Just wanted a place to update on my sims, in one place, so that I can keep track of what all is going on in each family. I have 4 main saves, and things can get hard to keep track of - like earlier this evening I thought that I had lost progress on my Swift family because I was confusing what they had done and what my Craven family had done! No more of that nonsense! I'll still be updating on my usual threads as well, cause I'd miss you guys!
Feel free to comment, ask questions, whatever. Not trying to live in a vacuum here!
Ivy and her VIPs met at the Perfect Balance spa, ready to be pampered. They all enjoyed the spa amenities - though seriously, why is there never any food around here? Ivy went and relaxed in the sauna for awhile, while the paparazzi were busy with another celebrity. She invited Rohan to relax with her, as he seemed to be getting pretty tense out there. She managed to calm him down and get him to loosen up again. Then Ivy noticed the time and headed home.
When Ivy got home, she got the mail, sent off some Plopsy sales and cooked herself some herb crusted salmon. After eating, she did her homework and started working on her school project.
Updated to the latest patch. Had to roll back to my last save because when I entered her house, her school project had vanished, and she had plants in her household inventory for some reason (there were none missing from her garden). I can live with the plants, but not losing out on school project progress!
Which meant I had to play the Perfect Balance Spa club outing over again. This time she got some conflict resolution and empathy off of Lilith, some empathy off of Cassandra and did some yoga, earning her Wellness level 1. Then, after making sure all of her friends were in a good mood, she headed home. She cooked herself the same herb crusted salmon. She purchased the skill books she didn't have yet, which weren't too many, the newest skills mostly. After eating, she did her homework, took a vacation day from school and headed to bed.
And that's all for today, as I have to head off to bed as well. Busy days leave little time for gaming!
Doing things around the house, and being a taxi for the kiddo as always, but I'll squeeze some playtime in here and there!
McPherson
McPherson Main House: Ivy McPherson
It's slow going getting her last two character traits up, though Empathy is tickling the line finally. Still have a way to go on Conflict Resolution. When Ivy woke up, she needed to use the bathroom and get her fun up...so she headed to the computer to livestream Sims Forever for a bit. Mostly for more fans, she's good on money and fame! She only got $734 from Wholesome today. So after she got her fun up, she decided that Wholesome will now sell wellness products. We'll see how that goes. Then it was off to GeekCon!
And it was raining...but a gentle rain, not pouring, so there's that. Ivy started making her rounds immediately, looking for negative moods and bad relationships. And she managed to get her Empathy into range, so now she just has Conflict Resolution to deal with. She participated in Hackathon, after meeting Brent.
Fortunately for Ivy and everyone else at GeekCon, the sun decided to come out. Also received a notification that the Rosebud achievement had been earned. By a teenager, that's a first. She's my first Global Superstar too, I think. Ivy chatted with Dirk and Arun while doing her Hackathon thing. She completed Hackathon with 57%. Then it was time for the Ultimate Gaming Test! Ivy reached Video Gaming level 3. She failed, with a score of 30, but I honestly didn't expect her to win - she doesn't really play a lot of games. She bought some fireworks and a snow globe while she was there, then worked on a rocket ship. Ivy won the Hackathon! She also reached Rocket Science level 3, then headed home.
When she got there, she relisted a few items on Plopsy, sent off a couple of poor items to charity, and sent off a couple of sold Plopsy items. Then it was off to do her school project! Fortunately, she has an ace in the hole - the newly created Study Group club! Which of course consists of her favorite people! The 4 of them chatted as they worked on the project, and soon Ivy's school project was finished. Ivy then went collecting around the neighborhood, as she is not doing so well with the collections. While collecting, Alice Spencer-Lewis called to determine if Ivy pronounced GIF with a G or not. Naturally, she said no...and Alice is on the same page. After collecting she headed back inside.
She peeked at her garden, where I can't remember if I harvested or not, but Ivy has no harvestables other than her money tree. So she calmed her bees and bought some seed packets. They were a total bust, just duplicates of things she already had. So she bought a dahlia and planted it. Didn't want to buy everything she doesn't have, but she does need to get her skill up! After that, she served dinner - chicken saltimbocca. She finally reached Gourmet Cooking level 4. After eating, it was time for Ivy to attempt to uncover the artifact she had found. It was a knife. She sent it and the other unauthenticated artifact she had found away to be authenticated.
She promoted old videos and replied to comments, then sat down to hack Landgraab Systems, She reached Programming level 6. She managed to get $440 from their accounts. And that $5000 she invested? She got a return earlier of over 100k! Not bad at all. She then started her next Fantasy book, as she still needs two more Writing skill levels and another bestseller to finish her aspiration. The butler fried himself in a thunderstorm because he was outside on one of the lounge chairs by the pool - I had forgotten to switch the bed assignment to him from the other butler. I hate changing butlers!
Loaded the game and Ivy bought herself a lottery ticket as it was the holiday of the day. Then it was off to make some coffee, though she still wasn't tired. And she broke the coffeemaker! So she repaired it and brewed another pot. After drinking a cup, it was time to head off to school. Ivy got an agency request that morning for some neighborhood footage, we'll take care of that when she gets home. She earned only $681 from Wholesome, so apparently updating it didn't help. Ivy came home with a sad mood swing, emphasized by her Emotion Bomb quirk.
She got the mail, which had her artifacts in it, and then went inside to journal about her sad mood. Once that was done, and her sad mood cleared, Ivy sent her drone out and started her homework. Then it was back to her latest book for a bit. The drone made it safely through the thunderstorm, fortunately, and when Ivy finished her book she started in on the video. And this is when I noticed that all my angry vlogs were gone...*sigh* Oh well, not even going to mess with things at this point. Ivy needed some fun and wanted to record a drone video, so I had her record herself livestreaming Sims Forever. Why not? She went to the bathroom and then made herself some butternut squash soup.
The thunderstorm doesn't seem to want to end, but Ivy did get an element out of it so far. She chatted with Luna for a bit after eating, then headed off to bed because she was finally tired. When she woke up, the thunderstorm had finally ended, so she went dumpster diving. She found recycled materials and a sink. Then she went swimming...which immediately got her Fitness level 5. She grabbed an umbrella, because I always forget, and headed down to the recycler after her swim. She recycled a few things that were just hanging around, like those strange plants and the computer she won at GeekCon. Got a nice little haul from them too! She decided to take a vacation day from school, because really, what is the point of going when you're an A student other than to turn in school projects now and again? Ivy has much more important things to work on!
Like her garden. Her nuzzlenip evolved to nice. She harvested everything and fertilized her trees, then tended to her bees. Dina won the lottery, and Ivy earned $695 from Wholesome. And Ivy is missing her Judith Ward autograph. Her apple tree evolved to excellent, as did her bluebells. Catnip evolved to nice, and so did her snowdrops. She checked Patchy's pockets and opened a seed packet the bees had given her. Then she got the mail and shipped off a sold Plopsy item. Then she headed to the basement to start making juice...and the only ingredient she could use was apple, so she sold the rest other than the bluebells, just in case it had to do with her lack of skill - starting the apple juice got her Juice Fizzing level 1. Then it was back to the computer for more book writing - a screenplay this time.
Ivy continued working on her screenplay. She has almost a million simoleans at this point, so some more house changes were made. Morgan showed up, so she was let in, although Morgan has her own key. Since she had a guest, she made a party sized Caesar salad instead of just a single serving for herself. Doing so got her Gourmet Cooking level 5. She ate her salad, got her Fizzy Apple Juice and made another batch, since that is still the only ingredient she can use (other than trash fruit or growfruit, which are for fertilizing lol). She bought a sales table to hold some of the random items that none of the other storage items will hold so she could get them out of inventory. She then bought one of every broom in existence, finishing the Magical Artifact collection. That's 2 down, a whole lot more to go!
Ivy wanted to read a vampire book, so off she went to the bookcase to read the Encyclopedia Vampirica Volume 1. She also decided to start a Loud phase right then. Ivy reached Vampire Lore level 3, and Butler Matthew is obsessed with Alfred's self-help book for butlers! Ivy went back to writing, gave Bess a grand, and Morgan took off. Ivy finished her fourth screenplay and started on her third fantasy novel. She then made a $1000 simolean donation to some random charity that texted her. Then Ivy cranked the Alternative station to 11. Ulrike stopped by, and Ivy hasn't met her yet, so she stopped everything to introduce herself. After chatting for a bit, Ivy headed inside to make the fruit cobbler she was craving.
By this point, her juice was done and she was ready to get out of the house. She collected the juice, started another batch, and scrubaroo'd herself. She reached Juice Fizzing level 2. She headed out to the Granite Falls National Park first. She found some wild plants to harvest, some collectibles and fished for a bit. But the National Park wasn't public enough for her. So she tried the Waterside Warble. She met Anaya there, and tried to help her fix her relationship with her husband Baako. She also introduced herself to Don (yes, Lothario) and reached Charisma level 6. The introduction also included Siobhan and Catarina...but none of them seemed to have any bad relationships to try and fix. Ivy decided to try her hand at karaoke. She wasn't horrible.
Ivy went out to introduce herself to Akira...but he left before she could. So she decided to sing another song and reached Singing level 2. As the song was ending, Akira came back, so she tried again. And nope. So she headed to the bar to introduce herself to some random young adult who was chatting with Don and Siobhan. After chatting with them for a bit, Ivy headed home. When she got there, she promoted old videos. She replied to some comments too, then it was back to book writing. Though she ended up having to restart the book due to a glitch...every so often, the book doesn't complete, so they have to scrap it and start again.
Voting had opened, so Ivy went to vote for the Creative Arts again - it had lost to Performing Arts last week. Then she went to practice speaking in the mirror, since she had a whim for it. She got $701 from Wholesome today. She's working on the reward store from the top, so she needs a lot of satisfaction points to get Never Weary and those 10k rewards! She got hungry, so made herself a spinach frittata for breakfast. Alice showed up at her door, and had a bad relationship to fix, so Ivy invited her in. Ivy got the quirk Refined Palate. She also got tired, so she headed to bed for a nap.
Been learning how to do/playing around with Second Life because it may be a good spot for business. It is, interesting, so far. No clue what I'm doing yet lol.
McPherson
McPherson Main House: Ivy McPherson
Ivy took her nap, and collected her juice before starting another batch. This time though, she started a batch with bluebells. Then it was time to start her fourth fantasy novel - hopefully she unlocks literary digest soon, she's getting quite the backlog of books in her inventory! Forgot to quickly get the Fizzy Apple drinks out of her inventory, so her trying to drink one queue stomped everything. So annoying, but they are in the fridge now! When Ivy finished her fantasy novel, she started on her first science fiction novel. Can't wait until this Loud phase is over with, she's kind of killing me with the loud alternative.
The science fiction book ended up being a bestseller, so she finished that task for her aspiration - now she just needs to level up twice in Writing skill to finish it. Ivy went around the neighborhood collecting things, but there wasn't much to collect, just a couple of dirt piles. Ivy was getting tired, but she was so close to another Writing skill point she sat down to write her second science fiction novel. Ivy reached Writing level 9 and unlocked Literary Digest - maybe now she can start going through her backlog! Ivy finished her book and shipped out a sold Plopsy item. Her first fantasy novel was submitted to Literary Digest! The rest of her fantasy series were sold to her publisher. She promoted old videos, replied to comments and headed off to bed. Bess called right as Ivy was climbing into bed, so Ivy gave her another 1k simoleans.
When she woke up, she started a gathering of her Besties club, since she wanted to start a club gathering. They headed to Sulani and started out with some fishing. More elders died off, with Max being taken in by the Bjergsens. Ivy only had about an hour before work to hang out with her girls. When the time came, Ivy headed off to work. Ivy came home with a promotion to Backhoe Operator, which means she is finished with this job. Not sure if I'm going to make her take another, there really is zero point to teen jobs. Ivy checked the mail, and a plaque from her finishing the Magical Artifacts collection was in there, so she hung it on the wall near her storage chest. She made herself prosciutto wrapped asparagus for lunch. Bess called for a third time, and another thousand simoleans was given. If Ivy didn't have over a million simoleans, that conversation might have gone very differently. Ivy reached Gourmet Cooking level 6.
It was raining in Newcrest, so back to Sulani Ivy went. She wanted to call someone, so she did, then headed back to fishing. Ivy reached Fishing level 7. Eventually though, it was time to head back home. Ivy sent off another sold Plopsy item, filled her fridge and fish tank, collected her juice, made a new batch and starting restocking her Plopsy store. Butler Elliana was back, and had a bad relationship with Lilith, so Ivy also tried to fix that.
In between attempts to make things for Plopsy, Ivy also collected and made more juice. She reached Juice Fizzing level 3. She also reached Fabrication level 2 while making candles. It was the first day of fall - she's been in play since the first day of Spring, as a teen. That's a long time to be one age in the Sims! Ivy got a notification that the Flea Market was open, so when she finished making candles she headed out. Anaya and Baako still were having issues, so Ivy tried to fix things between them when she got to the Flea Market. Ivy bought all the metals on the table, naturally, and got a few new ones. She also got two new posters and two new snow globes. Then she ordered Ensaymada, since she hadn't learned it yet. She learned it and headed home. She is having zero luck with her Conflict Resolution, that's for sure!
When Ivy got home, she shipped off a sold Plopsy item, collected her juice, started a new batch and headed upstairs to work on her garden. Ivy reached Gardening level 9. Her Cherry tree evolved to Excellent. Rohan stopped by, and Ivy let him in, even though he has his own key. Then it was time for the Starlight Accolades! She kept herself busy, chatting with her fellow celebrities, finding those with bad relationships she could help fix, and knitting in between awards. She won herself another Accolade, for best book once again. When she got home she donated a pair of socks to charity, shipped off a sold Plopsy item, listed some new items, reassigned the butler bed to Butler Matthew and headed off to bed herself.
Now that it's fall, she's going to need a new wardrobe - but that will have to wait.
Played my premade save a bit, and now I'm back with Ivy!
McPherson
McPherson Main House: Ivy McPherson
The first thing Ivy did when she woke up in the morning is quit her job. She checked the NAP voting and since she had time before school, started writing her third science fiction novel. Then I remembered that it was time for a fall wardrobe! Many of her outfits stayed the same, but a few definitely changed! No sense running around in tank tops outside - unless it's hot.
I think that's all of them. Ivy did some chores around the house, posting updates and replying to comments, collecting her juice and starting a new batch, that sort of thing. She reached Juice Fizzing level 4. Then it was off to school for her! She earned $537 from Wholesome - probably time to change things up again. When she got home she sent off another Plopsy sale, invited Cassandra in - who has her own key - and grabbed her juice from the juicer. She started another batch. She then wanted to cook a gourmet meal, so she tried her hand at tiramisu.
Ivy headed off to the Humor & Hijinks festival, and while she was there she finally got Conflict Resolution in range! Which means she can finally age up! She can marry Rohan, have babies, go to college - everything. She reached Comedy level 4 telling all those jokes. The Jokesters won, naturally, cause Ivy was one. After she headed home to make herself a birthday cake and invite her friends and Rohan around. I don't care what time it is! Yes, I could wait...but that was so hard to get, I want it DONE! lol
When she got home she made a winter cake for the big event. Rohan, Morgan and Cassandra arrived, and the fun started! Okay, no fun, just aging up. Ivy went first, naturally. Then it was Cassandra's turn. Morgan went, then finally, it was Rohan's turn. I just went in the order they showed up in the selection window. Since it was getting late, and I'm ready to get this party started, Ivy proposed to Rohan. They've done everything up to this point already. So of course he said yes, and they kissed. They decided to elope immediately, because I'm not waiting for no party! They will both be keeping their last names to avoid any confusion should there be alien babies or anything like that - though both can have them in my game, I think.
Quick jump to manage worlds to move him in...and voila! Now the college and baby making can begin!
And on that note, I need sleep! lol Happy simming! <3
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