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Three Weeks of Winter
The season of jogging ... Kathy has been staying in shape and working on her challenges in Athletics. She has already achieved the Marathon Runner Challenge and is working on the Fitness Nut Challenge. She has more time on her now since gardening is out of the picture, and she has reduced her profit-making endeavors to a trickle (she is planning on stopping her career as a writer when she finishes her current novel). Not counting her investments or royalties, Kathy has more than 1.3 million simoleons in her bank account and will easily break Chris Harper's 112 Day Challenge record for money earned by the end of the challenge.
Instead of the traditional grind most challengers have pursued in the past ... Kathy is filling her time gaining exculpatory skills. She can often be found ice skating at the city park, enjoying the Festival Grounds, or even moonlight windsurfing.
Kathy has also enjoyed perfecting her inside skills as well ... Darts, pool, club dancing and bowling. She hasn't bowled a perfect game yet but has scored over 250 in a game.
Kathy has also spent a lot more time socializing than she had during the Summer and the Fall. Her pumpkin pies are still always a hit at the parties she attends. Kathy also goes out more often clubbing and dancing but has yet to accept a date with any of Hidden Spring's eligible bachelors.
Kathy has also wrapped up her Community Service hours. She finished her remaining hours off tutoring student or adults when the opportunities arise and upgrading all public facilities (plumbing and electrical). In her Handiness skill she has also achieved the Electrician and Plumber Challenge requirements ... Now she cannot be electrocuted fixing or tinkering with electronics, and any broken plumbing fixture she repairs will never break again.
The Plumber Challenge is one of the best ... Because it is a real timesaver. If your Sim upgrades plumbing fixtures to Self-Cleaning, it will save the time and effort of cleaning but allow the fixture to break. It takes less time to repair a plumbing fixture than it does to upgrade it to Unbreakable. Once your Sim has repaired 10 broken plumbing items, then what they repair after that will be Unbreakable and Self-Cleaning and your Sim won't spend any time cleaning or fixing them again. In a sense, you want 10 plumbing items to break ... 🤣😂