WEEK 2Sunday starts out with Wilson having to repair a broken bathroom sink so Aileen is having to do most of the watering and weeding. Roxann practices her violin. By the way, I learned that Auto Lights isn’t on by default. I thought maybe we didn’t have it and then clicked on a light and turned it on. Now lights are going on an off appropriately. Today was pretty productive and fun! After morning chores, the family went to the big park in town. Roxann had a great time on the pirate ship meeting new kids, upping her social skill and her motor skill. Aileen met a couple nice ladies and fed a few people in the park with some excellent burgers. Wilson checked out the collectibles and definitely wants to come back to harvest soon (plants weren’t quite ready yet). All in all, it was a great day and Roxann got 6 of her 10 make believe stories told.
Monday and the day starts like most others with people doing their chores. However, I did manage to fix something that was a problem. My plant boxes were sitting on normal ground. But sometimes when they watered, it would leave a puddle. The problem was the puddles weren’t going away so after a few day, and more puddles, my gardening sims were getting uncomfortable from the ‘filth’. You can’t mop up puddles on normal ground. So I placed masonry floor tiles until the whole affected area. Now my sims could mop up the puddles and the problem emotions went away. Now that they’re higher in the gardening skill, they don’t seem to be leaving as many water puddles around. Roxann’s grade jumped up to a B! Yey! She now has a new set of tasks which is to do extra credit three times. You get that option if you have an A or B score and it’s available on homework after you’ve completed it first normally. Mom was able to help with homework on both the homework and the extra credit. Roxann also has to raise 4 skills to level 4 which shouldn’t be too bad since that last task had her raise 2 skills to level 4. I had a rash of breaking plumbing so I replaced a couple and then had Wilson upgrade them with Sturdy Faucets. So I’m hoping we’ll see less breakage.
Tuesday was another good day. No breakage on any plumbing today. Wilson leveled up gardening so he can now fertilize. This took a while as you do one as a time (meaning having to click on each one rather than a fertilize all - unless I’m missing something). So he still hasn’t gotten his day at Sylvan Glade. And they finally got their first bills today. He paid using his phone while sitting on the toilet. Gotta love multitasking.
I bought a chess table and had Roxann and Wilson play together. Their relationship isn’t nearly as high as with Aileen so I thought this would be good for them. Roxann only has 2 more make believe stories to tell. I’m currently growing 2 to 4 plants of each one that I have. I think this is too much. I might reduce it to one per type. I haven’t noticed muscles on Aileen too bad from gardening but she doesn’t do nearly as much as Wilson. Wilson is ripped. I think they’re going to need to adjust it in a future patch.
Wednesday, after reducing the size of my garden, I sent Wilson off to spend the day at the Sylvan Glade. After a whole day fishing, still nothing ready to harvest. I’ll try again. While I was there, I clicked on Aileen’s little button and chose to have her tend the garden. Imagine my shock when Wilson came home and all the plants in the planters that were on the floor tiles were gone! Before I totally panicked, I checked the family inventory. Sure enough, all the missing plants were there. Apparently, you’re not supposed to put the planters on floor tiles. Lesson learned. Roxann satisfied phase 2 of her 3 phase aspiration. The last step is to Play Instrument for 10 Total Hours (which almost immediately completed as I’d been working on her violin a fair amount), Draw All 5 Types of Drawings on the Activity Table, and finally, Reach Level 10 in Creativity. She’s 6/10 Creativity already so I think this is doable before she ages up in 7 days. She needs to get her Mental skill up one more point for school performance. All doable. This has been an awesome challenge.
Thursday was a good day, overall. Wilson went back to the Sylvan Glade for more fishing and to check on the plants. They don’t seem to be changing at all. Tomorrow, I’m going to use interactions with the tree besides just going to the Sylvan Glade and see if that’s what makes it work. Roxann got her Mental skill to 4 so Friday should see her coming home with an A! Now to just work on those drawings over the weekend and maxing Creativity.
Friday again. How time flies! I had Wilson water the special tree and do the Talk about Nature and something about it’s roots before going to the Glade. While I was there, the Basil plants matured to harvestable. So I’ll do the same tomorrow and see what happens. Roxann came home with an A!
And now she doesn’t have any more special tasks to do for performance. Not to complete her Aspiration over the weekend, hopefully.
Saturday! First, I was shocked. My house has a single width staircase going upstairs. It happened that Aileen was heading down and Roxann was heading up. As Aileen was already on her way down, I thought Roxann would be waiting. Nope, she started up the stairs and I watched wide eyed as they slowed slightly and there was some clipping, but they just passed each other on that single width stairs!!! Wow, that’s a big one for pathing. Ok, onto the day. My intention was to have Roxann skilling all day but that didn’t pan out. She was working on the drawings on the activity table when Alexander Goth (isn’t he just too cute?!) came over for a visit.
Roxann has run into him at the park before and they’d become friends. So I had them spend the day together. Meanwhile, Aileen’s friend, Deja, came over to visit and the two women were soon seated at the dining room table having a good gab. Now, I happened to spot Bella Goth, Alexander’s mom, jogging by the house. I thought, “Hmmm, maybe a good idea for the two moms to meet.” So I clicked on her and picked Friendly Introduction. Bella stopped jogging and just strolled in the house, plopped down in a chair and joined the gab session. This game is awesome! I had Wilson mainly working on watering and chatting with the special tree and I’ll travel to the Sylvan Glade tomorrow and see if it helped. This turned out to be a really fun day. Roxann did manage to get the 5 drawings completed for her aspiration so now just two more Creativity levels and she’s done. Lots of violin playing tomorrow.
