After a time, everyone grew more settled at the new house, secluded though it was from the rest of the world. Delaney worked hard trying to get promoted from Acclaimed Muralist to something even more…acclaimed…but she needed to network with the bigwigs of the art world, and it was difficult out in the wilderness. She spent most of her time traveling into town to hobnob with the art snobs, leaving little Ruby in Juan’s and Marcel’s care.
Sierra continued working as an Exorcist for the Goobi Goomba clan and seemed to be rising in their esteem, but one day she became quite ill and couldn’t make the trek to Upper West Arborea.
“It’s OK, hon. Just try to aim for the bowl.â€
Sure enough, Sierra was pregnant, and she spent several months in the usual meditative trance while Thomas frantically read every baby book he could get his hands on.
“Hey Thomas, do you think while I’m meditating you could get me some pickles and ice cream?â€
In the meantime, Ruby had blazed through another birthday and grown into an extremely nice, well-mannered, and very shy girl, as unlike her father as possible, except in one way – she was highly active and seemed to have boundless energy. But in temperament she was actually more like Thomas, whom she seemed to admire, even when he burned the spaghetti.
“I had no idea marinara sauce was so flammable!â€
Despite the occasional odor of burnt pasta, Ruby loved Niadon II and could hardly remember the old house. She would spend hours on end just roaming the grounds, clambering over the numerous porches and stairs, and gazing up at the columns that towered over her.
“Hm, I wonder if I could climb those…â€
Though Ruby almost never got bored or lonely, she was excited for Aunt Sierra to have her baby, mainly because Ruby wouldn’t have to wait until school to play with someone – she’d have her own little cousin at home who could play with her anytime she wanted. They’d be like sisters! And Ruby could show her all of the cool places in the woods, and all of the trails in the hills, and where she hid her dad’s water balloons so he wouldn’t be able to find them.
“I guess I’m pretty cute, but we’ll see if I stay that way once puberty hits…â€
Eventually Sierra stopped meditating and gave birth to a little girl – who had bright red eyebrows. In fact, she looked almost identical to Ruby, except that she had green eyes instead of grey.
“She’s fine, you can all stop freaking out now.â€
Not to be outdone in the “names based on eyebrow color†department, Sierra named her new daughter Ginger. Ruby stopped playing chess long enough to gaze upon her new cousin and pronounce her “funny-lookingâ€, but secretly she thought the baby was beautiful and couldn’t wait for her to grow up.
(NOTE: I had some problems with Niadon due to a hacked object I accidentally downloaded — at least, that’s what I THINK it was — even after I deleted the hacked object, the problems persisted, so I can’t really be sure. The gist is that everyone’s needs were staying full green no matter what — Juan played drums for two days straight and his needs never deteriorated. Also, no matter how many friends they made, it would say they had 12, so no one could get promoted. Since my other lots seemed to be working fine, I decided to move the Shanleys onto a new lot. I lost a couple of career rewards, but they should be easy to recover. At least I didn’t lose any gravestones — no one has died yet. I lost diplomas, too, but oh well. Everything seems to be working properly now *knocks on wood*.)
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.