Diminish the Torment Legacy Challenge- Rules and LP
Inspired by James Turners Every Lot Challenge LP, combined with Rags to Riches and Legacy challenges, short life span and some extra restrictions, this is: Diminish the Torment Legacy Challenge a.k.a...
Susumu moved in right after the wedding and with a nooboo on the way, we needed to expand the house. Susumu arranged for some fellow homeless friends to help with this. Taking out a wall seemed to disturb a spider's nest, and Susumu was promptly bitten by a spider, but thankfully he didn't get sick. That was a rather scary day!
The renovations took a few days, and before we knew it, the house was larger. Susumu even put an old tub in the small bathroom. But it was all about saving simoleons, and, once, when it was raining, Susumu even showered in the rain to save on the water bill. He never talked much about his childhood, but he said he never wanted to be without a home again.
Life as newlyweds was a bit of a challenge. Almost as soon as we moved in, a parade of cats and dogs seemed to move in, too. We don't know where they all came from, but they seemed to like to just hang around the lot. Some of the cats even came in the house and got up on the kitchen counter. Knowing what it was like to be homeless ourselves, we didn't have the heart to shoo them away. We even named them, and just co-existed with them.
While the renovation was going on, we moved the whole garden to the side yard. It was an exhausting day of transplanting and afterwards both Susumu and I were just so tired, we just collapsed into bed. There were still chores to do in the garden, but it would have to wait until the morning. But I could have sworn that someone helped during the night, and those plants I still had to spray for bugs had all been done.
Susumu decided to get a job as a dishwasher at a place he used to frequent for some free meals. He was a hard worker and wanted to get a promotion to become a cook. He would cook all the meals at the house, but he was rather limited in what he could make. We ate a lot of fruit salad and forager's stew. One day, when Susumu was trying to make a new recipe of mushroom soup, a fire broke out! The stove didn't make it and was too burned to be used anymore. But I'm sure glad that Susumu was alright. Susumu moved the charred stove out back and thought that he might be able to salvage it. But the sad news is that we now have to save up for a new stove.
Life continued and my belly was getting swollen fast. I was already in my third trimester. We knew it wouldn't be long before the nooboo was born. Susumu would often ask me to feel the nooboo, and his eyes would light up when he felt a kick. We both didn't know anything about parenting, but I sensed that Susumu would be a good father.
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I got to know the owners of the Grocery Shop and the Garden Shop in Finchwick, really well, and they became my closest friends. Kim Goldbloom, the grocery shop owner, sometimes asked me to help her with a few errands. Agnes Crumplebottom, the Garden Shop owner, needed some help, too, but I haven't been able to help her as yet and she understood, since I was expecting. Kim usually paid me for helping her run errands with food, and one day she even gave me a cottage pie casserole. I was so excited! Susumu and I had a wonderful feast together that night!
With Susumu's salary as a dishwasher and my selling fish and produce at the market, we were able to save for a table to have a yard sale. And it was rather successful. Susumu was really good at making sales pitches to wandering sims, and even the celebrity Judith Ward made an appearance and bought a snowglobe! Wow! Maybe she's a snowglobe collector.
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We furnished the nooboo's room with a small bed and a night table. We also bought a potty for when they were older. I hung a few posters and we thought it looked rather nice. Everything was ready...
