to change the flooring, too, and what do you know? The environment score shot right up. All I did was change it from the bamboo wood floor that came with University to one of the old wood floors that came with the original game. The second floor is only marginally more expensive than the bamboo one, so I have no idea why they like it so much better. Anyway, it’s too bad, because I like that bamboo floor! Anyone else have trouble with that flooring? Is this something that happens with other floors, too, and I just never noticed it?
Anyway, here’s Marcel grooving with his best friend Warren on the new wood floor.
“Hey, watch me dance like an Egyptian…”
When Sierra finally became a child (after a few days of playing with the bunny head), Delaney surprised me by teasing her. What’s up with that? Delaney’s supposed to be nice. I felt instantly sorry for Sierra, so now she’s my little underdog girl.
“Haha, now you’re a big stinky kid like me!”
Here’s Sierra on her first day of school:
“Hey everyone, I’m Sierra, and my dad has a carnivorous cow plant!”
Here’s where I ran into a bit of good luck — I answered a chance card correctly and Mia was promoted to SWAT Team Leader. She sang the happy promotion song when she came home that day.
“Top of the world, ma!”
Then I answered a chance card correctly for Marcel, and he was promoted 5 levels to the top of the Natural Science career! Holy cow plant! I never have that much luck with chance cards! I about died when I saw that his new salary would be §10, 497 a day. He only works one day a week, but still, that’s a lot of dough. It doesn’t hurt that they received §20,994 for a promotion bonus. Great scott. Time to remodel!
“Whoa…what just happened?”
Marcel’s Lifetime want is to be a Criminal Mastermind (while Mia’s is to be a Captain Hero, heh), so I’ll probably have him switch jobs eventually, but this will be perfect for awhile — he can stay home 6 days a week, take care of the kids, and work on maxing his skills and writing great novels. Then one day a week he can go be an Ecological Guru and bring home a bunch of moolah. I just have to remember to get him a job on the criminal track before he hits elder…
So, as much as I’m enjoying this family, there still hasn’t been much of a challenge yet. Darn those chance cards! (Not that I’m really complaining…OK, so I am)
Pff xD Stop yer complaining
o_o You should try getting redhair inta the picture, alot of the kids have been blondehaired lately.
Who’s your next heir? =D
Horray! I love reading about your family. I don’t have University so I’m spending a lot of my time reading blog entries like this and scratching my head – oh, and drooling too. $10,497 a day!? That’s more then the Athletic career! What is up with the Cow Plant by the way? What is it? Ok, enough questions off to read other blogs, keep up the great work. :)
Mieko – LOL…OK, I’ll stop complaining. And hey, I thought you liked blondies? Heh. As for the next heir, maybe I’ll have them both go to college, and then you guys can pick.
Bitsy – Hi there! The cow plant is the career reward for the Natural Science track. It has to be fed meat on a regular basis or it will try to lure people into its gaping maw with a piece of cake. Once it chomps down the person (ew), its udders (ew) fill up with elixir of life, which Sims can then milk and drink (ew!). Christine used it to great effect over on her blog.
“But…but I want cake!” Hilarious! The reason I post is I have one suggestion for a boy name and one for a girl. For the girl Niamh because I see quite a blonde streak going on. It’s supposed to mean girl of the golden hair (I think) and it was the 11th most popular girl name in Ireland. As for boys’ names I came up with Quinn meaning intellegent. I think it can be used as a girl’s name too but it’s a little ironic what it means if you’ve ever watched Daria. Sorry for the babble!
That is rather gross… and Christine named her cow plant Bitsy! How funny is that? Thanks for pointing me to the blog, Jen. ;)
$10,497?! Wow. I haven’t yet played through the university part of University all the way through, so I haven’t had a chance to see the new jobs or how much they pay. Now I can’t wait for my University family to get going faster!
Jen, how did you change Sierra’s hair! Mine seems to be hereditary — they all get their parents’ hair styles. I keep changing them when they become teens because I don’t like the styles so much. Avril has turned out rather pretty because of her change in hair style :)
Whoa! That’s a hell lot of simoleons. I guess that sorta makes the challenge easier, but still I’m enjoying the family. I was just thinking though, to get any points for scolarships you need to get at least $9000 or over worth (roughly) which means that’s around 9 scholarships! which makes me think it’s not possible for sims to go to college straight after childhood years.
Hello Jen, wow, i love when you make big updates:)
And you right about this floor, the sims don´t feel very well with this floor, i don´t know why.
With the other ones i don´t have any problems, just this one.
And i laugh when you say: “Joe Satriani; eat your heart out”, so cool.
I really like Joe Satriani LOL.
Keep going with your very good humour, i love it!!!;)
Whoa! Man they sure are raking in the dough with Marcel’s promotion. Goodness! That will definitly be helpful to remodel. I got Damion into the Natural Science tract just for that cowplant which he got the moment he accepted the job. I have quite a few unfortunates in Gypsy’s Landing that I’m waiting to walk by and lure them with that thing. Muahahauha.
Can’t wait for that next Harry Potter book either eh?
BTW, thank’s for the theme idea. Will use that idea next ;)
Name ideas hmmm, I like to go for the more exotic sounding names soo here are some to get you thinking;
Boys:
Ailbhis – (AL-vis) 6th C. Irish saint; perhaps also can be Ailbhe.
Alsandair – Irish also can be Alexander
Blathmac – (BLAW-vak) Old Irish=blath “flower” + mac “son.” Popular in early Ireland
Girls:
Ailionora – (e-le-NOH-ra) Irish = Eleanor
Airmid – (AIR-mit) daughter of a physician Dian Cecht who was one of the Tuatha De Danann, an expert in the use of herbs for medicinal purposes.
Bryg – (BREE) from Celtic root brig “high, mighty.” Name borne by 13 early saints. Variant of the name Brighid
Now I gotta see what Neroli gives birth to ..girl . boy. twins? …who knows LOL
Later V.
Yay for that chance card! I’ve hit it twice so far, it is my savior.
About names, here’s a site that lists Irish-specific names. You can browse over it and decide what you like: http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/iri.html
Marcel looks a LOT like my aunt’s boyfriend, only with shorter hair. It’s amusing and disturbing at the same time. ;)
“Luck of the IRISH!” HOLY COW PLANT! Over $10,000 for working only one day! That Natural Science career track … woohoo! I mean geez! The top of the traditional careers I think maxed at like $2000 or something.
Go you! Wow … I absolutely love your picture quality. And this story had me laughing OUT LOUD (at work). *looks around sheepishly and hopes no one is listening* Hehe.
Your home is very beautiful. Did you follow a floorplan or anything like that?
Becki: Kids can use the mirror to change their appearance, too. In fact, that’s all they can do with the mirror…
Bitsy: I was wondering where I got the name for the cow plant from! I must have seen your comments a few times and that was the first thing that popped to mind when I wanted to name the plant. Not that I think you are a cow plant or anything like that. Honest! I just checked out your blog and really enjoyed it. :)
Jen: Sorry for taking over your comments. I just get carried away sometimes… I loved the update! I”m amazed you are able to keep up with two simultaneous Legacy families AND a blog. I can barely keep up with one family…
Hey Jen! Great update! I managed to get a little bit of internet time up here, but not much. I can’t wait to see how the girls turn out in their teenage years! Well…I have a few name suggestions! They’re all Irish names.
Female:
Agata — kind
Leanah
Cailyn
Dana
Leila
Nualah
Male:
Alroy — red-headed
Ailin — handsome
Blair
Carlin
Hurley
Quinn — intelligent
Ronan
Rory
Torrence
That’s it for now. I hope that gives you a few choices for Irish names and that you like some of them! Well keep up the great work! I’ll be back on Sunday! :-)
Maybe it would be nicer if Mia will have a child with a another guy
Hi Jen!
I’ve got a boy’s name that’s not really Irish, but my Grandad was Irish and he was called Joe…but he died a while ago, so it might bring some of his spirit back, or something like that…
E-liz :)
Angelia — As a matter of fact, I did follow a floor plan for Niadon. It’s from a Sarah Susanka book called Home by Design. I’m a big fan of all of Susanka’s books. The houses she designs/writes about just look so nice and cozy. :-)
Hey Jen! Sorry for not posting for a while…darn work. However, I am immensly enjoying your posts, as usual, and are still very fun even with my own Sims 2. I’m thinking of starting my own blog over the summer, but we’ll see. Keep up the wonderful work! Bye!