Nighttiming

Round 34: November 2040 (Spring)

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Linnea Lane is 80, Eliot is 54, Cordy is 47, Simon and Matthew are 15 and Charlotte is 11.

(Athena is 80, Luc is 47, Tim is 20, Annabel is 16 and Aurora is 14)

Narrated by Matthew Lane

A few months back, we had my grandma Linnea move in with us.

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You say it's your birthday, November 2040

November 2040 (Spring)

The first trimester of Patience Ashton's surprise third pregnancy was not pleasant.

Patience is now into her second trimester, her morning sickness is over and she and Rob have told Felicity and Patrick that they'll be getting a new brother or sister soon enough.

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Expanded genetics

In the notes for my last update, I talked about the new genetic system I'm using and said I would chase up the link to the thread, if anyone was interested. Tanja was and on the chance she wasn't the only one, I'm adding it here too.

So...Simmerville at The Sims Daily started this fantastic thread quite a while ago, talking about his/her (most simmers seem to be female but Simmerville has always used male avatars, so I think they might be a guy?) genetic system in TS3, used to decide whether a sim will have freckles, glasses and their level of hairiness. It's an interesting read.

If you're a member of N99, you can also read this thread, where I talk a bit about how I'm planning to adapt it to my own game. I'd never really thought about an actual system for this kind of thing before but I was immediately excited when I read Simmerville's thread!

It's almost a year later now (wow!) and I've been thinking about this a bit and deciding how I will implement it into my own game. I'm going to write this as if you've read Simmerville's original post in the thread I linked to, so go read that!

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Dog paddle

Round 34: October 2040 (Spring)

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Jonas Lachance is 62, Tatiana is 57 and Brendan is 17. 

(Corbin and Pamela are 55, Dominic is 30, Leslie is 29, Jack and Audrey are 28, Edward and Lucy are 25, Georgina is 16 and Oscar and Stella are 8 months old.)

Narrated by Jonas Lachance

Tatiana and I became grandparents in February, when Dominic and Leslie welcomed Oscar and Stella into the world. We were so thrilled to become grandparents at all and then to get two grandchildren at once was almost too much!

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You say it's your birthday, October 2040

Another month in Sullivan and another little boy celebrating his first birthday!

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Love like a sunset

Round 34: September 2040 (Spring)

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Chris Draper, Lucy Gray and Edward Lachance are 25.

(Jonas is 62, Tatiana is 57 and Veronica is 22)

Narrated by Edward Lachance

Chris finished his master’s last year and he’s been really enjoying the extra free time. I often see him curled up on the couch after work taking a nap, just because he can now.

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Day in, day out

Round 34: September 2040 (Spring)

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Augustin and Hanna Novak are 85, Naomi is 65 and Owen is 63. 

(James is 65, Eliot is 54, Amar is 39, Adrienne is 33, Malcolm is 30, Hope is 29 and Beau is 2)

Narrated by Naomi Novak

We woke up one morning last week to discover Mum had passed away in her sleep. 

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You say it's your birthday, September 2040

It's September and it's time for Curtis Clarke to celebrate his first birthday!

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The only one I know

Round 34: August 2040 (Winter)

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Anthony Moretti is 23 and Noah Gottlieb is 22.

(Wade is 50 and Mitchell is 21)

Narrated by Noah Gottlieb

Anthony wasn’t too thrilled with my levels of cleanliness when I moved in but thankfully, he’s given up on nagging me now and has hired a maid.

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Lot tour: Anthony and Noah's place

I'm ready to play (as soon as I get the time!) but I thought I'd put up this lot tour anyway, seeing you guys seem to like them. :) This is Anthony and Noah's place. To refresh your memories, Anthony and Noah are best friends and first cousins. Anthony won quite a bit of money as a teenager, which his parents held in trust for him. Right after college, he bought a house and Noah moved in as a roomie. I lost that first house when I rebuilt my hood but this is one of the cases where I actually don't care at all. This one is much more suited to Anthony than the other one (which I don't think you guys ever saw).

Anyway! The house is from MTS and is mostly untouched on the outside, apart from changing the fence. I don't like low fences all the way around a lot, personally.

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