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Round 22: Spring 2015

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Leontine Kirby is 73, Trent is 45, Megan is 43, Claudia and Victoria are both 14 and Rebecca is 6.
(Finn and Jacob are both 14)

Narrated by Victoria Kirby

Finn and I have been going out for about a year now, while Claudia is still single.



I would never say anything to her but sometimes, she can be kind of a third wheel. I love her but she has a tendency to want to hang out with us at the wrong time.

I promised her that we'd hang out together on the weekend, so we headed down to the mall. Unfortunately, Dad made us bring Rebecca. The kid just does not stop.

I wish we could have left her at home with Grandma instead. She's getting music lessons, because she got such terrible grades in music at school last year.

Thank God there's a playground there - that kept her occupied most of the morning!

I was scoping out the place, looking for guys for Claudia and I tried to get this one guy to talk to her. I could barely get him to pay attention to me, let alone do me a favour. It's a shame, because I bet Victoria would have thought he was cute.

I turned around and saw some creepy guy called Elmer flirting with Claudia and she was lapping it all up. I almost stepped in but I held myself back.

They ended up going upstairs to have coffee together, so they disappeared for a while.

I headed back outside with Rebecca and found my friend Jacob, so we hung out for a bit and he listened to me complain about how Claudia has such terrible taste in guys.

I'm glad I didn't say anything to her though because it turns out she can take care of herself. He tried to pull some sleazy move on her and she pushed him away! Ha!

She found us in the food court later, told me she'd ditched the guy and then immediately moved onto telling me about Maia Novak.

She tried to kiss Aaron, even though it's obvious to everyone but her that he's not into her. I feel bad for laughing at her but Claudia made it sound so funny.

Dad is spending lots of time at the market. Mum has been making a lot of cheesecakes recently and Dad is selling them for way too much money.

People keep buying them though!
The market makes a lot of money but I'm kind of glad Claudia has her eye on taking it all over when we grow up. The hours are so long! Claudia can have it!

Now that I'm 14, Mum and Dad let me go out on Friday or Saturday nights with Finn. We have to stay in Sullivan though and be home by 10:30.

He's a little too serious sometimes, like when he pulls out logic puzzles on our dates.

So I make sure we do fun stuff together. He likes doing that kind of stuff too, he just doesn't think to do them when he's on his own.

See? He doesn't even mind it when he falls over!

Once Finn gets going, he's not so serious. I dared him to freestyle at the skating rink the other night and he actually did it! He even put out a little tip jar - he told me that's where my $5 was going once he finished.

Anyway, he was really, really terrible but he got a little fan club going anyway.

He made $155, including my $5 he got from completing the dare!

Finn and I always have the best time when we're together. That's why I want to Claudia to find somebody too - somebody not creepy though!

Random pics:
I did a little photo session with the Kirby girls - I have this one framed and hanging in Rebecca's room. They're all so stinkin' cute!

I was very excited to discover the Cup of Poses works for children and almost used one of those poses for Rebecca but I don't have a facial overlay hack for kids. That is something that is sorely needed. I'm sick of using those same boring Maxis poses for kids just so I can have them smiling.

Squee! Still love the cuddling under the clouds - couldn't fit this one into the update though.

Notes:

• Today's title is from a Wilco song. I've seen them live twice and without exaggeration, I can say that they are nothing short of sublime.
• Megan was baking for this entire update. Now I remember why I stopped running bakeries!
• The only playable Claudia has chemistry with is Finn. Even if I wanted to break Finn and Victoria up (which I don't!), it's super low chemistry. I think their attraction score is like 12. The poor kid has her panel filled with wants to flirt, go on dates and go steady. Blonde Faux Hawk actually had two bolts with her but he was being a rude ass, so he misses out. This round, anyway!
• Initially, I only got Finn and Victoria together because they had very low chemistry. I like my Sims to have some romantic history and it made sense to me that they wouldn't necessarily meet their one true love (ie. , the Sim with whom they have the highest chemistry) until they were older. So in my original plan, I would have broken them up by 15 or 16 and they would have moved on. But they've become one of those couples for me that are just right, for reasons beyond chemistry. Some people meet their "one" early and I'm hoping that's what's happened with these two.
• The rejected kiss between Maia and Aaron is a favourite topic of gossip among my teens right now! They've all moved on from discussing Rose dumping Luc - that was a hot topic well after they'd gone off to college.
• Current price for one of Megan's cheesecakes is $162 - that's the Very Expensive price. Kirby Market is a Level 10 business, so they can charge their customers through the nose and they keep coming back for more!