When she went so far as to suggest that Tiffy hold a deck party and invite all her friends, I knew something was up.
“Well, you never had a housewarming party when you moved in,†Bailey said to her one day. “Most of your friends haven’t even seen your new house yet. Joey can grill hamburgers! And I’ll make dessert.â€
Does that sound like the Bailey we all know? I didn’t think so either! Tiffy thought it was pretty odd, too, but she had to admit it was a good idea. She had been so busy with work that she hadn’t spend any time with her friends, and she missed them. The next day she called up a handful of them and invited them over for the deck party.
It was another gorgeous summer day in Mt. Geneva when Tiffy’s friends showed up for the party. Just as Bailey had suggested, Joey made hamburgers on the grill, and Bailey’s somewhat lopsided chocolate cake was waiting in the kitchen for dessert.
I still couldn’t figure out what Bailey had up her sleeve, and as the day wore on, I began to wonder if maybe she didn’t. Had she finally become a decent person? She certainly wasn’t getting anything in particular out of Tiffy having a deck party. She stayed mostly on the sidelines, being generally nice and helpful, and letting Tiffy have all the attention. Who would have thought?
As for attention, Tiffy seemed to be receiving quite a lot of it! Her friend Joely Dobbins was being her usual friendly self, but her other friends Adrian and Sean almost seemed to be competing with each other for Tiffy’s favor, each one outdoing the other with funnier jokes and more outrageous stories.
By the time the party moved into the house for cake and socializing, Tiffy had caught on to what was happening and didn’t seem to like it much. Adrian and Sean were her friends, and she wanted it to stay that way. If she decided to date either one of them, it would throw everything off balance, and she wasn’t quite ready for that.
Besides, she wasn’t particular attracted to either of them, and I have to say, I understood completely! Not that they weren’t each handsome in their own way, but I wouldn’t have picked either of them for Tiffy if I had any say in the matter. They were both intelligent and amusing, but also a bit on the conceited side, and neither of them liked Joey very much. (I have a soft spot for Joey, my dears, so I’m a little biased!)
So Tiffy decided to go on treating her friends the usual way – as friends only – and pretended she hadn’t noticed the subtle flirtations. And I say bravo to her! Why throw oneself at just any man that tosses one the slightest scrap of attention? It’s so undignified! Surely I would never do such a thing…
At any rate, life went on at the Kilman bungalow quite contentedly for the next few weeks, until Bailey suddenly woke from a nap in the middle of the day and started yowling in pain!
Well, no matter how many childbirths I’ve witnessed in my life (very few) and in my afterlife (too many to count!), I still can’t stand to watch the mother-to-be writhing in such excruciating pain – I must avert my eyes throughout most of the screaming ordeal.
Only at the very end does my curiosity compel me to look, so I can see the baby spin into the world.
The baby entering the world on this particular date was a lovely little girl they named Shea Sydney. The “Sydney†part was in honor of Joey’s late father, Sid Kilman, who would have exploded with pride to see his first grandchild. And though I wasn’t sure Bailey was truly ready to be a mother, she jumped into it with ease. It seemed she adored her baby girl, and nothing would ever change that.
Or would it?
Hey Jen great story very much better then mine xD I was coming to ask you to read this when I saw this post so I had to read lol. Um so please look at my story and sorry for all the typos.
I wonder if any of her mother will rub off on Shea or if Bailey has really changed.
Hum, perhaps she´s really change her attitude and now with the birth of the daughter who knows?
I believe that people can change for better, but of course this is me.
Great job, like always.
Great job Jen! Though I must say, what a cliff hanger! I can’t wait till the next update.
Oh, I have a new update as well.
Hmmm, I think she has some evil plan in the works! She just sounds mean….and evil! Great update Jen, and I look forward to the next one!
Yay~ I was thinking all day about this blog. I felt the update! I felt it in my elbows.
Or not. But I felt it, man.
I don’t know. I doubt her changing, but if she did, great! :D If not, and she’s having an affair, then not great! Not great at all. In fact, negative not great!
I do hope Tiffy finds someone, though.
And, say… Maude’s seen a few births in life, right? And she had sisters? Does that mean that she might have some nieces, or cousins, or any family members at all?
Curiousity strikes me, like… a match strikes on a box.
Excellent story! :D I can’t wait to see what Bailey’s planning. Woo!
Yay, an update, and WHAT a great one! It is so nice to read your stories, you always have very pretty pictures and so pretty people – AND are the best sim-story-teller I’ve come to read so far. Ok enough of that *g*. Anyhow, I think the baby is such a cutie, her name reminds me of nuts because of shea butter *g*. And I wonder about whom Tiffy will chose one day, if she will chose someone… and about Bailey really being so loving and caring as she seems. Bailey has a great hairstyle by the way, do you by chance remember where you got that from ;)? Greetings, Eva!
Ooooh what a great cliffhanger at the end “Or would it?”
I can’t wait to read more !
Isn’t it kind of strange that baby Shea has blonde hair, even though her father has black hair and black is the dominant gene? Or maybe Joey isn’t the father! Maybe Bailey was cheating on him and only wanted him for his money!
Ok Im getting ahead of myself, your stories are great, can’t wait for more!
~kath
But of course Kath is right the baby has blond hair and her father has black hair..oh my God…i ´m so silly. Duh
Great story! I can’t wait to see if Bailey really has changed or if she has something up her sleeve :)
OOOOHhhhhh *chews on all nails on both hands while looking back and forth* What will happen???!! OOOOoooo
cool update Jen! I hope Bailey turns out to have changed but I won’t hold my breath. By the way, I love the make-overs you gave them. :D Very nice!
Thanks for the comments, as always! My next update will probably be on the Royal Kingdom Challenge — I’m really excited about it.
BTW, I got a new computer and am hoping gameplay will go faster now (IF I can get Sims 2 to install on it — it keeps freezing on install because on of my discs is scratched, but I might be able to borrow another copy from someone…or see if I can polish it up with toothpaste — has anyone tried that?). One of the reasons I took a break from the Braytons is that their house was so incredibly slow, it was trying my patience, and I’m usually a very patient person! My new machine has more memory and a better video card, so we shall see…
And I love all the new blogs coming up! It’s hard to keep up with everyone (especially you folks who are way more prolific than I am) but it’s loads of fun. All the new links are in my sidebar (if yours is missing, let me know)! OK, I’m done babbling for today…see you guys later!
Oh! Eva M., I can’t recall where I got Bailey’s hairstyle at the moment but I will take a look once I get home! I think it might have been Paper Bag Princesses (which is currently inaccessible), MOTS2, or The Sims Resource. It looks like it might have been done by Lola…
Woo-hoo. Good job Jen! That update was good as always, leaving suspense for me so i can think of nothing else. Haha im sorry about you computer going stupid on you..mine does it on occasion. Congrats on you new computer and i hope the next update comes soon.
I’m so glad to see that good ol’ Maude is back in action! Maude’s category was the first that I began reading on this site, and I was sad to see it fade. I love the idea of a phantom roaming about, spying on the residents, and telling stories about them. I must also say, I love Tiffy’s looks. She has a very unique sort of beauty. Frankly, I get tired of all the cutesy, baby faced ‘babes’. She has a very mature look about her that I find appealing… What I love most about her is that she’s so independent that a mate doesn’t seem required. Of course, I want her to find someone, but it’s great to see a character that’s not desperate to enter the romance/mating race. I’ve gotten through all the Brayton posts, and I’m adoring that as well. I read them all in one sitting. That’s how absorbed I was in the story! Also, I want to thank you for your reassuring words in response to my latest post, it truly lifted my spirits.
Oh Jen, thanks alot for the tip, I was roaming around TSR and MTS2 yesterday at midnight, I did not quite find Bailey’s hairstyle, but I found another that came close to it and that looks really nice! But thanks for the tip all the same.
And thanks for having encouraged me to put up a blog of my own, and for supporting it :)
I’m almost certain Bailey’s hair is Lola’s “Fall, Fall, Fall” or “Vertigo”. I’ll look it up before I post this comment.
Anyway… meep! I wouldn’t try toothpaste. If the disc is scratched, I usually just get a damp (not too wet) paper towel, and wipe the offending side gently– from the inner part of the disc to the edge of it. Then, dry it with another paper towel (or normal towel. In fact, you can use half the towel to wet, and half to dry.)
I once charmed a PS1 disc to go from freezing at every load screen to playing perfectly, and fixed a laser disc reader on my gamecube by using this method. (Man, it was nerve-wracking doing that with the disc reader on the gamecube! Just was worried that I’d kill the whole thing.)
If that doesn’t work, you could try and see if making an ISO of the CD might let you install it better. I hear that ISOs are supposed to be good for data recovery.
Okay! As for the hair, I found out the name of it. It’s “Alice” by Lola. I’m having a little trouble finding it, though– it’s probably on her website. Drat that site, being down! x_@;
Hey there Blu, thanks for looking up that name! Yeah, I downloaded the fall fall fall hair yesterday, I guess I’ll be fine with that for the time being – if I could get the Alice one some day though that wouldn’t be too bad anyhow :) Thx, you’re all so kind!
Oh what a nice update again on the Killmans. I’m curious if Bailey will be changed for good now that she has a child. And I like Tiffy, I hope she will find someone nice.
BTW, I’m curious to see your RK stories too :-D
Jen, I had that problem too on my old computer but it turned out not to be a problem with the disk itself but the cd drive wasn’t spinning fast enough. I thought I would have to send the disc in for replacement but when I got this new pc, just because I was curious, I put the disc in and tried to install it and it worked fine. However, since your computer is brand new I can’t imagin it would be the CD drive. I hope you get it fixed though.
Well, it’s strange, because Disc 1 worked perfectly fine, but when I put in Disc 2 it sputtered and clicked and eventually stopped spinning altogether. I’m embarrassed to say I tried the toothpaste method, but it only scratched it up worse (so Blu is right, don’t use toothpaste!). I wouldn’t have even bothered with that, but I was impatient to get TS2 on my new machine, and a few internet sites had said to try toothpaste on the scratched disc.
Then I tried Pledge (which is a furniture cleaner) — that seemed to shine up the disc nicely, but it still wouldn’t work. Finally my sister’s boyfriend bought a CD repair contraption which also buffed it up to a glistening — and weirdly rippled — sheen, but alas, it continued to sputter and click. I think I’m going to end up buying TS2 again. I’ve always wanted it on DVD (the dvd player on my old machine was broken), so this time I can buy it in that format. Anyway, I’ve learned my lesson!
Blu, thanks for finding Lola’s hairstyle; I had a feeling it was hers but I wasn’t sure, and last night I was so preoccupied with my disc-repair follies that I forgot to look for it!
Also wanted to add, have all you new bloggers joined SimScribes yet? It has been a little quiet there, but maybe some new activity could energize it! Anyway, if you haven’t joined up, head on over!
Jen, if you didn’t want to pay full price you may be able to get a replacement from maxis by sending in the scratched copy along with 7 bucks or something like that. That is what I was going to do when I thought I had to get a new disc. Although, if you are going to by the DVD there probably is no point. Anyway, sorry to hear your troubles.
I was just going to say what Amanda said. My kids broke my first Sims 1 disk by stepping on it and I mailed it to them with 7-10 bucks, something like that, and they mailed me back a new disk. (which is why I always install the game, install a cd crack, and PUT THE DISK AWAY, tough if that pisses off EAGAMES that I DARE to use a game I’ve legally paid for the way I choose. I have 4 kids. CD disks aren’t safe.)
So even if you don’t want to do that, because you want a dvd anyway, or don’t want to because of the time it takes, maybe someone else reading will someday find it useful.
Thanks, Amanda and Gethane. Since I’m an incredibly impatient person, I just went ahead and got the darned DVD. I know, I’m nuts. ;-) I’m thinking I might still try to get the scratched disc replaced and give the CDs to my sisters or something. But yeah, CDs scratch way too easily.
Hehe, I wonder when games will be sold the size (or exactl like) an MP3 player. No scratching then!
I also wanted to let everyone know I updated again (I do so about every-other day). Cheerio!
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Yeah, I’ve taken to using a homemade ISO of the first disc, myself. Not because I was worried about the disc, but because I was tired of putting it in and taking it out. >_>;
I was looking at SimScribes the other day. Meeb, I hadn’t realized how quiet it was over there. x_x But since so many more people are starting blogs, hopefully it’ll perk back up again. :D
Woo! I hope the DVD treats you well. :D
Hrm. It’s odd how disc 2 was being so weird. Maybe it was the wrong… shape.
… ^^;
Jen I had the same problem when I used the CD version of the game on this here pc so I ended up getting the DVD version. My 15 yrold dd really wanted to try and see if the CD version worked on her pc upstairs and sure enuf it did. That CD version was just plain fickle for me. I hope it all works out for you.
My dh can’t play sims at all on his computer, even after a new hard drive and new install. He can get the game to install but no matter what he does, it always says, “Please insert correct disk.” when trying to play the game. I’ve tried putting in a different cd rom and dvd rom in his computer and neither worked. I even spent 20 minutes on a worthless long distance call to EA phone support with an idiot that couldn’t do anything other than read me questions fromthe stupid help forum that I had already tried.
He has this issue on another game, and it turns out its the SafeDisk copy protection on the cd. LOTS of people have problems with this copy protection scheme. It’s too bad they try to punish the legitimate customers, but those that are going to get around it with cracks, DO IT ANYWAY.
So what did I have to do to get it to run? Do the cd crack.