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The free day was spent at home, getting stuff done. Aria enjoyed her teen powers by helping Anton with his homework after doing her own.
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She then made enough garden and fruit salads until she gained level 3, she is now on track to get her A once she gets back to school.
Due to being distracted I forgot to have Lewis take the day off, so of course he came home with a promotion. That is 3 points down the drain. Talk about spacing out!
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Late that night, Anton got out of bed to befriend the alluring young woman staking out the house. Luckily, she did not take his interest as an invitation, and quickly vanished in a puff of black smoke.
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Deprived of the chance to meet a vampire, he decided to work on his school project instead.
The school projects are a nice bit of free pocket money, they get way more home from school than we have time to complete, so I just sell the extra ones for 100 simoleons each.
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Back to normal and Tamara Lilly decided to start working on her next song, Tamara Loves Lewis, which lead to her reaching level 10 of the piano skill (1 point) and maxing it out (3 points).
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Helping Aria with her school project is a great activity. It builds their relationship, builds responsibility in Aria and helps her with school progress. Three wins in one!
Tamara Lilly: Great work!
Aria: Thanks mom. I’m going to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Do you want anything?
Tamara Lilly: I don’t think you are ready for the stove yet honey.
Aria: Mom! I might be a vegetarian, but I don’t want to live of salads for the rest of my life.
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Aria: Mom! The stove is broken again!
Tamara Lilly: I told you – you weren’t ready for the stove, but did you listen?
Aria: Help! Fire! (1 points)
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Lewis: Never fear, daddy is here!
Tamara Lilly: Careful!
Lewis: Don’t worry darling, I do this all the time at work when one of my inventions have a catastrophic malfunction. How exciting to get to do it at home as well.
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After the fire, Aria decided to focus on school for now. She and Anton soon came home with higher grades, another A for Aria and a first A for Anton (3 points).
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The next time Tamara Lilly decided to tell Aria to work on a skill, she was careful not to pick cooking! Latoya’s old mirror is still put to good use.
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The next uninvited guest was Felicity Bheeda, she has kept her original style and would fit right in with Tamara Lilly’s new bestie Mable. She was the only one on hand to celebrate with Tamara Lilly as her first licenced song gave her enough revenue to get another 1,000 points (4 points).
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She is a genius sim, and gladly took the opportunity to stay overnight, in order to play chess with Latoya.
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Latoya has continued to be a great asset in the house, and she has only broken one appliance in the week she has been haunting it. On the plus side, she has cleaned both the bathrooms at least three times each – that’s what Tamara Lilly and I call a win.
Latoya: I can’t believe there was a fire and I missed it! Next time you should cook at night dear, and we can have a weenie roast.
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Tamara Lilly called a club gathering at the house to try to make friends with Akito Yamaguchi, but his friendship proved as elusive as Leigh Haynes. At least she managed to max out the dancing skill (6 points) while trying to chat to him, so it was not a complete loss.
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Since she maxed out the piano skill, Tamara Lilly bought a violin and reached level 1, 2, 3 and 4 quickly (10 points).
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Tamara Lilly and Lewis decided to take their fourth free day to spend as much time together as possible, not that Lewis is 84 days old, you never know when Grim might come for him.
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This is just a quick update of some of the things Tamara Lilly added to the museum. Some photos of Latoya and that painting she did of Aria as a child. She will brink Latoya to the museum to wander around as the resident ghost.
I don’t have any plans to collect other ghosts, Lewis will probably be left behind with Tamara Lilly when I move Aria out.
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This challenge is so unpredictable! I don’t really try to plan for when the free days should fall, and I am glad I am saving myself that headache, but the pacing is so uneven. 10 points can take an entire week, or it can just take 1-2 days. It’s so hard to know what to expect. Sometimes it feels like a real struggle, and other times it just happens when you are not even trying. Which is a bit of the charm of this challenge I admit.
I guess, that if I didn’t care about my sims having a fairly “nice” life it would be even quicker, but let’s face it – I would not enjoy playing that way, and no dynasty gets completed when the Watcher is not enjoying themselves.
As to new things with the Parenting GP: I love how sims with higher parenting skill can influence their children to do things or build a particular skill. It’s not completely perfect, after all sometimes the sims ignore you and that becomes very frustrating. For example, when you have asked a child to do a certain activity, and then want them to do something else and you get ignored.
On a side note, this gives me flashbacks to the influence system that I played to death with Sims 2 University – and it leaves me frustrated that I can’t use it on other sims as well.
Another great thing is that having the kids help clean and do dishes builds manners, so now Tamara Lilly has an excuse for leaving her plates anywhere she wants, and just asking her children to do it for her!