Caretakers Journal Week 2 – Sun-Mon: It’s Just A ShowerIt turned out that Robyn wasn’t very happy about me cooking with Sam, especially after he refused to clean up the icky mess he’d made. She forbade him to ever cook with me again. Oh dear. I need to reassess my relationships within the Facility.
Emery suggested to Robyn that it wasn’t a good idea to wind Sam up but he did it in his apologetic Socially-Awkward way so she didn’t realize what he was saying and kept on dancing. Sam of course kicked over the bin.
Emery decided to practice talking to the loo as he found it less scary.
When Bernard praised Robyn for putting Sam in his place, Sam focused intently on his chess moves and pretended not to hear. Emery didn’t say a word and carried on clearing the dishes. As I wrote before, I don’t have to clean up ever. I think everyone does a bit.
I am the only one who does repairs though. Can you tell the shower was broken? Poor Julienne had been working out and really needed a shower.
I had a word with Sam about hogging the shower but cushioned it by saying I’d talk to Robyn about being over-possessive. I think he took it well. He promised to cut down to only essential maintenance unless no-one else needed to be in there.
I’ll say one thing for Sam – his love of the shower means he cleans it too. With 8 of us using it, the cleaning is super-necessary.
Emery found the nerve to try talking to me. Sadly I was too pre-occupied fixing the sink to respond properly. I do feel it was a lost opportunity. Still, he’s doing really well with his fitness so I’m hopeful he’s being helped here.
I asked Sam, Emery and Bernard to cook with me to see if they could get over their issues with each other. But then I had a flare-up and got scared of why they were staring at me. By the time I rallied only Emery was still engaged in the task but I’ll count that as a win.
Coral got really sad out in the garden. It’s a good place to be sad. You can talk to the plants and never feel judged by them. Not often anyway. I tried to Help Coral Out, now that I’m Good. It did cheer her up but our relationship suffered. Her Evil ways and my Good ones will always be a barrier.
She’s a funny one, that Coral. Just when I think she’s a real problem, I saw her cleaning the loo. It was really clogged badly that time, too.
Of course then she went and destroyed the doll house and started dancing to show how not sorry she was. More work for me.
We tried the gym in Del Sol Valley. Plenty of loos and showers to go round. I got a bit of coaching from Summer Holiday who is a trainer there. She didn’t seem to mind me telling one of my stories and we even became friends.
In fact, the gym visit was going swimmingly – literally, as half the Residents went in the pool – but then it started raining outside. I spotted Flint initiating our Facility ritual, him Loving Outdoors so much, and decided to get us out of there.
We made a quick stop at Willow Creek Museum as a treat for Julienne. I thought she'd be spoilt for choice but she passed out, poor girl with no additions to our inventory. No, I don't think I'm exploiting her Kleptomania for financial gain. She has a condition and society needs to accept that. The other museum visitors were a bit concerned about the swimwear but I explained that it could have been worse – much worse. It wasn't raining outside, after all.
When we got home – did I just call the Facility home? – Robyn had got herself in a bit of a state and had the 2nd of our household bathroom accidents. Unfortunately Sam was on hand to make the most of it. Those 2 really don’t see eye to eye. He did clean it up though.
I cheered Robyn up while Flint made supportive comments. We couldn’t understand why she didn’t just go shower but, as I said, she’d got in a bit of a state. Sam just looked smug.
Sam does have the right to feel a bit smug. He’s the best of us at Yoga. Makes it look easy, doesn’t he?
The fridge broke down. I’d not fixed a fridge before. That sparking and the leaking water looked dangerous so I was a bit worried to see Julienne in the middle of it. She was OK thankfully.
We all held our breath when the bills were delivered. Ha! We’ve even got funds to spare! I bought some skill books – Logic, Gardening and Wellness. It’s time to pat ourselves on the back. Well my back really. Apart from a few fish, the others have done very little to earn Facility funding. I have moved the easel inside to encourage painting. With the new Creative Arts NAP in place, maybe we’ll all get a bit more creative.
I love this pic. It looks like we’re regular girls having a regular gossip. I suggested a trip to a club to celebrate the bills being paid and they were well up for it.
When we got to the club, there’s the mandatory trip to the bathroom. But this looks like another girl-bonding moment. Ah – life is improving!
Nearly all of us joined in a group dance. I lead it but actually they’re all better dancers than me. Only Flint loses time but he did a bit of dad-dancing at the back.
When we got home, Coral demonstrated that Yoga is not as easy as Sam makes it look.
And Sam tried to overcome his reluctance to share his beloved shower.
Progress-1000 – Previous Score
600 – New Friends Sky Not Blue has outside house: 3(*200)
-100 – New Bathroom Accidents: 1(*-100)
-900 – New Passing Out: 9(*-100)
-1400 Current score
Bernard: Dancing 3, Fitness 6; Neat, Self-Absorbed + Active
Coral: Dancing 4, Fitness 6; Active, Evil +Cheerful+Clumsy
Emery: Dancing 4, Fitness 7; Creative, Socially-Awkward +Active
Flint: Dancing 3, Fishing 2, Fitness 3, Logic 2, Wellness 2; Gloomy, Loves Outdoors +Active
Julienne: Dancing 4, Fitness 6, Mischief 2; Kleptomaniac, Romantic + Active+Cheerful
Robyn: Cooking 2, Dancing 4, Fitness 3; Foodie, Unflirty + Cheerful
Sam: Dancing 3, Fishing 2, Fitness 2, Logic 2, Wellness 2; Dance Machine, High-Maintenance +Clumsy+Cheerful
Sky: Cat-Lover, Outgoing + Good+Adventurous
(All household Sims have the Erratic trait)
Watchers Note
The scores are actually for Wed evening. There are so many moments I want to share that Tue and Wed will have to be in a separate post
