First, a wee bit more Coriander. He finally maxed all of his skills, fulfilling his lifetime want (yay!) and giving me one point for an impossible want (double-yay!). Gotta love those Knowledge Sims.
“I’m the happiest nerd on earth!â€
Having worn out Coriander’s usefulness (I had his Natural Science career reward tucked safely away in Camellia’s inventory), I sent him off to find his own place.
“Look out, world — Rogue Botanist on the loose!â€
I’m not sure if I’ll ever play him again, which I feel mildly guilty about, since he’s madly in love with his fiancé Clytemnestra, and I’m curious to see what their kids would look like. But I’ve got Calhoun to play, too, if I ever get to him, and if I have too many satellite families going on, this legacy will take FOREVER to get through. So who knows.
Not long after Coriander departed, Camellia had her baby. Fourth generation is here, oh happy day! She’s a little girl with brown hair and blue eyes, just like her daddy Horatio, and I named her Daisy.
Here she is with her grandma, Belinda. (Well, whaddya know, one of the old geezers finally decided to make an appearance.)
“Hey Grandma, can I tug on your curl? HONK HONK!â€
In no time she became a toddler.
*baby zzzZZZzzzs*
They look so deceptively tranquil when they’re sleeping. Here’s Daisy in her awakened state:
“Just put one foot in front of the other…â€
And hey, she’s still pretty tranquil. Thank goodness.
I couldn’t resist snapping this next pic. When people say the new toddlers-cuddling-pets interaction is too cute for words, they’re not exaggerating.
Whew, enough cuteness for awhile! Let’s take a look at the business side of things. Just how well is that rinkydink flower shop doing?
I’m still pretty green (ha) when it comes to the Open for Business stuff, so I’m learning much as I play. It finally occurred to me that I need to train my hired employees to be good at what they do, because Farley and Belinda aren’t going to be around forever. Sim staff, however, will never die. So I can ramp up their talent badges and always have someone to take care of the shop, no matter what.
So Belinda hired a cashier and restocker, each of whom have Silver badges in their respective jobs, and sent the no-eyebrow-lady to create flowers. (The gentleman in the suspenders is just a customer wandering around.)
“Why won’t she let me do sales anymore? Is it because of that PSA guy?â€
Well, Sim workers may never die, but they can get ticked off and quit. D’OH. I had no idea they wanted raises! Picky little ingrates.
“No vending machines in the breakroom? That’s it! I’m OUTTA HERE!â€
As if losing my restocker weren’t a bad enough blow, no-eyebrow-lady had to go and get disgruntled, too. Before she left, she changed out of her work uniform and became Lauren Ravelo – er – Ainsley Lightfoot – again. At least she has eyebrows now.
“I hate this place! I’m moving to Rosebrook to find me a man!â€
The next picture is just a random snapshot of a the leader of the wolf pack rolling around in the Burrs’ flowerbed. Not so tough now, is he?
“Hey, even bitey wolves need to let their hair down every now and then, know what I’m sayin’?â€
OK, here’s where I have a confession to make. I got sick of the Burrs living in The Middle of Nowhere. They had over §300,000 in their bank account, and I was dying to spend it. What’s one measly point, anyway? Sigh. I love to build and decorate, and not being able to give the Burrs a nice home was keeeelling me. I guess a huge town must have sprouted up around Northcliff, because now the Burrs can get things! More than one thing per day! It’s wonderful.
Yes, I am a weak, weak woman. But I just couldn’t stand looking at those bare walls and grassy floors anymore. I’m telling you, Middle of Nowhere is the easiest handicap to keep, but the hardest one to bear. It totally cramped my style, man. Anyway. It’s over now! Phew.
It took me many hours, but I had a grand old time building the Burrs a proper house and flower shop. Here’s the shop (and yeah, I jumped the gun a bit on Christmas, too. I figured I might as well – it’ll be here before we know it):
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LOL that Santa is funny1 Great House Jen! I think you should have a section for them! you are very good when it comes to them! :( I want a corgy!!! also all those xmas items are for the new pack? they look amazing!
I was having a bad day, read this entry and instantly cheered up. Thank you Jen! :D And oh my, the Burrs cottage looks *fantastic!* Please please please tell me you’ll make that available for download? I love the tower. :D And Daisy is too cute for words!
Lorna – Hey girl! Most of the Christmas items in my pics are actually from last year’s holiday pack. Except for the tree — that’s from the new mini-pack. There are some nice things in there, but man, it’s pricey for only 20 items. Gack.
Kay – KAY!! How you doin’? So sorry to hear about you having a bad day. I can certainly make that house available — I’ll just have to replace some of the cc with Maxis stuff. Glad you like it!
Ok, I have to admit, I nearly died from cuteness when I saw the photo of Daisy and Ariel. I really cant wait to get Sims 2, Pets, and Nightlife for Christmas. :D
I’ve been checking on your page daily for updates. This one has been great! The house looks great. ;)
Your stories actually make me laugh out loud. Man, Jen you are too funny.
:-)
I completely understand breaking the Middle of Nowhere handicap. I’ve been considering breaking it too. It’s so easy to keep, but really aggravating to have unfinished walls and floors everywhere. I always love the houses you build. Daisy so cute! :D
The pictures of Daisy as a toddler are absolutely gorgeous. I still love the Corgi! :-)
I know many people who start decorating for Christmas as early as this Friday. Ugh!
The new Burr Cottage looks great. I’m also working on a tower for my personal legacy house and I can’t get the roof to look quite right. I always build the “perfect” house and then I get screwed up with the roof. Yours always look awesome. Nice job!
Another awesome update…as always!
Congrats on the new baby, she looks great with those big blue eyes. I also really like your new flower shop and house, they are very nicely done, I’ve been thinking of doing a christmas theme too but who knows?
I also really enjoyed the picture of the wolf rolling in the flower bed, I haven’t seen a wolf in my game yet so I really enjoy wolf-related pictures!
I forgot….. how did your christmas tree take fire? Was there a fireplace nearby?
EEK! I loved it! You have to have the BEST sims 2 blog out there (or up there with the legalos legacy, at least, can’t forget that one!)! It’s amazing! You have actually inspired me to give OFB another try, I’ve pretty much neglected that part of the game. I have a question, though: how do you balance the shop time with home time because time doesn’t run at the shop. Isn’t it infuriating to get back to the house and have no time go by? Daisy is SOOOO cute, and her with the dog is absolutely adorable. I am completely in love with this family, from head to toe! Your narration is humorous and perfectly written, and your pictures and knack for detail in everything you do just adds to it. BOY I love Burr Cottage. It’s not going to be avaliable for download any time soon, is it? Congrats on generation 4!
WOO! Burr update! Is that getting old? Anyway, I love your foreshadowing on the fate of Horatio. Just yesterday, I was shopping for OFB, but it was sold out in three different stores around the city. I’m gonna make my dad get it as my birthday present. Sorry for the rambling, I couldn’t resist. Daisy is so cute I wonder if her sibling will be boy, as that has been the trend with the Burrs. Is Coriander going to have his own family like Basil? Just wondering. And the new house is AWESOME!
Happy Thanksgiving, Josh
Haha should’ve know you’d break that handicap soon. The animals are too cute and so is Daisy. Funny thing, a few days ago I named my baby girl (in sims of course) Daisy in my Legacy.That was a great update Jen!
Great update Jen! And just so you know….you can’t escape the cold weather and snow by coming to Florida anymore!! It snowed here in Florida last night!!! I live in Seminole County in Florida and we actually had snow flurries last night between 9 and 10 pm!!! Can you believe that?
Oh yeah, and Seminole County is right outside Orlando…so I’m not talking about North Florida! It snowed in Central Florida!!
Knowing how much you love to build, I was pretty amazed at how long it took you to break that handicap! Congrats, Jen, you should get a point for ‘Incredible Willpower’! The wolf looked funny behaving like any run-of-the-mill pup!
I can’t wait for the second half! i love reading the burrs! that has to be the cutest toddler EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my God. This has got to be one of my favorite updates EVER. This update was SO cute I just can’t believe it. I loved so many pictures in this update I can’t name each one. The one with Sebastian and Ariel about to get in the fight, the one with Daisy and Ariel snuggling (omg, SO CUTE), and the one where Sebastian is sleeping next to Comellia (that made me feel warm and fuzzy inside). I am so happy to see that they are fitting into this family so well.
Wow, the Burr’s new Cottage is beautiful. I always admire your architectural skills. All my houses are rectangles… lol. And the shop is so cute. I just loved it.
Man, I am all pumped for pt. 2 now! :]]
Beautiful house, Jen! I absolutely love it! I admire you for your building creativity. I’m getting there…. Slowly. You’re definitely an inspiration. I end up getting impatient and I leave out all the bells and whistles (like shrubs and good decorations). Oh well! I can just marvel at your houses!
Anyways, lovely update! I totally understand about the giving-up-on-middle-of-nowhere-restriction completely! (I had to do that, too, remember?) It’s defiinitely hard to bear. Escpecially when you like your sims to live in a pretty house.
Well, Happy Thanksgiving to you, too Jen! I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow and don’t eat too much stuffing! (Or pie)
Just food in general. That wouldn’t be a good thing. But well worth it on your part, I must say!!
I know that I’ll definitely be eating all the food I can! I’ve been looking forward to tomorrow night’s dinner since last Thanksgiving!! Haha.
Anyways, have a wonderful day tomorrow, Jen! Same goes for everyone else!
I’ve been reading your stories for a while now and I love them!! I really like the recent Ravelo posts. And where did you get that lucky cat! Is that from one of those Holiday thingies?
Oh, the insatiable cuteness of the toddlers and puppies…
wowzers great story i especially loooovvvveeeeeee the shop it brings like the joy of christmas and everything and the burrs cottage looks sooooo cozy………and it looks like father christmas was hitin on belinda……do i sense cheating naw just jokin!!!!!
I can’t WAIT for the next update. I’ve been dying! Speaking of next updates, I finally got one up over at my site! Yay!
Okay, so now I NEED to get the holiday expansion pack next week when my fiance gets his first paycheck!
Great work, as always, Jen! Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us! I wish I could get pictures as good as yours are. I guess I just need to learn to be more patient!
By the way, I’ve had to scrap the Cornwells again… They’re just making me mad and for some reason crashing my computer. But I do have a new and VERY interesting legacy going on now!
It took forever to load, but it was worth it! (Is it sad I want to go home just so I can have my DSL back?) The new house looks fantastic, as always. Employees in OfB are pretty much… useless. Unless you’ve got a lot of money to shell out on their ridiculous wages, it’s pretty senseless. Well, the insimenator, mood monitor, and a challenge that doesn’t ban hacks! Too bad about that. Though, I’ve found teenagers to be even more disagreeable than adults.
Loved the use of the Holiday stuff items! I got that when it came out… some of the stuff is kinda neat. I never bothered with the pack last year.
Once again, I’m fashionably late, but nonetheless enthralled with the lives of the Burrs. First. I’m glad you built them a proper house. They are more than deserving of it and to keep a master builder like yourself restrained, well, it’s just not right! The pets are so funny, and Daisy is a beautiful child. I too am curious about the feathery-ness of Horatio’s palms. I love the new shop – Christmas – how delightful, and Santa and the PS3 comment had me rolling. This was purely delightful and I can’t wait for part II. I find it enthralling that all of your families have such distinct flavors and personalities. A true delight to read. Bravo!
Hiya Jen! Wow I go away for a couple of days and low and behold! An update! Yay Burrs! Thanks for your comment on my blog by the way :). But enough about that, I loooove Daisy! She’s so adorable with that outfit and with the dog! So cute. The Santa Claus Sim made me laugh too hee hee. I don’t blame you for breaking the Middle of Nowhere handicap, I would probably go nuts too. It’s a lovely house as always though :) .
YESS!!! FINALLY!!! I cannot WAIT for the second part!!! I love how you capture the moments at all the right times!!! Whenever I want to take a picture, a lot of the time all I hit is a bare wall. Or a picture of the furniture. But anyway, I LOVE THIS BLOG SO MUCH!!! Update soon!!!!
Hehe I love Horatio gardening in his garter socks… those things look so damn funny. I wish I could get my boyfriend to wear them =). A wonderful post as per usual Jen. New baby Burr is very cute too. Honestly I have a lot of trouble with Open For Business too. I haven’t been able to make one of my businesses work yet. I haven’t even tried buying one on the community lot. I have a lot to learn. Oh well, I guess practice makes perfect (which may just be an excuse for huge amounts of simming =).
Jinj! I demand Part 2!
I’ve done a little words only update on my site. Not that much to do with Sims 2, but if you like listening to free radio stations online I have two links you might like, miss Jenba ma’am. :D
Is it snowing where you’re at too? Urgh. Cold! Bad! Though at least it’s pretty.
Woo! Things are finally slowing down in my world, so I’m catching up as fast as I can! I really enjoyed reading all about those Burrs. Quite an attractive bunch. You sure lucked out with Camellia’s LTW, only wanting love and not woohoo! When I want sims to fall in love fast, I use the ‘peck’ through the couch cuddle.. Maxis botched the programming a bit, so it gives you lifetime points no matter how many times in a row you do it. This is opposed to most other methods where they only get those LT points ‘once’ for a specific interaction within a certain time span. It’s a little dull to sit there and click on peck about a dozen times, but it pays off.. Here’s hoping they didn’t fix it in Pets!