Ive now just finished week 3 and this is this weeks update

This week has not been such a great success as the previous one, its been a bit of a slog. Marie completed the Painter Aspiration so I dove straight in to the Bestselling Author. Now im not so sure that was actually a good idea, for a start the 1st stage can be tricky, you have to get writers block. Ive had a sim get writers block really easy and others really difficult.
I thought with Marie it would be a breeze as she is always tense, but hey ho, this week she is happier, so is not getting tense so much. I tried for 2 days to get writers block, then I stopped and gave it a bit of thought. I just assumed that if I sat her down at the pc and wrote for hours on end it would just happen. No not so. Because i cannot let her social go critical, i could not rely on low social to trigger it, so then i had to think of another strategy. This time I got all her needs fully maxed except for fun which was about halfway, then sat her down to write 4 books one after the other. Bingo! when her fun bottomed out Writers block struck.

Thinking it through now I think a better route to take this week would have been gardening as it is going to be easy now she is at level 7 and I need those aspiration points to get steel bladder and Antiseptic. Also I could have really bashed through with painting now as my pictures are becoming more valuable as I get through them. With writing im pretty much back to square one, writing childrens books and such like. Oh well, lesson learned.
Ive added a few items to the house again this week, a better stove although not top of the range, nothing you can buy is fireproof, so I need to work on handiness to be able to upgrade. I will get the best stove when she has enough handiness skill.
Marie has put on a few pounds! and its really showing now, so daily and twice daily workouts are in order, also I need to find a packet of seeds with tomato in so I can make a salad instead of all this calorie laden stuff that comes out of the fridge. Hopefully now gardening is at 7 I can buy better seeds.
The house is looking a bit crowded , I need to start on the building soon!
I always forget one thing to add to the spreadsheet, house value this time. but not much change on that from last week at $13066
