TS2 - Legacy Cove - Week 24
1001 Centowski Street
I have a love/hate with fall in the Sims 2. The fall colors are so pretty and make my plain houses look nice. But the LEAVES. Ugh. Trust that we are wearing out the neighborhood gardener Charles with all the raking. He's too old for this.
Anyway, welcome to our first Centowski household. Here resides 3rd generation Xane and wife Deb (of TwinkieSim fame), one of his twins, Xavian and wife Morrdredd (from my EQ2 friends), and we can't forget the pets Teddy, Linden, and the wormrat Thunder. Let's put some faces to those names now.
Knowledge - Gemini - Fitness buff
Education Minister
3-6-10-1-6
Family - Aries - Cruisine
owns Deb's Diner
8-6-7-7-7
Knowledge - Aries - Music and Dance
Protector of Whales
3-9-7-1-7
Family - Aries - Arts and Crafts
(unemployed)
6-6-6-3-4
Ay yi yi. Luckily Xane's brothers have gardens at their houses and have gifted oranges to both Xane and Deb. Hallelujah for forethought. I've also set up a contamination fence to teleport in family members to see who's coughing and who's safe.
Spoiler alert: Lindsay is the only one still plague positive, and she refused to touch the soup I so nicely offered her.
But it's not all bad news, Xavian came home Monday with a promotion!
I feel the Hand of Poseidon is a solitary role, so likely next week I'll have Yung retire. He's a fortune sim so I don't know how that will go over with him. Worst case, he picks up an elder job or opens a business to keep him happy.
Morrdredd has a lot going on this week. Linden is her dog so she's still working on obtaining that almighty Master title with him. She's also working on being the town's toymaker and we are making toy brick after brick with no bronze badge yet. It's very tiresome work. And she wants to get a job in the education career field. There's a lot going on there in just one little Sim.
Oh, and our neighborhood paper thief is still terrible at this. Zakki has taken so many zaps now from the sentry bots that you'd think she'd figure it out. But no.
Xavian is so close to getting back to max enthusiasm with his Music and Dance. He only works Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday now so he'll have time later this week to put into his violin.
Xavian has two wants locked. One is for that max enthusiasm. The other is to see a ghost. We have two urns on the property and a few pet tombstones. One active ghost. I have Xavier stalk Ghost Zayna but she has no interest in scaring him.
Can she please go float over to the Legacy house and have a ghost heart-to-heart with her brother and sister-in-law (Zachariah and Antoinette). Maybe talk to her parents too. Xavian and Morrdy have moved into her old bedroom for the private bath privileges, and that may have upset her a bit. They did wake up randomly once when I was looking elsewhere but no "See Ghost" want popped for Xavian yet.
Xane is busy jogging and going to work. Deb is bored. The business lots are still considered CLOSED until this cold plague is cleaned up. So it's her and the dogs at home most of the day while Morrdy is hammering away at the toy bricks.
But Morrdredd did find a job opening with the Education system and started Wednesday! Congrats! And double congratulations for the promotion on your very first day!
And I'm once again frustrated that Morrdy (and Deb) are family sims, yet no one wants a baby or grandkid. But that's not stopping me. They need to have a heir for the household. If they want more than one kid, they'll have to ask. (Except the Legacy house, I require an heir and a spare lol).
So Xavian and Morrdy gave it the ol' college try. And they tried again. And tried again....
It took about 24 hours but finally.... we look to have success.
The Centowski's are a very, very long line of male births. This goes back to the previous neighborhood, Legacyville. But with Morrdy initiating the Try For Baby, we had no success. Xavian initiates and....
Please note, there is a bathroom with a toilet just steps away from the bed. But I guess she wanted more privacy because she jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to the half-bath.
Darlin', chances are high there will be witnesses to your baby being born. You are going to have to lower your bar.
Anyway. I've noticed a trend where whichever parent initiates the Try For Baby, the other gender is the one born. I know there's no game coding to back this up but even with a strong history of boys, I'm gambling that this one is going to be a girl.
All of this distracted me from the fresh fall morning outside.
That's a lot of weed- WHERE IS THE HYDROBOT? Uh-oh!
The more I panned towards the back yard, the more I saw to clean up.... Uh-oh.
I better get someone up to get down here to turn that thing off. I'm so very thankful for Charles Perry being here today. But I also had to bring in the family servo and had Uri come over and influenced him to garden to get this disaster cleaned up.
While the clean-up was going on, Teddy was out front getting all the lovins. Townie Marsh was jogging by, and our mailman Hun Pai seems to know the trick to getting all the dogs to adore him.
And very impressive, Morrdy came home from day two of her new career with yet another promotion!
She promptly ran inside and threw up. So much for celebrating. Ewww.... she's made a mess on the floor and has her hand in it. Now I'M going to be sick.
Luckily the servo Xerva is still on the lot. She's a good bot, she'll be by shortly to clean this up.
Again, outside is chaos. Xander, Cassie, and Treva along with her new boyfriend Soupy were visiting today. But one of the wolves chased Cassie off.
She totally missed Morrdy's first bump! It's official, THE STORK IS COMIN'.
You know... The Sims franchise totally should have had a stork deliver the baby instead of the spin-birth.
Later, I found Xander alone outside in the dark still cleaning up leaves and weeds. What a good guy. I didn't even have to ask him to do that. I knew I should have married him instead of letting Cassie get to him!!!
He willingly raked leaves while the rest of the crew had dinner. You'll notice we are not taking any chances and Deb is serving non-stop Grandma's Comfort Soup non-stop this week. At least it's fall and kind of fits the theme.
I hoped Xander would finish up and join for that last bowl, but I think he'll forgive his daughter Treva for getting to it first.
It's not too much longer until the second bump time arrives!
Friday night was cousins night, and pizza felt right. Pictured is Xayden, twin of Xavian who is sitting next to him. Morrdy, Treva, and Xander likes to just wander over on his own. Especially when he sees the pizza man outside!
Pregnancy and pizza equals a very sleepy Morrdredd.
I imagine she is dreaming of the Step-Brother's movie and the scene where Brenden and Dale are yelling, "This house is a (bleeping) prison!". She must not be a fan of the movie with that face she's making.
I can't imagine that she thinks living here is like being on planet bullshit. She's got a husband that adores her without stalking her 24/7. She gets along with her mother and father-in-law. She and Deb are especially chummy. She's got a great dog, a job she wants, and time to spend on her arts and crafts hobby.
And hopefully she wants this baby and is just not telling me because..... IT'S TIME!!!
I don't know if I'm hoping for a boy or girl. Ahh! ITS BABY TIME! Did I decide on names? What if it's twins? Oh lord, we can't have twins right now!
..... IS ANYONE ELSE GOING TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM?
Oh, here we go. How rude to just continue eating when there's a Sim giving birth right in the same room. Cassie missed that first bump after being chased off by the wolf, but she's here for the big moment!
... I don't know why I thought having the mothers of the family here to help would be helpful...
It's okay, Morrdredd. You did it! She's beautiful! That's right, ITS A GIRL!
Deb, you are a terrible family Sim. You are really letting me down right now. But Xavian... What a great Sim husband!
Yeah, those heart farts totally got me. And YES CASSIE, ITS A BABY.
Her name is Xyla Centowski and unlike the first baby of generation 5, Xyla likes to sleep!
Sunday, the whole Centowski clan minus Lindsay-With-The-Plague showed up for family dinner. They all pitched in to feed the baby and hold her, and they are excellent about putting her back in the crib vs the floor when they've had enough baby time. Uncle Xayden is super cute with his little niece, too!
And even if Zayna let me down on scaring the knowledge sims, the ghost dogs were here to make sure the week didn't go by without a much-wanted spook.
That'll wrap it up for week 24 with the Centowskis!
Thanks for reading, and PS - Xyla has her momma's blue eyes and brown hair. I can't wait to see her age up to a toddler next week!
Carissa
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