When Delaney and Sierra Shanley returned to Niadon, they found that things hadn’t changed much in the four years they had been away at Sim State. Their parents had acquired slightly drooping postures and dazzling white hair, but they were still the same people at heart. Their mother Mia was just as domestic as ever, whipping up pancakes at a moment’s notice whenever her family was hungry.
“Ahh, pancakes. Ahh, life. I love being in permaplat!â€
Delaney’s first order of business was to find a new job. Though her parents still raked in the dough, she wanted to make her own contribution. Besides, what else had she gotten that History degree for? After doing a search online, Delaney found a job as an Acclaimed Muralist. She wasn’t sure how she could be “acclaimed†with so little experience in the world of art, but it offered a substantial income and several days off a week. It was too good to pass up.
“Reminder to self: learn how to paint.â€
At the same time her sister Sierra busied herself with finding some new clothes to wear. She wasn’t sure the slinky black dress look was appropriate for everyday, but unfortunately, she had very few options — it was the only thing that fit her upon leaving Sim State, and she didn’t have enough money yet to buy a new wardrobe. Finding nothing suitable in her mother’s closet, she decided to embrace the slinky black dress and get her hair and make-up redone to compliment it.
“Hey, I can only do so much with these Legacy genes.â€
Pleased with her new look, Sierra invited her fiance Sheldon over. He greeted her enthusiastically with a kiss, then headed straight for her father’s guitar. Sierra cheered him on for the first hour, then got bored with him and headed back to the living room.
“Woo! Yeah! Now play the other chord!â€
Despite his lack of an audience, Sheldon continued to play, impressed with himself and the way he could play the guitar behind his back. Eventually he, too, became bored and headed back to the main part of the house, where he encounted Sierra’s dad, Marcel, listening to music in the kitchen. By way of introducing himself, Sheldon decided to show Marcel the latest dance moves.
“Come on, Mr. Shanley, just shake your butt like this!â€
Watching from the hallway, Sierra wondered if she had really made the best choice in proposing to Sheldon. He seemed to be extremely immature, though perhaps it was because he was still in college.
Perturbed, Sierra went outside to find Delaney kissing her boyfriend, Coach Juan Walton. She observed them wistfully, wishing she had fallen for an older man of distinction as Delaney had.
*smooch smooch smoochy smoo*
Sierra’s wish promptly disintegrated when Juan’s true nature came out. He seemed to delight in the sport of smacking people with water balloons, as the unfortunate cheerleader Christy Stratton discovered.
“What on earth??â€
Juan never seemed to tire of his chosen sport and always had a water balloon handy when he needed one. So much for a man of distinction!
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
Since Delaney was working late painting an important mural somewhere, she wasn’t around to witness Juan’s cruel pranks. The rest of the family dealt with his unwanted presence by ignoring him. So far Marcel hadn’t been much impressed with the two men his daughters had brought home. Had his girls learned nothing in college?
“Are you even listening to me, you old llamahead?â€
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Hello !! I really love your blog, very nice stories and not to hard to read for a french girl like me. I have one question, in one of the Brayton updates there is a picture of Cecily sitting at what looks like “une coiffeuse” (oh sorry I don’t know the word in english) : I search your blog it’s the third picture of “Look in Thy Glass”. How do you put a lamp on it ? I’m very curious to know that !!
I really love the Braytons’ outfits and houses.
Thanks for sharing those great stories (and pictures) with us.
oh man, that was FUNNY! :)
Haha, that was funny Jen. There is some crazy stuff going on in that family. I love Sieras new hair! Is that a download or a new mesh from Uni? I just bought Uni from Amazon so hopefully I’ll be playing some simmies through collegs soon. :)
Jen; I sure had quite a few laughs with this post esp. hearing Arnold in my head saying girly man Ha!
Juan doesn’t seem like the husband type and is he really that mean? Ugh what a loser.
I also posted 2 chap. on my family and I don’t know how you can manage playing two legacy families as just trying to keep up with mine and the satellites take a bit of time.
I also see that you updated the house ..it looks really nice, I really enjoy having Blackberry place in my game as I have 8 Sims living in it and it works perfectly. You seem to have a knack for building some nice ones :)
Later…V
hahaha!! i love your blog keep up the good work!!
pioupiou1717 – Hi there, good to hear from you! I’m glad you’re enjoying my stories. As for “une coiffeuse” (which I think is the vanity table), I used the “move_objects on” cheat to place end tables directly on top of it, so that they became part of the vanity. I was then able to put a lamp on it. I love that cheat!
lil – Glad you liked it! :-)
Amanda – Sierra’s hair is a new mesh from Maxis which comes with University. I look forward to seeing your Sims go through college!!
PRMami – Ooh, I gotta get over and read your update! (Update: I read your update (which was awesome) and left a comment, but it didn’t show up. Let me know if you didn’t receive it.)
thomas – Thanks and welcome! I see you’ve started a Legacy blog! Hope you have a blast with it. :-)
thanks i really loved ur legacy challenge i read it all in one day lol i hope people like my blog as much as they do like urs :-D
Hi Jen;
Yep I got your comment ( thanks Sweetie!) and answered you back on my blog about the llama suit. Damion died in regular clothes but both Laura (the cheerleader NPC) and Damion ( Mascot NPC) haunt in that llama getup. When they were alive and playable they would show up on the community lots and other homes in that suit.
Ok now tell me …where do you get your ideas for building and decorating? I absolutely love the way you have them done and Blackberry has not been changed since I downloaded it as I like it much ;)
I went to Lowe’s with the hubby today and looked over those house plan magazines but didn’t see anything that spoke to me . So how do you do it? :D
Thanks for the reply ! I would have never thought of that. Does the vanity still work for changing appearance ?
that’s hilarious! reading about the Shanleys never tire me out. i can’t wait to see what happens when they really get a night out on the town (i.e. Nightlife).
Great update! I l-o-v-e the Shanleys. New subtitle at the top – ‘which is being terribly neglected in favour of May Green’. Hehehe. I love Delaney’s hair – how cool is that? She looks like Marge off the Simpsons. That’s a compliment :).
Oh, I’ve done a massive Garvie update as well!
E-Liz xxx
Hi Jen. That was a funny update. Those crazy girls :D
I especially loved the water balloon prank. That’s awesome. I love the excorist outfit. She looks so cool.
:)
I’m glad you are keeping us update on the Shanley’s family.
Happy father’s day!!
Happy simming Jen. And i hope you had a great weekend.
I have such a soft spot for the Shanleys. :D I also have to thank you, Jen — each time I read your blog, no matter what you write about I get inspired!
Oh! Hey, Jen? You’ve heard about Will Wright’s new game, right? :D It looks AWESOME.
spore.ea.com
It’s like Sim Earth and Sim Life had a lovechild that then went to college and became this!
Hi Jen,
I stumbled across your sims blog a couple of weeks back and have been hooked ever since. I love your stories (Shanleys and Braytons), and your captions are so funny! =) Every time I look at your pictures, it makes me wish I could make houses that looked as nice.
Maybe it’s just me, but in that picture of Sierra wearing her exorcist outfit, are her ring fingers strangely shorter than the others? Hehe.
Anyway, keep up the great work! I agree with all the others that you would make a great writer. =)
Hey guys, glad you enjoyed the Shanley update. I’m working on another one since I’m still mulling over the next Brayton update. To answer some questions:
PRMami – Thanks, I’m glad you’re enjoying Blackberry Place. :-) I get some of my building and decorating ideas from house plan books and magazines, mainly ones that include pictures of interiors. Blackberry Place and a few others I built (including the latest Shanley house) are from the Sarah Susanka “Not-So-Big House” books. I also get a lot of ideas just from looking at other people’s Sim houses! And sometimes it helps to find a cool piece of furniture I like and build a room around it. Anyway, I think your interiors look great!
pioupiou1717 – Yes, the vanity still works, even with those tables attached to it!
Kay – I hadn’t heard of Spore yet, but I looked at the site, and…whoa! I’m not sure I’ll get into it like I’m into the Sims, but it definitely looks intriguing. Thanks for that link!
RG – Welcome! And thanks for your comment! I never noticed Sierra’s stumpy fingers in that exorcist picture — that IS freaky. Sim bodies are really strange sometimes. :S
I REALLY liked this one! Good Work! Your NG! (Natural Genius!)
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YAY! I love it! I especially like Sierra and her exorcist outfit, and Delaney coming home, thinking about Juan.
Now I’ve been doing a little wondering, but how are Tristan, Vesta, Stefaan, Kenneth, etc doing. I understand about how satelitte houses are hard to manage, why I have quite a few, and I’m like I want to play my legacy family house, infact I have an adult, who should be gone by now, cause she was born in 2nd gen and kids who are toddlers, that were born before my 3rd gen spare heir, and she is an adult now, so I dunno what to do…..