But first, she wanted to give Ruby a little birthday party. It would be the last birthday at Niadon, and everyone seemed rather subdued as they gathered around the brightly lit cake. Everyone except for Mia. She was overjoyed to be moving her family to a safer place, one hidden far in the hills, where even her evil archnemesis wouldn’t be able to find them (if she ever acquired an evil archnemesis, that is).
Mia held little Ruby up to the cake and led everyone in a not-so-rousing rendition of “Happy Birthdayâ€. Ruby giggled and cooed in her arms.
“You look like a monkey…and you act like one, too!â€
With a happy laugh, Mia threw Ruby into the air, and when the little girl fell back into her arms, she was a bright-eyed, bright-haired toddler, wearing the clothes Granny had bought her at Baby Gap. The miracle of transformation never ceased to amaze Mia, and she held up her granddaughter admiringly.
“Careful, Gran — don’t drop me in the cake!”
Juan was exceedingly proud of his little toddler and didn’t seem to mind too much that they were leaving Niadon for the aptly-named Niadon II. Whatever kept his daughter safe from the crazies was fine by him.
“Hope you like it here, girly girl.”
As for Ruby herself, she went on blissfully playing in her new room, unaware that there were any crazies in the world (aside from her dad).
“Tell me the one about the rabbits, George!”
Not everyone adjusted so quickly and easily to their new surroundings. Sierra missed Thomas terribly – he had gone back to Sim State to teach Historical and Cultural Musicology and only visited on weekends. She wanted to marry him more than anything, but she couldn’t seem to get rid of her fiancé Sheldon, who had become the most annoying person on earth.
Nothing worked on Sheldon, not even jealousy. Or rather, it worked, but not in the way Sierra intended. The first time he visited the new house, Sierra made a point of kissing Thomas right in front of him. Sheldon lunged for her and gave her a sharp slap – but refused to break up with her.
“I hate you! I love you! I hate you!â€
“We’ll be engaged until you die or marry me!†he spat before marching out of the room.
Sierra found herself wishing they could have brought her father’s cow plant to Niadon II – it would have taken care of her Sheldon problem quite handily – but the infernal thing had sprouted roots into the ground and refused to be budged.
No, she would have to deal with Sheldon herself, but how did one deal with a lunatic? She decided to forget about Sheldon and pretend that Thomas was her husband instead. Within a day Thomas was living at Niadon II and commuting several hours a day to his job at Sim State.
Everyone in the family liked Thomas. Unlike Juan, he was friendly, considerate, easy to talk to – and staunchly against pulling pranks. Mia adored him and treated him like her own son, even though the man was as old as she was.
“How come she never hugs MY husband like that?â€
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Aw. Ruby’s kinda cute.
Anyway… I say Mia is totally The Grandmia. Yeah! CAP’N Grandmia.
Man, though. x_x Really stinks about the object. I guess it just goes to say: “Hey! Back me up every day! No, do it more often. Little more often. Yeah. I guess that’s enough.” (“But I’m backing you up every other day, and that takes ages!”) “And it’s enough!”
…>_>; Anyway! I can tell Ruby the one about the Rabbits, even though she probably forgot all about the rabbits.
Poor rabbits.
Alone and forgotten. *weep*
If we’re voting, I’m for The Bad-Guy-Beater-Upper! Mia is such a great Grandma :)
Supergranny to the rescue!!
Where did you get those goregeous stone floors Jen?? I have great resources for clothes now, but my “constructionmaterials” are still low…
the grammanator. That’s definately it.
I second the motion of the grammanator.
And too bad about the buggy lot. How odd.
Wonderful update! :D I always love hearing about the Shanleys.
The new place looks great! In case you didn’t know, though maybe you just forgot or decided not to take them, the person whose diploma it is can click on it and “Take Diploma.”
Always love reading your updates.
Loved reading ’bout the Shanley’s again.
Grandma Nia is too cool.
Once again the house looks great, interior decorations look like something I would buy LOL….. any chance you’ll be uploading it.
I had that bug happen to one of my Sims on a University lot, the odd thing was that even though I had about 6 or 7 other people in the lot, only one of my Sim’s needs wouldn’t diminish…eventually it just sort of went away though.
Awesome update! :D
I love that Juan’s such a jerk to everyone except his wife and daughter. Heeheehee.
I demand pictures of Ginger! Baby pics! Baby pics!
.. I’m still working on the next update for the Prosperity-Legacy challenge.. x.x
Sorry to hear about the lot issues but this update was great, quite cute actually. I love Ruby she seems like a sweetheart, thank goodness she’s not like her father. The new house looks great from what I can tell, I’d love to see a full view picture of it.
Eep. Forgot about the whole “chance of inheriting meanness” thing, too. x_x; I’m glad it didn’t happen to Ruby. It happened to three of my Sims, but I Encouraged two of them out of it (the third, I didn’t really care about too much).
But, yeah. Hopefully if they have any other kids, they’ll be just as nice! Aww. Yay, nice! :D
Awesome! Great update
Hey Jen!
First of all, I didn’t know they could wash windows!!! That was a first for me to see that. Second of all, you will lose your diplomas when you move. It’s a bug with University and it pretty sucks when you earned it and you can’t take it with you. However, there is a downloadable collection that includes the diploma so you can just buy it back. Also there is a hack that prevents the diploma from going away, I’m more than certain there is.
I wonder if you got the “slow aspiration hack” which usually piggybacks itself onto lots. If you haven’t already, you might want to run through your downloads with Clean Installer and see if shows up. It should (because I have it and I’ve seen it listed in red). If you have any additional questions, let me know. I’m sure I can get you an answer. :)
Oh wow..i was gone for so long..so much has happened. Yay! Haha i loveee the May Green family..even more so than the Shanleys..sorry! haha My computer was having problems..i got it fixed..and it is still having problems.. I hope it fixes itself though before school because i gotta whole lotta stuff to do. I love your blog..it was all i could think about while i layed in my home..bored with nothing to do because the computer broke. Haha anyway keep up the good work! I hope you had updated on the Braytons. =( but i settle for anything!
I love the Shanleys. I am so happy to find your website once again. The link stopped working about four months ago and i did not know it had been changed. Awesome blog as always. I can’t wait to see how the cousins compare to one another.
The Grammanator! That’s awesome! Can I use it, lil? :-D
Yannick – I think I got most of those stone floors from the following sites:
Casa D’Arte
Jendea2
Parsimonious
BluetesSims2Ecke (updated link)
I might have missed one — I’ll doublecheck the next time I boot up the game.
Gethane – Doh. I didn’t know that about the diplomas. Guess I was a little hasty. Good to hear from you again, by the way! :-)
PRMami – Glad you like the new house — I’d upload it but it’s in half-finished state at the moment. This crop of Shanleys isn’t yet rich enough to finish building their mansion. :-)
Heidi – That IS weird — it was happening to all of the Sims on my lot except for Professor Thomas, who moved in after the bug took effect.
Kathy – Thanks for the info! I actually booted up Clean Installer and deleted any hacks I didn’t want to keep, but the problem didn’t go away, so I’m not sure what the deal was. The hack I accidentally downloaded and installed was one of those mailbox hacks. The Shanleys and Braytons were the only lots I played while the hack was installed, so I figured that’s how the Shanleys got hosed, but I could be wrong. I haven’t checked the Braytons yet.
*waves to Eva and jenni120* Welcome back!
The grammanator is what came to mind when I saw Nia.. I suppose then it was made for her :)
BluetesSims2Ecke’s new URL is http://www.web-space.tv/bluetessims2ecke/
Just letting you know I updated my site again. :) With both Prosperity /and/ Legacy! Woot! The latter’s got about 25 pics to it.
Yannick – I wanted to add that the floor on the front porch of the new Shanley house is from Aussie Topenders. It’s under Walls & Floors –> Zita’s Floors –> Page 2 under “Mixed”. Zita has some awesome wood floors there, too.