Part two: Finding her feet Total Children at start: 1

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Harmony needed to find a new daddy quickly. Every day not pregnant was a day she aged. She went outside and spotted a townie walking down the street. He looked nice, was absolutely willing to help Harmony Try for a Baby after she flirted with him on the street for a few moments and didn’t want to hang around and chat afterwards. The perfect baby daddy.

*Nice eyes, good traits and terrific hair. Daddy number 2*: Khaled Mounib

Then Agate aged up into a toddler. Now came the hard part – raising his skills to level 3. Up until this point all my toddlers had been experiments in poor parenting. Harmony scoured the forums for advice, bought a toddler tablet and held her breath and began potty training – the quicker he was independent, the more time she would have to devote to the fun but important work – finding new and willing Daddies.

*He’s cute but he rolled Clingy. Poor Harmony.*

Harmony realised finding Daddies had to be co-ordinated like a military mission. Conceive day 1. Find new daddies and get their flirty level up to woohoo stage (have a woohoo or two if it helps) and call them up the day you deliver your baby to Try for a Baby. – No days lost to age. It sounded perfect. Men mess everything up!

*Thanks to the magic of CAS – Agate grew thick luscious locks.*

J. wouldn’t stop coming to the house to play with his son. He was fascinated by him. He kept on trying to help around the house. Harmony tried to explain that this was a game and there were rules but J. laughed in her face and accused her of crazy talk. He tried to cook when she was outside painting and he managed to burn half the kitchen down. (note to self – cheap gallery houses often have alarms but not sprinklers – remember to install sprinklers when you have money).

*There is a reason for the rules stating the Daddies can’t do housework!*

All of Harmony’s savings were used replacing the basics. She gardened and painted trying to recoup the loss. Then baby number 2 arrived Jet Mounid.

Harmony had set her sights on Bjorn Bjergsen as daddy number 3. He was attractive in a blonde and scandinavian way, a nice contrast to Daddy number 2. He had given her plenty of flirty signals. However, when it came time to seduce him, he would flirt like crazy then yell at her for flirting back.

*You cost Harmony a day of her life with your stupid flirty games.*

Harmony aged another day and the pressure to find a new Daddy worsened. She decided to put Bjorn on hold (he would be a Daddy – she would not accept this rejection!) and find someone willing to be seduced on a moments notice. All the men who had seemed a good idea were at work and couldn’t visit her lot. She was just about to cry when she saw the postman walk past her window. Problem solved in quite a cute man bun way.

*He was sad because he hadn’t met Harmony yet.*

In no time at all baby number 3 was begun. Thank you Daddy Number 3: Shane Westbrooke (by Origin ID: TheAllenCrew).

Total toddlers: 1 Total babies: 1 Total pregnancies: 1 Total fires: 1 Total rejections: 1

Total children 2 (+ 1 on the way)

Harmony’s journey begins. Total Children at start: 0

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I enjoy the Sims a lot but I was never very good at toddlers and babies. What did I decide to do about it – create a sim to play the 100 babies challenge and surround myself with them. The rules I follow are those written by Snarky Witch : https://snarky-sims-witch.tumblr.com/post/181535303038/tos-i-am-the-original-writer-of-the-sims-4-version

Please be patient with the earlier posts in this blog. I was just learning to screenshot and with all the toddler raising, I forgot to snap many important moments. I get better as the play goes on. Surprisingly, this was the best way to learn what to do with toddlers – it was learn or fail. My other families have all benefited from Harmony’s struggles.

*The leopard print and boots say “Hi I want to try for a Baby – no strings attached”- the hair says I am a practical motherly type.*

First I needed a sim – enter Harmony. a newly minted young adult with features that are not to extreme in any respect and will hopefully blend well with the many suitors she meets. Her traits creative, romantic and family oriented. Then a cute little starter home from the gallery: Thank you ID: BettyBackWoods99. Your 3/1 base under 18k was perfect. And set it down in a cheap lot in Oasis Springs.

*Home sweet home – now to fill it with children.*

It didn’t take long for her to find her first baby daddy. Harmony had chosen to live next to the Roomies House. The welcome wagon arrived promptly and by the end of it Harmony had convinced J. Worthington III to Hang out for a while, have a first kiss and then a successful woohoo resulting in her very first pregnancy.

*I have good genes and get flirty easily – my views on fruitcake were not recorded.*
*Perfect baby daddy no.1*

Oasis Springs is the perfect hunting ground. People walk up and down the street all day long. She talked to any eligible male who walked past and rapidly filled up her little black book with potential baby daddies. Harmony also used her pregnancy to collect seeds, plant a garden and get started on painting canvases for sale.

Welcome baby number 1: Agate Worthington. Harmony decided to use rocks and minerals as a naming scheme. In no time at all Harmony was on the hunt for Baby Daddy number 2.

Total Baby count: 1

Men you should date 3,10 & 18: The trust fund, non-committal, gym obsessed guy.

On 11th July 201911th July 2019 By becka28In Alana's storyLeave a comment

Unless a commitment is made , there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.
Peter F Drucker

Alana did what all young single sims in her part of the world did when they were searching for love; head to the Romance festival in San Myshuno. She drank Sakura tea and warmed by the aphrodisiac buzz began to search for somebody to love. A tall, dark haired guy caught her eye. She approached him, smiled and giggled and he smoothly introduced himself as J. Huntington III. He seemed like the kind of person her parents wanted her to date – well dressed, well spoken and well off. She flirted some more. In a matter of minutes they moved from complimenting each others outfits to sharing their first kiss.

*Hi, I just met you and this is crazy; but I feel flirty so kiss me maybe.*

*Happiness is ……. kissing someone you only just got to know.*

In no time at all, J. was calling her to meet him at restaurants or for drinks at bars. Skyline bar was their ultimate favourite. The views, the sense of exclusivity and the excuse to parade around in swimsuits. The conversation was light and pleasant and most of all flirty and full of innuendos. Alana enjoyed the pleasant feeling of being seen and envied by others. Dating J. was easy.

Bet you wish your girlfriend was hot like me.
J. was being uncharacteristically shy about showing off his leopard skin speedos.
Maybe it was cold.

*You don’t think my leopard skin speedos make me look like a player do you, sweetie?*

Only in her private heart of hearts would she admit that he didn’t seem totally committed. He often made excuses to run off right after dinner. On the rare occasions she convinced him to come home with her, he always snuck out after she fell asleep. Not once had he spent the whole night. She wasn’t allowed to stay at his. When she did visit, they ate grilled tofu in his courtyard and avoided his roommates as much as possible. There was no invitation to stay.

*Insert cliched joke about who is having what for dessert here*.

She pushed those doubts down deep where their nagging couldn’t trouble her – like the pair of non fitting jeans hidden at the back of the wardrobe which radiate guilt about those 4 or 5 pounds you promised to lose 3 Winterfests ago but never did. Cover it with sweaters and tell yourself this is how I want it be.

J. and Alana shared a love of the gym and met up to work out regularly. Unfortunately they were that couple. She posed in front of him while he flexed and grunted for her viewing pleasure. Their relationship needed the oxygen of attention and validation of others. Neither was comfortable enough in it to just let it be what it was.

j. photographed and simstigrammed Alana’s butt.
(Sim who got dressed in the dark is judging them severely)

In fairness to J. she did stand there making poses until he whipped out his phone and took the shot.
Sim eyerolls at the behaviour of young sims these days.

Because neither had said anything about making it official or whether they could date others, Alana decided to keep seeing J. but get busy with dating through her list. After all, she can’t know what she wants if she doesn’t try a few things on first.

Alana has her meet cute

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Falling in love isn’t as obvious as you’d think. There’s no such thing as love at first sight — not real love, anyway. Love takes time to build
Paul Hudson

In any romantic comedy, one of the first scenes is the “meet cute”: that chance encounter where the leads meet and its so funny, charming, awkward or angry that as the viewer, we know the two are now on an inevitable course towards true love with each other. Meet cutes rarely happen in real life. We meet people, they take our fancy or share our interests, we become friends, we grow our relationships, we discover our love over time.

Alana met a lot of sims. She went to festivals, clubs and bars. She accepted invitations to hang out with friends. During this time any one of those meetings could have been her meet cute. Sometimes it was obvious she liked the other sim; in no time at all she would be getting her flirt on. These meetings have plenty of screenshots, are strong in her memory.

*Festivals are great for meeting people – and trying new things.*

However, some meetings seem trite and unimportant. Only through hindsight do we know how important they were, how everything hinged on that moment. Alana’s moment was at the Flea market. She spoke to someone selling some My Sims Trophies, she smiled and brightened their day and asked about their career. Normal sim style conversation. She didn’t want to buy. Alana barely remembers it happened.

*The smallest things can change your life.*

So there is no meet cute for you to enjoy. No witty banter or silly misunderstanding. Just a sim who felt the world as they know it change forever. That sim was not Alana – so there are no pictures, no story, just Alana’s life continuing as normal. And a sim now wishing it all would change.

*Happiness is ….. thinking about your new crush.*

I know – I’m sorry. I was disappointed too. 😦

Introducing Alana

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Science says this is how many dates you have to go on before you find the One…………….
The average woman will kiss 15 men, enjoy two long-term relationships and have her heartbroken twice before she meets ‘The One’,
http://www.her.ie

Alana chose to move to Newcrest when she finished university. It was young and vibrant, recently opened up for residential living and filled with exciting venues that the discerning young single would want to visit. It provided an easy travelling distance from both the bustling San Myshuno and the small coastal towns of Windenburg and Brindleton Bay (Alana’s home town, where her parents still lived). It also had none of the stigma of Willow Creek with its old money snobs and small starter home communities full of questionable sims crammed into houses way too small for their ever expanding families.

*Happiness is …………………. using Motherlode to get most everything you want.*

Alana herself was much like the town she chose as home; full of dreams and shiny new aspirations. She had grown up in a loving home where she was encouraged to fulfil her whims, maintain straight As and eventually it was hoped she would find a soul mate and form a big happy family. Alana came from money; her parents had a motherlode of it; so worrying about whether things were possible or affordable were not priorities to her.

*The pets were easy to understand and treat – it was their owners that worried her.*

So Alana bought her dream house, in her dream neighbourhood and settled down to working her dream job, as local veterinarian at Brindleton Bay. She had her childhood pet fluffy, lazy and adorable Sammi as her constant companion and company. All she needed to do now was continue to look for the dream man that all the blogs and magazines and chat sites promised her was out there so she could become the dream bride.

*Alana had a dream wedding all set to go – just needed one dream groom.*

She was at peace with her inner self and felt that she didn’t need to work on loving herself to be loved. Alana was a self assured sim – they don’t value personal introspection so much as personal self congratulations.

*Good job Alana -you rock self actualisation, dating, life choices and bar tending. Why thank you Alana – I do at that.*

She knew the lists of men she had to date before Mr Right would appear and she felt that university had helped her to cross a fair few of the list of 7, 10, 16, 35 or 50 Mr Wrongs, depending on which popular dating guru you preferred; and how much you wanted to enjoy dating before you walked down the aisle. And Alana did want to enjoy it. There was also this fascinating scoring complication to be considered, where she could if she chose to, count one man against several categories (the boring dance machine, the vegetarian know it all). Alana was all restless anticipation.

So many sims and so little time…… science says the ideal age to lock one of these down into marriage is mid young adulthood. Alana doesn’t have much time to waste if she needs to add to her dating collection.

So Alana is ready to hit the dating scene and see whether she can find the Rocker guy, the body builder, the jerk, the father figure or the comedian to list a few; to try them on for size, to sample them like chocolates in a box. She needs to have her heart broken and breath stolen by that perfect kiss. She knows there’s a sim out there with her name on him and she’s determined to find him.

Welcome to my Sims 4 world

On 8th July 201910th July 2019 By becka28In Welcome to my Sims WorldLeave a comment

Happiness is ………………….knowing that in a parallel universe you are a superhero
Anonymous

The Sims 4 is a wonderful world – or more correctly a wonderful series of parallel yet infinitely varied worlds. In these worlds you are able to manage the lives of these crazy lovable characters called sims. Living out lives of unbelievable luck, fame and wealth, re-enacting hard work and everyday families and co-existing with the occult and fabulous. It is a smorgasbord of fun, love, grief, horror, everyday mundanities, people in animal suits and laughter.

*My simself enjoying the smorgasbord of Sims opportunities* – *and Yoghurt*.

It offered a window to a wider world when I was shut in due to ill health and slowly shutting down my mind in response. In this blog, I would like to share some of the stories of some of the sims who helped keep me sane and entertain me still.

Dr Sim reporting for duty.
*“I afraid she’s a hopeless case – I prescribe … more sims.”*

Due to the parallel nature of the Sims worlds, many of my sims have led multiple lives. I like it this way. If you encounter a sim you know and love from one of my stories – don’t expect them to be the same in the next – not their traits or their age or their loves and lovers. I enjoy the familiar faces returning time and again and seeing how different things can be for them. Don’t worry – there are plenty of new and unique characters entering the worlds at all times.

“*I swear I remember marrying you in another life!”*
Sssh Darling – in that life we only got Bronze for our wedding and social services interrupted the ceremony to steal our child. Play along and win me gold!

My stories are a mix of original game play and stories created from challenges. I don’t think I can claim to have finished any challenge totally within the rules because I play for the story; the humour and drama of the sims involved.

So if you find your happiness imagining that you are a superhero, a celebrity, a housewife, a fairy, Don Lothario’s lover, a Landgraab or even dressing up as a trash panda ….. grab a seat (and some yoghurt) and enjoy my sim’s stories.

Rebecca's Sims

Author: becka28