Sarah Love: Week 3

In her third week after graduating Summa Cum Laude in Biology, Sarah Love is still renting in the most expensive apartment building in all of New Maximiliania. She can well afford it, has nobody else to feed but herself, and earns good money as the town's Police Chief.

No other mouth to feed but her own is not quite true - her wombrat Blacky is still her faithful little furry friend. Will Sarah reach her lifetime want of becoming Captain Hero this week?

Monday starts with the usual routine of paying the rent.

It is Sarah's day off, and she plays "The Sims 3" for a while.

Later, she and fellow tenant (same building, different apartment) Brittany Upsnott go jogging together.

Sarah needs one last body skill point for her next promotion and so, after the jog and a bit of a rest, heads downstairs to the gym, which is one of her reasons for renting in this apartment building and nowhere else.

On Tuesday morning, she has just enough time to clean Blacky's cage before her car pool arrives.

A thunderstorm is passing across the neighbourhood, and lightning hits and ignites one of the trees in front of the house. The rain makes a quick job of putting the flames out, though, and nobody comes to any harm.

On Wednesday, Sarah rings some of her friends from university, and they reminische about the time when they all graduated.

Quite late in the evening, she is downstairs in the gym room again, and manages to finally max out her body skill just as Wednesday slips into Thursday.

Her effort is rewarded when she comes home from work that day with her final promotion: She is now Captain Hero, and has reached her lifetime want 12 days before Elderhood.

Friday morning sees her playing with Blacky, as is her habit at least twice a day.

Her neighbours are unusually noisy today, and she bangs the wall to make them stop.

For the first time today, she flys to work in her Captain Hero's outfit.

Now that she is on Permanent Platinum, I intervene little with her actions. When Sarah returns from work, she sits on the bench in front of the house for a while. Maybe she wonders what she will do now, seen as she has reached her big goal in life.

Brittany Upsnott comes out of the building; she has obviously spent some time in the basement where there is not only the gym, but also a jaccuzzi, bar and grill for the tenants' use. She has some gossip about fellow tenant Jasmine Rai, and I must confess that Sarah listens with great interest.

On Saturday morning, she browses the web for a while, still in her nightie.

Half an hour before it is time to go to work, she decides she wants an omelette. By the time she finishes making it, she has to leave, and the omelette is spoiled when she gets home.

It takes her until Sunday morning before she cleans up the smelly omelette plate.

But once she is in the swing of things, so to speak, she makes her bed and cleans the bathroom as well.

Maybe finding her Mr. Right is something she can dedicate her time to now.

With most of her friends, she has maintained contact throughout the week by phone, and Sunday night, she invites six of them over: Monica Bratford, Zoe Zimmerman, Hal Riley (formerly Capp), Delilah O'Feefe, Tara Goth (formerly DeBateau) and Martin Biggs (formerly Ruben).

Brittany Upsnott joins the party in the hall and obviously finds Martin quite attractive. Well, he is in a 3-bolt-marriage with Marla Biggs and not interested in her.

Before the party ends, one of her fellow tenants complain about the noise coming from her apartment (although there is not even a stereo!), but maybe Jasmine Rai only wants to get back at Sarah for her having listened to Brittany's gossip about her.

What will Sarah do now with her life? Is she forever going to share her apartment with nobody but little Blacky?

The Larson Twins: Week 5

The Larson twins' house is our next stop. Maybe you remember that the twins Jodie and Jason Larson moved here after Jodie invited her sweetheart Ajay Loner to live with her, and their first house had become too small to accomodate all three of them. Ajay died peacefully of old age last round, but the twins are still here.
      

Jodie...
       

...and Jason are both 67 years old and have been on Permanent Platinum ever since they reached their lifetime want of becoming Prestidigitators.
I will only control them to make sure the bills are paid, fellow New Maximilianians are greeted as they walk by, and the fridge is kept well stocked. Other than that, the twins can decide for themselves how they want to spend their time.
       

On Monday, Jodie greets Rose Greenman.
       

She later has a toilet accident which she is very embarrassed about. Well, there are two toilets in the house, but of course Jodie insisted wanting to use the one in the downstairs shower room where Jason had just had a shower, and Rose was getting a drink of water from the sink.
       

Helena Stacks, daughter of Jane Hart (née Stacks) and Matthew Hart from before they were married, walks by and is also greeted by Jodie. Her working out looks bad enough on a slim Sim-lady, but utterly ridiculuous on her rather curvy figure.
      

On Tuesday morning, Jodie has an early breakfast of pancakes. I think her brother made these; she usually goes for a bag of crisps or a can of juice instead of proper meals.
       

Surprisingly, Helena is still there from yesterday afternoon. Nobody says good-bye to her, and so she stays until nearly 2.00 pm today.
      

So the Larsons are on their own again, at bit lost as to what to do with themselves.
     

Eventually, Jason prepares salad for their dinner.
       

On Wednesday, Jodie has an extended practice session at the mic.
       

Jason serves salad once again. I wonder if his choice of food has anything to do with his sister being slightly overweight, unlike himself who is very fit.
     

On Thursday, the newly wed Castanea Landgraab (daughter of Tybalt Capp and now Malcolm Landgraab's wife) passes by, and of course I send Jodie out to greet her.
       

The two women have not much in common and don't take to each other's preferred topics for a chat, and Castanea openly shows her dislike when Jodie starts bragging about what a great Prestidigitator she is. Poor Castanea has not even started her own career yet!
       

Today is the first working day of the week for the twins.
       

They return home with Jason's best friend Ericka Jayapalan in tow. So far, I was convinced Ericka is a gardener. Maybe that is only her day job, and she works nights at the theatre were the Larson twins perform.
     

She clearly admires the much older Jason. (The portrait on the wall in the background shows, as you have probably recognized, Ajay Loner.)
       

On Friday, Jodie cleans the upstairs bathroom on her own accord.
       

After work, Ericka Jayapalan comes home with the twins once again., but her hosts are so exhausted from their show that they go to bed immediately.
      

On Saturday, for the first time this week, the beds are made.
      

After putting the bedrooms in order, Jason makes breakfast.
      

It is not much of a surprise to see Ericka getting off the limousine with the twins again that night.
       

Sunday morning, Jodie does some stargazing while it is still dark.
       

She later starts cleaning the downstairs bathroom, but does not touch the toilet, which could really do with a thorough scrub.
       

She rather cleans the kitchen counter instead.
       

That night, Ericka is back from work with the twins again. This time, Jason stays up a bit longer. The two of them have a nice long chat and are clearly happy about being best friends.

Jodie and Jason are now 74 years old. With their regular income from work plus stock gains through the computer, and having little expenses, their household account now amounts to an impressive 545.000 Simoleons.
Will they ever do anything with all that money, such as buying a bigger place (which they actually don't need)? Is the friendship between Jason and Ericka going anywhere? What about Jodie, is she going to find someone to fill the empty space left by Ajay? How long are the twins going to live, and who will be handed their last cocktail by Mr. Reaper first?