One Month One World One Year Challenge 2022

Oh wonderful! I just read all your blog posts for Velma! She's so cute and I love her wardrobe. Of course, I love her hair too since Essa had that very style at the beginning too. You're right, it does look like a style a teenager would wear, the reason I picked it as well. :) Good idea starting on the 10th since it's your anniversary with your boyfriend. I love her background story for the reasons she left home. Very cool she's been singing to get simoleans. Heartbreaking how it started for her though, crying from the stress. Glad she stuck to it though. She seems like a very strong girl!

I wish I'd known about your blog earlier, I could've saved you from struggling to use those Rags to Riches rules. Where did you get those? I've never heard of playing R2R that way before. Anyway, for the challenge, our Sims start out Rags to Riches 'style', not by any official rules for it. That just means they have to start on an empty lot with 0 simoleans. How they make money or progress from there is entirely up to you. :)

Don't worry about posting links for Velma on the Gallery or to your blog, I've already updated the main post to include both. Again, welcome to the challenge! I'm loving your style of writing with the Simstagram notes she's been including about her daily life. Very cool! :)

Oh how cool Dylan ended up in front of Aaron and Lucy's house when looking for the Bamboo forest. Bummer they couldn't go with him, but perhaps they'll get together another time. At least to go skiing anyway with Aaron. Whoa! 1K simoleans? I had no idea they could get that much! Cha-ching! Cool Kyoshi called him to congratulate him on Kaori. No worries they might be interested in each other now. :)

Glad Kaori could join Dylan at the Onsen, and she's agreed to climb the mountain with him. Excellent! Love that sneaky animation where they put their arms around them. hehe Hi Kenzie! So cute! Yay! Congratulations to Dylan (and you) for completing the Siteseer aspiration! :) Everyone is moving so fast and here I am just plodding along with Cale. hehe Oh well, I'm enjoying the relaxed style of doing the challenge. :)

Yep, and he'll mostly likely have that happen more in the future since I have a mod that increases the possibility. :) Silly Cale wearing boots in the Onsen! hehe He took Jon's advice though and now has a proper pair of swim trunks, no more wearing his undies in there. Ah, I figured it was something like that with Kaori. I love that screenshot too! Would be so cute if our Sims could do Eskimo kisses eh? ;)

Oh yes, Morrigan is Morgyn and Jessah's daughter. I meant to post that in the update. I thought it was cool she was the first teen Cale has actually met, especially because of the hot head trait she shares with him. Can you imagine if they became a couple? Oh boy, now that would be an explosive relationship eh? About the family tree, that's not a bad idea. I might do that. Essa's is so complicated though. hehe

Yep, I'm sure it would! Oh good, glad you got the roof figured out. I love building/decorating myself, it was the very thing that got me interested in the Sims right from the beginning with the first one. However, I love making Sims too and just playing the game, writing stories, etc. You are much better at making Sims than I am, I've always admired your Sims, you make them so well! Never played TS3 so I have no idea what building was like in that iteration.

I completely understand how easy it can be to slip back into writing a lot with numerous screenshots for this challenge. I hadn't intended to do that, to cut back on both, but I'm slipping back to how it was last year for me now. Not sure how I feel about that. However, I'll still try to take it easy with a detailed story. Just a small one as Cale progresses is what I'll most likely do. :)

You too? Well cool. Hopefully some challenge Sims start showing up for Cale to befriend. So far none of them have, just my own Sims from last year and from other challenges.

Very cool how Aaron has a little apple orchard started now, 8 trees! Cale just has the one so far. Love that he put the photo of Hunter and himself on the table so he could see it every day and think about him. Not that he doesn't think about him all the time anyway. :)

Oh man, that's so cool you're learning and doing things in the Sims you've never done before because of this challenge. Makes me smile so much, thank you for saying that. :)

Yay! Congratulations to Robin (and you) for finishing the Siteseer aspiration! Fantastic! Bummer she couldn't fish, but it does seem appropriate considering she's a mermaid. Her little home is coming along so well! Oh geez! Then she gets a visit by Tiberius! Good dog Pepper trying to protect your Master! Love that screenshot of Pepper standing over Robin. Adorable...Awwww! How cute that Pepper and Essa's cat Louie are friends now. Weird the game made him a stray. o.O Ah well, glad you checked to make sure he really wasn't a stray.

I use an external hard drive too, which is a very good thing! I was happy to have it back when my old laptop died. I didn't lose anything because I quickly backed up everything when it started to give me trouble. It died within minutes after I did that! I got SO lucky!

Oh man, that look! I love the faces he pulls, but that one kind of freaked me out! He looked just like he wanted to kill me or something. HAHA! But yes, the day didn't start out very well for him, but meeting Morrigan certainly made it end well. Hmm, she might be the first baby Mama, we'll see. :) Nope, no teen pregnancies in my challenge save, have it turned off. Cale must wait until he's a YA to start that portion of my challenge. :)