Does a timed outing not give points?



Looks like she barely held herself back with Sim Sample. XD

Sim has been busy saying rude things to everyone he meets in the new neightourhood.

So many things happening in Karl-Anton Monetaire's round this time, but Some Idiot had forgotten to turn the screenshot program on for the second half, so the only two things I had pictures of was of Karl-Anton aging up to an elder and a truly epic water balloon fight in the middle of winter (snow came and went - you may see the evidence of it in that half melted snowman in one of the pics) featuring the Monetaire twins Lily and Reed (who I had given a girl's name and thought was a girl all the way til he aged up to school child in a haircut for boys), Gregory O'Leary and a townie girl called Cotton SanFransisco. The fight lasted for hours and the twins were blue in the face when they finally gave up and had to be fed hot chocolate.

Events I can't show pictures of due to immense stupidity, but might have:

- Peony's gold sales badge from helping out at the Monetaire's Fresh Miracles.
- Their first harvest of cheese from this cowplant
- Lily and Reed aging up to teens (Reed is Popularity, Lily is Romance)
- Little Larch finally aging up to schoolchild, putting an end to the seemingly endless days of raising toddlers in this household. He's adorable - despite taking after his dad, just like his siblings.
- Valdis and Karl-Anton getting to move back indoors and having their old room back, since the twins opted for sleeping in the tent. Nature sims as they are, they got a green theme in their room.
- Peony having one last date with her townie boyfriend Dickon Sutherland (my eyes were a little bit blurry when she gave him a farewell gift of the same romance novel she had just bought, so they could read the same book. I'm getting old and sentimental. But no so old and sentimental I send Dickon through college when I have a whole horde of other teens going!). Then she left in the yellow taxi for a modified Académie Le Tour, where financial circumstances might be stricter than she thinks, if Some Idiot can remember all the rules she has written down for uni.

Story Progression Pleasantview

There is so much that goes on with this hood, that it's hard to breakdown each family. So, I'm just going to jot down summaries about the whole hood.

• Divorce rate is pretty high due to low chemistry among couples.
• Cassandra Goth finally got married and had a baby in her mid-60's. Her husband is Benjamin Long, the ex-husband of Brandi Broke.
• Meadow (Thayer) Broke cheated in front of her husband while at a house warming party. I'm not really surprised. She stopped rolling wants for her husband (and was having a secret affair with her Brother-in-law Dustin Broke).
• Headmaster is unable to be summon for Dinner, causing kids to not go to Private School. I need to figure out the issue with that.
• Alexander Goth now works in Politics to run for Mayor. The Goth Manor was a pain to play, because his children are all spoil brats . So much so, that Alexander changed his mind about having 10 Children. His wife is now pregnant again, which has Alexander very anxious. Alexander sent off two of her children to University (which is first for me ever!), so the manor is little bit quieter.
• I cleaned up my spreadsheet a bit and made a list of playables by generation. There a few couples with some large age gaps between them. It's crazy how children can be from two generations at once, due to their parent's age gap.

For those who enjoy my stories of Arundel, I have created a thread profiling the leading residents complete with short bios and portraits:

Come meet Arundel!
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=693532

Not really an enjoyer, but I couldn't help but wanting to share the idea of exporting in-game portraits, depicting a Sim at their various ages and acts, will make the collection even better.

The reason I'm doing their 'portraits' is because the people depicted are the officials of Arundel (just being 'official') and while I do take pictures in game, I find the game jpegs to be pretty good quality for not only that function but also to have paintings done by those who have high enough creativity.

Right, figured that it is far faster to cut a portrait from a snapshot, whether in-game or by [ Window + PrtSc ], not to mention needing to extract portraits from lots they reside and then rescale them. Still, a favorite hobby of mine to get painters to pass time capturing moments of other Sims' lives. It is one thing to take snapshots for storybooks and screenshots to share, but extracting portraits and making a collection out of them is a different feeling altogether.

Rerunning Veronaville 2.0, after some deep and serious debugging. Had to redo a lot of stuff, including jobs, promotions, clothing and whatnot, but I think I'm nearly caught up now.

Ran the R&J scenario with a couple of differences - they eloped from Ardennes Park, this time, rather than getting publicly married at the Downtown lot. Then I promptly moved them out to Desiderata Valley, to get them away from both sets of relatives, so they can start fresh.

Reran Paris & Rosaline pretty much as it was, getting them engaged at his place and married at the Windsor Wedding Chapel, then moved back in with dad Escalus.

Juliet and Rosaline both immediately got pregnant, which didn't happen last time.

That leaves the Hamlet scenario and a few loose ends....

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Jefferson
Gina woke up early to do some housework now Barbara is so heavily pregnant. They sat down for breakfast at around 7, Barbara started asking her when she was going to get engaged and have babies. Poor Gina was so exhausted she ended up falling asleep in her food and missing the school bus. Finally Sam rolled out of bed around 10 to clean the bathtub. It was Seth's birthday today - he came a child, poor boy only learnt one toddler skill. Here's hoping things become a little less stressful now. Though it's not long now till Barbara pops. They've hired a maid, at least for now.

Roberts
For the most part, Hanna kept out of her parents way. Today was her first day of private school, and she brought a friend home - teen townie Maddie Iver, who decided she hated James with a vengeance from the minute she stepped off the school bus. She followed him around the house poking and insulting him until he asked her to leave. Shame because Hanna is going to fail out of private school if she keeps leaving her homework half finished. Her fun motive is always red and she doesn't like her parents enough for a quick game or two of red hands. By midnight she had completed 1 assignment, and 4 cups of espresso.

Molyneux
Gina has struck an interest in Trenton Russell. She kept trying to flirt with him but he didn't seem super interested, until they just randomly woohooed. Victor moved in his townie girlfriend I don't remember her name and she's now pregnant. I'm not really sure what the plan is there, I wasn't expecting her to be a family sim to be honest. They're not even in love yet. Gina is ofcourse not happy with this new arrangement. Afterall his girlfriend is younger than her! Maybe she needs to get a promotion so her and her son can move out into a house of their own...

Marshall
Life is so much better for Lila now the twins are children! She invited both of her lovers over - she's not a romance sim, so really I need to pick which one she will actually be with... but she hung out with both of them, no romantic interactions with either in front of the other, rolled 0 wants for either and when I made her scope room she chose a completely different person entirely lol. I guess for now she continues to have 2 possible boyfriends. Poor girl, I had to send her to bed as soon as her parents came home from work because they kept trying to slap her. She can't wait until she grows up and can move out!

Brooke
Macey Brooke gave birth to a blonde hair green eyed baby boy named Michael. I did plan on googling most popular baby boy names from 2004, but I saw him and he just looked like a Michael. I've never known a blonde Michael, but ah well. Little Mikey was immediately put on the ground and Macey decided to suddenly pull out Prof. Von Ball. I think it's fairly safe to say she is having some kind of postpartum psychosis. She put the sweet little boy in his crib (the girls aren't too happy about having to share a room now, but it is what it is) and spent the day studying the cleaning skill to improve her aspiration. It's still in the red, but she's almost there. It's hard to skill build when you're at home all day with a newborn.

Brooklyn
Gregory invited Danielle Brooke round and they fell in love. He now has 2 loves at once, and has rolled a want to makeout with 5 people! He started flirting with another teen townie, Marina Girvan. Hanna came over, but was pretty distracted by Blake - Gregory was very thankful to his brother for distracting his girlfriend while he cheats, but Blake definitely has alterior motives. He rolled a want to befriend Hanna, then flirt with her. She rejected it, and now he wants to be best friends with her.

Russel
Martha, still eager for attention, has spent the day telling her Dad all about her pregnancy. She has no idea but he's also going to be a father again - Claire Santiago is also pregnant! Two babies in one house, only about a day apart is going to be super tricky - Trenton will have to decide between his daughter and his lover, there isn't quite the space for both of them and their babies, but for now he is blissfully unaware and happily flirting with Lisa Russilo.

Anderson
Much like in the promos, Bernie got slim - unlike the promos, this did not help him win over Jennifer Rose. Lisa fell in love with Trenton - giving her 2 loves at once, and 1 crush. Her LTW is 20 lovers, which seems entirely possible with how many romance sims are in this town! She keeps rolling wants to woohoo in public... she definitely has some kind of fetish lol. I sent her to a community lot to flirt with a few people, but she wasn't successful so she came home and invited Don over.

Ross
Since she was striking out with Jack Thompson, Dina went back to her original plan of seducing Don. She asked him to move in and he accepted. No awkward divorce or custody battles with the kids... he just up and left his family to be with Dina.

Thompson
Jack decided to just go for it and call Isabel. Yes she's married. But 3 bolts?! Some sims go their whole lives never meeting their 3 bolter. They spoke on the phone all morning, but when he tried to invite her round she declined! No time to sqell on that though, Virginia gave birth not long after to little Anthony. She hasn't told anyone who the father is. Thomas absolutely adores his new grandson and hasn't asked any questions surrounding the circumstances of his birth. Virginia took the opportunity to find her own house - leaving Thomas to raise Anthony. During all the commotion Isabel came over, and as soon as Jack greeted her she kissed him!

Baxter
Sarah woke up that morning to Don nowhere to be seen. By the afternoon he had still not returned, it was glaringly obvious to Sarah that he had ran off with another woman. The house seemed big and empty while Alex was at school, once the baby's born she plans on selling it and downsizing to something a little cozier.

Poor Sarah and Alex. Don could at least said goodbye to the kid before leaving without a trail.

I had to reread 'once the baby's born she plans on selling it'. XD

Veronaville 2.0: Reran the Hamlet scenario, more successfully this time. No jump bugs, some rocky spots requiring tweaking Hamlet Sr's character data (specifically: Relationships and Hobbies). I used the Resurrect option on Sim Manipulator - no fuss, no muss, just an abrupt reappearance.

Followed up by having Hamlet Sr. and Gertrude get "secretly" remarried. Young Hamlet, meanwhile, is in love with Ophelia, Peaseblossom, and Mustardseed, currently preferring Ophelia. (He's not a Romance Sim, but he sure is acting like one!)

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Previously, I did some work with Harry Monmouth's household (he's living with Bianca Minolta, in the Military career at Senior Officer level, and has a Group of friends, "Hal's Pals", consisting of Jack Falstaff, Edward Pistol, Nicholas Nym, Ned Poins and Tim Bardolph). Bianca acquired a grey tabby cat, Tibby, and Hal has a dog, Cleo, who started out white but got appearance-changed into a Shepherd mix (can't change the shape, but you can do a lot with the coat color).

For some reason no Small Dogs show up in the adoption pool - that's going to make getting them rehomed trickier.

I am taking a break from beginning of Pleasantview. I think I got too ambitious in adding a new subhood or housing. Anyway, I was getting some mysterious crashing/refusal to load neighborhood. It may have been bad cc and I may have fixed it by removing the most recently added cc. But in my experience, it means something got borked due to Mac's file/character limits, and I need to roll back to before new stuff was added.

I have two backups I could roll back to, and I'm contemplating which one to choose. One is pretty recent and would only mean replaying four-five days. The other is before I added the Strangetown subhood, which I'm considering doing because I think the neighborhood was getting overwhelming with all the households and all the arranged marriages. It wouldn't be too bad to go back that far as all the current Pleasantview characters are born, but I'd have to get them grown up again. It would give me a chance to let some families have more children and maybe avoid some mistakes/deaths from the first time. I'm not sure, so I'm letting it rest while I think about it. (Any advice would be appreciated.)

In the meantime, all the talk of Veronaville made me want to play in that hood so I went in and motherloded all the bin families so I could decorate their houses. Might use it for some relaxed play with no real goals.

In order to satisfy the wants of some residents in Arundel to buy vacation homes, there will be second estates available only for those in the highest ranking positions in Arundel-ie, the court and various high officials in Canterbury.

The rules of ownership are:
1. The property is held by the family during the life of the owner who is the highest ranked official of their profession: such as the Royal Physician, the Marshal of the Realm, etc.
2. Once the owner dies, the family must sell it back to the crown estates for the next owner to claim it. It will not be passed along as property of their estate.
3. The current owner will be allowed to visit the second home after their retirement. There will be no gadding about to shirk your duties!

Anyone else who wants to travel to Canterbury on a pilgrimage cannot own a home there, but they can stay in the Abbey, where the accommodations should be sufficient for their needs.

This should make everyone happy. By limiting the purchase of homes to those who have, through their loyalty to the Crown, earned them, it will ensure that there are rewards for being a dutiful servant to the crown and satisfy their want for travel.

In case anyone is wondering, the top spot is always closed off to everyone for advancement until the death of the top person. That means there is going to be a lot of competition for it when it opens up. Too bad, pixels! That's the way power works.

(I had to do something to make those pixels happy! This was the solution I invented-it's pretty close to the historical records, too!)

I took Mattea Picaso and Dario Neengia through their last days before going to college. First, a stupid decision in the Cooke's round came back to bite me in the rear: I let Quiche Cooke date a townie boy, despite going steady with Dario. When I got round to playing Mattea aand Dario's round, Dario's first want was ask someone on a date, so he and Quiche went roller skating - and Rasmus Took, the townie boy she dated, came up and slapped her and caused a scene. Quiche was in a lousy mood after that, and Dario had to work hard to get the date up to where he wouldn't get a flaming bag of poo, and he was so exhausted after the date was over that he nearly missed his carpool for work. Luckily, Quiche was over nearly every day and they had a few dream dates too, and Quiche, who is economically much better off than Dario, gave him a hot tub and a Song dynasty vase, a great help for him to pay his dorm rent at uni!

Mattea has been very unlucky on the romance front. She is one of exactly two gay teen girls in the whole neighbourhood, and Lily Monetaire, who is the other one, had negative chemistry with Mattea and also for some reason had minus relationship score with her. Still, Mattea really wanted that date and first kiss, and I knew Lily did too, so with a bit of perseverance they made friends and could go on a date and get their first kiss. Lily takes after her father, by the way: She has inherited every facial feature that the evil witch once cursed her father with, but she is just as popular with the opposite sex as he has always been. The teen boys swoon over her right and left, just as the ladies tend to heartfart her dad...

On their second to last day of the round, they both managed to get skill points enough to get two skill scholarships, Will Wright Genius award for both of them, the body skill scholarship for Dario and the arts and the arts scholarship for Mattea. Mattea finally learned to make outfits on her sewing machine and they invested some of their hard-earned savings in a small community lot, where they sold some of the stuff she has made, and got about twice the money back on their investment, so they decided it was really time to go to uni now. They invited some friends over and the landlady was arranging a party, so everyone crammed themselves into the communal bathroom and partied. Then Dario and Quiche had a final dream date, while Mattea went to work, and early the morning after, they packed their stuff and headed for university, where they now share a double room in one of the cheaper dorms and where Mattea has already met two other gay girls - whether she gets along with either of them is a question for the uni round.

Update on Veronaville 2.0: Placed the last of the Stray cats, Panthino, with the Prince household. Adoption pool promptly generated another cat, but no Small Dogs. (Adoption Pool isn't the same as the Strays pool, and critters in one tend not to show up in the other.)

Juliet and Romeo getting settled in in Desiderata Valley. He just got a good job in the Hacker career, and she just had a little girl whom they named Aemilia Montague (after his aunt but with a variant spelling). Patrizio Montague is over the moon at having a first grandchild, and thinks Juliet can't be as awful as the rest of her relatives. The Capulets, on the other hand, are furious with Juliet because she didn't make Romeo take her surname (at least she kept her own) and because she agreed to have her children raised as Montagues. They have disinherited her as a result, which means it is up to Tybalt to get married ASAP and have a daughter to continue the Capulet tradition. They have also made it clear to him that Moth Summerdream Will Not Do, as "everyone knows" Fae wives are too flighty and fickle, so he is currently dating (Townie) Rebecca Curzon.

Over at the Prince household in Veronaville proper, Paris and Rosaline just had a baby boy named Edmond (after Escalus' late brother, variant spelling again). Escalus is City Manager, which is one step below Mayor (in my revised Politics career) and contemplating the next election. Paris has reached the rank of General Practitioner in the Medical career, and Rosaline is on extended maternity leave from the Business career (Junior Executive).

The game is being strange about Nannies - for some reason it simply won't pick the Elder I designated, but generated a new one. I think there's a mod conflict somewhere, but not sure where.

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I'm going to try and start adding pictures to my posts so this isn't just a wall of text, but my photos are on my laptop (with a barely working keyboard) and my rotation notes are on my phone so if you see this post and there's no pictures yet... no you didn't.

Jefferson
The Jefferson's are pleased to announce the arrival of their 5th child; Lauren. The beautiful little girl came into the world at 3:36pm in the family's bathroom. Everyone is overjoyed. Gina hasn't been feeling too good since she snuck out last night with her boyfriend. Here's hoping it's just nerves about a new family member...


Thompson
Virginia ran away from her responsibility. She feels terrible and lonely. After calling everyone in her phone book and getting nowhere, who should walk past but Don! Virginia should hate him for walking out on her sister Sarah, but it also feels like Don's the only one who understands...


Roberts
James is now wanting a second child, he craves a son who will carry on the family name and not disappoint him like Hanna does. Patricia isn't quite there yet, though it would be nice to have a child who actually likes her. She can't remember the last time Hanna and her saw eye to eye on anything. Hanna brought Blake Brooklyn home on the school bus, they met yesterday while she was visiting Gregory and the two hit it off. Gregory isn't the commitment type, and she's fairly certain he's seeing other girls right under her nose... would it be so bad if she had a slight crush on his twin brother?


Molyneux
Scott got a D on his report card- Victor is not pleased about this at all, and told him he needs to get it together. He helped him study for a bit, but he didn't manage to even complete 1 assignment before going to his job as a drive through clerk. Victor's on the verge of kicking his slobby daughter Gina and her no-good son straight to the curb.


Marshall
Seems there's a bit of a baby boom happening in town, as Margaret is also wanting another baby now the twins are older. Lila is already planning her next big rager! Her parents recently bought a bar so this one is going to be better than the last! Too bad Ralph isn't working tonight. Instead Lila's been calling up her friends and planning in secret. She has plenty of free time now she doesn't have to keep as much of an eye on her siblings (and her homework is totally optional!).

Brooke
Michael is already a toddler! Otherwise, there isn't much to report - both girls have started to think about college, and both parents have wants for them to get scholarships. Their grades are perfect, and they should get a scholarship on their A+ alone, but it wouldn't be the worst to skill up a little.


Brooklyn
Charles and Isabel decided to divorce, since the twins already don't like each other, it seems like the best idea to separate them. Isabel is staying in the original house with Blake for now, and Charles will move out with Gregory. Kenneth will alternate days at each house, starting in his original house. To add insult to injury, Blake decided to invite Hanna round. They admitted they both had feelings for each other, and started kissing - that lead to making out... and that lead to Gregory walking in and slapping Hanna.


Anderson
Bernie is completely unaware he is a father. Marty has woohooed, woohooed in bed and woohooed in hot tub with 3 different women all in one day and is now platinum aspiration and nothing else matters. Lisa Russilo went for an outing with Trenton Russell... and the whole Thompson family for some reason. She befriended Thomas Thompson, tried flirting with Jack, and then eventually just public woohooed Trenton since she rolled the want. Then she came home and rolled another want for public woohoo... there's something seriously wrong with her lmao. Jennifer Rose worked her butt off, earning 2 promotions in a day and is wondering why she's even bothering with these freeloaders...

Russell
Martha suddenly rolled a fear to be old and never married, so naturally when Thomas Thompson, her boyfriend and father to her unborn baby (events of which happened in the reverse order) came over she asked him to marry her. He agreed. Is this marriage purely because she's pregnant? Maybe. Is it also so she gets attention? Probably. Is this a way to find somewhere new to live since Claire is carrying Trenton's baby? Definitely. Josh continues to be a cutie, rolling wants to give his girlfriend back rubs, buy a blender or learn to cook.

Ross
Dina is starting to find Don's constant presence bothersome. But she asked him to move in with her and leave his old life behind... surely she can't ask him to leave so soon?


Thompson
Thomas loves his new grandson Anthony, but he wishes Virginia would grow up and be responsible. He's already engaged and with a baby on the way, he can't be raising his grandson too! These are suppose to be his golden years and here he is raising babies all over again. Martha moved in just in time to watch Anthony become a toddler.



Baxter
Life just continues without Don around. Alex came home with an A+ report card, all thanks to Sarah teaching him to study. He's a real Momma's boy, hasn't thought about his Dad once. Sarah's just waiting for the baby to be born. Don walked past the house, glanced towards the porch and then strolled off... perhaps he's regretting leaving?

Veronaville 2.0: Tybalt came through with flying colors. He invited Rebecca Curzon over, bedded her, wedded her, and had a little redheaded daughter with her, in that order and in record time, much to the delight of Consort and Contessa Capulet.

Interestingly, both Tybalt and Rebecca are bisexual, and both have been involved with other Sims, Tybalt with Moth Summerdream (he's still in love with her) and Rebecca with (Townie) Cole Byrne. This could lead to all sorts of romantic complications....

My computer died a few months ago. My sims files are all backed up, so I wasn't worried about that, but going from daily sims to no sims was a rough adjustment. I kind of went cold-turkey on sims content for awhile. I can't load Sims 2 on the laptop I'm borrowing, so it was just reminding me of what I can't do while I'm saving up for a new gaming computer.

I'm starting to ease back on things I can do, like the jobs calculator I'd been noodling with for a few years. I had the idea, but never sat down and did it because when I had free time, I'd rather just play my game So far it's good, I'm testing what I can, but can't wait to put it in practice in my game. I considered downloading SimPE so I can do some modding as well, but if I can't test it, it does limit things. We'll see. I'm sure there's other things I can do that will tide me over. I stopped playing for like 3 years because of life-circumstances, so I know it's doable, but it does suck when it's against your will.

Invite 14 guests. Make 3 chef salad meals.

It's a roof raiser

Binty and Dylan Porter went to their bookstore and despite Dylan's bad reputation after several fistfights with Feven Rossetti and Phantom Leroux, they managed to bump it up from level five to level six. They took a break in between and went on a date at Zane's, where they wanted public woohoo. Since I don't have ACR in this neighbourhood, I flipped five coins and all five said they would try for baby - and they succeeded too, but I never heard any chimes. So poor Binty nearly died before they closed up the bookstore and went home, since I never realised I needed to watch her needs a bit extra. I tried to put her in the contraption, but she stepped out complaining she was too tired. I tried to get her to sleep, she complained she was too hungry. We all know that loop! I let her eat a bite, let her sleep a little, let her eat again, rinse and repeat, and in the end I could get her in the contraption and save her life. This baby better be something extra!

Nylissit Tricou came home with Binty after work as usual and played with their already existing baby, Tragedeigh, while Binty slept and Dylan was at work. Nylissit had to be tickled before she let Tragedeigh go so she could have her birthday and be a toddler. The next day Nylissit played with her at the rabbit head all evening, while Binty slept. The last day of the round, Binty absolutely wanted a promotion, so in her second trimester she walked to work in her underwear through the snow. Nylissit called and asked why Tragedeigh hadn't been in touch for a while, and then I couldn't find little Nettles, the puppy, anywhere. Finally, I realised the big dog with the black patch over the ear that Tragedeigh was trying to cuddle was a grown up Nettles.

The last thing that happened was Tragedeigh aging up to school child. Dylan got to call in sick so he could be there for the occasion, and I made sure Binty had slept and eaten before. The family had a nice party all to themselves, chatted over birthday cake and told eachother jokes before Tragedeigh went to sleep in her new princess bed i her very pink room.

I decided to roll back my beginning of Pleasantview to a backup from just before I added Strangetown as a subhood. It means going back in time a couple of weeks, but I'm glad I made this decision. I came up with a better idea of what to do with Cornelia Goth after she discovered her husband cheating on her, got abducted by aliens, and was turned into a Plantsim. She has actually not returned from her abduction but was instead taken to an alien planet teeming with plant life but where the aliens themselves are dying out. There is actually only one Colony Drone left and four Pollination Technicians, but no Birth Queen. Cornelia is to be kept there while she raises a plant baby, and then she can be returned to Pleasantview. She may or may not be cured of Plantsimness at that time.

This also sets me up for when Bella gets abducted in the next generation. She is intended to be the alien planet's next birth queen. They may take all alien hybrids back to their planet, too. It's giving me lots of story ideas.

Of course, this means I have to redo Daniel and Mary-Sue's childhoods and Bella and Mortimer's wedding, but I also am allowing my families (particularly the Crumplebottoms) to have a few more children, which makes me happy. And some Sims who were previously dead are now alive again, which is always nice.

Things are happening in Arundel-Romance is in the air:

Arthur Newman and Mary McClain got married! - he didn't want to wait until Monday and she was tired of living at the Convent-she moved into the house-his mother and stepfather will be moving out shortly.

Margaret McClain and Trevor Weburg are now engaged again! Let's hope they make it to the altar this time! The second time around for these two.

Lionel Weburg and Adriana Taylor are now engaged to be married. Lionel had lost his original girlfriend and was looking for another. Adriana was one of his 'backups'. She's grateful to have finally nabbed someone. She was afraid of becoming an old maid.

Jeannette Greene has been appointed the King's Inventor! Congrats to her! She's got one day to retirement, and had not been expecting this. When she does retire, she's going to move into the Convent to finally be free of men, teenagers and work. She can't wait!

Rosalie Chin and Gordon Buckingham are now in love with each other. Teen sweethearts. They met and fell in love at Lady and Sir Gordon Lum's residence.

Lawrence Carroll and Melanie Trottier are now engaged. Melanie wasn't expecting him to propose, but she was delighted to accept. As soon as his parents move out, he'll ask her and her son to move into his house. He hopes the kid will like him.

All of these happenings (except for those teenagers) will be followed up by move-outs, and marriages in the next week. Busy little town, is Arundel!

Breaking news:

Nicholas Trottier, after much deliberation and careful thought, finally proposed to Mayor Matilda Lawrence, who quickly said "yes"
In fact she really said, "I was wondering when you'd get the courage up to do this! Damn, man, it's about time! I've been waiting for this forever! Yes!"

He figures she owes him this because she was the reason his marriage broke up in the first place! He'll be moving into the Mayor's residence in the coming days. Maybe she'll even be faithful!

I wrote this little scene describing recent events in my beginning of Pleasantview because I am quite exasperated with Gunther Goth (but in an affectionate way), and I don't understand why so many Sims are obsessed with him. I put it under spoilers because it's quite long and also it contains some mild language/references to woohoo.

This takes place after Cornelia Goth finds Gunther and Amin Sims kissing in the kitchen during Mortimer's birthday party. That night, she was abducted by aliens while stargazing on the telescope. She is now on an alien planet, out of contact with everyone. The last remaining Colony Drone has turned Cornelia into a Plantsim and asked her to spawn a plantbaby, which they hope to make their new Birth Queen. They aliens are dying out and are trying desperate matters to preserve their species. Cornelia is terribly excited by the whole adventure and readily agrees.