Fiona wanted to have a birthday party for Stefaan, so I had her invite Owen, Zuzu, Kay, Taryn, and Eleanor over. A bunch of them ended up in the TV room as usual. Also, I didn’t take a picture of this, but Zuzu took a bath while she was visiting. I thought that was weird.
“But peace is so, like, 40 years ago.”
Stefaan wanted grilled cheese sandwiches for his birthday dinner, so I had Fiona prepare some. I chuckled at the sight of her making such a casual meal in her formal dress. (Yes, I’m easily amused.)
(If you can think of a good caption for this one, be my guest!)
While everyone ate dinner, Fiona and Robi stole a romantic moment in the TV room. I guess if you want to kiss, it’s the place to be!
“It’s a good thing Robi’s in my thought bubble and not someone else, or I’d be in real trouble.”
Eventually 6:00 PM rolled around, so I bought Stefaan a cake and directed him to blow out the candles. The last 5G Shanley kid would finally become a teenager! I couldn’t wait.
“Transitional powers…activate!”
Stefaan did his thing and became a fairly cute teenager, dressed in some “surfer” clothing I had bought way back when. I decided to leave him in those clothes since I’m pining for summer and sun myself.
“Gnarly, dude!”
The time came for me to roll his aspiration. I threw the die and ended up with…Romance. Noooooo! Two Romance Sims in the house! I’m not sure if I can take it. It’s going to get old really quickly, I think. Oh well, I’m up for the challenge. Stefaan’s only my spare heir, so at least I don’t have to marry him off or anything.
Back in the TV room, everyone was having so much fun hanging out that the friendly neighborhood officer showed up and said they were being too loud. Everyone jumped up and headed straight out the door after that. At least the party turned out to be a good one. Fiona wanted Stefaan to have a great party, so she shot right into platinum.
“Do I see a child up past her bedtime? That is just unacceptable!”
Life went back to normal the next day. Patrick the Knowledge Sim is working on his skills and using the telescope at night while his pregnant wife woos other men. Stefaan the Romance Sim has a gnarly new haircut and has nothing better to do than to play pinball. I have a feeling we’ll be working on his First Kiss want pretty soon.
“So can anyone tell me why tennis is the noisiest sport? Because everyone raises a racket! A-hahaha…”
So there you have it. Bad tennis jokes, Romance Sims, and loud parties — these are the days of our lives. And 6th generation is just around the corner! Stay tuned.
Lol, great update! Stefaan looks really good. I’m sorry he’s a Romance Sim though. Oh well…like you said, it’s not like you have to marry him off or anything. I can’t wait to see the new baby!
Hey Jen. I love this update. I’m not gonna be able to play sims 2 during the week while I’m at boarding school, so your blog is gonna keep me sane! Keep up the great work! Sincerely, Dustyn.
Nice update. To bad he isn’t more like the original, deffinatly a family one (with a small touch of, extremely controlled, romance and a small amount of knowledge. No popularity or wealth involved tough…)
Good luck on the romance sims!!
Stefaan truend out as a pretty good looking Teen, good thin too since he’s a romance sim. I wouldn’t want a romance sim so soon but like u said it’s a challenge so I’ll be waiting to see what he gets up to^^
btw you must have a really good graphics card/Operating system since you can invite so many people for a party and the sims features are all very well defined. did u set texture detail to high?
Janice – I can actually only “invite” a maximum of 2 Sims to a party, but I call others up the usual way and invite them over, so it at least looks like a real party. :-) My graphics card was actually not so good (very blurry textures on clothing and furniture), but I just bought a new one and installed it Saturday night, so that fixed the blurry textures problem. With my old card, I had my textures on medium, otherwise things got REALLY blurry!
Jen – you have the party bug in your game. Are you allowed to have the fix for that? There is one on Mod the Sims 2 to fix that. Click here to get it, if you want. That shouldn’t go against the rules, will it? I don’t think I have it in my game because I’ve never thrown a party yet.
oh, i have a caption for the sandwich pic: “I could’ve whipped up lobster thermidor in 10 minues flat!” (i have yet to make lobster thermidor.)
Hi Jen. Great update. I especially liked the teen Stefaan, he’s cute. It’s it ironic that you get a romance sims NPC for you G6 and then get your spare heir as a romance sim too. Man how likely was that? lol.
Hey I have a caption for that pic you have: “I’m a little over dressed for grilled cheese sandwich dinner.”
opps little typ-o : for (your) G6. …… lol
here’s a caption…”pain du fromage anyone?”
Lobster thermidor. I remember, my sim used to make that, then LEAVE IT IN THE OVEN TO START A FIRE. In fact, he did this while the wife sim was holding a baby. I thought it was cute that the first thing the wife did was “get the baby” so she put her out on the sidewalk.
*random babbling*
Hooo sometimes artificial intelligence is cruel.
Hi Jen! I juat wanted to ask you…..what graphics card do you have? ‘Cuz I’m going to get a new one within the next couple of weeks and I’m going through options right now….
LOL This update has some of my favorite captions. Stefaan’s was the best. I’m always threatening to put a pencil in my throat at work when people get on my nerves. Too funny!
I cannot WAIT for the sixth generation! It’s so great you’re updating everyday! I just love reading these stories! I absolutely love the captions! They’re so hilarious!
Stefaan is cute! Too bad he’s a romance Sim, though. That’s okay, believe me, you can get through it easily!
Awww! A new baby in the house. What are you going to name the baby, Jen? Did you need anymore suggestions? *begins to think real hard* I’m afraid I don’t have any ideas for that durn caption! That ish a toughy and I don’t blame you for blanking out *would have done the same*! Can’t wait for the 6G!
*reads other posts* Actually, there is a cheat for inviting more than two sims. My friend told me it…but I’m not sure how to write it…just like Motherlode (I thought you spelled it motherload). Very confusing, those cheats!
Ah…I see that everyone is taking after my ** so they say *sings* or something like that. *ish a trend-setter*
Hey, good captions, everyone. Maybe we can have a caption contest one of these days…
Kathy – Thanks for the link to that mod. I’ll have to give it a try. I always thought it was because of my system not being able to handle so many Sims on a lot (I think it even says that in the Prima Guide). I don’t mind inviting extra Sims over the usual way, so it’s not a biggie.
Jessica – The card I just bought and installed is an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. Everything looks better with it, but my game seems to have slowed down considerably. I probably just need to futz with the graphics settings some more, but whenever I do, it takes forever to apply the changes, and sometimes it just plain crashes. :-( The card I used to have was an Nvidia GeForce MX 440, I believe. Supposedly they aren’t the greatest for gaming — a lot of other people with that card were experiencing the same texture degradation that I was. Good luck on purchasing a new card!